Alright, it's finally here. Today is Black Friday and surely we're going to start seeing some new deals popping up, so I'm going to be digging through every retailer, down every sofa, and into every back alley, to find the best Black Friday PC gaming deals for you lovely folk. 'Cos I just want to help, obvs.
In reality, the Black Friday sales have been going for over a week now, with Amazon, Newegg, Best Buy and others all starting their sales last Thursday. Things have barely changed in the time since, but there may be a few newbies popping up to make things interesting on the big day.
We're keeping our regular Black Friday PC gaming deals page updated throughout November, and that's where you will find every one of the hundreds of deals we have already curated this month. Whether it's spectacular gaming laptop deals—I'm very happy that the Razer Blade 14 bargain is back—new OLED gaming monitors, or a shiny new GPU, we've found discounts on them all. But right here you will find me picking out the latest and greatest PC gaming hardware deals first. Live!
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Dave james
As a 21-year veteran, Dave's been doing the PC hardware dance since way back in 2005, and building gaming PCs since the '90s. You know, when it was difficult. In his time he's tested every type of PC component, peripheral, and accessory you can imagine, and probably some you can't. That makes him perfectly placed to recommend the best deals, and the ones you need to steer clear of this Black Friday.
The Vector 16 HX AI is usually the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop out there, but this non-AI-branded version with a seriously powerful CPU is now outrageously good value for the components you receive. Sitting somewhere under the RTX 5080 and well above the RTX 5070 in terms of gaming performance, the RTX 5070 Ti is a great upper mid-range laptop GPU. Plus the CPU, while being one of AMD's last gen models, is a 16-core 32-thread monster. In short, it's an absolute beast for the cash.
The TC100 is our favorite affordable gaming chair right now, following up on the popular T3 Rush with a great look and genuine comfort. You can read more in our review. It's a truly excellent gaming chair that's cheaper than most of its competition.
Though left in the dust by fellow PCIe 5.0 drive, the WD Black SN8100, Crucial still can't be beat when it comes to balancing price against performance. Though not the speediest internal SSD, the P510 still offers proper Gen 5 performance for the cost of a Gen 4 drive—check out our full review.
Our best 14-inch gaming laptop pick has dropped even further in price, turning a great deal into a downright fantastic one. In his Blade 14 review, our Dave said it's "a huge improvement over last year's model, and there's now no other gaming laptop I'd want to have my digits on or spend my money on." And he stands by that, which is no surprise as he's made this little marvel his daily driver. It's one of the most desirable laptops on the planet right now, if you ask us.
It doesn't get much better than this, folks. A 4K, 27-inch gaming monitor for a cent under $200. It's an IPS panel, with a 1 ms response time, and is what's known as a dual mode monitor. That means it runs at both 4K/144 Hz and 1080p/288 Hz. Perfect for blending both competitive gaming with immersive singleplayer gaming. Use promo code BFEFE82 to get the full discount.
Who said you can't get decent gaming performance for cheap in 2025? This RX 9060 XT gaming PC is here to put an end to such thoughts, because for just $850 you're getting a build with a current-gen GPU that trades blows with the RTX 5060 Ti. Sure, you're getting an older CPU and 1 TB SSD, but this is a seriously great entry into PC gaming. You can upgrade everything else and keep that 9060 XT in there down the line if you need to start using this rig for productivity tasks.
If you want to shave a few extra dollars off your bill at checkout, this gaming monitor from ASRock is a good way to go about it. It's a VA panel, which is good for contrasts but loses out to an IPS in a few ways, but it's around $10 cheaper than a competitive IPS. It's also rated to 180 Hz, which isn't bad.
This was already our favorite budget PC controller at its full price, but now this excellent Hall effect controller is now down to a ludicrous price if you're happy to game on a fully green pad. For $16 I would be. It is an obviously cheap controller, with no audio jack and just an okay battery life, but it's wireless, won't suffer from stick drift and above all is cheap.
Key specs: Hall effect sticks | 2.5 G and BT wireless | 9 hours battery
AMD's little RX 9060 XT doesn't have upscaling and frame generation as good as the RTX 5060, but it beats it on raw GPU power. You might be better off saving more money and buying a 16 GB version, though. It doesn't have more shaders or higher clock speeds, but the extra VRAM should come in handy in the future. Or just save your pennies and enjoy a great GPU for the money.
Although the RTX 5070 is a good deal faster than its predecessor, the RTX 4070, it's less of an upgrade compared to the RTX 4070 Super. DLSS 4 just about tips the balance in favor of the newer model, though, and this particular deal is well under MSRP.
This RTX 5070 gaming PC also happens to come with the previous generation's best CPU for gaming. It's still no slouch, and is a better choice than non-X3D chips even today. The CPU-GPU combo here should have you handling most games just fine at 1440p, especially if you enable FG or MFG.
Well-priced, powerful, and wireless, VR makes a strong first impression via the Meta Quest 3S. Though I wish the battery life would last just a little bit longer, and it uses the older Quest 2-style optics, access to all of the games previously exclusive to the $500 Meta Quest 3 for half the price is nothing to sniff at. Lots of retailers have this same deal on but Best Buy is offering a free $50 e-gift card with it, so that's the one to go for.
Key specs: Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 | 8 GB RAM | Fresnel lenses | 1,832 × 1,920 per eye | Full-colour passthrough | 464 g
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best AMD CPU right now, and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is the most powerful AMD GPU. That makes this all Team Red build a bit of a beast, and it's topped up with plentiful RAM and storage too.
Here's a funky new widget for you to toy with! If you click on the different drop downs you will be able to peruse what our recommendations are for each different category of PC gaming hardware goodness. All of our recommendations are born out of our reviews and testing time with those products, so you can trust that all our picks are based on us having spent time with them.
For example, the classic Titan Evo is $589 at Amazon but if you check it out on the Secretlab store it's just $499. Throughout the year it bangs on about the fact that because it's a direct-to-consumer brand it can pass those savings on, despite the fact that generally that's the only place you can buy a Secretlab chair. Only around sales events such as Black Friday does it find a place on Amazon to prove that saving in the real world.
Still, they're great chairs and I'm sat on that very seat in the picture ☝️ right now.
Here it, the Black Friday sales proper. I'm back online, digging through the deals, and I'll be here all day and into the night because otherwise I don't get paid.
While I'm not expecting massive changes in deals and pricing just today compared to the week of deals so far, it's more than gratifying to see this little guy back on sale again. For $1,700 it really is a great price for such a premium piece of PC gaming hardware.
My absolute favorite Razer gaming laptop has dropped even further in price as Black Friday ramps up, turning a great deal into a downright fantastic one. In my Blade 14 review I said it's "a huge improvement over last year's model, and there's now no other gaming laptop I'd want to have my digits on or spend my money on." And I stands by that, which is no surprise as he's made this little marvel his daily driver. It's incredibly portable, gorgeous to behold, and pretty much the most desirable lappy on the planet right now. How's that for a deal?
I've spent the last couple of hours making a page on the site dedicated to the biggest discounts of Black Friday, including both the products we recommend with the biggest monetary discounts on them, as well as the products with the biggest percentage discounts. And it's been very interesting, as well as rather long-winded.
The interesting thing is that both HP, with its Omen line of gaming hardware, and Lenovo, with its Legion lineup, are slashing huge amounts of cash of their respective tech. And it's a very close run thing as to who has cut the most in the products we actually like and would recommend you check out.
In total, the HP Omen discounts tot up to $3,655 across four different products and Lenovo just pips it with $3,660 worth of discounts across just three products.
That makes Lenovo the discount Black Friday hero 💸
Don't get bored with the family in the holidays... get even. Katie's found a host of family-friendly board games, perfect for a little healthy competition between kith and kin [furiously Google's the etymology of 'kith'] oh, so that's what it means. Always wondered.
Anyways, Katie's found 17 great games all with healthy discounts on them for Black Friday. Enjoy.
💖It's a love thing💖
Andy loves the Fractal Design Scape headset. I think he even uttered the immortal 'from my cold, dead hands' line when I asked to borrow them for a PC Gamer mag photoshoot. They are a good-looking headset, and Andy is an audio expert, so when he says they're great we really ought to listen.
And now they've got a Black Friday discount down to $170 at Amazon. Which admittedly isn't cheap, but they are pretty darned lovely...
With a super-convenient magnetic charging stand, a comfortable fit, stylish design, and lush sound, the Fractal Design Scape earns its substantial MSRP—and this discount sweetens the deal significantly. It's let down slightly by a lack of noise cancelling and an average microphone, but it's the best addition to my gaming setup I've made all year, and both colorways are included in the deal.
Key specs: 40 mm drivers | 20 - 20,000 Hz | Closed-back | Wireless | 40 hour battery life
Where to park your butt this Black Friday? Well, surprisingly, in a rare twist there actually are some gaming chair deals worth a damn doing the rounds this year. I reckon the perennial Corsair TC100 might well drop in price over the next couple days, but it's still the best value chair you can get today.
In the middle order lies the stylish Fractal Design Refine and the classic Secretlab Titan Evo, and then, if you're feeling flush and fancy the Logitech G x Herman Miller Embody is the absolute gaming pinnacle.
The TC100 is our favorite affordable gaming chair right now, following up on the popular T3 Rush with a great look and genuine comfort. You can read more in our review. It's a truly excellent gaming chair that's cheaper than most of its competition.
The Razer Iskur V2 X is a budget-friendly gaming chair that shows it in being not massively adjustable and not coming with a head pillow. Despite this, we still gave it 79% in our review due to just how comfortable it is, and that pretty great price point.
Fractal Design makes a mean PC case, and it recently turned its gaze towards the world of gaming chairs with the Refine. It's a comfortable chair with a good look, as you can read about in our review, though it's not ideal for bigger bodies.
The Titan Evo is not just a gaming chair but a gaming throne, thanks to a comfortable seat, sturdy build, and great look. It is a tad more expensive than the previous Evo, but an $80 discount helps bridge that gap.
This excellent chair is one I use every single day, because it's just so comfortable and strong. You can read my full Logitech G Embody review for more info. One thing to note: the 'before' price on this chair is a lot higher these days than when this chair was first announced. It used to be $1,495, then $1,595, and now it's a whopping $2,045 so it's not as big a saving as it looks, though still a decent chunk cheaper than last week.
Key specs: Nylon frame | Polyester fabric | Flexible support
Okay, so everything else is spiking in price right now, but I'm happy to say that gaming monitors are bucking the trend. And I'm not just talking about little ol' IPS or VA panels, either. Check it—two bona fide OLED gaming monitors each less than $400.
That's classic high-end 1440p gaming monitor pricing and absolutely a great price for such high-spec Samsung QD-OLEDs.
Both 1440p and OLED, this 27-inch monitor from Acer is a very desirable thing. It's even better now that it's $250 off, making it one of the cheapest OLED gaming monitor deals you can find right now. To top it off, it's got a 280 Hz refresh rate and up to 0.03 ms response time.
Key specs: 27-inch | 2560 x 1440 | 280 Hz | OLED | 0.03 ms
OLED really makes a huge difference to the way games look, and it's fantastic that impressive OLED monitors are finally starting to hit a lower price point. AOC's model has a 1440p resolution with a 240 Hz refresh rate, a semi-glossy panel coating, and fast-as-you-like response times—so it not only looks great, but feels speedy, too.
Key specs: 27-inch | 2560 x 1440 | 240 Hz | 0.03 ms
How about a nice game of charades after the turkey feast? No, what about a game of Magic The Gathering, then? Ah, that is more like it my fellow nerd friends. To be honest, I've only actually gotten into MtG over the past year or so having started playing with some school dad friends over a couple of beers.
That means I bow to my colleagues' superior knowledge when it comes to recommending Magic deals over these sales periods. Our James has been carding a lot longer than I and has picked a bunch of full decks or major sets he thinks are worth looking at over Black Friday.
Okay, I'm about to admit something totally shameful. I've never watched ATLA. However, I stand by the fact that MTG's Beginner Box is one of the absolute best ways of getting into a new set and what better to encourage me to actually watch the show than familiarise myself with which fighters can wipe the floor with my opponents.
Selling point: This box comes with 10 half decks, which you mash together to make new decks.
Play Boosters are the perfect choice for someone looking to play Draft, the MTG format where you and a bunch of mates open packs and create decks on the fly.
Selling point: A bunch of booster packs to pull cards and play Draft.
The lowest price on this box yet, the Jumpstart Booster box gives you tonnes of half decks you mash together. With these, you can play a sort of draft game where you and a few friends mash together packs to make new decks.
Selling Point: A volume play, where you get 24 half decks to put together. That's almost 500 cards from the Avatar set.
Terra, Herald of Hope mans this deck by chucking your creatures into the graveyard, and pulling them straight back out for more damage. It's wicked, in both senses of the word.
Selling point: A commander led by one of Final Fantasy VI's most beloved characters.
What is with Final Fantasy commander decks and their obsession with graveyards? Well, if you like the idea of being a bit evil, and spend too much time in Final Fantasy XIV, this may be more your speed than the last choice.
Selling Point: A FF themed commander deck that loves to ping people for little bits of damage.
It's all about the aesthetic, right? So, if you want to give your gaming PC setup a quick white Christmas makeover, you can actually do so for less than $150 with these all-white Black Friday deals. They're all quality products on their own, and will really set off your white gaming PC chassis.
$5 off may not seem like a huge amount, but when you consider that's 20% of the Nova Lite's full price, it's a big deal. Offering 2.4 GHz and Bluetooth wireless connectivity, a USB wired mode, plus drift-less Hall effect joysticks, this little controller is the absolute best you can find at this price point.
Key Specs: Wireless | 2.4GHz and Bluetooth | 309 g | Asymmetric thumbsticks
You aren't packing an incredibly high DPI or polling rate into this mouse, but you are getting strong performance for the price, as well as a lightweight, comfortable build. Cheap and cheerful is the aim here, and it knocks it out of the park for just $30.
An 8 KHz polling rate, Hall effect switches, and rapid trigger. To think you can get all of this in a pretty striking white colourway for less than $40 makes the geeky hardware kid in me very happy. Sure, the Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 is noticeably a cheaper keyboard in feel, but those internals truly are phenomenal.
The general rule of thumb is that if it's a Razer headset with a name ending in 'X,' it's the most budget option of the range. That comes with a few compromises here, such as a complete lack of a wired connection option.
Key specs: Wireless | 40mm drivers | 2.4GHz and Bluetooth | Detachable mic arm | 250 g
🕹️Competition pro🕹️
Want a slick, sick, ultra-competitive gaming setup so you can slay in the multiplayer arena? Our Dr. Fox has picked out a couple of deals on his own particular gaming setup and it's a doozy. If you value a super light, accurate gaming mouse and a surface for it to glide across, this is an outstanding combo.
This is the absolute best lightweight gaming mouse on the market right now. It's incredibly light at just 36 g, and somehow it's achieved this with nary a hole in sight. Apart from this, it's pretty barebones, but a good sensor and light weight is all that's needed for some seriously competitive FPS gameplay, and this mouse delivers on both fronts.
This is a mouse pad, and there's little else to say about it other than that it's high-quality in every way and is better than any I've tried in the last 20 years of PC gaming. Non-slip, super glidey for the Smooth version and great control for (you guessed it) the Control version, with the Balanced offering a little of both.
Key specs: 16.54 x 19.29 inches | Smooth or Balanced | Low-profile stitching | Neoprene base
🚨Cheapest RTX 5080 gaming laptop alert🚨
I've used this gaming laptop in multiple forms, from RTX 5090 to RTX 5080 with an Intel CPU inside it. I've not used this particular AMD-powered version, however, but my experience with the overall laptop design itself means I would be more than happy to have this as my main gaming machine.
For what it's worth, on a purely technical performance angle, I prefer the Lenovo Legion Pro 7i because its software is the best and it can deliver the outright highest gaming performance, too. But this is a far more affordable machine, with a slightly thinner chassis, and you still get an excellent screen even if it isn't an OLED.
Golly, these things are just getting cheaper, eh? This is the most affordable RTX 5080 gaming laptop we've found, and features the top-end AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 375 CPU as well as the 175 W RTX 5080 GPU. There's also fully 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB SSD for that money. This is a fantastic price for a quality machine. Use promo code BFE9979 to get the full discount.
If anyone's after a lovely table top game to play this Thanksgiving, and you have some miniatures lying around, I heartily recommend Space Gits. It's a super-simple skirmish game played with a handful of miniatures on some terrain, all chasing drunkenly after loot.
You can buy the full rulebook for $25 at Itch.io, or you can download a demo which has the quickstart rules so you can have a play around and see if you like it. You will like it.
(Image credit: Planet Smasher Games)
The dexterity element to the game completely changes it from other skirmish battle games I've played, adding both an element of skill and of luck into the proceedings. Aiming weapons and calculating area effects involve aiming your dice roll accurately, and taking a turn and taking damage results in a tottering tower of dice that always has to be touching the miniature. Shifting that tower around gets tricky, and if the tower goes down so does your git.
I'm probably not explaining it well, but trust me, it's quick and it's very fun.
Morning! It's time to give thanks for simply ludicrous deals on 4K monitors. We've already had some excellent deals from Asus and Gigabyte go out of stock, but neither of those can match this $200 4K dual-mode MSI monitor from Newegg.
Not only do you get a high-refresh 4K panel, but it will also offer a slightly-better-than-standard-scaling 1080p mode at 288 Hz if you want to go hard in competitive games.
What I will say is that it's a little dim in SDR mode, with just a 250 cm/m2 rating. That's the big compromise with this otherwise seriously impressive gaming monitor deal. Newegg is displaying a big DisplayHDR 400 rating, which would imply it's capable of hitting 400 cd/m2 in HDR games. But on the official MSI product page that VESA standard is missing from the spec and you just get a HDR ready logo.
It doesn't get much better than this, folks. A 4K, 27-inch gaming monitor for a cent under $200. It's an IPS panel, with a 1 ms response time, and is what's known as a dual mode monitor. That means it runs at both 4K/144 Hz and 1080p/288 Hz. Perfect for blending both competitive gaming with immersive singleplayer gaming. Use promo code BFEFE82 to get the full discount.
Okay, having said that, the Gigabyte RX 9060 XT being just $275 at Amazon right now is actually a pretty good GPU for 1440p gaming. Now, granted with 8 GB of VRAM you might struggle with certain games at absolute peak settings, but if you're a bit more parsimonious about going all-out for Ultra presets you'll be more than happy.
But I also reckon more often than not you will actually be able to whack those settings right up and not worry about video memory.
AMD's little RX 9060 XT doesn't have upscaling and frame generation as good as the RTX 5060, but it beats it on raw GPU power. You might be better off saving more money and buying a 16 GB version, though. It doesn't have more shaders or higher clock speeds, but the extra VRAM should come in handy in the future.
When I think back on how much a 180 Hz 1440p gaming monitor cost just a year or so back, it kinda blows my mind that you can now pick one up for just $133. That will be an excellent gaming monitor and not just for the money, just a shame the sort of GPUs delivering 1440p frame rates aren't more affordable, eh?
If you want to shave a few extra dollars off your bill at checkout, this gaming monitor from ASRock is a good way to go about it. It's a VA panel, which is good for contrasts but loses out to an IPS in a few ways, but it's around $10 cheaper than a competitive IPS. It's also rated to 180 Hz, which isn't bad.
Key specs: 27-inch | 180 Hz | 1 ms | VA | FreeSync
Y'know, I've been thinking a lot about the memory pricing crisis and what it might mean for PC gaming hardware going forward, but I've also been thinking a lot about the messaging that's been coming out from retailers and system integrators... and most especially the timing.
So, in the UK, Overclockers—think about it as a Newegg analogue—has come out and said that because of the AI-instigated drain on memory capacity at the moment it has had distributors upping the purchase cost of graphics cards and that, after its Black Friday stock has run dry, prices will certainly be going up.
And now, just today, CyberPowerPC has come out and said much the same, that from December 7, 2025, it will be raising the price of all of its systems because memory prices have increased 500% and SSD costs have risen by 100%.
The message from both is essentially that prices are going up, and you'd be better buy now. On the one hand, that sounds like sage advice, but on the other that's quite a convenient way of both encouraging more people to look at new systems or upgrades around Black Friday—out of fear of price rises—and kind of burying the news of those price rises with big right-now discounts.
I wonder when everyone else will announce their own price rises, or whether they'll just keep schtum and not take the marketing opportunity these two seem to have jumped on.
Giving it away...
What? You heard that system memory was getting more and more expensive? Nah, surely not. Newegg is literally giving it away right now...
A good home for a Ryzen 9000- or 7000-series processor. It has Wi-Fi 6E, a decent selection of ports, and one PCIe 5.0 NVMe slot. Though there's room for two more PCIe 4.0 SSDs, too. This model is an mATX size, which means it's a little smaller than a standard ATX but will fit in more compact cases.
A full-size ATX motherboard with three NVMe slots, one of which is PCIe 5.0 rated, and plenty of PCIe slots. Though one of the PCIe 4.0 slots is only x2, which will limit performance. The white colorway is sure to appeal to anyone looking to build a PC in a glossy white case, too.
I love this thing. It is one of the best gaming laptops I've tested this year, and a genuine powerhouse. Its 175 W RTX 5080 delivers stellar 1440p and even 4K gaming frame rates, and I'm into its Tron-esque RGB lined chassis. Even if it is a bit on the chonk side.
I also love that 16-inch OLED display, the Intel CPU delivers, and you're getting 32 GB RAM and a 2 TB SSD all for the current $2,300 price tag at B&H Photo. Sure, we've got other RTX 5080 machines on the list for under $2,000 from MSI and HP down there 👇but none with the straight gaming performance... or the Lenovo software.
Software?! Yes, the LegionSpace app bundled with its laptops is outstanding, and honestly the outright best laptop config software I've ever used. No other manufacturer gives you so much access to the power and performance of either the CPU or GPU, and that allows you to tailor the experience to your needs.
For me, that means pulling back the power delivered to the CPU and channelling that to the graphics card, with the result that you get top-end frame rates but without the turbine-like noise you would otherwise get at full speed.
Our pick as the best high-performance gaming laptop features a monstrous collection of components, and this is the cheapest I can find it for in full game-crunching trim. The RTX 5080 is a full-strength 175 W variant, the panel is a 240 Hz OLED stunner, the Intel CPU is mega, and as our Dave found in his review, the gaming performance is simply excellent. It's one of the fastest laptops we've tested to date—although it must be said, it's a pretty sizeable machine to lug around if you plan on taking it on your travels.
I mentioned earlier that I was currently sporting the new BlackShark V3 from Razer as my go-to gaming headset, and a fine one it is, too. What else is a fine headset is the classic HyperX Cloud Alpha. It's $60 at Amazon at the moment, which makes it a great low-cost headset, with some great audio chops, too.
It was my daily driver for years, and I've always loved its sound. It's been a hugely influential gaming headset, too, as Razer actually used it as the template for the BlackShark V2 drivers way back when.
But, what I would say is that it's an old headset now, and over Black Friday last year it dropped down to $50 at Amazon, so I wouldn't be surprised to see it matching that price in a couple of days if you're willing to wait.
Quite literally our favourite wired gaming headset, the HyperX Cloud Alpha has reigned supreme at in our guide for some time now, and looks to be staying there for a while longer. It's a powerful, punchy performer with superb comfort and a refined design, and even better, it regularly turns up on discount. Tough to beat, this one.
And just as I finish typing that I see the CyberPowerPC tweet noting that because "global memory (RAM) prices have surged by 500% and SSD prices have risen by 100%" it is going to be adjusting upwards the pricing of all its systems from December 7, 2025.
And it's not going to be alone in doing so, which means Black Friday might well be the last hurrah for affordable gaming PCs, GPUs, laptops, and SSDs for a while.
Price Changes Coming December 7th 2025, Due To Market Conditions 🔔‼️ pic.twitter.com/et0HADhc08November 25, 2025
Knowledge is power
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I've spent a while on this page talking about the impact of the memory price rises on various components and systems, but if you want a good explainer for exactly what's going on, what's been impacted, and where it's all going, Jacob's written a great feature covering all of that.
We've also been tracking memory pricing for a couple of weeks now, too, and Jeremy's updated that page today with more information.
The TL;DR of it all is: none of it is good 😭
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Yet another Crucial 2 TB SSD that's the same price as its 1 TB counterpart. Love 'em. This Crucial T710 is even faster than the Crucial T705 I highlighted further down the page, though it is commensurately more expensive.
This is the best performing SSD that you can find with a decent offer on right now. It runs up to 14,500 MB/s, pretty much at the limit for PCIe 5.0, but more importantly it has really good random 4k performance. That matters for gaming. It's not quite SN8100 levels, but that's not really discounted right now, and this is darn close.
Oh look, it's me wearing the best gaming headset you can buy right now listening to an absolute banger of an album. And, even better, the Razer BlackShark V3 has been given a little price cut just a matter of months after launch. What a win. Right now, it's just $130 at Amazon, which essentially makes it the same price as the outgoing BlackShark V2 Pro, and it beats that old classic hands down.
The new drivers really are excellent, and I am here bopping away at my desk in a very, very empty office. It's not even that late and no-one else is here. Did I not get the memo?
This wireless gaming headset leaves little to be desired. Featuring titanium TriForce drivers, you're getting crisp sound at a very reasonable price. The honking great big volume knob makes it easier than ever to finetune your soundscape when things get hectic too.
Key specs: 50 mm drivers | 12 - 28,000 Hz | Closed-back | Wireless | 70 hour battery life
Quite why a sub-$1,000 gaming laptop comes with a full AMD 16-core, 32-thread CPU is kinda beyond me, more so when it's only rocking 16 GB of system memory, but here we are with the HP Omen 16 for $950 at HP.com.
Not that I'm necessarily complaining. It means that you can get serious processing power for a surprisingly little amount of cash, and in a surprisingly svelte chassis, too. If it weren't for the staggering increase in the cost of memory this would have the makings of a fantastic desktop replacement PC for any creator. Slap in 32 GB or 64 GB of memory and you're laughing.
Sadly, you're laughing on the other side of your face today given that a 32 GB SO-DIMM kit is $200+ and 64 GB just damned prohibitive 😢
I've no idea why this sub-$1,000 HP machine has a super-quick, 16-core, 32-thread AMD chip from the previous generation nestled inside, but it makes for quite the bargain. The RTX 5060 looks to be a 115 W variant, too (insert my usual complaint about HP not listing GPU wattages here). It's also got a 1200p display to deal with, which should suit that mobile graphics chip very nicely. The SSD is too small, though, although it's an easy enough upgrade later on.
If you're picking up one of the best Black Friday graphics card deals, then there's a chance you might need a bit more powa in your PC. This 1000 W ASRock power supply will keep any consumer GPU you jam into your PC fed with the juice it needs. It's also got a dedicated 12V-2x6 cable for those pesky RTX 50-series Nvidia graphics cards, too.
Beefy graphics cards need an equally beefy power supply unit, but it's not all about the watts. ASRock's SL-1000G is loaded with sockets, with five 8-pin PCIe (so any motherboard and AMD GPU will be fine) and a dedicated 12V-2x6 for Nvidia graphics cards.
This is such a good entry point into the world of PC gaming. I get that $780 is still a lot of money to spend on a gaming device, but the beauty of the PC is that it can be so much more than that.
With a 10-core, 16-thread Intel CPU in there, 16 GB memory, and an RTX 5060 GPU, you've got all the makings of an excellent 1080p gaming PC, but also a system that can be used for pretty much everything you might want to do with a PC. Want to go down some more creative route? Go for it. Sure, that processor may not be the perfect chip for 4K video editing, but as a low-end machine for under $800 it's a great starting point for anyone.
You're not only getting an RTX 50-series gaming PC here, but you're also getting a decent budget CPU and some DDR5 memory. Admittedly, it's only 16 GB, but you can upgrade to 32 GB of fast DDR5 RAM in the future. Just keep in mind we're in a memory shortage right now, so don't expect that upgrade to come as cheap as it used to, so best wait for prices to drop.
This was already our favorite budget PC controller at its full price, but now this excellent Hall effect controller is now down to a ludicrous price if you're happy to game on a fully green pad. For $16 I would be. It is an obviously cheap controller, with no audio jack and just an okay battery life, but it's wireless, won't suffer from stick drift and above all is cheap.
Key specs: Hall effect sticks | 2.5 G and BT wireless | 9 hours battery
We've already raved about Hall effect joysticks and how they spell the end for the dreaded stick drift. In this wireless gaming controller, they're a welcome feature, but this handful of gaming hardware packs a few quirky surprises too. For instance, the triggers also benefit from a Hall effect, but not only that, there are extra bumper buttons. They're billed as fully remappable 'Fast Bumpers,' though their inner corner placement may not sit well for those with tiny mitts.
Key specs: Hall effect sticks, triggers | 2.4G wireless | 19 h battery
There's nothing I can say about these electric screwdriver deals that Jacob hasn't already said in his piece.
Including a screen, six torque settings, a light, 30 bits and a 2000 mAh battery, this PixelDrive is the more premium option of Hoto's handy screwdrivers on offer right now.
We've been talking about Gen5 SSDs starting to appear for Gen4 money already this Black Friday, with the Crucial P510 sitting at a tasty $90 for the 1 TB version and $140 for the 2 TB drive. And Crucial's at it again, but this time with the fastest PCIe 5.0 drive in its catalogue.
The best bit, though, is that the discounted 2 TB Crucial T705 is $160 at Amazon, which makes it effectively the same price as its charging for the 1 TB version, therefore giving you an entire extra terabyte of ultra-fast storage gratis.
What a time to be alive.
But also, 😭what a time to be alive😭 with the memory pricing crisis making all memory pricing prone to a sharp increase post Black Friday. That counts for RAM, SSDs, and soon graphics cards, and therefore laptops and PCs.
Whatever, right now we can enjoy a discount or two on some ace SSDs. In our T705 review Zak called it "an outstandingly well-rounded high-speed drive, this nippy little SSD delivers some exceptional performance combined with awesome low latency. It's a bit toasty though, and ideally you want to stick it under a motherboard heatsink."
And if you do want one with a heatsink, that's on sale, too, for just another $10.
With the 1 TB version of the Crucial T705 going for $155 you are practically getting a whole extra terabyte for free with this discounted 2 TB version. And this is no sluggish drive, either, it's one of the fastest SSDs you can jam into your PC and getting on for dangerously close to PCIe 4.0 prices. This is a great upgrade at a time where we're worried about NAND prices going up.
Gotta say, one of the really interesting things I've noted having been tracking the prices of various different bits of PC gaming tech, is that the deals that launched late last week have barely changed in the time between.
Whether that's going to change as Black Friday itself actually starts on the 28th, I'm not convinced. I expect there will be a handful of new discounts dropping on Friday, but I don't reckon we're going to see a whole new slew of discounts that will make the current crop look any different.
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Forgive the ram emoji, and forgive me for once again banging on about the horrible memory pricing crisis (curse you, AI😭), but while searching out the best Black Friday deals I came across this outstanding all-AMD build from iBuyPower.
The Slate gaming PC is $1,650 at Best Buy today, and literally packs in the best AMD has to offer in terms of both CPU and GPU. You're getting the mighty Ryzen 7 9800X3D—literally the best gaming CPU—and the excellent Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card. Along with 32 GB of DDR5-5200 system memory, the 16 GB GPU means that you're getting a decent bit of insulation against the worst ravages of the memory crisis because that isn't going to be what holds you back with this system.
And with a 2 TB SSD in the bargain, you're also safe for when SSD prices inevitably go up, too.
The Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the best AMD CPU right now, and the Radeon RX 9070 XT is the most powerful AMD GPU. That makes this all Team Red build a bit of a beast, and it's topped up with plentiful RAM and storage too.
This is actually a bit of a conundrum. Both of these high-performance RTX 5080 gaming laptops are now below $2,000 marking a bit of a moment in the mobile RTX 50-series. And, while the MSI Vector 16 HX AI wasn't regularly above that price, the HP Omen Max 16 was originally priced at $3,300.
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That would almost reflexively have most of us thinking the HP is the automatic choice of the two. After all, you're getting twice the RAM capacity for $100 at a time when 32 GB DDR5 SO-DIMMs are at least $200 in retail.
But, there is a slight performance delta between the two because of their respective chassis. The MSI is proper old school anachronistic styling, with big vents and a chonky ol' plastic chassis covering its large slabs of copper cooling. The HP, on the other hand, is a far more understated, svelte design. Which is far more aesthetically pleasing to the modern eye.
Though if looks aren't your thing, then I'd be very tempted to pocket the extra $100 and pick the MSI. I really enjoyed my time with it and the added bonus of that big chassis is that you don't need to rein in the system performance very much to get its fans running at an acceptable level. That's more of a challenge with the HP machine.
With such a hefty discount on it, the HP Omen Max 16 becomes a much more desirably gaming laptop than when we first reviewed it. At its standard price, it's slightly weaker performance can't compete with other machines, but at under $2,000 the slimmer chassis and smarter styling does give it a bit of an edge.
It's still very difficult to find most RTX 5080 laptops for anything close to $2,000 right now, so this one represents pretty stunning value. Our Dave reviewed the Vector 16 HX AI earlier this year and likes the value proposition you get when you take into account that mega GPU, although it is a bit of a hairdryer on full whack. Still, stick it in Balanced mode and the noise is much more reasonable, and it still performs about as well as the other RTX 5080 machines we've tested. Which is to say, very well indeed.
I mean, it's not even an x86-based laptop. This Asus ZenBook is an Arm-based machine using the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Plus processor, and I've been a big fan of the Samsung system I've been using since last year a Qualcomm chip in it. As a general working, sat on the sofa kinda laptop, it's been brilliant. Every standard Windows app I use for work has run absolutely fine on it, despite having to use a translation layer to play nice with the Windows-on-Arm ecosystem, and I've even been gaming on it, too. Admittedly, pretty low-end titles as with any laptop sporting an integrated GPU, but still I've been happy.
And I've been especially happy with the sleep performance. That's always been the one thing that makes me look jealously at my MacBook-brandishing cousins, being able to shut the lid and have the device go to sleep and wake up days later as though no time had passed in between.
You don't get that with x86 Windows laptops generally, but my experience with Snapdragon has been exactly that. Which makes this ZenBook for just $550 at Best Buy actually a pretty tantalising offer for a slimline laptop with serious battery life and a lovely OLED screen.
Granted, it's not gaming hardware per se, but I've had a great experience with the Samsung Qualcomm laptop I've been using for over a year now and Jacob is a huge fan of his ZenBook. This machine uses the X Plus chip, so a 10-core Arm processor and a slightly weaker GPU component, but if you want a tiny laptop that will wake from sleep instantly and have lost barely any battery since the last time you shut the lid, this will do it.
I dunno, man, I was not expecting to see PCIe 5.0 SSDs being the storage deal over Black Friday. But here we are, with arguably the best 2 TB SSD offer being Crucial's P510 for just $140 at B&HPhoto.
The cheapest other 2 TB NVMe drive is only $5 less for a slower PCIe 4.0 SSD, and it's worth remembering that even if you didn't have a PCIe 5.0 slot in your motherboard, the P510 will still work at the limits of the older interface.
So yeah, whether you're rocking a PCIe 4.0 or PCIe 5.0 system, this is still the Black Friday SSD deal right now.
Though left in the dust by fellow PCIe 5.0 drive, the WD Black SN8100, Crucial still can't be beat when it comes to balancing price against performance. Though not the speediest internal SSD, the P510 still offers proper Gen 5 performance for the cost of a Gen 4 drive—take a look at our full review.
Key specs: PCIe 5.0 | Up to 11,000 MB/s read | Up to 9,500MB/s write
If you need a memory upgrade... well, you better hurry
Memory prices have been spiking badly for the past month and the signs are that isn't going to change with some experts and manufacturers predicting that the issue will persist through 2026. And there is a good chance it will take the prices of other products with it, after all pretty much everything needs memory in some form.
And if the AI data centers—for it is they who are sucking up all the supply—show no sign of stoppping their exponential growth then memory manufacturers will prioritise them over us dear ol' consumer folk. It doesn't look good, as PCs, laptops, graphics cards, and SSDs will all likely start to rise in price.
Anyways, consumer memory already has, and these are the best prices we've found for either a 16 GB or 32 GB kit of DDR5 right now. It's slim pickings, and while these aren't cheap, they're likely to be cheaper now than they will be next week, I'm afraid.
Fast 32 GB DDR5 RAM kits are currently ludicrously expensive and will likely remain so for a while, so if you need to build a decent gaming PC, this is the most affordable kit around. You're not getting any fancy RGB lighting nor the sharpest timings possible, but it's still all fine for any AMD or Intel rig. Use promo code BFAE525 to get the discount.
With RAM prices increasing so rapidly, if you're looking to build a new gaming PC this Black Friday, you might want to stick with a 16 GB kit for now. This set from Team Group is pretty fast, and the CAS 38 rating won't affect games too much, unless they're really sensitive to RAM timings.
These are two of the tastiest budget gaming PCs that you will find over this Black Friday week. The RTX 5060 and the RX 9060 XT are the components which will have the biggest impact on the gaming performance of their respective systems, and for the extra $50 you'll spend on the Cobratype PC will net you some extra frame rates in most games. Especially if we're talking pure raster performance.
But I will say, I've personally used and tested Newegg's ABS gaming PCs, and they're well put together machines, so I feel maybe a little more confident in recommending that one. The quicker RX 9060 XT is certainly a draw, however.
What I will say—and this isn't something you'd say about their respective modern CPUs—is that I prefer the Intel chip of the ABS system, too. The Core i5 14400F is a ten-core, 16-thread chip, that is actually really good in gaming terms. The competing six-core, 12-thread Ryzen 5 5600X isn't quite in the same league.
Both come rocking the same 32 GB of DDR4 memory, which is last-gen, too, but given the price spikes of RAM at the moment, bagging high capacity memory might actually pay dividends over the next year or so.
This gaming PC lets you enter the current GPU generation for well under $1,000, and you're getting a pretty nice all-round package for this budget price. Sure, you're only getting DDR4 RAM and 1 TB of storage, but these things are common at the sub-$1,000 price point. DDR4 should serve you fine with this budget build, and storage can be upgraded easily. It's a great way to get started PC gaming with a friendly price tag.
Who said you can't get decent gaming performance for cheap in 2025? This RX 9060 XT gaming PC is here to put an end to such thoughts, because for just $850 you're getting a build with a current-gen GPU that trades blows with the RTX 5060 Ti. Sure, you're getting an older CPU and 1 TB SSD, but this is a seriously great entry into PC gaming. You can upgrade everything else and keep that 9060 XT in there down the line if you need to start using this rig for productivity tasks.
$30 at Amazon. That's all it costs for one of our favorite gaming mice. The Glorious Model O Eternal is our pick as the best budget wired gaming mouse at the moment, and it's a worthy winner.
It's super lightweight, it's got a decent sensor, and it feels good in the hand. What is there not to like?
You aren't packing an incredibly high DPI or polling rate into this mouse, but you are getting strong performance for the price, as well as a lightweight, comfortable build, and solid software. Cheap and cheerful is the aim here, and it knocks it out of the park for just $30.
And if you pair it up with the Gamakay x Naughshark NS68 Hall effect gaming keyboard at just $34 also at Amazon that will get you an outstanding keyboard and mouse gaming setup for just $64, and I think that's a bit of a bargain.
An 8 KHz polling rate, Hall effect switches, rapid trigger, and nice double-shot PBT keycaps. To think you can get all of this, and a pretty unique aesthetic for just $34, makes the geeky hardware kid in me very happy. The Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 is noticeably a cheaper keyboard in feel, but those internals truly are phenomenal.
Key specs:Wired | 8 KHz | Hall effect
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How many is too many mouse buttons? As a veteran user of the ol' Razer Naga I can tell you that with thumbs as fat and stubby as mine that its 12 side button panel was too many.
That's kinda different with the Corsair Scimitar Elite Wireless SE, because the alternating textures and the way there seems to be that little bit more separation between them actually makes them far more accessible. Sure, there's a bit of muscle memory to bed-in with the massively increased number of side buttons, but it's worth it for the extra versatility this rodent offers.
Because it can also double as an Elgato Stream Deck. Yes, because of Corsair's ownership of Elgato its mouse is able to use the software and tie each of those buttons to an action as though it were just a 12-panel Stream Deck.
An MMO mouse and a Stream Deck in one, this rodent is a bit heavy but great for productivity and MMO usage. In our review, Hope said the Scimitar Elite Wireless SE "might not match the active use of lighter, more FPS-oriented esports mice, but it's a productivity and streaming powerhouse."
Just a wee reminder that this 👇 is still just $530 at Newegg right now. Just so happens to be our current pick as the best graphics card and a great way to ensure you're on the 'I've got lots of VRAM for like future-proofing and stuff' bandwagon.
The RX 9070 is one of AMD's better GPUs for many years and is not that much slower than the XT version. It's been so popular that it's taken months for the price to drop to anywhere near AMD's MSRP. More expensive than the RTX 5070, but it's a faster card all round. That said, you might as well just buy the RX 9070 XT.
When you want a gaming chair that doesn't look like one
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Okay, so the deal below is not for the Pro version ☝️with the headrest, but the rest of the chair is pretty much a match for the option below, which is now $150 cheaper than at launch, making the Razer Fujin $500 at Best Buy today.
I sit on this chair when I'm in the office. Well, the Pro version, anyways. The Pro version comes with a headreast and some slightly fancier lumbar features, but the headrest is actually my least favorite thing about the chair. The rest of it is comfortable, supportive, and adjustable. Plus, it looks normal on a work call and not like some sort of gaming throne.
Key specs: Mesh fabric | Height-adjustable lumbar support | 3D armrests
Ooh, handy.
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The stripped back internal hardware of the AMD Z2 Go chip at the heart of this Legion Go S handheld meant that at full price it was a bit of a bust. Sure, it's more powerful than a Steam Deck, but Windows sucks a lot of the performance away and the convenience. And at $650 I don't want to pay for that.
Fast forward eight months and with a $200 discount making it just $450 at Best Buy right now it becomes a far more tempting option. Even more so given that this is the version sporting SteamOS out of the box.
The chip in this handheld is a little newer than the Steam Deck's and a little more powerful, too. It's not quite on par with the Z2 Extreme or even the older Z1 Extreme chip—you can thank AMD's marketing department for that one—but with this sorta discount means it's not too expensive versus a higher capacity Steam Deck. The 120 Hz at 1080p might be a push but you can absolutely get some good gaming done on the go here, and with SteamOS to lighten the load.
I love an ultrawide gaming monitor. The sheer extra expanse is a visual feast for the peepers when you boot up a (compatible) game for the first time. Suddenly there's more filling your peripheral vision, and that little bit of extra immersion from that wraparound display.
Compatibility is still a bit of a thing, but nowhere near the way it was in the early days when we needed separate software to help jury rig games to cope with a wider field of vision. Still, damn you Elden Ring.
What's more they don't cost a fortune these days. The fact you can get a 180 Hz 3440 x 1440 screen for just $250 at Best Buy is pretty staggering. Seriously, I love the fact that OLED panels have driven down the price of every other monitor type around...
At its current price, this Acer Nitro is a genuine bargain. By comparison, Alienware's fancy QD-OLED 34-inch panel is around $800 even on sale. This Acer matches its size, resolution, aspect ratio and refresh rate for less than one-third of the price, although of course, it is a VA panel, not an OLED. It's also not the brightest gaming monitor ever, nor is it the curviest, but it remains a very good deal.
Key specs: 34-inch | 3440 x 1440 | 180 Hz | 1 ms | VA | 1500R
A bit of a top and tail thing here for you—deals on both our pick as the best overall gaming keyboardand our pick for the best budget gaming keyboard. Black Friday deals are a-delivering once more. Both of these are great keyboards, both wireless, and both will give you a great experience for the money.
An 8 KHz polling rate, Hall effect switches, rapid trigger, and nice double-shot PBT keycaps. To think you can get all of this, and a pretty unique aesthetic for just $40, makes the geeky hardware kid in me very happy. The Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 is noticeably a cheaper keyboard in feel, but those internals truly are phenomenal.
Key specs:Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz and wired | 8 KHz | Hall effect
This is still the absolute best gaming keyboard overall, and right now it's at a cracking price. You're getting excellent typing feel, stellar gaming performance, sound dampening that actually works, and a build quality that stands well above most of the competition.
Valve says you should be sharing your Steam library between its Steam Machine, Deck, and Frame by taking advantage of the microSD slot in each of its PC gaming devices. And we say you should be taking advantage of the Black Friday sales to get yourself a beefy bit of extra storage for your handheld or prospective living room PC.
Though not the fastest MicroSD money can buy, it's definitely fast enough for your Steam Deck. The perfect dance partner to the 512 GB model of Valve's handheld at an exceptionally reasonable price.
Key Specs: Read/write up to 160 MB/s | 10-year limited warranty
Packing a huge amount of capacity for a very reasonable price, this MicroSD card pairs well with even the most basic model of the Steam Deck. It's also rocking an impressive amount of water and heat resistance, should you lose it in a hot tub.
Key Specs: Up to 180MB/s read speed | Up to 130 MB/s write speed | Up to 72 hours in seawater | -25°C to 85°C operating temp
I like 14-inch gaming laptops and I cannot lie
And here are the three best deals you will find on 14-inch gaming laptops today. Because, sadly, the RTX 5070 version of the Razer Blade 14 is frustratingly out of stock everywhere 🥺
This is a super-slim and portable 14-inch gaming laptop, and while the hardware inside isn't the most powerful you can get for the money, the fact you can easily slip it in a shoulder bag is pretty impressive. Dollars to donuts its a low-wattage RTX 5060 variant, and the 1800p panel means you'll absolutely need to make use of DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation to make the most of its 120 Hz refresh rate, but still—hyper portable laptops come with caveats, and this is still a very good machine for the price. Plus, an OLED display and 32 GB of RAM? Yes please.
The little ROG Zephyrus G14 2025 might be noisier than the previous model, but it's still a great 14-inch gaming laptop pick. This one's got a 90 W RTX 5060, which will likely need some DLSS assistance to make the most of its 1800p display. That being said, it's a gorgeous OLED panel, and the chassis design here is just as good as it ever was. Slim, stylish, and easy to throw in a backpack—with a good dose of gaming power tucked inside its aluminium frame.
Sure, it's a lot of money for an RTX 5060 machine, especially as this one's got an 1800p display to push with its mobile GPU. That being said, it is a 115 W variant of said graphics chip, and the form factor (in combination with that gorgeous 120 Hz OLED panel) makes this our favourite 14-inch gaming laptop design overall. You're going to want the (currently out of stock) RTX 5070 version if you can spare the extra cash, but this one's still a great deal with plenty of hyper-portable gaming potential.
Sometimes you don't want people snooping on what you're doing online. That's where VPNs come in handy. We're at a point now where the best VPNs, such as Proton here, will deliver excellent speeds without throttling the expensive connection you've already paid for, and will allow through the streaming services you're also paying out for.
A good VPN will also help block ads, kill trackers, and nix malware, too. And they don't have to be expensive as this Black Friday offer from Proton shows, where it's just $2.49 per month, though you do have to pay for the full package up front.
Though, because of this 75% discount, that still makes the 24 month package cheaper than the standard 12 month package.
Access to Proton's excellent VPN is offered up for just $2.49/month. Though you have to pay for two years up front to secure the deal, that's still less than if you were to sign up for one year at the normal price. It's a solid VPN that I use every single day and have stuck with since 2021, so I'd have no issue going for a longer term.
Key info: 120+ countries | Blocks ads, trackers and malware | Up to 10 devices at once | No logs
But Proton is more than just VPNs—it also offers a suite of products to rival Google and will help you in any effort to de-Google your life. There's a 50% discount on the full Unlimited package, which gives you an email client, storage, calendar, password manager, and more. It's a hell of a package for just $6.49 per month.
Full access to the Proton suite of applications here for $6.49/month. Once again, you have to pay in full, but I use a good handful of these applications regularly as a swap-in for Google's similar services and I've never looked backed.
Access to: Proton VPN | Proton Pass | Proton Mail | Proton Drive | Proton Calendar | Proton Docs | Proton Authenticator | And more
I have a smol child who is very into Minecraft right now. Christmas is coming, and these are calling to me... The Very Cool x Minecraft collection is painfully very cool. And I am gutted the Enderman hoodie and Axolotl hat are both out of stock right now.
...these are the best graphics cards you can buy over Black Friday. At the PC gamer's preferred resolution of 2560 x 1440, the RTX 5070 and the RX 9070 XT are the GPUs you should be looking to spend your money on this year.
Which isn't something I thought I'd be saying when I tested the two cards in close temporal proximity to each other earlier in the year. It was around my birthday and they both ruined it for different reasons. With the RTX 5070 its inevitable stupid post-launch pricing meant that its weak GPU specs and the fact it barely scrapes past an RTX 4070 Super in some benchmarks, made it a hard card to love.
And with the RX 9070 XT there were more pricing shenanigans with AMD steadfastly refusing to tell me the price of the card they'd provided for testing until literally five minutes before embargo. And then getting it wrong. And third-party GPU manufacturers telling me that it was, in fact, just a launch price for the first few hours.
Anyways, I love the RX 9070 XT as a graphics card on its own, but I am hugely impressed by the redemption that the RTX 5070 has delivered. It's now one of the cards I'm more likely to be recommending most gamers.
Although the RTX 5070 is a good deal faster than its predecessor, the RTX 4070, it's less of an upgrade compared to the RTX 4070 Super. DLSS 4 just about tips the balance in favor of the newer model, though, and this particular deal is well under MSRP. Use the $20 rebate card to get the full discount.
The RX 9070 XT is AMD's best graphics card in recent years, so naturally, it's hugely popular, resulting in very low stocks and sky-high prices. While this is technically a deal, the price isn't any lower than the MSRP. It is, however, far more sensibly priced than the RTX 5070 Ti.
Black Tuesday. Why not? We're looking for more deals and you know what, we've found 'em. This Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 is a great price right now when you factor in that 14-inch gaming laptops always come with a price premium attached to them.
That price premium is a lot lower now that the RTX 5060-powered G14 is $500 less and just $1,300 at Best Buy right now. Personally, I prefer the Blade 14, but the excellent RTX 5070 version is out of stock after a frankly stunning early Black Friday gaming laptop deal, and the RTX 5060 machine is a full $150 more expensive than the Asus.
I've spent time testing both the G14 and Blade 14 side-by-side and I do like them both, but you have to put a lot more work in with the Zephyrus G14 to get that fan noise down to an acceptable level and tone. But if you do, it's still a beautiful little machine with the same stunning OLED display as the Razer. And well worth the money at this price.
The little ROG Zephyrus G14 2025 might take second place to the Blade 14 this generation, but this one's significantly cheaper than the Razer RTX 5060 equivalent, which makes it a great alternative. This one's got a 90 W RTX 5060, which will likely need some DLSS assistance to make the most of its 1800p display. That being said, it's got a gorgeous OLED panel, and the chassis design here is just as good as it ever was. Slim, stylish, and easy to throw in a backpack—with a good dose of gaming power tucked inside its aluminium frame.
I still reckon this is still a great budget gaming chair option. Especially as it doesn't feel like a budget gaming chair. Corsair's TC100 Relaxed has been a regular in our deals pages for years, but while the $215 pricetag at Amazonis good, there is a chance that we might just see if drop a little more if Corsair decides to go hard this Friday.
That's because during both the July and October Prime Days this year we saw the TC100 drop well below the $200 mark, to just $147 and $160 respectively. So it might, might just be worth waiting.
It's no surprise to see our favorite budget gaming chair appear with a decent discount as Black Friday kicks off. Though it's still nowhere near its best price—we've seen it drop well below $200 in the not so distant past. But we've loved the chair since our Corsair TC100 review many years ago, and that same sample still looks great in the office today.
For pretty much the same $1,500 price tag as the RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop below, you can pick up a pretty damned special Black Friday gaming PC deal. This is a machine sporting the best AMD graphics card you can buy right now, the Radeon RX 9070 XT, and that will match a desktop RTX 5070 Ti in gaming frame rates (sometimes beating it) and will definitely best a mobile version of the same GPU.
You're also getting 32 GB of (what is now super-expensive DDR5) and a 1 TB SSD in the bargain. The Ryzen 5 9600X CPU isn't massively exciting, but as six-core, 12-thread chips go it's not a bad 'un.
This is, I think, the first time since the new GPU generation that I've seen a bona fide upper-mid-range gaming PC, capable of fantastic 1440p gaming, going for so cheap. This all-AMD build even packs in 32 GB of fast DDR5 RAM, which is no small feat during a memory shortage.
There are cheaper RTX 5070 Ti Black Friday gaming laptop deals available, such as the MSI Vector 16 HX below for $1,299, but while that's a great machine if you're focused on getting the most performance for the money, it is a bit of a chonker.
For something that's a bit more svelte, and with an OLED screen to boot, I'm quite partial to the Acer Predator Helios Neo 16S. The core spec is pretty tasty, with 32 GB RAM and a 1 TB SSD, and a 240 Hz 16-inch OLED display. The GPU is restricted to 115 W to be able to run happily in that slimline chassis, but will still deliver great gaming performance for the money.
Basically, what I'm saying is, there are great gaming laptop options out there this Black Friday week.
This Acer machine has a 240 Hz OLED panel, which is about as high spec a display as you'll find on gaming laptops right now for this sort of cash. Speaking of which, it's also a fantastic price for an RTX 5070 Ti machine, even if this GPU has had its power reigned in to a 115 W limit. It should still deliver great gaming performance with a bit of DLSS shove behind its already sizable grunt, and it's got 32 GB of RAM crammed into its slim and svelte frame. Quite the deal, this one.
I've had the odd dalliance with split ergo keyboards, but I've always found the learning curve far too steep when it comes to something like an ortholinear board. The Kinesis Freestyle Edge, however, is much more of a 'normal' gaming keyboard, but with the optional split and tilt.
And now it doesn't have a huge price premium in play if you want to look after your body with some ergo peripherals for a change. At $119 at Amazon, this is our favorite ergonomic gaming keyboard and is well worth the money if you're an ageing sole like me and looking to protect those wrists in your advancing years.
The best ergonomic gaming keyboards are usually pretty expensive, but thanks to the Black Friday sales, Kinesis Gaming has sliced almost $90 off the price tag for its Freestyle Edge RGB. This version uses the ultra-fast Cherry MX Silver switches, but the lift kit that you need to tent it is an optional extra. This deal is for Amazon Prime members only.
It's very easy to be disparaging of the lower-end Nvidia GPUs, I mean team green hasn't exactly made them ultra-appealing after all. But forget what we might have wanted the RTX 5050 graphics silicon to be, what we actually have is still a decent entry-level gaming laptop GPU that will have you playing the latest games at decent resolutions and frame rates.
As part of our game performance testing, Nick has been putting the latest titles through a 15-inch Acer Nitro with an RTX 4050 inside it, and he's found that performing surprisingly well. And, for just $629 at Walmart you are getting a lot of mobile gaming power for your money.
This is a pretty appealing price for a capable 16-inch gaming laptop with a modern GPU. Sure, it's an RTX 5050, which needs to be affordable to be worthwhile, but this Acer Nitro V 16 AI is certainly that. It has a good screen for the money, too. A 180 Hz, 1200p IPS. Oh, and while the storage capacity isn't great, there's space for another drive under the hood.
Neither of these Logitech or Razer mice are part of their respective squeaker-maker's current generation of gaming rodents, but they are still outstanding examples of wireless gaming mice. And, honestly, unless you're some serious pro, with serious reflexes, and the ability to tell the polling rate of a peripheral by feel alone, then the DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed and Logitech G Pro X Superlight will be all the Black Friday gaming mouse you need.
Me, well I'm partial to a DeathAdder, and use the V3 Pro at home right now. Because Jacob stole my DeathAdder V4 Pro (I'm coming for you, Jacob). The V3 HyperSpeed uses essentially the same chassis but a slightly weaker sensor, yet comes in significantly lighter.
Simple, lightweight, fast and accurate. What more do you need from a gaming mouse? Because it eschews all the fancy gadgets that so many mice have these days, you save a bundle of cash and get a really long battery life.
Ignore the fact that this model has been around for a while because it's still a great lightweight, wireless gaming mouse. It's comfy, performant, and looks rather dashing despite its lack of RGB.
Space is at a premium right now, and if there's any kind of knock-on effect from the current DRAM price spike SSDs might be only set to get more expensive. Which makes this impressively quick 1 TB Biwin drive for only $70 a bit of a bargain.
We liked it a lot when Zak reviewed the Biwin Black Opal NV7400, and it's the price/performance ratio of this SSD which has earned it a place in our best SSD for gaming guide as a budget pick.
Okay, so our tests demonstrate it's slightly slower than the advertised speeds, but the actual sequential performance still isn't bad. Couple that with a very reasonable price point, plus its practically frosty temps, and you might well be looking at your next upgrade. Tick 'Apply $25 coupon' on product page to receive full discount.
It's the OG OLED that started it all, and I spoke about it being a great price when I was tracking down the Black Friday deals last week. And Alienware has now dropped the price of the luscious AW3423DWF by another $50. So, now it's just $500 at Dell and that would have me very, very tempted.
It may not have the 240 Hz refresh rate that's been the hallmark of recent OLED panels, but the glossy coating makes the most of the super contrast abilities of the display making it a stunning gaming monitor.
One of our all-time favorite gaming monitors, the Alienware AW3423DWF is a QD-OLED, 34-inch ultrawide beauty with a glossy coating that makes all your games look absolutely sumptuous. It's still the best budget ultrawide OLED money can buy, especially with this heavy of a discount.
Now, either Walmart has a lot of these gaming laptops lying around in its vast warehouses, or everyone's sleeping on one of the absolute best Black Friday gaming laptop deals. This is not the 'AI' version of the MSI Vector 16 HX, but it has a seriously stonking spec, and not just because it's so damned affordable.
Not only are you getting the GeForce RTX 5070 Ti (mighty close to RTX 5080 performance) but you're also getting a monstrous 16-core, 32-thread AMD CPU. It might be last generation now, but the Ryzen 9 8940HX is still a great Zen 4 with more raw processing grunt than you will find in any mobile CPU at this price point.
The Vector 16 HX AI is usually the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop out there, but this non-AI-branded version with a seriously powerful CPU is now outrageously good value. Sitting somewhere under the RTX 5080 and well above the RTX 5070 in terms of gaming performance, the RTX 5070 Ti is a great mid-range laptop GPU. The 1200p IPS screen should ensure excellent frame rates when paired with that particular mobile graphics chip, and the CPU, while being one of AMD's last gen models, is a 16-core 32-thread monster. In short, it's an absolute beast for the cash.
Slapping the standard Microsoft Xbox controller out of the hands of PC gamers, the GameSir G7 Pro has planted itself firmly at the top of our Best PC controllers list, and for good reason. Packing both TMR sticks and Hall effect triggers into a sub-$80 package has made this high polling wireless pad an absolute steal.
And now it's just hit its lowest price ever at just $60 at Best Buy.
It's not fancy, it's not showy, it's not Xbox Elite levels of premium weighting, but it's absolutely the best PC controller out there. And while it was already pretty affordable, not it's a steal for a pad with TMR sticks and Hall effect triggers. Yeah, we're not fans of the Nexus software, as we say in our review, but this controller still packs ever single important pro-level feature into a pad that is now just $60.
Key specs: TMR sticks | Hall effect triggers | Wireless (2.4 GHz, Bluetooth) | 272 g
Our best 14-inch gaming laptop pick has dropped even further in price as Black Friday ramps up, turning a great deal into a downright fantastic one. In his Blade 14 review, our Dave said it's "a huge improvement over last year's model, and there's now no other gaming laptop I'd want to have my digits on or spend my money on." And he stands by that, which is no surprise as he's made this little marvel his daily driver. It's one of the most desirable laptops on the planet right now, if you ask us.
Gigabyte is a staple of the budget 4K monitor market, and the biggest reason it gets removed from our deals list is that it occasionally sells out. This 27-inch 4K panel is a great price, with some good specs to go alongside it.
If you want to shave a few extra dollars off your bill at checkout, this gaming monitor from ASRock is a good way to go about it. It's a VA panel, which is good for contrasts but loses out to an IPS in a few ways, but it's around $10 cheaper than a competitive IPS. It's also rated to 180 Hz, which isn't bad.
It's no surprise to see our favorite budget gaming chair appear with a decent discount as Black Friday kicks off. Though it's still nowhere near its best price—we've seen it drop well below $200 in the not so distant past. But we've loved the chair since our Corsair TC100 review many years ago, and that same sample still looks great in the office today.
The Vector 16 HX AI is usually the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti laptop out there, but this non-AI-branded version with a seriously powerful CPU is now outrageously good value for the components you receive. Sitting somewhere under the RTX 5080 and well above the RTX 5070 in terms of gaming performance, the RTX 5070 Ti is a great mid-range laptop GPU. The 1200p IPS screen should ensure excellent frame rates when paired with that particular mobile graphics chip, and the CPU, while being one of AMD's last gen models, is a 16-core 32-thread monster. In short, it's an absolute beast for the cash.
It's that kind of enthusiasm for Black Friday that gets me out of bed every morning in November. I am that psyched for the deals. Okay, I'm not that psyched about the deals themselves, more about finding actually good products for actually good prices that I can recommend to you lovely people.
I feel like I'm providing a service.
Case in point, while GPU prices have looked to be rising slightly since last week, as well-priced deals go out of stock, there are the occasional ones that pop up with fresh pricing. And here we have the excellent AMD RX 9070 16 GB card appearing for well under its MSRP for the first time in a long while.
And, given the spiking prices of memory, these sorts of 16 GB cards especially might well see their prices starting to go up as we go into the end of the year and into 2026.
The RX 9070 is one of AMD's better GPUs for many years and is not that much slower than the XT version. It's been so popular that it's taken months for the price to drop to anywhere near AMD's MSRP. More expensive than the RTX 5070, but it's a faster card all round. That said, you might as well just buy the RX 9070 XT.
With 4.077 Steel Nomads per $, Nvidia's RTX 5070-powered gaming PCs are looking like the price/performance winners in this year's Black Friday sales.
What? That's a completely normal metric.
I mean, Nick just completely made it up, but it does represent an interesting turnaround for a mid-range graphics card that was vilified at launch. By me.
The RTX 5070 arrived under the shadow of the RX 9070, which theoretically launched at the same price, and comprehensively outplayed it. The pricing of both at the time was a joke, but Nvidia's card has shaken off a lot of its excess price premium now, to the point where you can actually find them below MSRP.
You can also more readily find RTX 5070-powered gaming PCs at a more reasonable price than AMD's competing RDNA 4 GPU. Which is why we've ended up with this excellent iBuyPower rig topping Nick's Steel Nomads per $ chart. And you get a sweet Ryzen 7 7800X3D chip in the bargain, too.
This RTX 5070 gaming PC also happens to come with the previous generation's best CPU for gaming. It's still no slouch and is a better choice than non-X3D chips even today. The CPU-GPU combo here should have you handling most games just fine at 1440p, especially if you enable FG or MFG.deal
8BitDo make great gaming controllers. 8BitDo also make very affordable gaming controllers, and normally those two things don't go hand-in-glove. So it's great to see a pair of pads from the company popping up with some healthy discounts.
The Ultimate 2C controller is already a pretty good price at MSRP, but at $24 it's a bit of a bargain—though we have seen one colorway drop below $20 this week.
Then there's the delightfully retro Pro3, which is now just $56, down from $70.
The Switch Pro-style design here is perhaps better suited to smaller palms, but you're unlikely to find another Hall effect controller anywhere near as cheap. Only downside here is that the pink model has gone up to its original $30 price point. For shame.
Key specs: Hall effect joysticks and triggers | USB-C | 2.4 GHz wireless dongle | Remappable extra bumpers | 1,000 Hz Polling rate
Though a little on the narrower side, this well-balanced controller remains comfortable to play through long sessions. A 20-hour battery life, plus the option to game while your charge the included dock, ensures this gamepad won't leave you high and dry when you need it most.
Key specs: TMR sticks | Hall effect triggers | Swappable ABXY Buttons | Charging dock | 2.4 G wireless | 20h battery
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This is the gaming headset that accompanies me around the PC Gamer office right now. Previously I used the older BlackShark V2 Pro, but immediately swapped over to the new BlackShark V3 because of the fantastic drivers. The sound is genuinely noticeably better with the new diaphragm Razer has employed with the new cans.
Otherwise, it's largely the same. Which is great because I love the design, the physical volume dial, and the speedy wireless connection.
And now we've got a Black Friday discount that brings the new headset down to the same price as the old Pro model. Don't be fooled by the lack of the 'Pro' suffix here; I much prefer the standard V3 to the V3 Pro set, and it's much more afforda
This wireless gaming headset leaves little to be desired. Featuring titanium TriForce drivers, you're getting crisp sound at a very reasonable price. The honking great big volume knob makes it easier than ever to finetune your soundscape when things get hectic too.
Key specs: 50 mm drivers | 12 - 28,000 Hz | Closed-back | Wireless | 70 hour battery life
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If you're looking at those graphics card performance benchmarks below, thinking 'actually maybe I'd prefer the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card instead' then allow me to provide you with the best price we've found for that mid-range RTX Blackwell GPU.
$400 is still a lot of money for a mid-range card, but at least you are getting the full 16 GB framebuffer, but here you have to make the choice about whether you are willing to pay the extra $60 for sometimes a bit more performance, plus the genuine benefits of DLSS 4 and Frame Generation (particularly of the Multi variety).
While the specs suggest it should only be a little faster than the 4060 Ti, the use of super-speedy GDDR7 gives the RTX 5060 Ti a surprisingly big boost. It's not worth buying if you already have an RTX 40-series card, but it's a decent upgrade if you have an older GPU, and all that VRAM is kinda nice to have. Use the $20 rebate card to get the full discount.
Drink it in. I've a horrible feeling this might be as good as it gets for the current generation of mid-range 16 GB graphics cards. RAM prices are going up and the knock on impact on VRAM production will push GPU prices up, too. Especially when, on something like the RX 9060 XT, the memory itself takes up quite a chunk of the manufacturing cost.
So, that all makes this Asus RX 9060 XT 16 GB card all the more appealing. It's relatively diminutive, and also comes in under the original $350 MSRP AMD launched the card at.
If you're one of the folk worrying about 8 GB not being enough for modern gaming then here's your chance to do something about it in an affordable, and effective way.
The 16 GB version of the RX 9060 XT isn't quite as fast as the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB card when ray tracing is involved, but outside of that, it's generally on par. You don't get as good an upscaling and frame generation system as with the Nvidia GPU, though. On the plus side, it is much cheaper, and that counts for a lot these days.
These are the numbers for our XFX review sample, but it wasn't a particularly overclocked version at all, so they should still be representative.
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If you want the absolute fastest Wi-Fi connection zipping around your home then realistically you're going to want to ditch the dodgy router your network provider gave you with your package and make the move to Wi-Fi 7.
Nick did, and he's not looked back since. I mean, it helps he's got a 1 Gigabit+ connection where he is, but that would still be for naught if his internet tubes got bottlenecked by a rubbish router.
Only the latest motherboards offer Wi-Fi 7 support, but you can easily upgrade an older one just by installing this wireless adapter card from TP-Link. Just stick it into a spare PCIe slot of any size, install the drivers, and you'll be good to go. Well, as long as you're using Windows 11 and no other operating system.
Key specs: PCIe x1 | Wi-Fi 7 Tri-band | Up to 6542 Mbps (MLO)
While it might not look even remotely stylish (or 'gamer', if you prefer that kind of appearance), the Archer BE600/BE9700 is actually a very potent and affordable Wi-Fi 7 router. It's not the fastest device you can buy but at $200, there's little else on the market to touch it.
Key specs: Wi-Fi 7 Tri-band | Up to 9700 Mbps (MLO) | 1x 10 Gbps + 1x 2.5 Gbps WAN/LAN | 3x 2.5 Gbps LAN
If you have a large house and need the best possible Wi-Fi 7 coverage, then a mesh network is the way to go. TP-Link's Deco range makes the whole process very easy to set up and use, and the BE68 offers stellar performance without being outrageously expensive.
I already covered pretty much the cheapest good OLED I've seen so far this Black Friday season—the 240 Hz MSI 1440p OLED for just $390 at Newegg—but what if you feel the need, the need for speed?
I mean, 240 Hz is already pretty rapid, and the 0.03 ms response time runs across all modern OLED panels, but if you want more, two of the best are on sale right now.
We have literally only just reviewed this new LG OLED display, and while it doesn't pack the very latest in the Korean giant's WOLED panel technology, it is still a very, very good screen. If you crave absolute speed then the combination of modest 1440p resolution and a 480 Hz refresh rate and a 0.03 ms response time, makes this OLED gaming monitor perfect for the aspiring competition pro.
Key specs: 27-inch | 1440p | OLED | 480 Hz | 0.03 ms | 275 nits full screen
Honestly, this sort of gaming monitor was easily double this price last year, probably more. The fact you can now bag a 1440p gaming monitor, with a 180 Hz refresh rate, for just $133 at Newegg kinda blows my mind.
It's the fallout from OLED panels dominating the high-end/high-price gaming monitor arena and I am very much here for it.
If you want to shave a few extra dollars off your bill at checkout, this gaming monitor from ASRock is a good way to go about it. It's a VA panel, which is good for contrasts but loses out to an IPS in a few ways, but it's around $10 cheaper than a competitive IPS. It's also rated to 180 Hz, which isn't bad.
Gaming PCs are going to be one of the big sellers over Black Friday this year, for the simple reason that this is the cheapest they're going to be for the foreseeable future. The price of RAM is massively spiking at the moment, and that's going to take GPU and SSD pricing with it eventually.
At the moment, however, the systems in stock at the major retailers and system builders have all been created with a stock of components purchases before the price rises, and so that hasn't been passed onto its customers. But it will be coming.
Here are our favorite gaming PCs sporting each of Nvidia's latest generation of graphics cards:
There was a time when the Razer DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed sat atop our guide to the best gaming mice, after all it was a simpler, lighter version of the DeathAdder V3 Pro, lacked for little and was much more affordable.
And now, at just $70 at Amazon it's much more affordable.
Our Nick was very taken with it, as you will see from his DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed review, where he gave it a coveted PC Gamer Editor's Pick award. With the specs list it's got, this is a top-end mouse for mid-level monies.
Simple, lightweight, fast and accurate. What more do you need from a gaming mouse? Because it eschews all the fancy gadgets that so many mice have these days, you save a bundle of cash and get a really long battery life.
It's the Quest 2, but better. And now it's the same price as the old master of the budget VR headsets was when it was at its zenith. Which means you can get in on the old virtual reality dance (yes, there are dancing games) without breaking the bank.
Sure, it's a standalone VR headset, but it's also more than a match for PC VR, too, and it doesn't have to mean tethered, either. It needs more router bandwidth for that than the upcoming Steam Frame, with its dedicated 6 GHz dongle, but wireless PC VR is possible with the Quest 3S.
And it's a darned sight cheaper than Valve's headset will be at launch. And, y'know, available now. For just $250 at Amazon, no less.
Well-priced, powerful, and wireless, VR makes a strong first impression via the Meta Quest 3S. Though I wish the battery life would last just a little bit longer, access to all of the games previously exclusive to the $500 Meta Quest 3 for half the price is nothing to sniff at.
Morning! It's a week to go until Black Friday proper, but with all the retailers going live with their deals yesterday Black Friday T-7 still feels like a good time to get some shopping done, whether for your significant others for the holidays or your significant you today.
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Some people want a keyboard with a numpad, some people want one that sounds like a 1940s typewriter, some people want one that sounds 'chocolatey', and some even want membrane keyboards. But we don't talk to those people.
And some people want a keyboard that sits as low to the desktop as possible, so they can pretend they're writing on a laptop or something. I don't know, I struggle to understand some kinds of gamers...
If you're one of those people then have I got a keyboard deal for you...
Considered to be the best low-profile mechanical gaming keyboard by us, thanks to great switches, super solid build quality, and great media controls, this is a great board, only really let down by its usually high price. With $30 off, this becomes a more attractive package.
I hate to be 'that guy' but this Black Friday sales period could well be our last chance for a while to get some PC gaming hardware for a decent price. We've only just recovered from the GPU pricing madness and now AI data centers have come for our memory.
So yes, RAM prices have shot up in recent weeks, to the extent that the doubling of the price of a pretty standard memory kit is not at all uncommon. And soon won't be as bad as it gets. But that's having a knock on effect on other kinds of memory, too, with SSDs soon to get that bit more expensive, and also we're hearing reports that graphics cards are only set to get more expensive once the current stock on the shelves sells through.
They are, after all, filled with VRAM. That's not the same as the system memory sought by AI data centers, but manufacturers are always going to prioritise capacity for the most in-demand kind of memory.
So yeah, if you're in the market to pick up some new hardware, Black Friday might just be your best bet until well into next year at the least.
Sorry.
Well, well, well, a genuine, modern OLED gaming monitor for a shade less than $390. Who woulda thought we'd hit that point so early in these Black Friday shenanigans? Not I, and yet here we are with a lovely MSI panel delivering on that promise for just $390 at Newegg.
There are few compromises, either. It's a 27-inch panel, so the pixel pitch isn't too loose, it's got a still-pretty-high refresh rate of 240 Hz, and you're only missing out on some USB-C connectivity. Feels like a bit of a bargain to me.
We're big fans of MSI's OLED gaming monitors right now, indeed there are two of them sitting in our best gaming monitor page today. This isn't one of them, but is a close cousin, and at under $390 that makes this one of the most affordable 1440p OLED screens you will find around Black Friday this year. It's sporting a 3rd Gen Samsung QD-OLED panel, is rocking a 240 Hz refresh (down from the 360 Hz of MSI's top 1440p OLED), and has all the response time and image quality goodness you associate with the top panel tech. There's no USB-C connectivity here, so no hub, power delivery or KVM stuff, but for the money I wouldn't expect there to be. Use promo code BFE2486 for the full discount.
One of the best things about the rise of OLED panels as peak gaming monitor in 2025 is the fact that it's driven the price of normal VA and IPS displays right down. To the point where we're getting high-refresh rate 4K monitors for under $290 right now. My only issue with the Asus TUF below is the fact that its peak luminance rating is just 300 cd/m2, which feels a little dim.
Though it will likely be fine for you unless you game regularly in a super brightly lit room.
Asus offers the cheapest 4K gaming monitor we'd actually recommend right now, and the 160 Hz refresh rate is reasonably high too. The only consideration you need to make here is if a 27-inch panel fits your setup. Otherwise, it's a bit of a banger.
Key specs: 27-inch | 160 Hz | 1 ms | IPS
If you want something a bit brighter, but not a lot more expensive, then this Gigabyte 4K monitor still has a 160 Hz refresh rate, still comes in under $300, but comes with a rated 350 cd/m2 level of brightness.
If that's going to matter to you, then it's not a lot more to get the brighter IPS panel.
Gigabyte is a staple of the budget 4K monitor market, and the biggest reason it gets removed from our deals list is that it occasionally sells out. This 27-inch 4K panel is a great price, with some good specs to go alongside it.
People sure are excited about the Steam Machine, but it was Valve's handheld that made it all possible. Well, that and SteamOS with its Proton layer meaning Windows games now run well (sometimes even better) on Linux.
And now SteamOS is not restricted to the Steam Deck, either, because Lenovo has got in there early with its Legion Go S which now has top place in our overall best handheld gaming PC guide. It's a great device, and now at a far more reasonable price.
Our new favorite gaming handheld has received a seriously tempting discount, and it's the best you can get thanks to its magnificent SteamOS integration. That's one of the best things about the Steam Deck, too, but here you're getting much more powerful hardware and a supremely comfortable chassis that makes the Legion Go S SteamOS an absolute delight to game on. Key specs: Ryzen Z1 Extreme | 8-inch screen | 32 GB RAM | 1 TB SSD
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The OLED which launched a thousand ships. Sorry, it's too early in Black Friday month to go off on a Greek myth tangent. This Alienware ultrawide OLED was the first to really prove that the pricey panel technology did have a place in proper PC gaming monitors, and it still stands up today.
Yes, there are many other similar screens available, but few at this price right now. Possibly none, in fact.
The same reasons we fell in love with it in our Alienware AW3423DWF review remain, namely that glossy panel making the contrast and true black levels really pop. You can get 240 Hz versions now, and the updated Alienware AW3425DW is only $100 more, but will you really notice the difference between 165 Hz and 240 Hz?
And how about if I paid you $100, could you still see the difference?
One of our all-time favorite gaming monitors, the Alienware AW3423DWF is a QD-OLED, 34-inch ultrawide beauty with a glossy coating that makes all your games look absolutely sumptuous. It's still the best budget ultrawide OLED money can buy, especially with this heavy of a discount.
The AW3425DW is very similar to the Alienware model further up the page in specs, but with a 240 Hz refresh rate and a redesigned stand and surround. So, if you're the sort that demands the very highest of refresh rates for online gaming shenanigans and don't mind paying some extra cash for the privilege, this is the one to pick.
This little guy is still my daily driver, and has been every since I reviewed the Blade 14 back in June. It's a beautiful, beautifully svelte gaming laptop, with a gorgeous screen, decent battery life, and plenty of gaming performance on offer, too.
I use it with both the Radeon 880M integrated graphics for lightweight gaming on the go, and for more power-hungry graphics there's always the Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU when you need higher FPS.
And it's been dropping in price since I reviewed it, to the point where it is now $1,000 cheaper than at launch. For $1,700 at Amazon, this is getting on for standard RTX 5070 laptop pricing and not the Razer premium we've come to expect.
Our Dave's absolute favorite Razer gaming laptop has dropped even further in price as Black Friday ramps up, turning a great deal into a downright fantastic one. In his Blade 14 review he said it's "a huge improvement over last year's model, and there's now no other gaming laptop I'd want to have my digits on or spend my money on." And he stands by that, which is no surprise as he's made this little marvel his daily driver. It's incredibly portable, gorgeous to behold, and pretty much the most desirable lappy on the planet right now. How's that for a deal?
PCIe 5.0 SSD performance for PCIe 4.0 SSD pricing. That's what we're getting already this Black Friday, with Crucial's impressively quick, impressively affordable drives out-doing a lot of last-gen SSDs in terms of both pace and price.
Though left in the dust by fellow PCIe 5.0 drive, the WD Black SN8100, Crucial still can't be beat when it comes to balancing price against performance. Though not the speediest internal SSD, the P510 still offers proper Gen 5 performance for the cost of a Gen 4 drive—check out our full review.
Key specs: PCIe 5.0 | Up to 11,000 MB/s read | Up to 9,500MB/s write
Though left in the dust by fellow PCIe 5.0 drive, the WD Black SN8100, Crucial still can't be beat when it comes to balancing price against performance. Though not the speediest internal SSD, the P510 still offers proper Gen 5 performance for the cost of a Gen 4 drive—check out our full review.
Key specs: PCIe 5.0 | Up to 11,000 MB/s read | Up to 9,500MB/s write
