Putting together a great PC during this Black Friday isn't the easiest task. With spiraling RAM prices, SSD inflation, GPU shortages, and information overload around every corner, sometimes you just want someone to do the legwork for you.
We've scoured all the best Black Friday PC hardware deals going right now to put together a PC that can game however you want, including at 4K, without breaking the bank.
Industry trends haven't made things easy, though. The DDR5 kit we used last time has risen in price by 400%, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D isn't as cheap as it used to be, but we've set our best minds to the task and built an excellent PC for $1,800.
This is a gaming-focused build through and through. Thanks to those massive DDR5 and SSD price increases, the budget required to build around a Ryzen 7 7800X3D is already high, so we went all the way and stepped up to AMD's great all-rounder graphics card, the Radeon RX 9070 XT.
With these components, there's nothing this system can't do. Whether you want to do high-refresh-rate gaming at 1080p, supported by the 7800X3D's incredible 3D V-Cache, or high-fidelity 4K gaming on the 9070 XT, supported by FSR 4 upscaling, you can have your gaming fix however you want.
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$1,800 4K Black Friday PC
Save 16% ($73.02) AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: was $449 now $375.98 at Amazon Read more Read less ▼ This Zen 4 chip is still among the fastest gaming CPUs on the market. It's got 96MB of L3 thanks to AMD's explosive 3D V-Cache, along with eight cores and 16 threads. It also features a maximum boost clock of 5.0 GHz.
Save 21% Asus TUF Gaming B850-PLUS: was $239.99 now $189.99 at Amazon Read more Read less ▼ A powerful AM5 motherboard that will host our CPU and DDR5 RAM without breaking a sweat. This board gives us Wi-Fi 7 performance, plenty of USB ports, good PCIe expansion, and more.
Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6400: $272.99 at Newegg Read more Read less ▼ Yes, you're reading that right, 32GB of DDR5 RAM now costs $272.99. This is one of the best and cheapest kits we could find on the market right now.
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