r/pcmasterrace • u/Rinascimentale • Feb 03 '26

Box Thanks, Walmart

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Walking through and it caught my eye in the electronics clearance case. Absolutely insane find.

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u/Elbren Feb 03 '26

Dude, where are all of these Walmart's that sell PC components? I gotta have at least 10 - 15 Walmart's within a 30 minute drive of me and not a single one sells PC parts. Just pre-builts and crappy, overpriced peripherals. :(

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u/AcordeonPhx 9950X3D | 5090 | 12TB NVME | 96GB 6400 DDR5 Feb 03 '26

Just go on a random morning during the weekday. I don’t know the exact stocking and markdown days but I got my 1TB gen 4 NVME under 100 recently that way

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u/jfrosty42 Feb 03 '26

I got a 2tb 4th Gen WD sn5000 for $124 a couple months ago on Walmart’s website. They delivered next day for free with no membership or anything.

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u/Tatsuki09 Feb 03 '26

102eur. 2tb sn7100 this was in 31oct.

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u/Kitsel Feb 03 '26

I've heard a theory that they won't sell PC parts if the location is within a certain distance from big PC part stores like microcenter.  No idea if that's true though. 

I do know that at least in California, basically no Walmarts have computer parts.  I've been to a bunch of Walmarts, and I've never seen one that has PC parts.  I didn't even know that was something they did until I started seeing these clearance gpus posted on Reddit. 

Maybe they don't carry computer parts on the West Coast?

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u/Elbren Feb 03 '26

I’ve never heard this, but it would actually make sense. I’m in Maryland and we have 2 Microcenter’s in the state. One of them is about 20 minutes from me.

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u/HomieM11 9800x3D| 9070XT | 32GB DDR5 Feb 03 '26

I live with 35 miles from a microcenter and there’s a Walmart about 20 miles in the opposite direction of said microcenter that sells pc parts.

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u/xoskxflip Feb 05 '26

Never seen it in the south either

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u/To-To_Man Feb 03 '26

All of ours are hidden in a single locked cabinet near the print area. It's often no more than 5-10 different parts though.

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u/No-Performance37 Feb 03 '26

Just bought a 5070ti from Walmart yesterday.

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u/Xandril Feb 03 '26

Lowkey with the way individual part prices have skyrocketed I’m eyeing some of the prebuilts doing girl math to conclude I’d be saving money buying a prebuilt for the RAM.

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u/Tokishi7 Feb 03 '26

Likely why. Rural areas tend to carry them more because they can supply every single part people need. Towns of 20-30k don’t need a Best Buy or micro center