This is not only the best Black Friday gaming PC deal, but with an RTX 5070 rig for less than $1,000 it's the best I've seen all year

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I've been keeping my beady eyes on gaming PCs every day over the last week of early Black Friday, and now bona fide Black Friday deals, and I've not seen anything come close to this one. In fact, I've not seen anything come close to it this year, and I've been keeping my eye out for gaming PC deals regularly.

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is an incredibly capable graphics card, and we've found, over the last couple of weeks, that despite its initially questionable value offering upon release, it's actually offering some of the best performance for the price in the market right now. That, it seems, is something that's transferring from the GPU market into the gaming PC one, as this deal testifies.

Performance-wise, the RTX 5070 offers a slight boost over the previous-gen RTX 4070 Super, on average. That really is just "slight" without upscaling and frame gen in the picture, but with both of those things, the delta, of course, becomes bigger. What you end up with, even without frame gen and just with upscaling, is a card that nets smooth frame rates even in the most demanding games at 1440p. Plus, you get more than 8 GB of VRAM, which gives it some additional longevity.

The rest of this build shouldn't hold back the RTX 5070. The CPU is a refresh of what was our collective fave budget CPU for a long time and has only recently been pipped by an AMD one. It's not going to win any awards for productivity chops, but for gaming and everyday use, its 10 cores (six P-Cores) are more than enough. Especially for gaming with this rig, because with an RTX 5070, we're still in a performance bracket where games are far more likely to be GPU-limited than CPU-limited.

1 TB of storage is fine for this price, though slapping another terabyte in there wouldn't go amiss, but just having 16 GB of memory is, of course, a little disappointing. It's well worth the sacrifice for a sub-$1,000 RTX 5070 rig, but it's not ideal. Thankfully, even with skyrocketing memory prices, upgrading this 16 GB kit to 32 GB of fast DDR5 RAM down the line should still have the total cheaper than other RTX 5070 gaming PCs, and even many RTX 5060 Ti ones.

So, for those of you looking for a PC around the $1,000 mark, or heck, even a few hundred above, this is what you should be looking at. Black Friday can sometimes seem like an over-commercialised 'why bother?', but occasionally it brings along a corker like this.

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Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.

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