A Costco shopper says a grocery run ended with a discounted gaming desktop: an iBuyPower prebuilt marked down to $1,140 from an original price of $1,899.99. The buyer, Reddit user u/klcp20, posted the find in the PC Master Race subreddit after spotting what they described as one of the last display units at the warehouse store.
For PC buyers staring at current component pricing, especially memory, the number is the point. The configuration listed in the Reddit post is the kind of machine that usually sits well above the impulse-buy shelf, assuming any desktop with a glass side panel and enough RGB can be called an impulse buy with a straight face.
What was in the discounted desktop
According to the spec sheet shared by u/klcp20, the iBuyPower system includes an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor, 32GB of DDR5 memory, a 2TB SSD and an Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics card with 12GB of VRAM. Tom’s Hardware rates the Ryzen 7 9800X3D among its top gaming CPUs.
The system also included an all-in-one liquid cooler, Windows 11, and a keyboard and mouse bundle, according to the same Reddit post. That combination puts the desktop in the range of a modern 1440p gaming machine, with some 4K gaming possible depending on settings and game demands.
The buyer did flag one planned change: replacing the included power supply. The post did not provide a detailed failure report or model-specific complaint, so that should be read as the buyer’s caution rather than evidence of a confirmed defect.
The discount came with display-unit caveats
Display units are often priced down when retailers want to clear floor space, but they are not the same as unopened inventory. A system may have been powered on in-store for an extended period, handled by customers, or sold without every accessory that came in the original box. The Reddit post described this machine as a Costco display unit, not a sealed retail purchase.
The same model has apparently shown up before at an even lower clearance price. Tom’s Hardware previously reported that another Costco shopper bought what appeared to be the same iBuyPower desktop for $1,000, also down from $1,899.99.
There is no indication that the $1,140 price is a chainwide promotion. The reported deal depended on a specific store having display stock left to sell. For anyone hoping to repeat it, the useful lesson is narrow: clearance pricing on floor models can beat online deal trackers, but the tradeoff is condition, completeness and whatever risk comes with buying hardware that has already spent time on display.
This story draws on original reporting from Tom's Hardware.
