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It's Friday and Prime Day (or Prime Week) is nearly over. But there's still time to score a saving on your next PC upgrade, and I'll be here posting the best deals our hardware team and myself find throughout the next 24 hours.
That's been the pleasing thing about the recent, elongated Amazon sales, they drag everything out to the point that there's no big rush and we've found most of the biggest deals on day one often remain throughout the week. The annoying thing is that for me there's little new to say and I'm going a little stir crazy by this point.
Still, I'm pleased to say my favorite deal is still around; this would be the machine I'd have my eye on if I were looking for a mobile upgrade right now. The Acer Nitro V 16S will get you a great gaming laptop with an RTX 5070 for under $1,200. That's the first time I've seen a gaming laptop getting under that price probably since Black Friday last year. But there are other laptops and gaming PCs with genuinely good discounts, as well as some great peripherals deals, too.
We've obviously got our main Prime Day hub for all the best PC gaming deals, where we'll house all the best kit we've found for the best prices, but I'm also going to be keeping this page updated throughout the week to bring you my absolute favorite deals.
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 Prime Day.
Prime Day deals - quick links
- Amazon - All today's deals are here
- Dell - Discounts on Alienware PCs, laptops, and 240 Hz gaming monitors
- Newegg - Frames. Performance. Savings sale now on
- Walmart - Money off gaming laptops and PCs
- B&H Photo - Save on full systems and big discounts on storage
- Best Buy - Save on gaming PCs, laptops, peripherals, and more
🕹️ RTX 5060 - Stormcraft Sirius | $900 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB - Omen 16L | $1,230 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB - AVGPC Hellfire | $1,275 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5070 - Thermaltake LCGS NE | $1,400 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5080 - Stormcraft Phantom | $2,500 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5090 - Skytech O11 | $5,000 @ Newegg
AMD gaming PCs
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 8 GB - Andromeda Insights AMD Spectra | $1,253 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9070 XT - iBuyPower Y40 | $1,749 @ Walmart
Gaming laptops
💻 RTX 5050 - Acer Nitro V 16 | $885 @ Walmart
💻 RTX 5060 - Acer Nitro V 16 S (32 GB) | $1,100 @ Amazon
💻 RTX 5070 - Acer Nitro V 16S | $1,000 @ Best Buy
💻 RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,599 @ Walmart
💻 RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $2,322 @ Walmart
Graphics cards
🕹️ RTX 5080: $1,220 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5070 Ti: $900 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5070: $599 @ Walmart
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB: $540 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB: $350 @ Amazon
🕹️ RTX 5060: $330 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5050: $290 @ Amazon
🕹️ RX 9070 XT: $650 @ Amazon
🕹️ RX 9070: $580 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9070 GRE: $500 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 16 GB: $400 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 8 GB: $330 @ Best Buy
🕹️ Arc B580: $300 @ Newegg
🕹️ Arc B570: $250 @ Newegg
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Yeah, I think this might just already be the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal I'll find all week. Which is kinda funny considering that actually Prime Day hasn't really started yet. Considering I've been struggling to find an RTX 5060-based gaming laptop that's actually close to this price should tell you that this RTX 5070 machine is genuine bargain right now.
For so long we've been recommending either the Microsoft or Sony first-party controllers as the best pads for PC gaming. They're affordable, they're well-built, and they're good. But they're also old now, and controller technology has moved on to the point where things like TMR stick and Hall effect triggers aren't just the preserve of pro pads. And you can now get them in great controllers that can cost just $64 like this GameSir pad that won itself an Editor's Pick award when we reviewed it.
If you want any help figuring out how to pick yourself a great deal this Prime Day, I've put together a bunch of videos over on our YouTube channel to try and give you some help. I've picked specific product categories, such as gaming laptops, so have a look and see what you think. And please, share any tips or deals you guys have found in the comments below.
🚨RAMMING SPEED🚨
Yes, memory is incredibly expensive, but our Nick has been out and about to try and find the best RAM deals around on 16 and 32 GB kits, in both DDR4 and DDR5 trim. It's not cheap, but you can find relative deals at least.
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the glass cannon PC. Well, actually Dr. Fox found it, and it's actually not entirely a glass cannon, because while it is entirely specced out to do one thing very well—namely gaming—it will still be a very capable PC otherwise. The six-core, 12-thread AMD CPU is still solid, and though 16 GB of DDR5 isn't going to win any multitasking awards, you're not going to be utterly hobbled by it, either.
Gaming monitors stand a good chance of being the best Prime Day deals for PC gamers looking to upgrade their setups. That's because the rapid rise of OLED as the king of gaming panel technology (okay, I'm not talking to you pro gamers with a tight grip on your TN panels) has pushed prices down on still great IPS and VA screens. We've also had OLED technology rapidly evolving to the point where new generation panels come out and the prices drop on the older ones.
Which is what's happening here, where you can now get an OLED screen we would have once gone giddy over costing twice this is now utterly affordable. Who says everything is getting more expensive?
🚨PRICE DROPS🚨
Gooooooood morning, PC gamers! It's Prime Day proper, all the way through Prime Day tomorrow and Prime Day on Thursday and Prime Day on Friday. The last Prime Day until probably October. So many Prime Days.
So, Amazon has now joined the game, and we're starting to see some fresh Amazonian deals coming through, both exclusively for Prime members and just in general, too. Obviously all the other tech retailers are gearing up to start price matching so I'm expecting to see prices on some key PC gaming tech start to drop throughout the day.
Early price drops:
- MSI Vector 16 HX AI | RTX 5070 Ti: was $1,700 yesterday, now $1,599
- PNY RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB: was $370 yesterday, now $350
- Biwin 1 TB SSD: was $185 yesterday, now $170
- Corsair TC100 gaming chair: was $250 yesterday, now $180
Oh hey, it's the gaming headset I actually have on my head right now. And it's got a real hefty discount down to just $85 from $120 at Amazon. Okay, it's kinda not exactly the same headset, as the discounted one is the Xbox-certified version, which still uses the exact same USB Hyperspeed Wireless dongle. So... um... works juuuuust fine on PC, too.
I'm a big fan of the BlackShark V3, I've actually also got the BlackShark V3 Pro here, but I've left that one in the PC Gamer kit cupboard because I much prefer the audio quality of the standard version. That's because it doesn't have the ANC which adds unwanted pressure to your ears and doesn't do good things for the sound either, in my opinion. So yeah, the BlackShark V3 is my go-to office headset, even if the Audeze Maxwell still has my heart as the best gaming headset you can buy. It is, however, twice the price and the Razer set is definitely not half as good.
🚨Actual GPU deals alert🚨
Seriously, there are actual graphics card deals around at the moment for Prime Day. What a world, eh? Now, we're not quite at the point where we're necessarily always going to be hitting the original MSRP for cards, but there is one GPU that is actually on sale for under its original price: the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE.
This cheaper 12 GB version of the Navi 42 GPU impressed me when I reviewed the Acer version recently, with its $550 sticker price, but with the FantasTech sale over at Newegg offering up promo codes for logged in Neweggers, there's a Gigabyte version on sale for $500 after you apply the $50 promo code.
It's a great graphics card for the money, comes with a ton of undervolting/overclocking potential baked into the AMD GPU silicon, and can go toe-to-toe with the more expensive RTX 5070 from Nvidia.
Start your engines! Because our Andy has picked out a bunch of excellent racing gear for your PC. It's great if you want to upgrade your Forza experience, or just bag something better for Assetto Corsa.
There are shifters, wheels, pedals, and yes, even racing cockpits, too. Check it out!
For some PC gamers the keyboard and mouse combo is all they ever want, ever need, or ever shall have. But we're equal opportunity PC gamers here, because PC gaming is for everyone and some games actually play better with a pad. And, because it's Prime Day/Week, the best PC controllers are on sale right now, including the best high-end pad, the Razer Wolverine V3 8K PC.
It's a dedicated PC pad, with super high (and battery draining) 8K polling rates, though if you stick to 1,000 Hz polling you'll do just fine. It's a reassuringly solid controller, and it got one of the highest scores we gave anything in 2025 when it was released. Check out Alex's Wolverine V3 Pro 8K PC review to see why he loved this controller, but suffice to say with a mix of TMR sticks, Hall effect triggers, and super-satisfying buttons, it's a great pad.
But it's certainly not cheap, even with the 25% discount.
Some cheaper alternatives...
This is our favorite budget gaming chair, and to be fair the Corsair TC100 relaxed has been ever since it was released two years ago. It's comfortable, looks good, and has withstood the test of time in the PC Gamer office, too. And when chairs from the likes of Secretlab can cost north of $500, it's easy to see why this is our budget pick.
And when you look at the sort of other cheap chairs you can find at Amazon, well, I fear for your spine with some of those... Not so with the TC100 Relaxed, its lumbar support, and its fabric coating, all for just $190.
But that's not the cheapest option, however. Because you can get the leatherette version of the TC100 chair for just $180 at Amazon right now.
I do so want to love the Steam Machine. It's smol, cute, and would be the perfect entry level gaming PC for the living room... if it wasn't $1,049 at its most basic. And if you go for the full 2 TB version (with the fetching red material optional front panel) that goes up to $1,349. Toss in a Steam Controller and you're looking at $1,428 all-in.
Now, that's far too much money for a machine that's going to struggle with the latest games at anything like a high graphics preset. So our Nick's been charging around the various Prime Day deals to find out if he could build a rival small form factor gaming PC for less than the Steam Machine, and he's only gone and done it.
To be fair to Valve, he's only beaten it by $2, but he's doubled the storage of the low-end 512 GB model and created a machine that will give the Steam Machine an absolute kicking in terms of gaming performance in any title you care to throw at it. Valve's cool with that, though, especially as it's acknowledged the limited release numbers it has for the Steam Machine, so has had to basically tell most PC gamers they're better off building their own. So we will.
Might not use SteamOS though.
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It has never been a better time to buy a gaming monitor. Now, that might sound like so much marketing hyperbole, but stay with me. Such is the power of OLED monitor tech as a draw for PC gamers, it has had the effect of dropping the prices of competing panel technologies by a huge amount. Where once $500 - $600 IPS monitors are now around half the price.
Our resident monitor expert, Jeremy, has been casting around picking his favorite budget gaming monitor Prime Day deals, and has found some absolute bargains out there.
Speaking of gaming monitors, I've been doing a wee series on our YouTube channel covering the things you need to consider when updating your PC gaming setup over Prime Day. So yeah, here's the one I've done around picking up a new display.
It's all very well talking about big gaming monitors, laptops, and chairs, but what about the thing each of us PC gamers interacts with the most in our day: the gaming mouse? Thankfully our Jacob has been checking around for the best Prime Day deals on the little squeakers and has found a bunch of great options, from $20 all the way up to $120.
🚨OBLIGATORY ELECTRIC SCREWDRIVER DEAL ALERT🚨
If you're into PC building, and you haven't already got an electric screwdriver yourself, then Prime Day has got you covered. Jacob's bought this exact Hoto screwdriver himself and swears by it. He's even been complimented on it on no less than three distinct occasions.
What a lovely screwdriver.
Brrrm, brrm, screeech, brrmm, crash. That's me playing Forza. But if you're not rubbish at racing games and want to git even more gud, then you need a steering wheel to really feel at one with the road and the rubber. And if you want a really good steering wheel you need to get a direct drive one.
But they have previously been rather pricey, but no longer. Especially not with the likes of Moza offering a really tasty direct drive bundle, with pedals, base, and wheel, for under $400 all-in.
Brrm, brrm, indeed.
Since who knows how long it'll be until Steam Decks are reasonably priced, I'm gonna protect the hell out of my current one
I was enjoying a smug little moment, happy I'd bought a Steam Deck before the price shot through the roof back in May. But I didn't enjoy it for long because my brain wouldn't let me: now I'm filled with worry that my current Steam Deck will break and I won't be able to buy a replacement because they're just so darn expensive.
So, I think I'm going to give my Deck some extra-protective armor like Iron Man puts on when he's gonna fight the Hulk. This Jsaux Steam Deck case is made of PC-ABS and shock-absorbent TPU with textured edges for good grip, which'll help you avoid dropping it and adding some protection if you do. There's also a face-plate you can attach to protect the screen and sticks while in transit. It's 20% off for Prime Day.
And if you want to protect the screen from scrapes and chips while the front plate is off, Jsaux has you covered there too, with a scratch resistant tempered glass screen protector, also 20% off. Keep that hardware protected, folks!
Right, let's get to it. DEALS.
We've got a bit of a cameo this week from long time PC Gamer contributor, and one time Max PC editor, Zak Storey. Along with Jacob, he's been doing a lot of our full system builds and cooling reviews over the past year or so, which means he's got the cooling market down pat.
He's been chasing down the best deals to keep your PC chill during the hot new hotness, and has found three of the coolest Prime Day deals so far.
Liquid CPU coolers
Air coolers
Fans and, um, etc?
BUNDLE. This is seemingly the only way forward for DIY PC building in 2026. Sadly, such is the way of things that if you want to get your hands on some decent memory and SSD deals you're going to have to maybe compromise on some other aspect of your build. Sometimes that might mean not having money left over to spend on the CPU or motherboard you really wanted, or here it might mean having to take whatever CPU and mobo a given retailer wants to shift.
Still, our Nick has been looking through the different bundles on offer from Micro Center (via Amazon) and Newegg, and has found a selection of offers that genuinely would make for a great foundation for a new gaming PC. Just add a new GPU (and there are actual deals on those) a PSU and a chassis and you're rolling.
Who said DIY building was dead?
How's it looking out there?
Things have changed now that Amazon has spread it's Prime Day sales over four days—and with the other retailers getting in on it, make that five days at least—and we're now seeing the biggest and best deals drop on day one and very little having changed going into day two.
So it has been today, as our writers have combed through our curated deals hub and checked that prices and stock levels have remained consistent, and most have stuck around. I'm a bit sad that the sub-$1,000 RTX 5070 gaming laptop has gone, but there is still a very similar one Acer Nitro 16S for just $1,200, which is still a great deal for a pretty high-performing machine. It's still an 85 W RTX 5070 system, but you're getting a 10-core Intel Core 7 CPU and a full 1 TB SSD this time around. As well as a slightly more rapid 180 Hz screen, too.
It is fair to say that as well as RAM, SSDs have been particularly badly affected by the memory pricing crisis. It's not pretty out there, and while we cannot say there are bargains out there, the deals are all relative. There are discounts on the sky high price of memory, and so there are for SSDs, too.
Our Jacob has been curating the best Prime Day SSD deals a fair bit recently, along with Jess, and has been crunching the numbers to find the best value drives you can buy today.
🚨BACK IN STOCK🚨
The best value Prime Day gaming laptop deal is back in stock at Best Buy. Yes, the RTX 5070-toting Acer Nitro V 16S is back at Best Buy for just $999.99. It's sold and shipped direct from Acer itself, and dropped out of stock earlier this morning, but because of some weirdness on the page, we figured there was a chance it might pop back up, and so it has!
It's hard not to be fully taken by the beautiful Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 laptop. It really is a stunner. As soon as Asus dediced to take the 14-inch laptop game to Razer in the last generation and released a fully CNC milled aluminum chassis for its diminutive notebook it's been high on our list. But Razer hit back hard with the latest Blade 14 and that definitely has my heart, but with the Prime Day sales the Zephyrus G14 definitely has my head. With the RTX 5060 version being $1,450 at Best Buy right now, that's a good price for this slimline beauty.
It's not cheap, but it is a good price. The Blade 14, however, in its RTX 5060 guise is a ludicrous $2,300 by comparison.
If you want something with a little more grunt, and don't mind a little more girth, the 16-inch Zephyrus G16 is a gorgeous wee thing, too. It's impressively slight in terms of the chassis and will happily slip into a backpack if you're shifting around a lot. And with the RTX 5070 inside it, for $1,575 at Best Buy, the Asus machine has a lot of gaming performance to call on.
Both come with beautiful OLED panels in whichever screen size you go for, and are both good prices for some serious gaming monitor chic.
Here's Jacob to remind you exactly why the Hoto electric screwdriver is such a hot deal for any PC gamer out there 👇
It's very easy to find a PC case in black or increasingly in white, too. But if you want something just that little bit more colorful it can be a real trial. Thankfully, that's not the case (geddit?) with chassis maker, Hyte.
For Prime Day you can find its Y70 and more recent X50 cases—which come on a whole host of different colors—on sale right now. I'm personally rocking a white version of the Y70 (the Touch version with the integrated display which is now hard to find) and it's a case that always gets comments from whoever claps eyeballs on it.
I don't think the 'it's never been a better time to buy a gaming monitor' drum can be banged hard enough right now. And we're not just talking about the super-affordable 1440p high refresh rate screens that are under $300, and often well under $200. There's also a new wave of genuinely affordable OLED gaming monitors out there, too.
Even 4K OLEDs aren't utterly prohibitive in terms of price. I mean, they're still not cheap...
When our other Jacob reaches for a pad, this is the one he goes for. Scuf controllers are never cheap, but there's $20 off this one for the Prime Day sales.
Sometimes a little joy can be hard to find. But a little joy can go a long way. And what's more joyful than Lego? I'm a massive Lego nerd, and thankfully so is our Andy—he's been out tracking down the best Prime Day Lego deals out there, with some from as little as $17. But I've got to say I'm more than a little taken with the Speed Champions Ultimate Formula 1 Collector's Pack. It's 30% off. You can save $81.
I'm dancing around the price a bit there. Okay, it's $189, but you do get ten awesome little Formula 1 cars to build. Yes, I have a problem.
Who's this guy? He's a NAS guy. This is maybe the absolute worst time to get into network attached storage given that even hard drive prices have been spiking (yes, datacenters use hard drives still, too), but Jacob's been loving his new NAS box from Ugreen and it's on sale for Prime Day today. And probably tomorrow, to be fair.
But yes, hard drive not included 😢
As fun as it is to be knocking about with an RTX 5090, or prodding an expensive Steam Machine (pour one out for the most high-profile casualty of the memory apocalypse) I love a good bit of budget kit. I love it when a piece of unassuming hardware turns up, happens to be great, and its manufacturers haven't slapped a ludicrous price tag on top of it.
Such is the way with the Gamakay x NaughShark NS68 keyboard. It's a magnetic switch board, with an 8K polling rate, and serious PBT key caps, too. And all for under $32 at Amazon.
I've played with it for a while and I do dig the 65% design and the aesthetic, but it would be remiss of me not to note that it's not going to be one for the keyboard ASMR community. It's not thocky, does sound notably hollow, and doesn't have a 'creamy' feel to its switches. Oh, how I hate myself for typing that... But yes, it is a budget keyboard, though one with the feature set of a much more expensive board.
If you're after an RTX 5080 upgrade this Prime Day it might be worth considering a prebuilt gaming PC. Now, that might seem like an extreme, almost nuclear option, but hear me out. The RTX 5080 itself is a $1,200+ GPU and with the prices of SSDs and RAM, finding a complete spec with the 32 GB DDR5 and 2 TB SSD you would likely be after building out yourself is tough.
If you already have those in place, then sure you can go and buy the $1,220 Zotac RTX 5080 at Newegg, but if you're going to be looking at a wider upgrade then a full machine might be worth a look.
And I've had a look for you, and found four potential RTX 5080 prebuilt systems I think are pretty decent.
I am literally using this Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro right now, and you can too. Well, not quite right now, but once you can take delivery anyways (as early as Friday, June 26, btw). This is a genuinely fantastic Prime Member deal and one of the best Prime Day gaming mouse deals I've seen over this week so far.
Sure, the DeathAdder V4 Pro is out now, and was only recently usurped from the top of our best gaming mouse guide by the Razer Viper V4 Pro, but though the new version is better, it is only really incrementally better. And for $66 at Amazon right now this is a steal for an absolutely fantastic wireless gaming mouse.
🚨PRICE DROP ALERT🚨
The leatherette version of the Corsair TC100 Relaxed gaming chair has dropped in price again. It was already a great deal when it dropped on Amazon for Prime Members yesterday morning, but it's now dropped again. You can now pick it up for just $171 at Amazon.
If the thought of the leatherette is too much for you in the summer heat, then there is also a deal on the fabric version, too, but that's a more expensive $189.99 again at Amazon.
Remember, don't be put off by Amazon Prime Members-only deals if you're not a card carrying member of Jeff's squad. While it costs $14.99 per month to get access to the video and music content, as well as premium delivery and exclusive offers, you can almost always find yourself a free 30-day trial. Just remember to set a reminder on your phone to cancel before the 30 days are up and Mr. Bezos himself comes around for the next month's payment.
Keychron makes some stellar keyboards, often with top-end features and pretty damned competitive prices. I recently met up with the Keychron CEO at Computex and that is someone determined to bring the latest technology into their products without slapping an unnecessarily high price tag onto them.
Case in point, this beautiful wood-finished Hall effect board, the K2 HE QMK Wireless for $112 at Amazon right now. It's a genuinely lovely thing, and beyond even the good looks, it feels sublime to type on. A friend of mine recently had to show off the one they've just bought because he was so taken with it... and knew I'd happily nerd out with him over it 🤓
I recently hung out at MSI HQ in uptown Taipei just before Computex this year. Perhaps incongruously we ended up at a sushi restaurant just down the street where I was quizzed on why exactly I don't like MSI gaming laptops.
Now, historically I've had a bit of a patchy history with them, most especially the big boi Titan machines. They're too big, too expensive, and just not that good. I've also railed against the 45 W TGP of the MSI Cyborg, a machine too limited to really compete with other budget gaming laptops of the same price.
But I've had a decent experience with a recent Crosshair laptop and absolutely fell for the faintly anachronistic charms of the MSI Vector 16 HX AI. It's chonky, can get loud, but if you drop it into it's more balanced, quieter fan mode it will outperform any competitively specced machine at that level. It's a great machine, and is regularly discounted, too.
Case in point this RTX 5070 Ti version for just $1,599 at Walmart right now.
Whenever I see the prices of SSDs these days I always give a double-take. How much?!
But this is the reality. AI and the AI bros. mean that we cannot have nice things any more, at least not regular memory-based commodities that used to actually be vaguely affordable. Boo.
Still, there are ways around the complete collapse of affordable SSD storage if you're prepared for a little compromise here and there. Case in point is this 2 TB SSD our Jess uncovered earlier today. It's 9₵/GB which is almost back to the old days of last year's SSD good-times. Why is this 2 TB Adata SSD just $190 at Newegg right now?
Because it's decidedely last-laaaaast-gen. This is a slow PCIe 3.0 SSD (slow even for Gen3 drives) and it also has a relatively low endurance rating, too. Both of those would have us cautious about recommending it as a boot drive to keep your entire Steam library on. But it would make a great cold storage SSD, to support a faster, smaller boot drive that you need to do a lot more shuffling around of game install files with.
But if you have your heart set on getting some proper speedy SSD storage that can be happily be used as a boot drive and will happily house your most oft-played games, then we've got a couple of easy recommendations for you. Both the 1 TB Biwin for $170 at Amazon and the 2 TB Acer for $246 at Amazon will comfortably satisfy your needs for quick storage today.
Storage is one thing, but memory is the big killer for PC building right now. There's no real way around it—you need RAM if you want to build a gaming PC. And preferrably a fair bit of it. So, our Nick has been doing the rounds over Prime Week scouting out the best possible prices on 16 and 32 GB kits of both DDR4 and DDR5 memory that's actually worth considering.
But if you don't want to have to worry about picking up an expensive new RAM kit for a DIY build, we've found six great Prime Day gaming PC deals that are resisting the carnage of the memory crisis that all have 32 GB of system memory a-piece.
And the cheapest is under a grand.
It's not just Prime Day 3, is it? It's also Grand Theft Auto 6 pre-order day. Which kinda feels a lot like Valentine's Day when you're resolutely single for a PC gamer. So there's a serious question we need to ask you? Will you be buying GTA 6 on console or waiting for the inevitably superior though unnecessarily delayed PC version?
Back to actual Prime Day stuff again... I can't do wired headphones. I get the idea of wanting to have practically zero latency, I get that wireless headsets can be expensive, but I can't be tethered to my PC anymore. I've broken too many 3.5 mm jacks from forgetting I've got a headset on my head, or around my neck, and have got up from my desk to grab a drink and created my own hyper-localised catastrophy.
Nope. It has to be wireless for a gaming headset. And they don't have to cost a ton, either, as this $43 Logitech G321 Lightspeed set at Amazon proves.
But if, for whatever reason, you don't mind wires, then maybe you want some IEMs for competitive gaming. And if that's you, then $24 is all you need to make a shiny new purchase a reality.
Because, for $24 at Amazon, you can grab the same in-ear monitor 'phones that our Jacob picked up himself to enhance his Counter-Strike setup. I've even seen him wearing them in our meetings, too.
We like numbers. We're PC Gamer's hardware folk and we spend our professional (and some of our personal) lives prodding and tweaking tech to see what it does and what benchmark numbers a given piece of hardware or device might spit out. So we like looking at data and making stories out of it.
Which is exactly what Jacob Prime (there are two of them, and this Jacob was the first) has done with the back end data that we've picked up over Prime week so far. We get a lot of information about traffic and clicks, so we know what the 19 most popular products we've been recommending over the week have been. And it makes for interesting reading, so here they are in cascading order, from most-clicked down.
We've spoken a lot about how monitors have never been more affordable and even brought in the budget 1440p OLEDs into the conversation. But there is still a level of OLED monitor that remains at a high price, and that's the 4K stuff.
But that doesn't mean there are Prime Day 4K OLED monitor deals out there. In fact there's one in particular that is threatening the bank accounts of many a PC Gamer editor right now: The MSI MPG 321URX for $745 at Amazon right now.
There are even deals on the even more extreme end of the OLED gaming monitor market, namely the super, very, ultra, ultrawide segment. These 49-inch behemoths can seem utterly ludicrous. I mean, who really wants to stretch their game or desktop across a 32:9 aspect ratio?
Anyone with a penchant for racing or other sim-style games, that's who. Strap this 49-inch Samsung beauty down in front of a racing setup, with steering wheel, pedals, and a cockpit, and you're talking about next-level gaming immersion.
And it's not much more than the 32-inch 4K MSI OLED I just mentioned. The Samsung Odyssey G93SC is $855 at Amazon right now.
🚨PRICE DROP ALERT🚨
But those big-screen, still big-price OLEDs are one thing, but there's a reason the Acer Predator X27U has been the most clicked on product we've mentioned over Prime week so far, and that's because it's the cheapest OLED gaming monitor I've ever seen that I would actually buy.
For just $315 at Amazon you're getting a 1440p native resolution, a Samsung QD-OLED panel, a 240 Hz refresh rate and that sweet, sweet 0.03 ms response time. It'll be a hell of an upgrade on most PC gamers' gaming screens. Earlier on in the week it was closer to $400 and still felt like a bit of a bargain, but at this price it's almost must-buy territory.
We all have a ton of electrical devices with batteries in them. From phones to laptops to handhelds, everything with a battery is going to need to be charged and sometimes it's just not convenient to stand or sit in one place and plug into a vacant wall socket. And now that a 20,000 mAh battery pack can be had for as little as $30 at Amazon, what's the point in letting your devices drain themselves to death?
I have mentioned many of these deals individually throughout the past week, but I just wanted to round up a selection of deals that I personally feel are practically must-buys for any PC gamer looking for a deal in one of these categories.
Obviously we don't all have a grand to drop on a new gaming laptop, or $85 to spend on a headset, but there are still some excellent and affordable deals out there worth shouting about.
Hey, Jacob R here, stepping in to Dave's oddly massive shoes. I'll be keeping the live blog ticking over in his absence.
My first move as deals tsar is to focus on a few smaller bits that are useful for any PC builder.
I've started ripping CDs as a sort-of digital doomsday prepping. Not for anything major, I don't think, just in case my internet goes down for a while and I want to listen to my favorite albums. So I buy the CDs, copy them to my PC with a disc drive, then copy to my NAS.
If you like that idea, I've spotted the exact drive I have on sale for Prime Day. Also another with a heap of added ports, though I'm fine without.
I've updated our list of the most popular Prime Day deals as clicked on by you lot, and there are a couple changes to the top three. Here's how it stands after the past 24 hours.
Our Jacob F has picked out four discounted mini PCs worth considering this Prime Day. They're mostly without dedicated GPUs, which means you'll have to chill on the graphical settings, but one has an RTX 5070 mobile under the hood.
