I've just spotted a brand new RTX 5070 gaming laptop for $999 in Best Buy's 'Rival Prime Day' sale, is it too good to be true?

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A 'mystery' Ryzen 7 2000 series chipset has aroused my suspicion

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This week is set to be a busy week for deals. Not only is Amazon hosting its annual Prime Day event, but Best Buy has its own 'Tech Fest' sale with pretty great price cuts across the board.

One such example this Acer Nitro V Slim 16 gaming laptop for the absurdly low price of $999 (was $1,299) at the retailer. I spotted this one while looking through the retailer's listings today and almost did a double-take because it's so cheap.

With the RAM price crisis, it's extremely rare to see an RTX 5070 gaming laptop for under $1,500, let alone $1,000 these days. With a price this low, there has to be a catch, right?

Well, scanning through the specs sheet, this machine is listed as featuring an 'AMD Ryzen 7 2000 Series' chipset. That's a very vague description, and if that's not a mislabelling, that could be a very, very old processor indeed.

What's happening here, I believe, is that Best Buy has incorrectly listed a modern Ryzen 7-260 chipset as an ancient 2000 series. That would explain why the 16GB of RAM featured on this machine is a more recent DDR5 version, rather than the older DDR4. If that is the case, then you're getting a really, really cheap RTX 5070 gaming laptop here.

The cheapest RTX 5070 gaming laptop I've seen today

Acer Nitro V Slim 16
Acer Nitro V Slim 16: was $1,299.99 now $999.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: AMD Ryzen 7
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 512GB

It's been a long time since I've seen an RTX 5070 gaming laptop go for this cheap, but is this Acer Nitro V Slim 16 is hitting a rock-bottom price at Best Buy today. Almost unbelievably, I believe this one is incorrectly listed with a "Ryzen 2000 series" chipset rather than a Ryzen 7-260 since you get 16GB of DDR5 RAM. Regardless, this is a rare example of a budget RTX 5070 gaming laptop.

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Other good RTX 5070 gaming laptops today

Acer Nitro V Slim 16
Acer Nitro V Slim 16: was $1,379 now $1,199.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: Intel Core 7 Series 2
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 512GB

The above Acer Nitro V Slim 16 also comes in an Intel-based configuration, which is also a decent buy today. It's a little pricier, but you get an Intel Core 7 Series 2 chipset and 16GB of DDR5 RAM. These should, on paper at least, give you a decent boost in performance.

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HP Omen 16
HP Omen 16: was $1,549.99 now $1,459.99 at Best Buy

Graphics card: RTX 5070
Processor: Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
RAM: 16GB
Storage: 1TB

The price cut on this HP Omen 16 at Best Buy isn't huge, but it's still one of the best value RTX 5070 gaming laptops you'll find on the market this week. Pairing up your RTX 5070 with a powerful Intel Ultra 9 chipset means plenty of headroom for all the latest titles. Annoyingly, this machine only comes with 16GB of RAM, but you do get a spacious 1TB SSD as a bonus.

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Alex Whitelock
Alex Whitelock
Retail Editor

Alex is TechRadar's retail editor, specializing in buying advice and general tips on how to save our readers as much cash as possible. He's covered major retail events in some capacity for over seven years now; both in editorial and other ecommerce adjacent roles on TechRadar, T3, GamesRadar, and other Future PLC sites. Alex's expertise touches on most areas, but he has a particular love for phones, laptops, and cameras, being an avid photographer.

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