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SteelSeries Arctis Pro Wireless | 40 mm drivers | 10-40,000 Hz | Closed-back | Wireless | Swappable batteries | Dual-wireless base station | $279.99 $139.99 at Best Buy (save $140)
An excellent 7.1 DTS-supported gaming headset, a dual-wireless connection base station, and a swappable battery system for $140 feels like a bit of a steal, if I'm honest. You can mix and match inputs and outputs from multiple sources (including Bluetooth) with the controls on the front of the base station, as well as adjust settings and EQ. Oh, and you can charge the multiple batteries from inside the base station itself, then swap one into the headset when you're running low. Super clever, that.

Price check: Amazon $194.95

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The most annoying thing about wireless gaming headsets is when they run out of battery. Obviously, with something like the best wireless gaming headset, the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless, you're getting fully 300 hours out of it. But still, after those 300 hours you still have to plug it in to charge.

What if you never had to?

That's the beauty of SteelSeries Arctis Pro headset, because it comes with two hot-swappable batteries, and it means you can have one permanently charged to 100% while you use the other, and can immediately swap them over when you need to. Never having to plug an unsightly cable into your headset again. What a world.

If you want a quick snapshot of every piece of PC gaming gear that we recommend here on PC Gamer, then just take a look at our pretty li'l hub page detailing our most important buying guides, and all the products we recommend for each category.

We're also deploying our smart tech (don't worry, it's not AI) to help you find the best price on each of those products when you click on the links for each recommendation. A bunch of them are on discount right now, which is nice.

Our Nick has been digging into component deals today, and has picked out some of the best eight-core CPU deals around, for both AMD and Intel platforms. That's because the latest games are becoming more adept at dealing with multiple CPU cores, and some are starting to actually demand eight cores, too.

• AMD AM4 socket: Ryzen 7 5800XT | $141 @ Amazon
• AMD AM5 socket: Ryzen 7 7700X | $227 @ Amazon
• Intel LGA1200 socket: Core i7 12700KF | $180 @ Amazon
• Intel LGA1851 socket: Core Ultra 7 265K | $259 @ Amazon

Crucial X9 | 1 TB | USB 3.2 Gen 2 | Up to 1,050 MB/s read and write | $91.99 $64.99 at Amazon (save $27)
Small enough to tie to the end of your lanyard and theoretically hardy enough, too. The plastic shell of this external SSD is apparently "shock, vibration, and drop proof up to 7.5 feet," though I'd rather not put that claim to the test myself.
Price check: $64.99 at Newegg

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That's a pretty dinky, and pretty speedy external drive for not a lot of cash.

While not explicitly a deal as such, the fact that the Radeon RX 9070 is finally available for close to its original launch price/MSRP is definitely something to celebrate. And celebrate it I did last week, when I made AMD's second-tier RDNA 4 GPU our pick as the best graphics card for most PC gamers.

I'll be honest, that was a tough journey to be on, trying to figure out what to recommend as the best graphics cards of 2025, especially given all the tough times we've been facing with scarcity, scalping, gouging, and tariff-related price hikes. But now we're close to the $549 MSRP with a $600 ASRock RX 9070 at Newegg today.

In terms of performance, it gets seriously close to both the RX 9070 XT and the RTX 5070 Ti, both more expensive GPUs, especially when you bring in some easy overclocking.

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Logitech G305 Lightspeed | Wireless | 12,000 DPI | 250 hour battery life | 400 IPS | $49.99 $32.49 (save $17.50 at Amazon)
The Logitech G305 Lightspeed has been our pick for the best budget wireless gaming mouse for some time, and that's for good reason. At its original price of $50, the G305 is already a super solid deal, but with almost $20 off, I can't find a single budget wireless gaming mouse I'd pick over it at its current price point. The only downside to buying right now is that you will have to pay a little more if you want the pretty blue or purple variant of the mouse.

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Honestly, that's a ridiculously low price for a genuinely good wireless gaming mouse.

Speaking of SSDs... Crucial's new P510 has single-handedly created a whole new class of storage drives: the best budget PCIe 5.0 SSD. Up to now PCIe 5.0 drives have been hot, expensive, and largely pointless, but the new Crucial P510 uses some new NAND flash memory and Phison's latest controller to create a budget drive that is absolutely nailing price-to performance right now. It's just $100 for the 1 TB version at Amazon today, offering up to 11,000 MB/s read speeds out of the block.

Sure, you might only have one PCIe 5.0 slot in your machine, but now you don't have to pay through the nose to fill it up with something worthwhile.

Crucial P510 | PC Gamer score: 86%
"With its own 276-layer NAND and Phison's latest controller, this budget drive absolutely dominates those price-to-performance ratios and then some. If you're looking for a cheap, affordable, versatile SSD for your next system, the P510 is a fine pick and well worth considering."

Our pick as the best SSD for gaming right now, Sandisk's new WD_Black SN7100, is on offer right now, with the 1 TB version on sale for $70 and the 2 TB drive being $138 over at Newegg.

This is the direct successor to the SN850X, our previous SSD pick, and it's a fantastic, affordable update to a classic PCIe 4.0 SSD. In our review we said: "Despite product stack confusion, WD's latest Black SN7100 delivers some seriously impressive performance, particularly on the read front. It's cool, delivers where it needs to and is aggressively priced. Perfect for any gaming PC or console."

Welcome, one and all. It's Prime Day week for really reals, and there are already a bunch of decent deals live on Amazon ahead of the main event, and from all the other retailers going early on the sales front. Though, with 4th July just last week, most of the 'sales' events are just rolling right on into each other.

Whatever, I'm signing on to start picking through my absolute favorite deals around right now.