Everyone loves a bargain, especially during Amazon Prime Day. But even amid a sea of price cuts and discounts, some folks only want The Best. If you are just such a discerning individual, you're in the right place, friend.
Below, I've summarised all of the hardware that we consider to be the 'best overall' in their respective category. Keeping with the big deal day spirit, I've also hunted around for the best price available for each bit of kit. Sure, some online storefronts know exactly what they have and are still charging full price—but that doesn't mean there aren't any steals among this list of hardware goodies.
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If you're looking for something a little more specific than simply The Best, or are wondering about our favourite budget picks to date, all is revealed in our very own techie tier list. But to badly paraphrase the immortal words of Tina Turner, what follows below is better than all the rest.
1. Best gaming chair: Secretlab Titan Evo
"The original chair has been in constant use in our office since we first reviewed it in 2021—gosh, has it really been that long? Since then, it's been rolled around, bumped into, and carelessly caressed by many staff members, yet it's still in excellent condition. That Neo Hybrid Leatherette is really holding up great."
2. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 16
"The new Razer Blade 16 is the best gaming laptop I've ever used, and I've been messing around with them professionally for the best part of 20 years now. But it's not about the fact I've been using an RTX 5090-powered version, and that it's simply the fastest, most powerful machine I've had the pleasure of toasting my lap. Because it's not. The real kicker, the real reason why this is the best gaming laptop is because the experience of actually using the device itself is a genuine pleasure—whether that's gaming, productivity, or just general laptopery."
3. Best gaming monitor: MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED
"This is a staggeringly good display that undercuts its rivals significantly, and as a result, it's the best gaming monitor you can buy right now. It can be a little difficult to get hold of as a result, but if you manage to snag one of these, you're getting all the main benefits of OLED tech for less."
4. Best gaming headset: HyperX Cloud Alpha
"What's special about the Cloud Alpha gaming headset is how it sounds. That should be a given, right? Yet it's easy to get distracted by extraneous features that don't altogether matter much when looking for a gaming headset. The Cloud Alpha, however, is a simple beast. It delivers fantastic audio that's difficult to match for the same money."
5. Best gaming PC: HP Omen 35L
"Gaming PCs can be expensive, but with the HP machine, you're receiving all of what you want for a price that's competitive with the cheaper options on the market, from a trusted manufacturer. That makes it the gaming PC to beat right now, if you ask me."
6. Best gaming desk: Secretlab Magnus Pro XL
"The Magnus Pro XL can lift a gigantic 120 kg / 265 lbs in gross weight (including the weight of the desk itself) up to a height of 125 cm / 49 inches. That's plenty of range to stand up for work during the day and lounge back to game during the night. That also makes the Magnus Pro XL the best standing desk for our money. Why buy something that's purely a standing desk when you can have both options in one?"
7. Best microphone for gaming: Shure MV6 USB Gaming Microphone
"The Shure MV6 is the mic to go for if you want something desktop-based, easy to use, and with excellent sound [...] it's also very reasonably priced. That makes it the best gaming microphone you can place on your desk and one that'll likely keep on trucking for many, many years to come."
8. Best webcams: Elgato Facecam MK.2
"The Facecam MK.2 offers uncompressed 1080p video capture. This makes for an artefact-free video stream. It's not 4K-capable but that works just fine for anyone looking to use this camera for streaming, rather than recording, be that on Twitch, Google Meet, or Zoom."
9. Best graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 9070
"The RX 9070 offers close to the performance of AMD's most powerful RDNA 4 GPU, still packs in 16 GB of GDDR6 video memory, can be easily overclocked without demanding much more cooling or power, and handily outperforms Nvidia's similarly priced, lower-spec RTX 5070."
10. Best mini PC: Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT
"Being more than capable of proper 1080p gaming performance and practically anything else you might want your PC to do, the Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT is the best mini PC around. Housed in a compact chassis and mounted in its vertical stand, the AtomMan G7 PT is larger than your average mini pc, but still diminutive in terms of desktop footprint. Chances are, if you're in the market for a mini pc for gaming, then space is a factor—and this wee beasty takes up very little."
11. Best handheld gaming PC: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS
"The best handheld gaming PC is the Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS. That SteamOS part is key, because Valve's operating system is no small part of what makes this device so spectacular. That, and its incredibly comfortable design and premium aesthetic."
12. Best gaming keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless
"It's been a long time since I've been blown away by a gaming keyboard—so many seemed carbon copies of what Corsair did 10 years ago—but the Scope II 96 is mighty impressive. It focuses on nailing the actual mechanics of a mechanical gaming keyboard. Importantly, it's also great for gaming and doesn't cost anywhere near as much as its smaller, more premium sibling, the ROG Azoth."
13. Best PC controller: Xbox Wireless Controller
"The best overall controller for the PC is the Xbox Wireless Controller. It's exceptionally high quality for the money, comfortable, colourful, and frequently discounted. What more could you need in a pad?"
14. Best CPU for gaming: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
"The Ryzen 7 9800X3D [...] has improved gaming power consumption and better gaming performance. In the likes of Baldur's Gate 3 and Homeworld 3, games that are heavily CPU-limited, the 9800X3D sweeps Arrow Lake aside and even makes the standard Zen 5 chips look average in comparison."
15. Best DDR5 RAM for gaming: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB DDR5-7200
"The G.Skill Trident Z5 DDR5-7200 is the best overall DDR5 kit for gaming that you can buy, thanks to ultra-high speeds and super-low latencies. You'd expect memory at this level to cost a bundle, [...] but it's not that bad. It's a downright bargain compared to the cost of premium DDR5 a few years ago, where prices of $500/£500 or higher were commonplace."
16. Best SSD for gaming: WD Black SN7100
"While sequential read/write is great too (we clocked it at 7,116 MB/s), Random 4K performance blew us away. Our Zak, who tested the drive, says it "absolutely demolished every drive I've tested on the [Random 4K] read front, scoring an insane 101 MB/s." RND4k is what translates to gaming performance, and this drive performs well there, too."
17. Best PC fans: Noctua NF-A12x25 G2 PWM
"On a technical level, Noctua has done the near-impossible here with an extremely small gap between the fan blades and the housing. It's just 0.5 mm, or in layman's terms, as thin as a milkman's dinner. This tiny gap is partially responsible for this fan's absurdly impressive performance, even at low RPM, and Noctua's massive headache trying to build the darn thing. I've been told multiple times over the past few years that the materials used on this fan needed to be changed or the fan redesigned to prevent 'critical deformation'."
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