I may not have beaten Alienware's discounted RTX 4090 machine, but I still say my PC built from the best Black Friday gaming deals is better

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If you want to buy the cheapest possible RTX 4090 prebuilt gaming PC, then take a look at Alienware's Aurora R16 offer—at a cent shy of $3,000 you honestly won't find anything cheaper. Never one to back away from a challenge, I've been hunting through the Black Friday PC gaming deals to see if it's possible to build your own rig out of the various offers and undercut Dell's steep asking price.

Well, to cut to the chase, I couldn't. At least, not with hardware that's a match in terms of gaming performance, but I reckon I have something that's actually better, even though it's a little more expensive.

Intel Core i7 14700KF | 20 cores | 28 threads | 5.6 GHz boost | 33 MB L3 cache | 125 W TDP | LGA1700 socket | $434.99$327.93 at Amazon (save $107.06)
The Core i7 14700KF is probably Intel's best-balanced CPU for gaming and serious content creation workloads (read our review of the non-F version). Make sure whatever motherboard you use it in has the latest BIOS installed to avoid voltage problems and it's worth tweaking the power limits (increase PL1, decrease PL2) to stop it from getting overly toasty.

Yes, I know the Core i7 14700KF isn't the same chip as the 14900KF that's in the Alienware but when it comes to gaming, you won't notice the difference. That's because all the latter has over the former are more E-cores and a higher P-core boost clock. Neither of these will matter when you're gaming at 4K with an RTX 4090.

Gigabyte RTX 4090 | 24 GB GDDR6X | 16,384 shaders | 2,535 MHz boost | $2,169.98$2,159.98 at Newegg (save $10)
It's the most powerful gaming graphics card money can buy and oh boy, is it a lot of money. Nothing else comes anywhere near it, though, when it comes to pushing pixels around your monitor. Plus it's comically huge and will utterly dominate the inside of your gaming rig.

And speaking of Nvidia's mightiest GPU, your only option of finding one at any vaguely sensible price is via Newegg's combo deals. The one I've picked is a Gigabyte RTX 4090