It's not quite time for the big sale on October 6, but we're already tracking down the discounts on powerful PCs for all your gaming needs.

Walmart has a better deal than Amazon on a prebuilt PC that excels at 1440p gaming. The Skytech Harpy gaming PC with AMD Ryzen X3D CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 GPU has dropped to $1,799 with free shipping after a $500 off discount. This is a well-equipped prebuilt that pairs a capable CPU and GPU with healthy dose of RAM and storage.

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Amazon’s Prime Day has this CyberPowerPC gaming desktop for its lowest price in over a year. Grab it while it lasts.

Walmart is offering the best deal right now on an affordable 1080p-capable gaming PC. For a limited time, you can pick up an MSI Codex Z2C RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC for just $999 with free shipping. That's actually the first time I've seen a 5060 Ti equipped prebuilt price under $1,000 since early summer.

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Virtual reality headset maker Pimax has announced a new console-like compact gaming PC with powerful internal hardware. Looking like a mashup of an Xbox Series X and a Steam Machine, the Pimax Spation will come with an AMD Ryzen 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT,

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