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Best deals on gaming laptops
Deals Our regularly curated list of all the best gaming laptop deals you'll find today.
Would you look at that... an RTX 5060 Ti well under MSRP and cheaper than any RTX 5060 or RX 9060 XT we can find
Deal If you're looking around for a GPU upgrade this 8 GB RTX 5060 Ti is at its lowest ever price.
Cheap graphics card deals this week
Deals We've done the hard yards sourcing the best graphics card deals for the GPUs worth putting in your gaming PC.
Prime Day gaming deals live - it's day five of Prime week and I'm still trying to find a way for you to save money on your next PC upgrade
Prime Day The past two decades of being a PC hardware journalist has brought me here.
I would almost class these 9 Prime Day PC gaming deals as must-buys for a PC gamer
Prime Day Sure, it's all relative to your budget, but if you're in the market these deals are nearly too good to pass up.
GTA 6 pre-orders are now live, but will you buy on console or hold out for the (obviously superior) PC version?
GTA 6 Or will you double dip... as Rockstar wants?
The best value way to bag a Prime Day RTX 5080 deal is inside a prebuilt gaming PC and I've found four worth a look
Prime Day It's now a $1,200+ graphics card, and with the prices of RAM and storage at an all-time high, any discount is worth chasing.
I hoped for Prime Day graphics card deals, and actually Newegg has delivered near-MSRP deals on my favorite AMD GPU, the RX 9070
Prime Day The RX 9070, our pick as the best graphics card to buy right now, is getting mighty close to MSRP.
Upgrade your gaming setup on the cheap with possibly the best Prime Day gaming chair deal
Prime Day I've been recommending this gaming chair every sales event since it launched in 2024, and it's a damned bargain this year.
I have this Razer gaming headset on my head right now and it's cheaper than it's ever been at just $85 for Prime Day
Prime Day You'll have to sign up to Prime, but this is a bargain price for the best wireless gaming headset you can buy.
Valve confirms it's 'working with AMD on FSR 4 support for Steam Machine'
News It's potentially good news for owners, but will potentially become a balancing act of performance vs fidelity.
Y'know, I don't think you'll find a better gaming laptop deal over Prime Day than this bargain RTX 5070 Acer Nitro for under $1,000
Prime Day It may be a lower-spec 85 W RTX 5070, but we've not seen a sub-$1,000 machine like this for a loooong time.
Best gaming headsets in 2026: I'd bet my ears on these headphones
Quality cans Treat your ears to some audio treacle with the best gaming headsets.
Best gaming laptops 2026: We've reviewed the best gaming laptops of this generation and these are our favorites
Portable powerhouses From our own extensive testing, rigorously benchmarking 60+ machines over the past two years, these are the best gaming laptops you can buy today.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card
Pixel pushers I've been professionally prodding graphics cards for the past two decades, and this is what I've learned about buying GPUs.
Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor
Panel perfection Picking your first gaming monitor is a serious business, and I have some thoughts...
Best cheap gaming monitor deals today
Deals We've scoured the internet for the best deals on gaming monitors, so you don't have to.
Social media is awful but the UK under-16 ban won't solve anything: 'Instead of punishing children, the government needs to target the source'
No quick fixes PC Gamer's writers and editors tackle the impending ban on Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook.
You may not have to wait for Prime Day for the best PC gaming deals
Prime Day 2026 Newegg's Price Protection guarantee and Best Buy's Price Match mean you could shop today and maybe reap the benefits of any discounts tomorrow.
Best gaming PC builds: Shop all our recommended system builds as we ride out the RAMpocalypse
DIY Pick the products from our latest recommendations.
Panther Lake has another powerful iGPU in its lineup but you'll probably never see it
Computex 2026 I was frustrated at the lack of chips with the 10 Xe-core B370 iGPU in affordable laptops, and now I know why I'm even more frustrated.
The overclocking headroom in AMD's Radeon 7000-series GPUs 'was certainly not accidental... the core of Radeon has to be all about value to the end user'
Computex 2026 "We understand that both for CPUs and GPUs, overclockability is a core part of what many of our gamers and enthusiasts are looking for."
Choosing to bring back the 5800X3D was a tough conversation for AMD... 'very hard, actually, very, very hard!'
Computex 2026 I spoke with David McAfee about what it took to bring back the older chip.
