Let me show you how to grab an RTX 4070 gaming PC for less than $1,000 right now
Ipason gaming desktop | AMD Ryzen 5 5600G | 16GB DDR4-3200 | 1TB NVMe SSD | $849.99$469 at Newegg (save $380.99)
You can game on this machine to a certain extent—the integrated Vega GPU on the Ryzen chip will certainly support 720p gaming at lower settings. But we're listing it here as a good base from which to add your own graphics card for a quick, powerful new gaming PC. The AMD CPU is a good six-core, 12-thread job, and the 16GB RAM will run everything you need.
Zotac RTX 4070 Twin Edge | 12GB GDDR6X | 5,888 shaders | 2,475MHz boost | $549.99$519.99 at Newegg (save $30 with promo code 3BFCYA4435)
Okay, sure, it's not a massive saving, but it's still the most affordable RTX 4070 I've found today. And it's from a brand I like (I've even been to the factory in China where this card was made). The RTX 4070 is like an RTX 3080 in terms of raw performance, but with the added layer of DLSS 3 and Frame Generation frosting.
Price check: Best Buy $549.99 | Amazon $549.99
There are some genuinely good Black Friday gaming PC deals out there right now, especially when you're looking at machines under $1,000. But while you will find RTX 4060 and even RTX 4060 Ti PCs for less than a grand, there isn't a retailer in the land that is going to sell you an RTX 4070 system for that sort of cash.
But you can make them.
It does require two separate purchases—this GPU-less Ipason PC for $469, and this Zotac RTX 4070 for $520, both from Newegg—but in a world where gaming PC builders are starting to ship graphics cards separately in the name of sparing the straining PCIe slots, I think it's a step worth taking. Especially as it means you can get an RTX 4070 machine for just $989 when the cheapest we've found so far is at least $200 more
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