Without a doubt, Black Friday is one of the best times of year to upgrade your gaming PC. Several retailers including Alienware, Best Buy, Walmart, HP, and Lenovo have already released excellent Black Friday deals that you are certainly worth jumping on now. There are a lot of options to choose from, and I've highlighted the deals I think stand above the rest. A lot of activity is going to happen the next few days and I'll make sure this article stays updated.
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More Alienware Black Friday Deals
If you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Alienware is one of best gaming brands we'd recommend. The Alienware Black Friday Sale has already started with some outstanding deals on Alienware Aurora R16 gaming desktops. We like Dell (they own the Alienware brand) for its consistent build quality, available inventory, frequent sales, and solid customer service, which is why they are often at the top of our buying list for gaming PCs.
This CyberPowerPC is actually one of the best Black Friday gaming PC deals across all retailers. It's equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU (considered by many to be the best gaming CPU before the new Ryzen 7 9800X3D came along earlier this month), and the RTX 4070 Super GPU. The RTX 4070 Super is the best GPU for most people and it's an awesome card for both 1080p and 1440p gaming. In our RTX 4070 Super review, Jacqueline Thomas wrote that "The Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Super is the mid-range card we should have got back when the RTX 4000 generation launched. It's around 16% faster in most games at the same price. If you've been waiting to make your GPU upgrade, now's the time."
More Best Buy Black Friday Deals
Best Buy has already released several excellent gaming PC deals as part of its Black Friday Sale. If you're on a budget, the iBuyPower Scale RTX 4060 gaming PC for $699.99 is a solid deal and a great candidate for 1080p gaming. For something more powerful, consider the iBuyPower Y60 gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU and RTX 4070 Ti Super. It's contained in a gorgeous Hyte Y60 midtower chassis to boot.
Walmart's best Black Friday gaming PC deal
As part of its Walmart Black Friday Sale, Walmart is offering this CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme gaming PC for only $1,199 after a $370 instant discount. This PC features an AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB M.2 SSD. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a relatively recent (March 2024) release. It's roughly 10-15% faster than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU and is more comparable to the new RTX 4070 Super. This rig is ideal for gaming at up to 1440p resolution at high framerates, although it can also run most games in 4K.
Walmart's best Black Friday budget gaming PC deal
This iBuyPower Slate Mesh gaming PC features a liquid-cooled Intel Core i5-13600KF CPU, RTX 4060 GPU, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. The RTX 4060 is a great budget card for 1080p gaming. You could also run games at 1440p with relaxed graphic settings, but at that point I'd recommend upgrading to an RTX 4060 Ti or higher. The RTX 4060 supports DLSS 3.0, which also gives you a nice performance boost for games that can support it.
The OMEN 45L is HP's flagship gaming PC. This is HP's roomiest chassis with plenty of cooling in the form of three 120mm fans positioned at the front of the case and another three 120mm fans attached to the 360mm all-in-one liquid cooling radiator at the top of the case. This PC is equipped with a massive 1,200W 80PLUS Gold certified power supply that's big enough for even the most power-hungry of gaming PCs.
The RTX 4090 is the most powerful GPU on the market. In his RTX 4090 review, Chris Coke writes, "The RTX 4090 may be huge and expensive, but holy smokes if it doesn’t blow the competition out of the water... Until the rest of the pack can catch up, between its impressive hardware specs and its DLSS 3 AI wizardry, even the $1,599 price doesn’t seem unreasonable for the unrivaled frame rates that this card can crank out."
More HP Black Friday Deals
HP has kicked off its Black Friday Sale, which includes deals on their Omen and Victus gaming PCs. Save up to $1,000 off HP's flagship Omen 45L gaming PC, which is equipped with your choice of an RTX 4090 or 4080 Super GPU and 240mm-360mm AIO liquid cooling. For the budget-minded, the HP Victus gaming PC with RTX 4060 GPU is down to $779.99.
The deals haven't really started just yet.
Lenovo is offering some great discounts on budget and mid-range gaming PCs, but to be honest they are nowhere near the best prices of the year. In fact, they were less expensive earlier in November. Stay tuned because Lenovo always has decent deals on Black Friday and they more than likely just haven't started yet.
If you're in the process of building out a new gaming PC and you're looking for the best gaming processor, this is it. Right now, the recently released AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 desktop processor is back in stock at Amazon at its retail price of $479 shipped. This is the official launch price with zero markup, and it's not bundled with anything you don't want or need.
The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best gaming processor currently on the market and a much better option than the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. If you're waiting for a discount on this processor for Black Friday, though, don't hold your breath. There is the slimmest of slim chances that anyone will drop the price of this hot commodity before 2025.
In our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Jackie Thomas wrote that "the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if you’re building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with.
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn't hunting for deals for other people at work, he's hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
