If you were hoping for a great deal on RAM during Black Friday, stop being fooled. Depending on what RAM kit you want, it may be too expensive to justify buying it now, an unfortunate trend that my colleague Sean Hollister recently pointed out. You can either wait out this period of surge pricing, or if you’re getting into a PC for the first time and want to play games at 1080p, get a good deal on a prebuilt gaming PC that has some good specs for the price.
Builders iBuyPower has some machines selling at a discount, including its Element SE, which is down to $999 ($300 off) at Walmart. That PC comes with AMD’s Ryzen 7 8700F processor, Nvidia’s midrange RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) GPU, a 1TB SSD, and 32GB of precious DDR5 running at 5,200MHz – all shipped in a nice tri-panel tempered glass case. Here are the full details, as listed on iBuyPower’s site.
If you’re willing to agree to skip the RTX 5060, halve the RAM, and swap out the AMD processor for the equally powerful Intel Core i5 14400F, the Best Buy version of the Element SE is currently on sale for as low as $779.99 ($260 off). It also comes with the same 600W 80 Plus Gold power supply, in the same case.
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