Hello Spring shoppers, how are you finding Amazon Gaming Week? If you’re as thoroughly whelmed by the offers on show as I am, you may want to look elsewhere. Whenever Amazon starts shouting about a deals week, other retailers roll up their sleeves and start price matching too. Walmart is one of those retailers, and although its Walmart+ week doesn’t add many discounts to the store, it’s a pretty decent alternative to Amazon.
Besides, let’s face it, Amazon isn’t the best place to shop if you’re hunting down a prebuilt gaming PC. Yes, Amazon is the bigger retailer and does have a range of PC specs and prices, but you can almost always find better elsewhere, and Walmart is actually one of the better sources. Right now, for example, you can get some viable entry-level builds, and I’ve found three that come in under a grand and are well worth a buy. Firstly, the most affordable of the lot comes from CyberPowerPC, which is offering a Ryzen 5 7600 / Radeon RX 7600 PC for just $809 at Walmart.
I’m always on a mission to find the best gaming PCs for under a grand, because so often, they can feel impossible to find. Walmart has two more options for you at the moment, though, including a slightly more expensive RTX 4060 / Intel Core i5-12400F build for $849.99. Or, if you do have a bit more saved up you could go for this CyberPowerPC, which packs the same RTX 4060 GPU in with a more up-to-date processor for $989.
If you look hard enough at Walmart, you will see even cheaper gaming PCs than the ones I’m recommending here, but in my opinion, these are the ones that are going to actually be worth your investment because of the motherboards inside them. The main thing to think about when buying a gaming PC right now is futureproofing. Sure, you can find a Ryzen 5 gaming PC at Walmart for $500-600 that has an RTX 4060 inside it, but the motherboard and CPU aren’t going to get you very far because the motherboard will lock you into a DDR4 system.
What you really want is a DDR5 motherboard that you’ll have room to grow as time goes on, and that will be ready to tackle more demanding games that come out in the next few years. With that said, here are the other two I’d point you toward if you have a bit more of a budget to play with.
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