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RTX 50 GPUs lead Russia’s custom PC orders at M.Video
M.Video says early custom PC orders in Russia favor GeForce RTX 50 GPUs, Ryzen 5 and Core i5 chips, and 1TB-plus NVMe SSDs.
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M.Video says the first orders for its professional custom PC assembly service, launched in June 2026, point to a clear pattern: buyers are leaning toward Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series graphics cards, AMD Ryzen 5 and Intel Core i5 processors, and NVMe SSDs starting at 1TB.
According to the retailer’s analysis, half of all PC assembly orders came from Moscow. Krasnodar and Novosibirsk each accounted for 20%, while the first systems were also assembled by specialists in Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg.
For motherboards, the most popular choices were Gigabyte models based on the B550 and B760 chipsets, along with the MSI A520M PRO. On CPUs, customers split their choices almost evenly between AMD and Intel, with Ryzen 5 and Core i5 emerging as the top picks thanks to their balance of price and performance.
In more powerful gaming builds, users more often chose a combination of AMD Ryzen 7 and the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070. Even so, the single most popular graphics card in the first wave of orders was the GeForce RTX 5050.
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