Even with the arrival of a new generation of GPUs, this all-AMD Ryzen/Radeon 7900 gaming PC is a great bargain machine.
If you’re an AMD fan, this iBuyPower gaming PC might be for you, no matter how you feel about the upcoming next generation of graphics cards. The iBuyPower Y40 has been a favorite of ours over the past few months, often offering stellar prices for serious gaming power (a moment of silence for the $999 RTX 4070 build that briefly appeared in December before selling out). However, the latest Y40 discount that caught my eye was the AMD discount for just $1,649 at Walmart.
Why did this catch your eye? Well, aside from the fact that any build with an AMD GPU catches this, there’s the fact that it’s so well thought out spec-wise and that these components are packaged into a Y40 build that we rate pretty highly.
You can check out Jacob Ridley’s iBuyPower RDY Y40 Valorant VCTA R003 review to see all the details of the system that iBuyPower can build around the chassis, but at its core the Y40 is a very nicely crafted package. Decent cooling, good cable management, reliable parts, a good case – all at a reasonable price. The version I’m highlighting here, of course, has different characteristics, but the core build quality should remain.
But let’s get down to business, and these are the characteristics themselves. At the center of this build are two 7900 handguns, a 12-core AMD Ryzen 9 7900X processor, and a Radeon RX 7900 XT with 20GB of memory. (Yes, that’s 20GB on the GPU—no Nvidia being stingy here.)
This combination, despite the CPU being a bit older and the GPU just weeks away from being eclipsed by a whole new generation, is more than enough for basic productivity tasks and, of course, gaming. Regarding the latter, the RX 7900 XT is ideal for high refresh rate 1440p gaming or 4K gaming in all but the most demanding games. Of course this is not true. enough on par with the RX 7900 XTX or RTX 4080 Super, but you’re not paying RTX 4080 Super prices here.
And for that price you also get a pretty solid all-round system, with 32GB of DDR5 RAM – fast DDR5 RAM at that – and 2TB of internal storage. (We hope that system developers are starting to realize that installing games can be done bigthese days.)
Plus, the vertical GPU mounts look great, don’t they? If you’re proud of your all-AMD build, why not show it off?
This build should also serve as a good platform for future upgrades. 32GB of fast DDR5 RAM and a Ryzen 9 7900X processor will take you to even the 60-series generation of RTX GPUs (and whatever AMD decides to call their generation after the 9070), so if you decide to upgrade your graphics card, line, you should be in good shape. And if you need more processor capabilities, the AM5 socket allows you to install the newer X3D chip.
Overall, I’d say this all-AMD build is pretty good for $250 in savings.