Sometimes Black Friday sales can be really disappointing, especially if you can't see anything outstanding amongst the sea of heavily discounted tat being hawked by endless retailers. But not this time because these two deals are both top notch!
CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme | Core i7 13700F | GeForce RTX 4060 Ti | 16GB DDR5 | 1TB NVMe SSD | $1,299$1,099 at Amazon (save $200)
This is a great price for a gaming PC with this kind of hardware inside. Sure there are cheaper offers sporting RTX 4060 Ti cards, but they're all using older DDR4 platforms. Not only that, this is one of the very few I've seen with the 16GB version of Nvidia's punchy little Ada Lovelace card.
There are lots of gaming PC Black Friday deals around the $1000 mark, so this better have something special to stand out, right? The answer to that is an emphatic yes.
Unlike many of the offers in this price segment, this CyberPowerPC system has a Core i7 13700F, that has eight P-cores and eight E-cores (24 threads in total), with a peak boost clock of 5.2GHz. As this is a non-K Intel CPU, you won't be able to overclock it but you really won't need to, anyway.
The graphics card is a GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, which performs roughly the same as the last-gen RTX 3070. This one is a 16GB version and while that doesn't really make it any better, it does give you a bit more future-proofing for games may want all the VRAM you have. It fully supports DLSS 3.5, so you've got AI upscaling, frame generation, and ray denoising all on tap.
You're getting a decent sized 1TB NVMe SSD inside but while it does have 16GB of DDR5 RAM, there's no way to tell exactly what speed it is. And I suspect that it's only a single channel setup (i.e. just one stick of memory), which isn't ideal for
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