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I don't even know if "good deal" makes sense in abstract anymore.
At this point I'd look at it the other way. If you want a PC you want to decide on a budget first, then see what mix of parts gets you the features you want. A good deal for a 1K build may not look anywhere near the same as one for a 2K machine. Or a good deal for someone into competitive FPS at 1080p on a 1K build may not look the same than a single player person looking to put games on a 4K TV.
Display tech and even software design is so wildly different now it's all a bunch of interlocked decisions. Building PCs in the 90s and 00s was easy: games did one thing, which was put some frames on a CRT monitor. You bought the best thing you could afford to do the thing on the thing. These days it's more flexible, but also more complicated, unless you're going for top of the line, money-is-no-object stuff.