Black Friday is over, but Cyber Monday is keeping the deal train alive! Check out our hub for the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals in Australia (opens in new tab) to see the best bargains going around right now.
While November 25 has officially passed, there's still a bunch of Black Friday PC gaming deals on offer across the web. You can still find discounts on graphics cards, CPUs, gaming headset, gaming keyboards, chairs and much more from a number of retailers. There's still time to pick up a gift for a PC gamer in your life ahead of the holidays or net yourself a well-earned reward for a hard year's work.
Whether you're looking for a loved one or to treat yourself, you don't want to waste your money on a trash product or an awful 'deal'. That's why we'll be heavily curating the deals on this page to make sure you can see where your hard-earned money should go.
Here at PC Gamer we spend our working week testing the latest products to see if they're worthy of our rigs. And the ones we think worthwhile, we tell you about. That's why we do it: you shouldn't have to waste a penny on poorly-made products.
And, at a time with an increased focus on the cost of living in Australia and across the world, it makes sense to save any large purchase for an event such as Black Friday, where every retailer in every corner of the globe will be cutting prices to tempt you into spending your money with them. Whatever you're after, the Black Friday sales event is a great time to bag a bargain. We're making sure to channel our years of expertise into making sure you know what the best deals are and don't have to go trawling though pages of not-actually-deals on Amazon, eBay, MWave, and more.
Where are the best Black Friday PC gaming deals?
- Amazon - deals on anything from RTX 3060 gaming laptops to 4K screens (opens in new tab)
- Dell - save big on Alienware and Dell PCs and monitors (opens in new tab)
- Lenovo - savings on Legion gaming laptops and desktops (opens in new tab)
- Razer - save on Razer gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
- Microsoft - save on Surface, Xbox, Razer and more (opens in new tab)
- Secretlab - save up to AU$150 off some of the best gaming chairs (opens in new tab)
- Mwave - bargains across gaming PCs, hardware and peripherals (opens in new tab)
- Green Man Gaming - big discounts on PC games (opens in new tab)
- HP - Black Friday offerings on gaming laptops, PCs and more (opens in new tab)
- MSI - Big savings on MSI's range of gaming laptops (opens in new tab)
Black Friday PC games deals
Black Friday is over, but Cyber Monday is now. Check out our hub for the best Cyber Monday PC gaming deals in Australia to see the best prices; see below a few highlights:
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(opens in new tab)When is Black Friday 2022 in Australia?
Black Friday 2022 is on November 25 this year and will effectively last through until Cyber Monday on November 28.
Though, in reality, Black Friday is now a month-long event running pretty much throughout the entirety of November.
What deals can I expect on Black Friday 2022?
If there's one thing we've learned from Amazon Prime Day this year, it's that it looks like graphics card deals are back on the menu, boys. Despite the RTX 4090 (opens in new tab) and RTX 4080 (opens in new tab) cards launching ahead of Black Friday, there will still be a lot of old stock left on the shelves come the big day and into Cyber Monday.
But that doesn't mean every GPU deal is going to be a good one. We've seen a bunch of discounted RTX 3090 Ti cards recently, but even with heavy discounted prices, they're not cheap enough to make sense in a world where the RTX 4090 has made the ultra-enthusiast GPU market a one card deal.
Your best bet is in the mid-range or budget end of the graphics card spectrum. It's going to be a long while before we see new, genuinely affordable GPUs arrive, so if you're not in the market for some super-expensive slab of graphics silicon, there could well be some great deals. Honestly, the best deals are likely to be on AMD cards if past experience is anything to go by, but Nvidia will also be under some pressure to ship its more mainstream GPUs, too.
It's also worth noting you will be able to find all these cards in either a pre-built gaming PC (opens in new tab) or last-gen GPUs in a new gaming laptop (opens in new tab), and that's arguably where the best deals for gaming upgrades will happen.
With the launch of new Intel and AMD processors, the last-gen chips could be cheaper too, in order to clear older stock from the inventory of retailers. That's good news, because the Intel 12th Gen, and AMD Ryzen 5000-series chips are all still great gaming CPUs. With an imminent price correction on memory (opens in new tab) expected soon, we might see some other component deals, as well.
DDR5 has also started dropping in price now that AMD is supporting it as well, and there seems to have been a glut of great SSDs (opens in new tab) deals.
Screens are another regularly discounted commodity around Black Friday, and we doubt this year will be any different. This means both the best gaming monitors (opens in new tab) and the best TVs for gaming (opens in new tab) could get some tasty deals, too.
And there will always be gaming mice (opens in new tab) and keyboards (opens in new tab) on sale come Black Friday too, so they're worth taking a look at. It's a great time of year to treat your butt to a quality gaming chair (opens in new tab) as well, which tend to enjoy some healthy price cuts this time of year.
What should I avoid buying on Black Friday 2022?
Anything you don't need. It's distressingly easy to be duped into dropping cash on something just because there's a hefty discount attached to it… even though you have absolutely no use for it.
If you're considering making a purchase around Black Friday, have a plan of attack. That probably sounds needlessly aggressive, but you need to know what you actually want to buy first or you'll end up with no end of crap. Cheap crap, maybe, but crap nonetheless.
Do some research on the products you'd like to pick up in the sales (we offer detailed hardware buying guides (opens in new tab)), and maybe some alternatives in case those don't pop up. Set yourself a strict budget too.
Products like graphics cards and processors have obvious tiers (though the different companies work damned hard to make product names as confusing as possible), and SSDs have rated speeds, but for peripherals, it's tougher to tell from the specs whether they're worth the money. Checking for reviews, from such luminaries as ourselves, should guide you on your way.
What should I avoid buying on Black Friday 2022?
Anything you don't need. It's distressingly easy to be duped into dropping cash on something just because there's a hefty discount attached to it… even though you have absolutely no use for it.
If you're considering making a purchase around Black Friday, have a plan of attack. That probably sounds needlessly aggressive, but you need to know what you actually want to buy first or you'll end up with no end of crap. Cheap crap, maybe, but crap nonetheless.
Do some research on the products you'd like to pick up in the sales (we offer detailed hardware buying guides (opens in new tab)), and maybe some alternatives in case those don't pop up. Set yourself a strict budget too.
Products like graphics cards and processors have obvious tiers (though the different companies work damned hard to make product names as confusing as possible), and SSDs have rated speeds, but for peripherals, it's tougher to tell from the specs whether they're worth the money. Checking for reviews, from such luminaries as ourselves, should guide you on your way.
