We put together an $1,800 4K gaming PC built completely with parts on sale for Black Friday

Putting together a great PC during this Black Friday isn’t the easiest task. With spiraling RAM prices, SSD inflation, GPU shortages, and information overload around every corner, sometimes you just want someone to do the legwork for you.

We’ve scoured all the best Black Friday PC hardware deals going right now to put together a PC that can game however you want, including at 4K, without breaking the bank.

Industry trends haven’t made things easy, though. The DDR5 kit we used last time has risen in price by 400%, and the Ryzen 7 7800X3D isn’t as cheap as it used to be, but we’ve set our best minds to the task and built an excellent PC for $1,800.

This is a gaming-focused build through and through. Thanks to those massive DDR5 and SSD price increases, the budget required to build around a Ryzen 7 7800X3D is already high, so we went all the way and stepped up to AMD’s great all-rounder graphics card, the Radeon RX 9070 XT.

With these components, there’s nothing this system can’t do. Whether you want to do high-refresh-rate gaming at 1080p, supported by the 7800X3D’s incredible 3D V-Cache, or high-fidelity 4K gaming on the 9070 XT, supported by FSR 4 upscaling, you can have your gaming fix however you want.

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$1,800 4K Black Friday PC

This is more than we’ve priced out for our “mid-range build” in the past, so we’re in at around $1,800 rather than the $1,600 of previous attempts. Crucially, however, the extra cash spent on that 9070 XT is going to pay dividends in real 4K gaming performance. If you have to swallow RAM and SSD price increases, we figure you may as well get 4K gaming readiness in the bargain. Check out our best monitor deals this Black Friday season if you need a great display to go with this powerful build.