It could well be that any sale period this year is going to be worth paying attention to more than ever, what with the rampant pricing pain of the ongoing RAMpocalypse. While PC gaming hardware prices only seem to be going one way right now (hint: it’s ⤴️) it’s a relief to see that there are still going to be deals, at least in the short term.
Case in point: this all-AMD iBuyPower gaming PC that’s had a $250 price cut since we reviewed it earlier this month all thanks to the President’s Day sales kicking off at the moment.
Jacob was genuinely impressed by the machine, giving the iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 a hefty 87%. His only real issue was that the then $2,149 price tag put it above equivalent gaming PCs you could buy at the time. But now, a little over a week later and it’s down to just $1,899 at iBuyPower. You’ll need to use the STARS code at checkout to get the final $100 discount, but that’s a site-wide discount code live at the moment which can get you up to $350 off more expensive PCs, too.
Jacob did have another couple of niggles, largely just around the higher-than-ideal CAS latency of the 32 GB DDR5-6000 memory the system ships with. But, whisper it, memory is horribly expensive, and I’ll take some CL48 RAM if it means I get 32 gigabytes of the otherwise speedy stuff. For us PC Gamers, capacity and clock speed are arguably more important.
The non-modular PSU was another slight niggle, but that’s just Jacob being fussy… I mean, it comes with a goodly variety of cables, even with a 12VHPWR if you want to switch to Nvidia later on down the line.
Otherwise, you’re getting a great config for your cash. You could argue the Ryzen 7 7800X3D is a bit last-gen compared with the newer Zen 5 3D V-Cache chips, but it was our pick as the best CPU for gaming for a long time for a reason. It’s still got seriously impressive gaming chops, even if it is a little bit behind the more expensive Ryzen 7 9800X3D.
But the Radeon RX 9070 XT is an outstanding graphics card, especially for this price. It’s an RDNA 4 GPU with the performance of the RTX 5070 Ti, which is now a $1,000+ graphics card on its own. That immediately highlights the value of this spec, and the performance is genuinely impressive.
Gaming PC performance testing
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Cyberpunk 2077 (1440p RT Medium) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
66 Avg FPS, 55 1% Low FPS
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
68 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
66 Avg FPS, 52 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
67 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Cyberpunk 2077 | w/frame gen (1440p RT Medium) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
184 Avg FPS, 102 1% Low FPS
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
194 Avg FPS, 163 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
N/A
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
188 Avg FPS, 152 1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition (1440p Ultra) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
115 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
122 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
169 Avg FPS, 51 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
119 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (1440p Ultra) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
68 Avg FPS, 27 1% Low FPS
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
79 Avg FPS, 32 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
82 Avg FPS, 46 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
78 Avg FPS, 36 1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
3DMark Storage Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
2343 Index, 403.37 Avg bandwidth (MB/s)
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
1314 Index, 227.35 Avg bandwidth (MB/s)
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
2572 Index, 441.63 Avg bandwidth (MB/s)
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
3493 Index, 593.52 Avg bandwidth (MB/s)
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
3DMark Time Spy Extreme Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
6031 CPU score, 14162 GPU score
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
6341 CPU score, 14681 GPU score
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
6976 CPU score, 13042 GPU score
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
7415 CPU score, 14309 GPU score
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
7zip 24.07 Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
115 Compressing, 131 Decompressing
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
120 Compressing, 124 Decompressing
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
115 Compressing, 131 Decompressing
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
132 Compressing, 143 Decompressing
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Baldur’s Gate 3 (1440p Ultra) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
N/A
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
106 Avg FPS, 67 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
134 Avg FPS, 53 1% Low FPS
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
146 Avg FPS, 87 1% Low FPS
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Blender 4.2.0 (junkshop) Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
83 CPU (samples), 918 GPU (samples)
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
87 CPU (samples), 828 GPU (samples)
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
93 CPU (samples), 1909 GPU (samples)
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
101 CPU (samples), 880 GPU (samples)
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Cinebench 2024 Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
1046 Multithread score, 110 Single-thread score
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
1119 Multithread score, 134 Single-thread score
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
1227 Multithread score, 128 Single-thread score
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
1323 Multithread score, 128 Single-thread score
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
Handbrake Data
Product
Value
iBuyPower RDY Element 9 Pro R07 | RX 9070 XT | 7800X3D
75
Custom PC | RX 9070 XT | 9700X
77
Custom PC #10 (issue 412) | RTX 5070 Ti | 9800X3D
85
Custom PC #12 (issue 414) | RX 9070 XT | 9800X3D
90
You’re also getting a 2 TB SSD in the package, too. Now that is not a wonderful drive, it has to be said, but is still able to perform at a decent level for a PCIe 4.0 SSD. Especially at a time, again, where storage prices are getting ludicrous, too.
It’s a great all-round package, and a gaming PC anyone should be happy to have at the heart of their gaming setup… especially with this President’s Day sale price. I’ll leave it to Jacob to have the last word though (he likes that) as the person who’s put this very rig through its paces: “The iBuyPower Element Pro is a superb all-AMD gaming PC. Lots of memory and high capacity storage means anyone that purchases it can at least forget about needing to upgrade for a very long time.”
