Walmart Store Honors $1,099 Shelf Price on $2,299 CyberPowerPC Desktops
The buyer, who posted on r/pcmasterrace as u/joker497, kept one PC and plans to give the second to a younger brother as a Christmas gift.
A Walmart store sold two CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme gaming desktops for $1,099 each after honoring a shelf price well below the $2,299 listed on the retailer's website, the shopper reported on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit as user u/joker497, according to Tom's Hardware.
The store honored the $1,099 shelf price for both units. The buyer kept one of the machines and plans to give the other to their younger brother as a Christmas gift.
Each desktop is built around an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 with 12GB of graphics memory, paired with 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. Cooling comes from a 360mm all-in-one liquid cooler.
The gap between the shelf tag and the online listing is substantial: the two systems carried a combined website price of $4,598, against the $2,198 the shopper paid for the pair.
DIY alternative priced higher
Building a comparable machine from individual parts has become more expensive. Tom's Hardware priced a similar DIY build on PCPartPicker at roughly $2,400.
Component costs have been under pressure: the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 have been pulled from Nvidia's online store amid shortages of high-end gaming GPUs, and an AI-driven memory chip shortage is driving up prices for PC parts, especially memory kits.
Quick answers
What is the price difference between the Walmart shelf tag and the website listing?
The store charged $1,099 per desktop, while the website listed the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme at $2,299.
What are the specs of the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme bought at $1,099?
Each unit has an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU, an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 12GB GPU, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD and a 360mm AIO cooler.
What did the buyer do with the second PC?
The buyer kept one and plans to give the other to their younger brother as a Christmas gift.