Without a doubt, Black Friday is one of the best times of year to upgrade your gaming PC. Although the actual event lands on November 29, retailers have been stretching out Black Friday sales earlier. We are now about a week away from the main event and most retailers have released several excellent deals that you could potentially jump on now if you don't want to wait. The gaming PC deals from Dell, Best Buy, HP, and Lenovo are already at the best prices of the year and well worth picking up.Alienware Black Friday DealsIf you're in the market for a prebuilt gaming PC, Alienware is one of best gaming brands we'd recommend. The Dell Black Friday Sale has already started ahead of November 29 with some outstanding deals on Alienware Aurora R16 gaming desktops. Consistent build quality, available inventory, frequent sales, and solid customer service are the main reasons why Dell is at the top of our buying list for gaming PCs.Alienware Aurora R16 i9-14900KF RTX 4090 Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i9-13900F RTX 4080 Super Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i9-14900KF RTX 4080 Super Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i7-14700F RTX 4070 Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i7-14700F RTX 4060 Ti Gaming PCAlienware Aurora R16 i9 RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming PCBest Buy Black Friday DealsBest Buy has just released its third and final round of early Best Buy Black Friday deals, and a bunch of excellent gaming PCs are included in the mix. If you're on a budget, the iBuyPower Scale RTX 4060 gaming PC for $699.99 is a solid deal and a great candidate for 1080p gaming. For something more powerful, consider the CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme gaming PC with an outstanding AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and RTX 4070 Super GPU. 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Save up to $1,000 off HP's flagship Omen 45L gaming PC, which is equipped with your choice of an RTX 4090 or 4080 Super GPU and 240mm-360mm AIO liquid cooling. For those of you on a budget, the HP Victus gaming PC with RTX 4060 GPU is down to $779.99.HP Omen 45L Intel Core i9-13900K RTX 4090 Gaming PCHP Omen 45L Intel Core i7-14700K RTX 4080 Super Gaming PCHP Victus 15L Intel Core i5-1440F RTX 4060 Gaming PCHP Omen 35L Intel Core i7-14700F RTX 4060 Ti Gaming PCLenovo Black Friday DealsUpdate: Prices have gone up a bit on 11/19. If you've already decided you want a Lenovo gaming PC, I would strongly recommend waiting until these prices drop again. They certainly will before or on Black Friday.Lenovo is offering some great Black Friday deals on budget and mid-range gaming PCs. Get a Legion Tower 5 equipped with an RTX 4060 or Radeon RX 7600 for about $800, or my recommendation is to step up to the RTX 4070 Super model for only $1380. The RTX 4070 Super is one of the best graphics cards for most people; it's not exorbitantly priced, and it's powerful enough to run games at up to 4K resolution (although 1440p is its sweet spot).Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 8 AMD Ryzen 7 7700 RTX 4070 Super Gaming PCLenovo Legion Tower 5i Gen 8 Intel Core i7-14700F RTX 4070 Ti Super Gaming PC with 32GB RAM, 1TB SSDLenovo LOQ Intel Core i5-1440F RTX 4060 Gaming PCLenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 8 AMD Ryzen 5 7600 Radeon RX 7600 Gaming PCCyberPowerPC Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming PCWalmart's best Black Friday gaming PC dealCyberPowerPC AMD Ryzen 7 7700 Radeon RX 7900 GRE Gaming PC with 32GB RAM, 2TB SSDAs part of its first round of Black Friday deals, Walmart is offering this CyberPowerPC Gamer Supreme gaming PC for only $1,199 after a $370 instant discount. This PC features an AMD Ryzen 7 7700 CPU, Radeon RX 7900 GRE GPU, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 2TB M.2 SSD. The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a relatively recent (March 2024) release. It's roughly 10-15% faster than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 GPU and is more comparable to the new RTX 4070 Super. This rig is ideal for gaming at up to 1440p resolution at high framerates, although it can also run most games in 4K.Amazon Black Friday Deals... Are AbsentAmazon's Black Friday Sale hasn't officially begun. In fact, it only just recently announced that their deals will begin in earnest on November 21. As such, it hasn't yet pushed any seriously convincing Black Friday deals aside from its Fire TV sticks. As soon as we find any gaming PC deals worth mentioning, we'll update this article.DIY PC Builders: The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Is Back in StockNew ReleaseAMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 Desktop Processor$479.00 at AmazonIf you're in the process of building out a new gaming PC and you're looking for the best gaming processor, this is it. Right now, the recently released AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D AM5 desktop processor is back in stock at Amazon at its retail price of $479 shipped. This is the official launch price with zero markup, and it's not bundled with anything you don't want or need.The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best gaming processor currently on the market and a much better option than the new Intel Core Ultra 9 285K. If you're waiting for a discount on this processor for Black Friday, though, don't hold your breath. There is the slimmest of slim chances that anyone will drop the price of this hot commodity before 2025.In our AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D review, Jackie Thomas wrote that "the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is extremely powerful in games, which makes it easier to recommend than other recent processors like the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K or Ryzen 9 9900X. Especially if youre building a rig with a powerful graphics card, the 9800X3D is going to be the best way to get the most performance out of whichever GPU you pair it with. When Is Black Friday 2024?The actual date of Black Friday in 2024 falls on November 29 this year, but the deals season began a lot sooner than that. Leading up to the big event, retailers have begun to open deals online. (This usually starts in the last week of October, just before Halloween.) Each week leading up to the event will slowly roll out more deals, which ultimately leads to massive discounts on Black Friday. Retailers will not reveal their biggest Black Friday deals until the big day, but most general deals will be available well in advance.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.