The best PC gamepad you can get just got a sweet Black Friday deal, with 1000 Hz polling and TMR sticks for less than AU$140

Earlier this year I reviewed the GameSir G7 Pro controller and came away mightily impressed. For AU$159 you get a 2.4 Ghz wireless controller with all the usual "pro" trimmings—paddle buttons, a modular d-pad and face button microswitches—as well as other features that help it trounce the competition, especially at this price point.

The most significant among these is perhaps the TMR (or Tunnelling Magnetoresistance) analog sticks, which are not only drift free, but also potentially more precise and with a lower power draw than other stick tech. I go into it in more detail in my review, but basically: they're marginally better than Hall Effect analog sticks which have, for the past few years, been the go-to tech for players who hate the drift-prone problems rife in Sony and Xbox's gamepads.

Aside from the TMR sticks, I really loved the extra bumper buttons, especially the way the rear paddle buttons can be toggled off in a way that makes them feel like they're not really buttons at all. If this controller had an RRP of AU$300, it'd still be noteworthy, but one of the crucial draws of the GameSir G7 Pro is that it's astonishingly cheap for what you get: I feel like it eliminates the need to ever buy an Xbox controller again.

Anyway, Amazon's Black Friday sale just kicked off and you can currently get the GameSir G7 Pro for AU$135: a neat 15% discount. It's not the steepest cut—and apparently only the white model is available—but if you're going to get one, now's the time to bite.

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GameSir G7 Pro: was AU$159 now AU$135 at Amazon

A tidy saving on this brilliant PC gamepad (which also works with Xbox consoles, albeit only wired). It features an astonishing 1000 Hz polling rate for higher precision, TMR analog sticks, face button microswitches, Hall Effect triggers, paddle buttons, 2.4 Ghz wireless and Bluetooth: it basically has everything you want form a pro controller, without being priced like a pro controller.

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GameSir is also selling some of its older controllers cheap via Amazon, as part of Black Friday. See the GameSir Nova Lite for AU$38.25 (down from AU$45), which according to our reviewer punches "well above its very light weight" for a gamepad at this price point (and yes it has Hall Effect sticks).

If you're after something other than a gamepad, we're collecting everything all Black Friday PC gaming deals in Australia.