NZXT will rent you an RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $169 a month or $2,028 a year but we can find deals a lot better than that

It seems like everything these days is moving towards a subscriber model, rather than owning outright. From endless streaming subscriptions to coffee, printer ink, and perhaps even a gaming mouse, it seems like it's in a company's best interests to nickel and dime your bank account—rather than gobbling big chunks of it when you make a substantial purchase.

NZXT's Flex subscription program allows you to rent that most hallowed of objects, a decently-well-specced gaming pc, in exchange for delicious monthly instalments (via The Verge). According to NZXT's newly-announced specs, for $59 a month (plus a $50 setup and shipping fee), you can be the proud not-really owner of a Player: One Core i5 14400F equipped gaming PC with an RTX 4060 handling the graphics duties.

That equates to $708 a year (minus extra fee) for a system that should actually handle modern games pretty well, although crucial specs like the RAM size and speed, along with the SSD, are missing from the new specs sheet. 

Presumably they come included to make a functional machine, of course, but they do matter a lot when gauging the potential performance of your next PC purchase.

Things scale pretty quickly further up the spec sheet. The Player: Two model features an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X and an RTX 4070 Super. Both great mid-range components, but for $119 a month, that stacks up to $1,428 a year (again, plus fee) for the sort of system we regularly find on discount around the $1,200 mark.

Skytech Blaze Mini | AMD Ryzen 7 5700 | RTX 4070 Super | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 1 TB SSD | $1,499.99 $1,229.99 at Newegg (save $270 with promo code NEPLDU2Z258 at checkout)
This is the cheapest RTX 4070 Super build we could find, and at less than $1,300 it's a pretty great deal for a powerful rig. Admittedly, we're dealing with bog-standard DDR4 RAM, here, and a slightly older CPU, but for pure gaming chops this RTX 4070 Super-based machine should make for a pretty mean gaming PC.

Sitting at the top of the tree is the Player: Three,