Today is the lowest price since we started tracking on Oct 8 (down from $1,133.63 on Oct 13).
Buy now or wait? Too new to call. We've tracked its price for 8 days: too little to say buy or wait.
At Best Buy, 132 of the 1431 PCs we track are 5% or more below their highest price of the last 30 days. Black Friday sales week starts Nov 23, in 38 days.
From 8 days of prices since Oct 8. From our own price history only; no one can promise a future sale.
In stock every day we checked in the last 30 days (8 checks)
Tracked since Oct 8, 2026
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Day
Best Buy
Oct 15, 2026
$1,115.01
Oct 14, 2026
$1,132.94
Oct 13, 2026
$1,133.63
Oct 12, 2026
$1,133.63
Oct 11, 2026
$1,115.70
Oct 10, 2026
$1,115.70
Oct 9, 2026
$1,115.70
Oct 8, 2026
$1,115.70
Checked every morning since Oct 8; we keep every day's price.
Today's stats
Price dropped 2 days in a row
Power cost: about $4.76 a month, $57.16 a year.
An estimate: about 290W from the wall while gaming (the RTX 3050's rated 130W, the CPU and the rest of the PC, through the power supply). 18¢ is about the 2026 US average; use the rate on your bill. Idle and desktop use draw far less.
Would you buy it at $1,115.01?
CPU
Core i5 14400F
Graphics card
RTX 3050 (8GB VRAM)
Memory
16GB
Motherboard chipset
Not listed
Storage
1TB NVMe
Power supply
Not listed
CPU cooler
Not listed
Case / airflow
mesh/airflow front
Wi-Fi / Bluetooth
Not listed
Ports
Not listed
Operating system
Not listed
Warranty
Not listed
Upgrade room
Not listed
Brand
Thermaltake
Best Buy SKU
13160329
Hidden specs
⚠ Memory layout not listed: one stick (1x32GB) runs single-channel and can cost 10-20% FPS in CPU-heavy games
⚠ Memory speed not listed: slow memory is a common corner cut
⚠ Power supply not listed: a low-wattage or unrated one is a common corner cut and limits upgrades
⚠ Motherboard not listed: a budget board can limit memory speed and upgrades
⚠ CPU cooler not listed: a stock cooler can run hot and loud under load
⚠ Warranty not listed: check the length and whether it covers parts and labor
none listed for computers (Best Buy's 15% fee applies to listed categories such as drones, cameras, projectors and special-order products; none on unopened items)
none listed for computers (Best Buy's 15% fee applies to listed categories such as drones, cameras, projectors and special-order products; none on unopened items)
Sold by Newegg Inc. (marketplace): check the seller's return terms
Value Score (higher is better)
16
How much gaming its price buys today: its graphics card's speed per dollar, then its price against other PCs with that card, any real price drop, how well its CPU, memory and storage fit the card, and its brand. 5.4 FPS per $100 (Fortnite (Benchmark), 1440p).
FPS in popular games
Your games (popular games):Fortnite (Benchmark), Call of Duty Black Ops 6, Call of Duty Warzone, Cyberpunk 2077, Helldivers 2, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II, Forza Horizon 5, The Witcher 3, Minecraft (Realistic Shaders)
Max preset, native, frame generation off: Justin's test settings. Numbers marked est. are estimates.
Max settings, nativeMax, native: Highest preset, native (no DLSS/FSR), as Justin tests.
Lines at 60 FPS: 60 is smooth, 144 fills a high-refresh monitor (bright green 144 and up, light green 60 and up, yellow under 60). "est." means an estimate, not a run on this exact PC: the average of Justin's tests of PCs with the same CPU and graphics card, or estimated from his benchmarks of similar cards. A number without it is Justin's own measurement of this exact PC. Any setting but Max, native, frame generation off is an estimate ("est."); with frame generation on, the number is frames shown, and "feels like" is the frames the PC renders. Every game we cover
FPS from Justin's own testing, measured or estimated (each number says which). How we get our numbers
Compared with your PC
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Is it a good deal?
FPS verdict: On average across all 9 games: 67 FPS est. at 1080p, 44 FPS est. at 1440p and 31 FPS est. at 4K. That is smooth (60+ FPS) at 1080p and under 60 FPS at 1440p and 4K. 3.9 FPS per $100 at 1440p. est.: estimated, as in the FPS section. At Justin's settings (Max, native).
14th of 80by value among RTX 3050 builds in stock
Not enough comparable PCsin stock to compare its price with (we need at least 5)
$1,122.25its 30-day average
$1,115.01its lowest price since we started tracking on Oct 8
OK price
OK price: a same-or-better PC is $266.01 (24%) less.
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