[jyl]

The alternative might be to price out a desktop tower from Dell, Lenovo, etc with the processor and graphics you want, but the minimum storage and RAM, then add drives and memory yourself. The PC companies pay far less for things like motherboards, CPUs, GPUs, etc than you will pay buying at retail, and they price their barebones machines pretty aggressively, looking to make margin with overpriced storage and memory.

When I bought my work PC, I got a Lenovo workstation with Xeon CPU and double nVidia GPUs, but the minimum of storage and RAM.