If you’re looking to buy a gaming PC, you don’t have to build it yourself, and you don’t have to use the latest and greatest processors, as they can be very expensive. You can opt for a pre-assembled system like the BALAUR Battle Ready that’s created by a local retailer from our home country, Romania. It is equipped with an older generation Intel Core i5-14400F (a CPU that costs less than 130$), and it’s fast, reliable, and ready for modern gaming. I tested it in games and benchmarks, keeping in mind a similar configuration based on a midrange AMD processor, also built and sold by the same local retailer. The differences proved small but potentially relevant, obviously depending on your buyer profile. Let’s see what you get from this PC, or a similar one with an Intel Core i5-14400F processor: