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October Prime Day controller deals

Razer's competitive controller is such a good deal this Prime Day that I thought I clicked on the wrong listing

The best PC and Xbox pad right now is less than $65 this Prime Day

Say goodbye to stick drift: GameSir's Nova Lite 2 gamepad is less than $25 right now on Prime Day

There are simply too many great controller deals this Prime Day so here are the three I'd be looking at

A love letter to the Guitar Hero X-Plorer Controller

I just think it's neat

You won't find a better gaming controller under $30 than the GameSir Nova Lite 2 right now

Razer's Wolverine 8K controller is down to $160 and has literally everything you need to wipe the lobby

'No fuss, no greater meaning, only fans': Corsair shares 3D print files for its April Fools mini fan cube

Best liquid cooler for CPUs in 2026: I test all the latest AIO coolers and these are my recommendations

Best air cooler for CPUs in 2026: I've tested loads of coolers and these are my top picks

Noctua NL-LC1 liquid cooler review

Arctic announces price rollback thanks to a US gov tariff refund, which will continue until 'every single dollar Arctic received… has been paid back to our customers'

Cooler Master V8 Ace 3DHP review

Arctic Freezer 36-S review

Best PC fans in 2026: I've put these case fans through their paces to find the coolest and quietest

Chill out your toasty gaming PC and beat the heat with these 12 deals on fans, liquid coolers, cases, and more from just $5

October Prime Day gaming headset deals

With a 27% Prime Day discount, my favorite gaming headset is even more purr-fect

*Stomp, stomp, stomp*: Run for your lives, our best gaming headset pick is down to $120 this Prime Day and it's heading this way

The Razer BlackShark V3 Pro Wireless is the best gaming headset I've had in a decade, and Prime Day completely fixes my only major complaint

Ditch your busted old cans this Prime Day and grab one of these 12 stellar gaming headset deals, starting from just $28

I thought this budget headset was a bit 'meh' for full price when I reviewed it, but it's actually a steal now it's comfortably under $30

The magic, wireless-charging gaming headset I use every day has a pre-Prime Day discount already

Amazon's $25 self-propelling speakers gave me the giggles as they tried to walk off the edge of my desk, and that's almost worth the price of entry alone

Kali Audio’s HP-1 brings real studio sound to a pair of headphones you can use every day

This Razer gaming chair might be the only thing to save your buns this year and it's $80 off for Prime Day

These Prime Day gaming chair deals will have your buns covered

Best gaming chair in 2026: I've tested loads of gaming chairs and these are my top picks

Razer Chroma Soma lighting

Razer Soma Chroma gaming chair review

One chair for every posture: why the Boulies EP600 is built for people who don't sit still

Corsair's new de-gamefied gaming chair is actually much more affordable than I thought

Boulies EP200 review

I've only seen this excellent budget gaming chair as cheap as this once before... and that was years ago

Come shop with me for a gaming desk, as my back hates me and Prime Day deals are all too tempting

Herman Miller introduces its first ever gaming desk and, needless to say, it is gorgeous but lavishly expensive

Best gaming desk in 2026: my top picks for standing, sitting and everything in between

Secretlab Magnus Evo review

For the boujee among us, we've just crowned this the best luxury gaming desk (though I'd be picking the budget choice)

Grovemade desk review

Autonomous SmartDesk 5 review

Corsair Platform:4 gaming desk review

There's a new Warhammer 40,000 version of our favorite Secretlab desk on the way but please don't paint your minis on it

October Prime Day gaming keyboard deals

Button mashers rejoice: Gaming keyboard deals are plentiful this Prime Day, and here are my absolute favorites

I'm here to inform you the wrist rest included with the new Logitech G Pro X2 Rapid is very good and very wobbly

Google Japan's conveyor belt keyboard is a sad reminder of the sense of humour the whole company used to have long, long ago

I made two $50 gaming keyboards fight for my average-gamer affections, and for me there's one clear winner

Razer Reclusa X Mini 65% gaming keyboard review

Exclusive: Spend $200 or more on eligible CORSAIR Gaming Gear and get an additional $25 off

Framework cancels custom low profile keyboard module for its laptops: 'We weren’t able to bring costs to a place where the product economics worked'

Feel the thrill of competition with Logitech G's mechanical keyboards

I can't believe you can pick up a Glorious mid-range wireless gaming mouse for as low as $15 right now

October Prime Day gaming mouse deals

This Razer mouse is the sole reason I haven't been kicked out of my WoW guild, and it's 21% off during Prime Day

Our best MMO gaming mouse is half price in the Prime Day sales, so prepare yourself for much World of Warcraft-ing

If you like super light gaming mice, I've found one of the best we've ever tested with $30 off in the pre-Prime Day sales

Razer's vertical gaming mouse is great if your wrists have fallen out of love with traditional squeakers, especially at its lowest ever price

2026 is the year big brands have finally pushed gaming mouse technology forwards

In my quest to find the perfect mouse for me, I've ended up with two completely different ones

Metal desks nearly destroyed a Valorant tournament

The best OLED gaming monitor deal of Prime Day is somehow still live, just $270

Best cheap gaming monitor deals today

October Prime Day gaming monitor deals

I only reviewed this awesome 4K Tandem OLED gaming monitor a few months ago and it's already $200 cheaper for Prime Day

I don't fully understand how gaming monitors can be so cheap, but some of this year's Prime Day deals are certainly spectacular

This $220 MSI is the cheapest 34-inch ultrawide gaming monitor from a big brand this Prime Day

If 4K OLED gaming sounds like a good idea, you're going to love these Prime Day monitor deals from under $550

These are two of the very best Amazon Prime OLED gaming monitor deals starting at $280

You can get an OLED gaming monitor for a penny under $300, which is an absolute steal in my book

Microsoft seems very excited about its new magnetic USB Type-C charger for the Surface Laptop Ultra, but it don't impress me much

October Prime Day gaming laptop deals

I'm genuinely surprised this $1,200 RTX 5070 gaming laptop deal is still running

Best cheap gaming PC deals

October Prime Day gaming PC deals

Best deals on gaming laptops

Now we know the prices of the new RTX Spark laptops and they're as expensive as I'm sure you feared

You don't need DDR5 to have a good time this Prime Day, so here's a DDR4 PC build that doesn't suck

The gaming laptop I'd buy with my own cash this Prime Day is... this Asus, even though it's got a teeny weeny little SSD

The RX 9060 XT 8 GB is down to $400, its lowest price in a month, which wouldn't be a deal if it weren't for the absolute state of the market right now

Cheap graphics card deals this week

October Prime Day graphics card deals

I've been looking for graphics card deals all day and this RX 9070 GRE at MSRP is the only thing saving me from total despair

Looks like you will have to pinky promise you won't export your RTX 5090 if you buy a gaming PC from Micro Center now

Best graphics cards in 2026: These are the GPUs worth spending money in right now

Nvidia says my RTX 4070 Super isn't capable of Multi Frame Gen, but I'm surprised by how smooth this unofficial unlock actually feels

How to get unlocked Multi Frame Gen working on an RTX 40-series graphics card

AMD starts the ball rolling for GDDR7 in next-gen GPUs with small code adjustment in its Linux drivers

31% of you go full goth and keep your RGB lighting turned off, while a mere 7% drench your rigs in unicorn vomit

Full unicorn vomit, or stealthed-out mean machine? I want to know how much RGB festoons your gaming PC, please and thank you

The best desk lighting in 2026: my recommendations for key lights and lightstrips to illuminate your gaming set-up

This smart lamp changed my gaming setup for the better and it's finally below $100 this Cyber Monday, just don't pick the wrong model

I didn't know I needed dedicated photography lights until this $44 set turned up, but now I'm a convert

I own over 10 smart lights, here are the three I'd actually buy in the early Amazon Prime Day sales

I may not need a full-blown Logitech streaming light but I'm mighty tempted now that it's 27% off in this early Prime Day deal

As if I needed any more RGB lights, this Govee x Evangelion light kit we gave a 91% is still $60 off for Cyber Monday

I find two key lights are much better than one for evenly lighting a stream or shoot, and here's a set from Neewer that's nearly buy one, get one free for Black Friday

Micron CEO says it'll be tougher to get memory in the next couple of years than it is today, and keeps saying it over and over again

Woah, here's a tech CEO saying the memory crisis won't be as bad as everyone expects

Who the hell is buying their server memory from Amazon?! Also, can I interest you in a $101,000 kit?

Good news for some: Framework swims against the tide of the RAMpocalypse by 'retroactively reducing' its LPCAMM2 prices

Why does this sort of thing never happen to me? Redditor says they found $10,000 worth of RAM just sitting in their garage

Chinese RAM hits 9000 MT/s and even matches the speed and latency of the memory in our western gaming PCs

Micron's top brass wins the memory crisis corpo double speak award: 'We do not have line of sight as to when that supply vector will intersect the demand vector'

A researcher says 'we just undid about 20 years of progress' when it comes to memory prices, so I broke out my calculator and compared actual RAM kits from 2007 to 2026

Corsair isn't rolling in money from its mega-expensive RAM kits—and it's all thanks to higher component costs and lower demand

Don't fear the BIOS update: Asus has just fixed a local access vulnerability affecting older Intel motherboards

Gigabyte admits an oopsie with Gigabyte Control Center software leaving kernel exposed to attackers

Great, now motherboard prices might be next to spike thanks to component costs increasing by up to 50%

Gigabyte is launching B550 AM4 motherboards and recommending four-year-old CPUs because the memory crisis is really that bad

Gigabyte borrows space industry and data center tech, along with all the relevant buzzwords, for its 40th anniversary motherboards

Twenty years ago, copper was king for PC enthusiasts so Asus has brought it back for its ROG anniversary. Well, sort of

Report says motherboard manufacturers are in crisis as builders aren't building new rigs as much anymore

Gigabyte's latest Intel motherboard is a little bit sideways, and it's all about reaching 10,400 MT/s with a megabucks DRAM kit

Looks like DDR3 motherboards are back on the menu, boys, though only to keep older PCs going a bit longer during the RAMpocalypse

Wi-Fi 8 is upon us, so here are two routers we saw at Computex that should be hitting the shops soon

The biggest upgrade I did last year was setting up a Wi-Fi 7 mesh network and with this huge Prime Day deal, you can too

'The most boring protocol on the internet is also, quietly, one of the most abusable': Doom has been broken down into 1,964 DNS text records and can be run via a PowerShell script

Asus says it's confident in its 'strong product security' after FCC foreign-made router ban, also *checks notes* fixes major security hole in its routers

The FCC says foreign routers 'pose an unacceptable risk' and now require special approval to be sold in the US

The best gaming routers 2026: the network data drivers I'd trust with my digital life

Out of all the new hardware that has passed through my hands in 2025, nothing has made an impact like a certain Wi-Fi 7 router has

The best PC upgrade I did this year was switching everything to Wi-Fi 7 and now you can too with these Cyber Monday deals

The internet as we know it emerged out of the Protocol Wars, which is as nerdy as it sounds but also somehow involved the Pentagon

I crammed 20 anime figures inside my gaming PC to see how it affects thermal performance. Yes, you can call me a scientist now

The highly customisable Corsair Frame 4000X promised it would be my dream PC case, but I'm not completely convinced

This cat-themed PC case has the best power button I've ever seen

Gaming PC cases are still being hit with the discount stick right now, so I've rounded up nine of the best deals starting at just $40

Thermaltake Retro 360 TG case review

This is by far the prettiest Phanteks PC case I've ever built in, and it's at its lowest ever price

This bright yellow PC case is a sweet little bumblebee at only $130, and I take no responsibility if you've now got a certain song stuck in your head

I'm so bored of looking at plain black hardware this Prime Day, but thankfully this head-turning PC case is only $100

Phanteks XT View Matrix case review