(Image credit: Future) The DIY landscape for building your own PC is particularly grim at the moment. Outside of decent combo deals or the evermore rare individual discount, it's getting harder to source components and afford to build your own machine in 2026. With prices of components skyrocketing so much, it can be scary to think about constructing your own PC and perhaps making a mistake or breaking something. Enter the prebuilt PC; usually way more expensive than building your own, but not anymore. Now, you can find plenty of prebuilts that are in fact cheaper than trying to build your own, much like this iBuypower Element 9 gaming PC - available at Newegg for just $1599.99 . Featuring some excellent component choices from the Ryzen 7 7800X3D gaming CPU, to the RTX 5060 Ti with 16GB of VRAM, whilst also saving you $500.…