iBuyPower's President's Day sale means this 'superb all-AMD gaming PC' is now $250 cheaper than when we reviewed it a week ago

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Now, that's not the current trajectory of high-end PC gaming hardware prices.

iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 gaming PC
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iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT
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iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT: was $2,349 now $1,899 at ibuypower

When we reviewed this gaming PC earlier in the month our only real issue with it was the fact it was priced higher than some equivalent gaming PCs in the market, but otherwise, it's core components are excellent, deliver great gaming performance and will give you a system you won't have to touch for ages in terms of upgrades. But it has upgrade potential. Now, with the President's Day sales kicking in, the price is now $250 below where it was back then. Use code STARS to get the full discount.

Key specs: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD | 850 W PSU

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It could well be that any sale period this year is going to be worth paying attention to more than ever, what with the rampant pricing pain of the ongoing RAMpocalypse. While PC gaming hardware prices only seem to be going one way right now (hint: it's ⤴️) it's a relief to see that there are still going to be deals, at least in the short term.

Jacob was genuinely impressed by the machine, giving the iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 a hefty 87%. His only real issue was that the then $2,149 price tag put it above equivalent gaming PCs you could buy at the time. But now, a little over a week later and it's down to just $1,899 at iBuyPower. You'll need to use the STARS code at checkout to get the final $100 discount, but that's a site-wide discount code live at the moment which can get you up to $350 off more expensive PCs, too.

Jacob did have another couple of niggles, largely just around the higher-than-ideal CAS latency of the 32 GB DDR5-6000 memory the system ships with. But, whisper it, memory is horribly expensive, and I'll take some CL48 RAM if it means I get 32 gigabytes of the otherwise speedy stuff. For us PC Gamers, capacity and clock speed are arguably more important.

The non-modular PSU was another slight niggle, but that's just Jacob being fussy... I mean, it comes with a goodly variety of cables, even with a 12VHPWR if you want to switch to Nvidia later on down the line.

Otherwise, you're getting a great config for your cash. You could argue the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is a bit last-gen compared with the newer Zen 5 3D V-Cache chips, but it was our pick as the best CPU for gaming for a long time for a reason. It's still got seriously impressive gaming chops, even if it is a little bit behind the more expensive Ryzen 7 9800X3D.

But the Radeon RX 9070 XT is an outstanding graphics card, especially for this price. It's an RDNA 4 GPU with the performance of the RTX 5070 Ti, which is now a $1,000+ graphics card on its own. That immediately highlights the value of this spec, and the performance is genuinely impressive.

Gaming PC performance testing

Avg FPS
1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
66
55
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
68
56
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
66
52
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
67
53
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Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p RT Medium) Data
ProductValue
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D 66 Avg FPS, 55 1% Low FPS
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X 68 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D 66 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D 67 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS

You're also getting a 2 TB SSD in the package, too. Now that is not a wonderful drive, it has to be said, but is still able to perform at a decent level for a PCIe 4.0 SSD. Especially at a time, again, where storage prices are getting ludicrous, too.

It's a great all-round package, and a gaming PC anyone should be happy to have at the heart of their gaming setup... especially with this President's Day sale price. I'll leave it to Jacob to have the last word though (he likes that) as the person who's put this very rig through its paces: "The iBuyPower Element Pro is a superb all-AMD gaming PC. Lots of memory and high capacity storage means anyone that purchases it can at least forget about needing to upgrade for a very long time."

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Dave James
Dave James
Editor-in-Chief, Hardware

Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.

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