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Black Friday week is the perfect time to shop for all those big-ticket items on your holiday gift list, especially if you’re buying expensive tech items like laptops, PCs, or video game consoles. If you’re trying to figure out what to get the passionate gamer in your life, a prebuilt gaming PC is a fantastic way to go, offering the plug-and-play convenience of the Nvidia app’s optimizer function as well as the flexibility and openness of a classic Windows machine.
If you’re looking to buy a nice gaming rig at a budget-friendly price this holiday, Walmart has the bestselling $1,700 iBuyPower Element Pro Gaming PC on sale for just $1,299 during Black Friday week. That’s a savings of $401, and the reviews call it “the best value for your money.”
iBuyPower Element Pro Gaming PC, $1,299 (was $1,700) at Walmart
Why do shoppers love it?
Reviewers agree that you can’t really beat the value in this machine at this price range. If you bought the AMD processor and Nvidia graphics card individually at retail price, you’d be looking at a similar total cost. And you get pretty much everything you need for your money here; you just need a decent monitor (probably a 16:9, 1440-pixel-tall one) and some budget-friendly speakers to leave the runway and get gaming properly.
“This offers the best value for your money,” one shopper said. “The case looks sharp with the glass panel and RGB lighting, and setting it up was literally just plug it in and go. It’s quiet, too, which I wasn’t expecting with this much power. The 1-terabyte SSD fills up faster than you’d think if you’re downloading a bunch of big games, but for convenience and performance right out of the box, it’s hard to complain. This rig feels like it’ll last me a good while.”
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Details to know
- Processor (CPU): AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
- Graphics card (GPU): Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070.
- Memory (RAM): 32 gigabytes (GB).
- Does it include a warranty?: 12 months (parts and labor).
The big headlining act here is the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070, one of the most popular graphics cards on the market. It’s powerful, loaded with performance-enhancing features like real-time scaling and frame generation, and can handily run pretty much any video game of the current generation. The CPU, the AMD Ryzen 7, is similarly impressive, and reviewers say the RTX 5070 generally leaves very little work for the processor anyway. With 32 GB of RAM, you’ll be able to alt-tab between apps, stream gameplay for your friends to watch, run demanding programs like video-editing software, and more.
Your new iBuyPower rig comes with a 1 TB solid-state drive, which lets you store quite a few games — depending on the size and age of the games you typically play — plus a mouse, keyboard, and Windows 11 Home edition. If you’re worried about not having enough storage and don’t like the thought of having your favorite blockbuster game uninstalled a lot of the time, you might consider an external drive to help you manage your storage, but most folks won’t run into many issues with a 1 TB SSD. The PC comes with a 12-month warranty on parts and labor.
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Does someone on your shopping list want a nice, powerful gaming PC this year? Save $401 on the iBuyPower Element Pro Gaming PC at Walmart during Black Friday week.
