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Black Friday gaming PC deals offer a fantastic opportunity to go shopping for a new desktop. The trouble is, there are actually too many discounts on prebuilt gaming PCs at this time of year, and it can be really tricky to know which is the best one for you. More than that, stock can disappear out of nowhere, and you can be left wanting your dream PC that's already disappeared.
This is my fourth year running and I'm covering gaming PC deals during Black Friday, and between each stint, I've been reviewing and covering all sorts of gaming PCs and their components. I know how big an investment this type of tech is for most people, and I also know how rewarding it is to finally put your savings into something you've really been looking forward to. For that reason, I'll be hunting for the very best deals possible and trying to make sure your money goes the furthest it can.
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- Newegg: The best range of PCs overall
- Walmart: 5060 builds starting at $799
- Best Buy: Current gen builds starting at $779
- Amazon: Great for components
- RTX 5060: $799 at Walmart
- RTX 5060 Ti: $1,069 at Newegg
- RTX 5070: $1,299 at Newegg
- RX 9070 XT: $1,899 at Newegg
- RTX 5070 Ti: $1,664 at Dell
- RTX 5080: $2,299.99 at Newegg
UK deals:
- Currys: Builds from Acer and PC Specialist
- Box: High-end PCs from HP, Asus, and more
- AWD-IT: Home-made prebuilts starting at £329
- Amazon: Gaming PCs starting at £359.99
- Very: Gaming PC bundles starting from £599
The best Black Friday gaming PC deals
For starters, here's one PC for each tier of graphics card that I think is the best offer going in that category. For example, the first is an RTX 5060 build, the next is an RTX 5060 Ti build, and then 5070 and so on. Most of these will be the absolute cheapest offers I can find for PCs housing these cards, but some of them may balance price with specs or brand, or maybe even bonuses that are bundled in.
Looking to build your own PC this Black Friday?
I totally understand the appeal of building your own system using Black Friday gaming PC deals. In fact, I put together a handy guide yesterday to show what savings you can make on brand new components. If you're thinking of building instead of buying, maybe give it a look.
A quick cheat sheet for GPU tiers
If you're only just shopping for a gaming PC for the first time, it can be really tricky to know what parts you're actually looking at. Personally, I think they're intentionally confusing, but that's a whole other conversation.
Here's a quick guide as to what the various GPU rankings mean, using Nvidia as an example.
We're currently on the Nvidia 50 Series of graphics cards, so if you see "50" after RTX, that means it's a GPU from this most recent generation.
Then, it goes in ascending order, the higher the number after 50, the more graphical power you get. If you see a "Ti" in there, that means it's a half step more powerful.
So it goes, RTX 5060, 5060 Ti, 5070, 5070 Ti, 5080, 5090, with 5090 being the most powerful.
On the AMD side, we're on the Radeon RX 9000 Series, and it works in the same way.
The 9060 is the entry level option, and the 9070 and 9070 XT are the high-end cards.
Here's a great RTX 5070 build from Lenovo
If you'd feel more secure buying from a well-known brand, ones like Lenovo and HP can be go-to sources for Black Friday deals.
Lenovo has a really great offer here at Best Buy, which combines an RTX 5070 and one of the best gaming CPUs money can buy, the AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D.
I like this deal because I've been watching RTX 5070 PCs sit at $1,449 at the very lowest all year, and this comfortably falls under that. But you are also getting a really excellent gaming processor, which isn't always the case with Black Friday prebuilds. You also get 32GB of DDR5 RAM.
Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D, RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5, 1TB SSD
Lenovo Legion Tower5 | $1,879.99 $1,399.99 at Best Buy
Some deals are sneaky like this...
Okay, so if you haven't heard, RAM is seeing a massive price spike at the moment, and it's all AI's fault. RAM, both DDR4 and DDR5, is extortionate right now compared to even a few months ago, and one of the few ways to get it slightly cheaper is to grab it as part of a prebuilt PC.
This first deal is a lesson to be wary of. A lot of retailers might want to cut costs and put DDR4 RAM in their machines, but they won't directly highlight that in the title of the product. Like here, in this AOCE gaming PC, which houses an RTX 5060 and "32GB of RAM".
How helpfully vague.
When you dig deeper, it has 32GB of DDR4, and what's maybe worse is that it's touting a current-gen RTX 5060 GPU on an older AMD motherboard that actually isn't going to be DDR5 compatible. That means this build isn't very futureproofed, but it does have an up-to-date graphics card. I'd recommend this build due to its low price, but when there are futureproofed builds going for similar prices, that's hard to ignore. Still, I'll let you be the judge.
Specs: AMD Ryzen 7 5700X, RTX 5060, 32GB of DDR4, 1TB SSD
AOCE Gaming PC | $1,799.99 $889 at Newegg + $60 promotional gift card
