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.

$1,800 Black Friday gaming PC: Quick list

• AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU: was $449 now $375.98 at Amazon
• Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black CPU Cooler: Was $29.98 $19.99 at Amazon
• Asus TUF Gaming B850-PLUS: was $239.99 now $189.99 at Amazon
• ASRock Challenger Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: was $699 now $599 at Amazon
• Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6400: $272 at Newegg
• Samsung 990 Pro SSD 2TB: was $199 now $169 at Amazon
• Corsair Frame 4000D: was $104 now $85 at Amazon
• Montech Century II 850W fully modular PSU: was $89 now $82 at Amazon

$1,800 4K Black Friday PC

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AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D: was $449 now $375.98 at Amazon

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This Zen 4 chip is still among the fastest gaming CPUs on the market. It's got 96MB of L3 thanks to AMD's explosive 3D V-Cache, along with eight cores and 16 threads. It also features a maximum boost clock of 5.0 GHz.

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Cooler Master Hyper 212 Black CPU Cooler: was $29.98 now $19.99 at Amazon

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A basic air cooler for this processor is totally adequate, and the Cooler Master Hyper 212 in stealthy black is something of a household name round these parts.

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Asus TUF Gaming B850-PLUS: was $239.99 now $189.99 at Amazon

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A powerful AM5 motherboard that will host our CPU and DDR5 RAM without breaking a sweat. This board gives us Wi-Fi 7 performance, plenty of USB ports, good PCIe expansion, and more.

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PowerColor Reaper Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB: was $669.99 now $599.99 at Amazon

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A major upgrade in our build this time around is this 9070 XT, a fully-fledged 4K GPU that elevates our rig to full 4K gaming readiness.

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Crucial Pro Overclocking 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6400: $272.99 at Newegg

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Yes, you're reading that right, 32GB of DDR5 RAM now costs $272.99. This is one of the best and cheapest kits we could find on the market right now.

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Samsung 990 Pro SSD 2TB: was $229.99 now $169.99 at Amazon

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A welcome upgrade from our summer build, this 990 Pro is still one of the best SSDs out there, and now just $169, making it excellent value in the 2TB category. You can always go for 1TB if you want to save even more money. Price increases are starting to impact SSDs, so this is another sore point over previous builds.

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Corsair Frame 4000D: was $114.99 now $79.99 at Amazon

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The Corsair Frame 4000D is a case with some great new design characteristics. An emphasis on modularity lets you swap out parts of the case and choose different fan sizes to suit your preferences, thanks to Corsair's InfiniRail system.

Mesh panels and three included 120mm fans allow high airflow for cooling, and inside the case, there are cutouts for motherboards with backside cabling and a built-in GPU support bracket.

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Montech Century II 850W fully modular PSU: was $89.99 now $83.40 at Amazon

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Montech's Century II PSU provides us with more than enough power at 850W capacity to power everything onboard here. You can always bump up to the 1050W model, but there's really no need to.

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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.