If you’ve been waiting to buy a no-compromise desktop that can handle today’s most taxing games, one of the flagship prebuilts just hit its price break early with a huge discount.
According to the retailer’s product page, Walmart will be selling Skytech’s Prism 4 for $3,799 — a little over $1,600 off the usual price — with a free gaming mouse and keyboard.
A maxed-out spec to hit 4K and path tracing
According to the listing, this setup sports an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 loaded with 32GB of VRAM along with 64GB DDR4 RAM and a massive 2TB NVMe SSD. On paper, that’s the kind of muscle made for native 4K at ultra settings with advanced ray-traced effects turned on. Digital Foundry and many other third-party testers have demonstrated over and over again that fully path-traced titles—think Cyberpunk 2077’s RT Overdrive or Alan Wake 2’s extreme presets—can outright humble even last-gen halo GPUs. The sort of pairing that keeps those high frame rates and sharper 1% lows in edge-case scenarios is a next-gen flagship paired to AMD’s CPU architecture, like this 3D V-Cache one here.
AMD’s commercially available 3D V-Cache chips have seen double-digit throughput gains in CPU-limited open-world and simulation titles, as tested by the likes of TechSpot and Tom’s Hardware, so future chips based on the tech are a smart fit for a top-shelf GPU.
With modern frame generation and upscaling features from NVIDIA, you have a rig placed to push high-refresh 4K monitors or power-hungry VR headsets without caving to reductions in settings.
Real-world headroom, with today’s biggest titles
Storage and memory will be as important in 2024’s and 2025’s release slate as raw GPU horsepower. With AAA installs regularly clearing 100GB, and some bloaty libraries reaching into the several hundred gigabytes, 2TB of SSD storage is a pragmatic minimum for snappy loads and Windows updates without constantly tending to housekeeping. The 64GB RAM ceiling offers enough headroom for creators and heavy multitaskers to accommodate capture software, mods, and dozens of browser tabs while keeping frametimes smooth (especially useful in texture-heavy games or while streaming live on Twitch).
What this sort of balanced, high-end spec gets you is stellar returns in infamously tough-to-run titles: Starfield’s CPU-bound cities, Microsoft Flight Simulator’s world streaming, RT-heavy shooters. Although actual frame rate numbers will vary depending on drivers and settings, independent reviews of prior-gen flagships have us confident that the combination of high-end silicon, plenty of VRAM, and fast storage is what’ll keep the minimums off smashing through a wall when the action gets hot.
Thermals and acoustics: the quiet power angle
Skytech comes armed in this build with a 360mm ARGB all-in-one liquid cooler — which these days seems to be more and more the baseline for chilling high-wattage CPUs away from thermal throttling over long gaming sessions. GamersNexus and PCWorld testing have indicated that in cases with good airflow, 360mm rads are generally quieter and provide better sustained performance than their smaller 240mm counterparts. The Prism 4’s unique Wood Curve chassis attempts to combine looks with airflow—no bad thing in a market awash with black rectangles.
How the sale price compares with similar prebuilts
Partly it also comes down to price; at $3,799 after a sale-prompted $1,601 discount, this desktop undercuts what a lot of boutique builders used to ask for equally-ginned-up rigs involving previous-gen halo GPUs. It remains a pay-for-the-convenience buy, but for folks who don’t want to deal with hunting down parts and cable management, the prebuilt path comes with instant gratification, a one-stop warranty call center, and bundled peripherals. Chains’ stock of deep discounts could be fleeting, and inventory at big boxes can vary widely, so don’t be surprised if stock is limited in your region.
It’s also a matter of power versus space. These are minor trade-offs for the performance ceiling you’re purchasing.
Who should hit buy on this discounted flagship PC
This deal is a direct hit at gamers who want uncompromised 4K visuals, content creators who edit and render between matches, and VR users seeking stable frame delivery. And if you’re only playing esports games at 1080p or 1440p, a more modest build can get the job done for a lot less money. But for gamers who do, and want to run path tracing at the highest level, max every slider and keep that experience smooth for years, this discount makes a flagship prebuilt far easier to justify.
Bottom line: a rare flagship prebuilt deal worth grabbing
Flagship gaming PCs don’t often get four-figure discounts, and the Prism 4’s mix of components, cooling upgrades, and storage headroom add up to the kind of headroom that ends up changing how you really play. If you’re ready to jump head-on into the real top of the line without tinkering, this is the high-end deal to beat at Walmart’s current price.
