Jul 13, 2024 - 04:35
By pcgamer.com

When you've got gaming laptops for $599 and PCs for $699, Walmart is weirdly the best place for pre-Prime Day PC gaming deals

Walmart is not the first place I think of when it comes to looking for the best PC gaming deals. And it's especially not the place I'd think of looking for the best Amazon Prime Day deals, either, yet here we are in the topsy-turvy world of 2024 and Walmart is smashing it.

Whether it's a $599 MSI gaming laptop, a $329 Samsung 4K IPS screen, a full RTX 4060 gaming PC for $699, an RTX 4070 laptop for under $1,200, or the cheapest RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti prices we've seen, Walmart has a bunch of deals for the discerning PC gamer. And we are naught if not discerning.

I rather think that $699 gaming PC is the pick of the lot—it's a serious machine for the money, without compromise—but if you've been looking for an affordable new machine this is probably where I'd be spending my money right now.

Normally I'd be thinking Newegg for my PC gaming goodies, it's usually capable of beating out the Amazon moral morass of dubious discounts, but even just a casual perusal of the Walmart PC gaming deals page has brought up some goodies that are far and away better-priced than the competition.

So, here are my favorite six pre-Prime Day Walmart deals:

1. HP Victus 16 | RTX 4070 | Core i7 13700H | 16-inch | 1080p | 144 Hz | 16 GB DDR5-5200 | 1 TB SSD | $1,199 at Walmart
The Victus range isn't the HP brand that comes to mind when you think gaming laptop, but it's the affordable side of the business which is still able to pack a decent punch for the price. This RTX 4070-powered machine is the cheapest we've found toting Nvidia's third-tier mobile GPU, but it is a 120 W version, not the full 140 W monty. That will still deliver at the 1080p res of this screen and will work comfortably under this relatively slim 16-inch chassis. The rest of the spec—16 GB DDR5 and 1 TB SSD—are exactly what you'd hope for at this end of the market, too. A really good price for a seriously solid machine.