Walmart just kicked off one of the best budget gaming PC deals I’ve seen this year. As part of the Intel Gamer Days Sale, the iBuypower Slate gaming PC – equipped with an Intel Core i5-14400F CPU and GeForce RTX 5070 GPU – drops to just $1,099 after a $400 off instant discount. This PC is sold and shipped by Walmart directly with a delivery date as early as August 27. The RTX 5070 graphics card is an excellent choice for gaming at up to 1440p.
Get Battlefield 6 for Free During the Intel Gamer Days Sale
From August 25 to September 14, buy a gaming PC or laptop equipped with an Intel Core 13th Gen, 14th Gen, or Core Ultra processor and get a free download voucher for Battlefield 6 when it releases on October 10. The Battlefield 6 beta ended on August 17 with hundreds of thousands (if not millions) of players signing on to try it out. The initial impressions are positive, including those from our own IGN staff.
iBuypower Intel Core i5-14400F RTX 5070 Gaming PC for $1,099
The iBuypower Slate gaming PC is equipped with an Intel Core i5-14400F processor, GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card, 16GB of DDR5-5200MHz RAM, and a 1TB M.2 SSD. The Intel Core i5-14400F is a 14th generation Raptor Lake Refresh model with a max turbo frequency of 4.7GHz and 10 cores. It’s cooled by a 120mm tower heatsink and fan combo.
The GeForce RTX 5070 GPU is an excellent choice for 1080p or 1440p gaming
Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 performs comparably with the RTX 4070 Super. We wish there was a bigger generation improvement in raw performance, but the RTX 4070 Super was already an excellent card for 1080p and 1440p gaming. In any case, the RTX 4070 Super GPU has since been discontinued and is only readily available in the used market. The RTX 5070 also supports DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation, and the performance gap widens in games that support this new technology, including Wuchang: Fallen Feathers, Doom: The Dark Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, and the upcoming Borderlands 4 and Battlefield 6 games.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 is complicated. It does what it says on the tin: play games at 1440p at a high frame rate. But the problem is that it doesn’t necessarily do that better than the RTX 4070 Super, or any other graphics card in this price range. It does add Multi Frame Generation, which is nice to have for anyone with a high-refresh monitor, but that alone isn’t worth the upgrade.”
Eric Song is the IGN commerce manager in charge of finding the best gaming and tech deals every day. When Eric isn’t hunting for deals for other people at work, he’s hunting for deals for himself during his free time.
