Walmart Shelves Two $2,299 Gaming PCs at $1,099 Each — and Honors It

A Walmart store sold two CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme desktops, listed online at $2,299, for $1,099 each — a $1,200 saving per machine. The buyer, Reddit user u/joker497, shared the find on r/pcmasterrace and reported that the store honored the shelf price for both units.

What exactly did the buyer get?

Each machine carries a specification that makes the price look like a misprint:

• AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D processor
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 with 12GB of memory
• 32GB of DDR5 RAM
• 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe SSD
• All-in-one CPU cooler with a 360mm radiator

The pairing is unusual for a prebuilt. CyberPowerPC fitted a high-end Ryzen 9 9900X3D CPU alongside a mid-range RTX 5070 GPU. The combination should deliver solid gaming performance at 1080p, and 32GB of RAM covers most modern titles.

The arithmetic favors the buyer. Tom's Hardware attempted to build a comparable system on PCPartPicker using the cheapest available parts and still received an estimate near $2,400. Two complete rigs for $2,198 is roughly what the components alone would cost for one.

Mistake or sale?

Nobody knows. The Reddit post does not establish whether the store was running a genuine promotion or had simply mislabeled the shelf. What is confirmed is the outcome: the store honored the price. The buyer did not name the branch, so replication requires legwork. If it was an error, the signage has most likely returned to $2,299 by now.

Why the deal looks even better now

The purchase lands in the middle of a component squeeze. The AI-driven memory chip shortage has pushed PC component prices sharply upward, with memory kits hit hardest. High-end gaming GPUs are also becoming scarce. Nvidia has pulled both the RTX 5080 and RTX 5090 from its online store, and street prices for nearly every 50-series card have climbed in response.

Affordable RAM and graphics cards are, in the source's blunt assessment, harder to find than ever. A complete 9900X3D machine at $1,099 under these conditions is not merely a bargain. It is an anomaly.

One for me, one for the brother

The buyer kept one machine and reserved the other as a Christmas gift for a younger brother. Sentimental, yes. Still a 52% discount on both.

The RTX 5070 is not the publication's first choice for a best-in-class graphics card, but it remains a solid mid-range option for a new build. The rest of the specification carries the value. For anyone hunting similar shelf errors, the odds are poor and shrinking — but as this episode shows, the register sometimes agrees with the sticker.