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And now the end is near. And so I face the final curtain. My friends, I'll say it clear, I'll state my case, of which I'm certain. I've lived a life that's been full of PC gaming hardware and so I'm putting every temporal unit of my 20-year technology prodding career into digging out the absolute best Prime Day PC gaming deals still live as we head into the end of the marathon four-day Prime Day.
I mean, who's idea was that? Four days of Prime Day? Lunacy. Anyways, we're barelling on through the end of Prime Day Epsiode 4: A New Hope.
👉ALL Amazon's Prime Day deals👈
👉OUR favorite Prime Day PC gaming deals👈
I started professionally prodding PC gaming hardware back in 2005 and my career has always been about products. Whether it's testing the latest graphics cards, putting the best gaming laptops through their paces, or tapping away at gaming keyboards, it's always been a question of finding the best gaming hardware to recommend to readers, and to steer you away from the worst. I reckon that puts me in a great position to be able to guide you to the best PC gaming deals this Prime Day week has to offer.
And that's kinda what Prime Day is all about really. The end of year sales are generally about buying gifts for others, while the summer sales are about being more selfish and finding funky things to buy for yourself. The PC Gamer team and I are also regularly curating lists of the best deals in our Prime Day deal hubs, too, so no matter what you're after we've got you covered.
Dave's been doing the PC hardware dance since 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 week.
Quick links
- Amazon - All the Prime Day deals
- Dell - Discounts on Alienware PCs, laptops, and 240 Hz gaming monitors
- Newegg - Summer bonanza sale now on. Fantastech sale starts July 7
- 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
Nvidia gaming PCs
🖥️ RTX 5060 - ABS Cyclone Aqua | $900 @ Newegg (code ABS10FTT)
🖥️ RTX 5060 Ti - Cobratype Pilot | $1,300 at Newegg
🖥️ RTX 5070 - Skytech Azure | $1,350 at Newegg
🖥️ RTX 5070 Ti - Zotac Mek | $1,800 at Newegg
🖥️ RTX 5080 - Skytech Prism | $2,500 @ Newegg
AMD gaming PCs
🖥️ RX 9060 XT (8 GB) - Cobratype Canebrake Elite | $850 @ Newegg
🖥️ RX 9070 - Skytech Shadow | $1,568 @ Newegg
🖥️ RX 9070 XT - Cobratype Pilot | $1,590 @ Newegg
Gaming laptops
💻 RTX 5060 - Alienware Aurora | $1,100 @ Best Buy
💻 RTX 4070 - Acer Predator Helios Neo 14 | $1,179 @ Amazon
💻 RTX 5070 - Asus TUF A16 | $1,350 @ Best Buy
💻 RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,625 @ Best Buy
💻 RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $2,250 @ Best Buy
Graphics cards
Best GPU prices:
🕹️ RTX 5090: $2,650 @ B&H Photo
🕹️ RTX 5080: $1,400 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5070 Ti: $830 @ Newegg
🕹️ RTX 5070: $550 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB: $450 @ Amazon
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB: $350 @ Amazon
🕹️ RTX 5060: $300 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5050: $270 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9070 XT: $720 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9070: $600 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 16 GB: $360 @ Amazon
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 8 GB: $280 @ B&H Photo
🕹️ Arc B580: $280 @ Newegg
🕹️ Arc B570: $260 @ Amazon
PC Gamer's favorite products
- Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 16 | $3,000
- Best gaming monitor: MSI MPG 321URX | $1,050
- Best gaming chair: Secretlab Titan Evo | $499
- Best graphics card: Radeon RX 9070 | $600
- Best wireless gaming headset: HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless | $142
- Best gaming headset: HyperX Cloud Alpha | $80
- Best gaming mouse: Razer DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed | $85
- Best gaming keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 | $160
- Best PC controller: Microsoft Xbox Core Wireless | $53
- Best SSD: WD Black SN7100 | $70
Amazon Prime Day top deals
Amazon Prime Day deal hubs
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- Silicon Power UD90 | 2 TB | $93 at B&H Photo (save $39)
- Crucial P310 2280 | 2 TB | $100 at Amazon (save $29)
- Crucial P310 2280 | 4 TB | $200 at Amazon (save $134)
These are still some of my absolute favorite Prime Day deals, these SSDs are all either on or just under $0.05 per GB and that's a bargain price for this level of storage capacity. And it's not slow either. Okay, the SiliconPower one is relatively pedestrian in PCIe 4.0 terms, but the two DRAM-less Crucial drives are right up there with the best of them.
You always need more storage and these will deliver in spades.
- RTX 5060 - Asus TUF F16 | $1,160 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5070 - Asus TUF A16 | $1,350 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,625 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $2,250 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5090 - HP Omen Max 16 | $3,000 @ Amazon
There are still some absolutely fantastic gaming laptop deals around at pretty much every price point and they've only been improving over the Prime Day sales. It's not an exaggeration to state that gaming laptops have seen some of the best discounts of any PC gaming category except maybe gaming monitors.
Mmm, OLED.
For the MMO or MOBA inclined, having a dozen macro buttons available to the touch of a thumb can mean the difference between life and... I dunno... some other variation of life that's just maybe not quite as good? Whatever, if you've ever found yourself looking at your favorite gaming mouse and thinking, "you know what this needs, more buttons," then the Razer Naga is for you.
This is the relatively basic Hyperspeed version, which means you just the 12-button pad under your thumb, what you get with the more expensive ones are replaceable thumb pads, and that's about it.
So, this wireless, many-buttoned rodent makes for a great Prime Day mouse deal for the gamer with a dexterous thumb.
🚨STORY TIME🚨
I once actually tried to set a gaming PC on fire. It was for science, and a fun little feature in the best PC magazine that was ever put to print, PC Format. My editor and I took a trip to a local fire station, because we wanted to do it in a safe, controlled environment, just to see what would happen if your high-power gaming PC got too dusty and started to overheat.
That's how I know that it would be incredibly rare for your gaming PC to set on fire just from dust build up alone. But we've all seen the horror stories around the 16-pin 12V-2×6 and older 12VHPWR GPU cables melting themselves into so much molten slag when incorrectly (or sometimes even correctly) connected to a super power-hungry graphics card.
So, maybe keeping a fire extinguisher in your gaming room isn't such a ridiculous idea... Luckily, there's a Prime deal on fire extinguishers, too, ones that will cover electrical fires if the worst does happen with your $2,649 RTX 5090 graphics card.
And even if your PC isn't going to burn itself to cinders because of dust build up, you really ought to make sure it (and your grubby little keyboard) are kept dust, cat hair, and crumb free. So, do the right thing and get yourself a funky cleaning kit while you're picking up your fire extinguisher, too.
This is our favorite mini-ITX PC case at the moment and just one look can tell you at least one reason why. It's gorgeous, right? But it's also a doddle to build into. In Jacob's Fractal Design Terra review he called it "cute, compact but above all easy to build into. Those three things don't often come in a single package, but heck, they do here."
🚨Help, I've gone down a screwdriver rabbit hole and now I want this one🚨
If I'm going to be jamming a screwdriver into my PC or laptop then I want it to be at least as delicate as I am. Okay, I've broken more expensive PC hardware than any human in existence, but that's just because I prod more of it than normal humans. I test things hard I guess.
But yes, this precision screwdriver set sings to me in all kinds of ways. First, it comes with a load of different bits, they're all magnetic, and it's USB chargeable. I kinda like the LED ring light of its larger siblings below 👇 but I'm into this dainty wee 'driver, especially for just $28 at Amazon today.
Ah, now this is more like it, Amazon. This is a proper Hoto screwdriver deal. This 25-piece set is rarely discounted down to this level, and only briefly hit $30 during the Black Friday sales last year. But now it is $36 at Amazon, again for Prime members only, but grab the free trial and you're golden.
This is a genuinely great deal on a more complete set than the pricier one also on 'sale' below 👇
🚨PRIME KINDA NOT PRIME DEAL ALERT🚨
If you spend hours taking apart PCs as much as we do then you will appreciate a good electric screwdriver as much as we do. And this Hoto set is an absolute peach. What about overscrewing and stripping threads?! You may ask. But with three levels of torque it's been designed not to overstress sensitive souls like our delicate PC componentry.
The only issue I have with this is that, while $40 at Amazon is a great price for such a neat bit of kit, it's a Prime member only deal. That's not a biggie considering you can get a 30-day free trial in a second, what is an issue is that this is the same price it was without Prime membership being a requirement this time in June.
So yeah, if you don't want to buy it now, don't worry that you'll never find it for this price again. If you check out the camelcamelcamel graph below you'll see it's pretty much always bouncing down to a similarly low price.
I'm frustrated that I have still yet to get my hands on an RTX 5050 GPU, not because I think it will be a particularly brilliant graphics card, but because I have tested every single one of Nvidia's RTX Blackwell GPUs and I want to get the achievement of completing the set. And I want to know how it really performs.
According to the publicly available numbers you're looking at a card that has an essentially weaker GPU than the RTX 4060 of last generation, but because of the slight architectural improvements and the higher clock speed you should be getting around the same level of performance.
That's not bad for a $250 GPU in 2025, considering the cheapest the RTX 4060 ever got was around the $300 mark and then only briefly. The closest other card is the Arc B570, and that generally sits behind the RTX 4060 in gaming performance, and that's when its Intel drivers are playing nice. Sometimes they do not.
Sticking at this price, the RTX 5050 will likely get a berth in our best graphics card list once we have a unit to test independently.
Not every Prime Day purchase needs to be a big ticket item. As a man with two young children I'm constantly surprised by the fact that it's 2025 and still everything needs a ton of AA batteries. And there never seems to be enough.
So, I've taken the Prime Day opportunity to stock up, with a 12-pack for just $13.57 at Amazon today.
🚨BIGGEST DOLLAR DISCOUNT WE'VE SEEN ALERT: $1,600 OFF🚨
That HP gaming laptop 👇 wasn't the only Prime Day gaming deal that improved with time—ageing like fine wine is the RTX 5090 gaming PC with the biggest single dollar discount we've found on any rig this Prime Day.
Yes, this is still a $4,600 machine from Newegg, but remember the RTX 5090 alone is some $2,800 at its cheapest this week, and that's with a discount of its own. And when you consider that you're getting a full $1,600 discount on it the value proposition starts to present itself.
It's also worth noting that other RTX 5090 machines we've seen are ususally a little pricier than this and don't come with anywhere near this level of supporting spec. With a Ryzen 9 9900X3D, 64 GB RAM, and a 4 TB SSD, this is a hell of PC gaming dream machine.
🚨POUR ONE OUT FOR A GREAT DEAL THAT IS NOW MERELY GOOD🚨
This morning, HP knocked another $200 off the price of this configuration and with the discount code and knocked it down to a spectacular, $1,568. If you managed to get in that price, great work. Sadly it has decided to spike the price of the deal, so now you're only getting a $742 discount, which makes it $1,968 at HP.
It's sad the stellar gaming laptop deal has gone, but that is still a pretty damned good price for an RTX 5080 gaming laptop.
We've used different configurations of the HP Omen Max 16, including an RTX 5080 version with a higher-spec Intel CPU. But this Ultra 7 chip is still a 20-core processor, so it's no slouch, for sure.
Earlier I mentioned how pleased I was that the 32-inch MSI 4K OLED for $699 at Newegg was still available in the Prime Day gaming monitor sales, and it's worth noting that it's much bigger 49-inch sibling is also still available on discount for a pretty stellar $730 at Amazon.
Jeremy Laird is our monitor tech guru, and I've worked with him for most of the last 20 years, and he's taught me pretty much everything I know about panel technology in that time. He reckons this might just be the best gaming monitor deal going.
Now, I like ultrawide monitors for gaming, but I've just switched from being a long-time wide boi as I've recently picked up a Gigabyte 32-inch 4K OLED and I do love it very much indeed. I also like a two screen setup even with an ultrawide monitor, and 49-inches might be too big for my poor desktop.
But, if you are at all into sim gaming, whether racing or flying, then the wraparound aspect ratio this offers, coupled with the fact it won't be too demanding of your GPU, makes it a very tempting prospect indeed.
- GeForce RTX 5070 | $550 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | $430 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB | $350 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 | $300 @ Best Buy
- Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB | $280 @ B&H Photo
- GeForce RTX 5050 | $250 @ Best Buy
Just to note, these six graphics cards are all still on sale for at or below their original MSRP. Just so you know, it does happen, it is possible, and there are affordable GPUs again.
🚨HOW IS THIS DEAL STILL LIVE?! ALERT🚨
Gaming chairs are always expensive items, right? Furniture always is. So, even at its original $270-odd price Corsair's TC100 Relaxed was our pick for best budget gaming chair, now it's less than $147 at Amazon? Well, it's just moved up to just bloody buy it!
I mean, if you're in need of a gaming chair, that is. Like, no-one needs more than one, that's just silly. Though I guess you could use it like a foot rest, but then it becomes expensive as a foot rest, again. It's a quandary.
Anyways, Katie gave it 86% in her Corsair TC100 Relaxed review when it first launched, citing it for some impressive build quality for the money:
"The thick cushion, broad design, and refined styling make this a good gaming chair, but the fact Corsair has managed to get the price down without compromising on comfort is what makes the TC100 Relaxed a great gaming chair."
AND NOW IT"S JUST $147?!
While I'm talking about deals I can't believe are still live, but I am so glad they are... the Gamakay X Naughshark NS68 may not know what it's real name is but it's the cheapest Hall effect gaming keyboard I've ever tried. I've had it on my desk for the past few weeks, tapping away at it during work hours, and have been mighty impressed with the overall package.
Reece gave it 85% in his Gamakay x Naughshark NS68 review, and I completely agree. My only issue with it is that it feels a little hollow and could have done with some damping foam to give it a bit more of a satisfying thocky sound. And once I figure out how to break it open without breaking it, that's exactly what I'm going to do.
🚨WINNING OLED DEAL STILL LIVE🚨
I am loving the fact that this deal is still live. A 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor, for me is peak Prime Day gaming monitor. My home rig is connected to a Gigabyte one rocking the same QD-OLED as this MSI pick; the only difference really is that the bargain MSI has a 165 Hz refresh rather than a 240 Hz one.
But it's going to take a beefy GPU to be able to run your screen at 240 fps at 4K, amirite?
It's easy to feel priced out of the gaming laptop market with the prices of modern RTX 50-series machines, and the fact that precious few last-gen laptops are available at a decent price. But there are options, especially this Prime Day.
Here's an RTX 4060-based gaming laptop for just $649 at Walmart, which probably sounds too good to be true. It is true, but there are definite caveats. The main one being the RTX 4060 at its heart is only running at a max 45 W TGP. That's about the minimum for that GPU (they can go up to 115 W) and that means it's not going to perform like other RTX 4060 machines.
But the magic of DLSS and Frame Gen are available to RTX 40-series laptops, and that can definitely help on a 1080p gaming laptop.
It's also worth noting that's about the price of a good handheld gaming PC, but this will be far more powerful, delivering way higher 1080p frame rates, and you get a bigger screen, too. Sweet, eh?
My first Prime Day purchase arrived today, and I'm pretty pleased with this cute little amp. I took my own advice and signed up for the 30-day free Prime trial just so I could order this Fosi Audio BT20A Pro, because it was down to $80 on Amazon for members, and it arrived in the post this afternoon.
I've used it to resurrect the two floor-standing speakers I've been meaning to get setup again since we moved into our new house. That was just before the birth of my second son. Four years ago. They've been sat gathering dust since then and that is actually what killed my original NAD amplifier. It was as old as me, but stood the test of time, until it didn't. Something catastrophic has gone wrong inside where the speaker wire for the left channel sets on fire when you turn it on.
Even I know that's not good.
But this little Bluetooth/phono amp has got those speakers back up and running without a hint of smoke, and I can plug in my record player as well as hook in wirelessly through Tidal. I'm calling that a Prime Day win.
- Asus ROG Strix G16 | $1,610 at Best Buy
- MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,625 at Best Buy
There are a pair of really good RTX 5070 Ti machines still on offer in the Prime Day gaming laptop deals arena, and I've had my hands on versions of both of them in recent times.
In fact, I really liked the MSI, and I've not been a huge fan of its gaming laptops in recent times. The RTX 5080-powered MSI Vector 16 HX AI I've tested has gone into our best gaming laptop guide as the best mid-ranger, where I called it: "A classic gaming laptop, that makes up for its lack of battery performance or pencil-thin chassis design with serious gaming frame rates even outside of its cacophonous Extreme Performance mode."
The ROG Strix G16 is one that's sat on my desk being tested at the moment, and I think it's definitely up there with the MSI.
With both of these RTX 5070 Ti powered machines down around the $1,600 level, they each represent a great choice for a new gaming laptop. And I reckon you'll be happy whichever one you picked.
The best budget liquid chip chiller has just gotten a whole 10% more budget in the Prime Day sales. Check it out, for under $90 you can get a proper 360 mm all-in-one CPU cooler. It delivers an impressive level of cooling for that price, too, easily matching, and generally dropping below the CPU temperatures we've measured from other coolers on the same Intel Core i7 14700K chip.
If you're after a cooling upgrade in the summer heat, this is a great place to start.
Razer has literally just announced the DeathAdder V4 Pro, a super lightweight, accurate gaming mouse that is a solid upgrade to the already excellent DeathAdder V3 Pro. And, to celebrate I guess, that older mouse is now available for its lowest every price.
I've got the wee white version 👆 you can check it out up there next to the new V4 Pro, and the look more or less identical. I will say, the new mouse does feel nicer, is lighter, has a better, lower latency wireless sensor, and a longer battery life. But really those things aren't really going to be noticeable to anyone outside the rarefied air of esports.
Except maybe the feel of the shell and that super solid scroll wheel... mmm, smooth.
Anyways, the older model is now just $85 at Amazon, while the new model is launching at almost twice that for $170.
Almost perfect is a high bar to reach for a PC controller, especially on that's wired. But that's what Dr. Fox reckoned to the Scuf Valor Pro when he reviewed it recently, and now it's hit the Prime Day sales with a discount down to $85 at Amazon, he is all over it.
1. Best overall: Xbox Wireless Controller
2. Best budget: GameSir Nova Lite
3. Best premium: Xbox Elite Series 2
4. Best customizable: Scuf Instinct Pro
5. Best haptics: Sony DualSense
6. Best Hall effect: Razer Wolverine V3 Pro
🚨DIFFICULT CHOICE ALERT🚨
You know how we can keep getting all excited about how graphics card prices are coming down again as stock normalizes? Yeah, the RTX 5090 is still, even with a Prime Day GPU discount, $2,800 at its cheapest. It is absolutely the most powerful consumer graphics card that you can buy, but it's also the same price as this, a full RTX 5080/Ryzen 9 9900X3D gaming PC.
- Zotac RTX 5090 graphics card | $2,800 @ Newegg
- Skytech Legacy RTX 5080 gaming PC | $2,700 @ Newegg
The new The Witcher book is getting its English translation release September 30 this year, and right now there is a Prime Day discount on the hardcover pre-order, which makes it $25 at Amazon today, with free delivery on October 3.
It's a prequel of sorts; a standalone tale of early Geralt, fresh out of Kaer Morhen, and the hilarious scrapes he ends up in. Okay, probably not hilarious, but more likely grim and violent with a slight philosophical bent.
I've been reliably informed by my Polish friends that it's a grand read, and a worthy entry in the series... of which there are serious discounts on the entire lot. Previously a $90 boxset, you can now get The Complete Witcher Saga in paperback for just $33.30 at Amazon.
Rory has been digging around to find the best Prime Day deals for streamers, and has picked out some great discounts on products to either help you get started creating your own content, or to give your current setup a bit of an affordable upgrade.
Mic deals:
🎙️Razer Seiren V3 Mini | $50 at Amazon (save $10)
🎙️HyperX QuadCast | $79 at Amazon (save $60)
🎙️SteelSeries Alias Pro | $236 at Amazon (save $134)
Webcam deals:
📷Razer Kiyo Pro | $125 at Amazon (save $75)
📷Obsbot Meet 2 | $99 at Amazon (save $30)
📷Obsbot Tiny 2 Lite 4K | $143 at Amazon (save $36)
Accessories:
🎞️Razer Stream Controller | $114 at Amazon (save $31)
🎬Neewer collapsable chromakey backdrops | 37 at Amazon (save $11)
🎮Elgato Game Capture Neo | $120 at Amazon (save $10)
I will say, $700 is still a lot of money to spend on a gaming monitor, but I've long said that if there's one accessory you ought to spend big on, it's your screen. The chances are that, if you've dropped a decent chunk of cash on a new screen, it will last you the life of your current PC and likely still be good enough when you eventually upgrade to a new one.
And I definitely think that way about the 32-inch 4K OLEDs we've got right now, and this MSI version being $699 at Amazon should be mighty tempting. Sure, monitor panel tech has been advancing quicker than I've known in my 20 years of tech journalism, but a good 4K OLED panel of today will still be great tomorrow and for the next few years.
Yes, full-screen brightness could be improved, but I've been using a similar 32-inch 4K QD-OLED display as my go-to gaming monitor at home, and not once have I actually felt it wasn't bright enough. And I love it.
🚨BLOODY BIG OLED MONITOR ALERT🚨
Okay, so 57-inch is the real big boi of gaming monitors, but trust me, 49-inches is still pretty damned wiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide. And for a certain gamer, having that wraparound experience makes for an incredibly immersive bit of game time, especially for simmers, whether racing or flight or trucking.
Some PC things really don't need to be wireless, such as keyboards, but some, like gaming mice, really do. That wire adds unwanted drag, no matter how much you want to say that your mouse cable tidy does a good job, and if you want to tell me you can notice the latency difference between a good wireless mouse and a wired version I'm going to call you a liar.
That's a long-winded way of me saying, you ought to have a wireless mouse. And, thankfully over Prime Day, there isn't a massive premium to getting a good wireless gaming rodent, with the Logitech G305, our favorite budget wireless mouse, getting a heavy discount down to just $28 at Amazon. And in the funky colorways, too.
1. Best wireless: Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed
2. Best wired: Logitech G502 X
3. Best budget wireless: Logitech G305 Lightspeed
4. Best budget wired: Logitech G203 Lightsync
5. Best lightweight: Turtle Beach Burst II Air
6. Best MMO: Razer Naga Pro
7. Best compact: Razer Cobra Pro
8. Best ambidextrous: Logitech G Pro
9. Best ergonomic: Keychron M5
I love the fact that this Alienware 34-inch OLED gaming monitor is still on sale for $550 over at Amazon this week. That makes it half the price that it originally launched for; and we really liked it as a gaming monitor back then. In fact, this specific version—the one with the glossy panel—was our pick as the best gaming monitor for an age, and is still the best value ultrawide OLED you can buy.
1. Best overall: MSI MPG 321URX QD-OLED
2. Best 1440p: MSI MPG 271QRX
3. Best ultrawide: Asus ROG Swift OLED PG34WCDM
4. Best 32:9 ratio: Samsung Odyssey OLED G9
5. Best budget ultrawide: Alienware 34 QD-OLED AW3423DWF
6. Best WOLED: LG UltraGear 32GS95UE
7. Best 27-inch: Alienware 27 AW2725Q
Dr. Fox has been working the angles on the best Prime Day gaming PC deals all week long, and in fact well beforehand, too. And has come to the somewhat surprising conclusion that actually Amazon's Prime Day PC deals mostly suck. There's actually only one of Jeff's deals that he would actually recommend you buy; everything else is from Newegg.
Good ol' Newegg, coming to PC gamers' rescue.
- Yawyore gaming PC | Ryzen 5 5600GT - $420 @ Newegg (save $400)
- Cobratype Canebrake Elite | RX 9060 XT - $850 @ Newegg (save $250)
- CyberPowerPC Gamer Xtreme | RTX 5060 Ti - $1,156 @ Amazon (save $204)
- Skytech Azure | RTX 5070 - $1,350 @ Newegg (save $750)
- ABS Eurus Ruby | RX 9070 XT - $1,782 @ Newegg (save $518 with code ABS10FTT)
- Zotac Mek | RTX 5080 - $2,349 at Newegg (save $950)
- Skytech Legacy | RTX 5090 - $4,700 @ Newegg (save $1,500)
Why don't we kick off with my favorite deals from the past week that are still live?
- SSD:
Crucial P310 2280 | 2 TB | $100 at Amazon (save $29.20) - Gaming chair:
Corsair TC100 Relaxed | $147 at Amazon (save $80) - Gaming laptop:
Razer Blade 14 (2025) | RTX 5070 | $2,300 at Razer (save $400) - Gaming monitor:
ASRock Phantom PG27Q15R2A | 1440p | 165 Hz | $138 at Newegg (save $72) - Gaming PC:
ABS Cyclone Aqua | RTX 5060 | $900 at Newegg (save $200 with code ABS10FTT) - Gaming Mouse:
Razer DeathAdder V3 HyperSpeed | Wireless | $76 at Amazon (save $24) - Gaming keyboard:
Keychron K2 HE | 75% | Hall effect |$104 at Best Buy (save $26) - Gaming headset:
HyperX Cloud Alpha | Closed-back | Wired | $70 at Amazon (save $30)
Good morning people. We're into Day 3, I'm dosed up with caffeine straight into my eyeballs, I'm wide awake and ready to bring the deals. Get prepped to be bombarded with the best deals my tech-hoarding brain can find.
🚨RTX 5080 LAPTOP FOR $1,768... BEAR WITH US ON THIS ONE🚨
This is a somewhat tricky one to get around, but if you go through some digital gymnastics you can configure this HP Omen Max 16 gaming laptop so that it comes down to just $1,767 at HP's own store.
Jeremy explains the process here if you want the full details, but basically if you pick the lower-spec Core Ultra 7 CPU option and the standard 1 TB SSD, you can hit the LEVELUP20 discount code and bag a bargain.
We want to know what are you guys are buying this Prime Day? I've put together a wee list of what some of the PC Gamer team have in their virtual baskets this week—the image above is a hint—so what about you?
🚨STORY TIME🚨
Let me tell you about a time where a gaming peripheral saved my life. I was driving out of the rural idyl that is the city of Bath in England, on my way to a thoroughly middle-class spa day as a treat for her birthday.
It was late September, the leaves had started to fall, and the road was slippy. Real slippy. I wasn't even going that fast and yet on one corner of a tightly winding country road I lost traction and, were it not for many a long night racing around the digital world of Assetto Corsa, we would have ended up either in a ditch or in oncoming traffic.
The reason we didn't is because of the power of force feedback in modern PC racing wheels. The response you can get in modern wheels is incredible, and incredibly accurate.
There are few actual simulations that recreate the actual feeling of a real-world experience as racing sims. And as I'd been racing around with a Logitech G29 wheel in the comfort of my own home, I knew what it felt like when my wheels lost traction and I started to slide... and, more importantly, I knew instinctively how to react and counter it safely because I'd done so many times in the virtual world.
So, with a flick of the wheel and a judicious bit of throttle to set me back on the right course, I righted the spin without even really thinking. Except I was thinking a lot afterwards. Thinking about how lucky I was to be a PC gamer.
And you can practice life-saving manoeuvres yourself this Prime Day with a couple of great li'l racing wheel deals
🚨THE FORCE IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE🚨
And just like that, Robin's made me want to go spend $100 on a Star Wars tabletop game. The lure of a small-scale skirmish game, using iconic Star Wars characters speaks to me on a very intimate level, as does the prospect of getting back into painting miniatures again.
Will my ageing eyeballs cope, however?
These are not things you have to ponder, just take a look at Star Wars Shatterpoint and Robin's engaging write up about what makes it such a compelling table top bash.
We're only on Prime Day 2 and I think Andy might have already lost the plot. If you want to see what happens to a writer who's been dealing hard all week, just take a look at his roundup of some great Prime Day gaming headset deals. It's strong stuff.
Anyways, he's picked out some ace cans though...
- Razer BlackShark V2 X | $36 at Amazon
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 1P | $40 at Amazon
- SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X | $100 at Amazon
- Asus ROG Pelta | $105 at Amazon
- SteelSeries Arctis GameBuds | $150 at Best Buy
With a name like BeQuiet! you'd hope that it could create a properly quiet mechanical gaming keyboard, and thanks to its acquisition of keeb specialist Mountain a while back, it has now created the best silent gaming keyboard.
I've been using Mountain keyboards for years, and our Jess has taken a real shine to Light Mount, the first fruits of its existence as a BeQuiet! property. The Light Mount is beautiful to type on, looks pretty smart and even has a 3D media knob, because those things matter.
If you just want a whole load of storage at dead-on $0.05 per GB, then the Crucial P310 4 TB drive is absolutely unmatched in terms of price.
🚨Under $0.05 per GB for these SSDs🚨
Both of these 2 TB SSDs are available for less than $0.05 per GB right now thanks to the Prime Day SSD sale, and will deliver both great storage performance as well as a whole lot of space to drop your games library.
The Crucial P310, however, would be my pick of the two, thanks to its far higher sequential performance out of the box. We gave the 1 TB version a score of 83% when we reviewed it a few months ago, citing its speed and aggressive pricing as the biggest boon to it.
And that pricing has only gotten more aggressive this Prime Day.
Our issue with the 1 TB drive, however, was that TLC drives of that size are pretty similar in price, and they have higher endurance and sustained performance compared with the QLC memory the P310 uses. At higher capacities, however, that's not necessarily the case.
Back to graphics cards for a second, and our Nick has been continually trawling the Prime Day GPU deals, and has uncovered more cards that are on sale today for either their MSRP or—unbelievably—under it.
I know, what a time to be alive, right? Sarcasm aside, it's still good to see both stock and prices normalizing on the most important component in a gaming PC.
- GeForce RTX 5070 | $550 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | $430 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB | $370 @ Best Buy
- GeForce RTX 5060 | $300 @ Best Buy
- Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB | $280 @ B&H Photo
It's our pick for the best budget VR headset, and it's just hit its lowest ever price. This 128 GB version of the Meta Quest 3S is now a bit of a bargain for just $249 at Amazon. Not only is it a decent standalone bit of virtual reality kit, it's also a great entry point into PC VR.
You just need to either wirelessly connect it or cable it into your PC and SteamVR will take over the rest. Time for that sweet liquid shader time and headcrab-dodging in Half-Life: ALYX. For me, still the best VR experience you can have.
Boy oh boy, an Nvidia graphics card at MSRP! Yeah, this one isn't under the original launch price, but it is at least down below that $600 (or worse) price tag the RTX 5070 has been labouring under recently.
I wasn't a big fan of the RTX Blackwell GPU (well, apart from just how cute the Founders Edition is), and in my RTX 5070 review I criticised it for the inevitable pricing and the fact it was slower and equivalently priced to the Radeon RX 9070.
I've slightly softened on it now that it's at MSRP and the RX 9070 is $600 at its cheapest
🚨GPU UNDER MSRP ALERT!🚨
Finally, finally, we're seeing graphics cards under MSRP in the US. It's taken a while but there are genuinely new generation GPUs from both AMD and Nvidia that aren't price gouged to within an inch of their lives.
Okay, so this is the 8 GB version of the Radeon RX 9060 XT, but it's popped under its $300 price for the first time, and at $280 that makes it a great budget GPU. At that level you can kinda forgive it for not delivering more video memory, and it will still be a fantastic 1080p slice of gaming silicon.
And with some judicious use of FSR and frame generation, you'll get some mighty impressive 1440p numbers out of it, too.
An upgrade to my own ickle Razer mic is now at its cheapest price ever. The Razer Seiren V3 Mini is now just $45 at Amazon. A whole bunch of us on team already use the original Seiren Mini, and this is an upgrade in every way, and without a big price spike.
And the cheapest version is pink. Win.
🚨REALLY GOOD GAMING CHAIR UNDER $150 ALERT🚨
Speaking of pretty damned spectacular deals... the Corsair TC100 Relaxed, our pick as the best budget gaming chair, is now down to under $150 for Prime members. If that's not a reason to activate the 30-day free trial then I don't know what to tell you.
This is my absolute favorite gaming laptop right now. I love the 14-inch form factor anyway, and Razer has absolutely smashed it out of the park with its new slimline chassis making the Blade 14 an stunning device.
It's only really just been launched, and already Razer has slashed $400 off the sticker price at $2,300 at Razer exclusively.
Admittedly, that does make it still the most expensive RTX 5070 gaming laptop around, but it's also the best compact notebook you will find. I've compared it directly to the competing Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 with the RTX 5070 Ti, and I still prefer the Blade 14; it's just a nice all-round experience.
Because, holy hell, the Asus is loud. And it's got this weird dual-tone pitch that is horrible to hear, and the only way to ditch it is to drop the performance of its GPU to the point where it's the same as an RTX 5070 anyways.
For my money, especially with this stellar discount, it's the Blade 14 all day.
Welcome to Day Two of Prime Day. I've woken up with a headache due to caffeine withdrawals and a lack of sleep. But I'm going on, feeling strong and ready to bring you some more sweet, sweet, Prime Day PC gaming deals.
And have I got a doozy for you first thing...
AMD has a habit of supporting its motherboard CPU sockets a lot longer than Intel. And its previous generation socket, the AM4 socket, was around for an eon in component terms. In fact, AMD has just kept pumping out new chips to go into those old motherboards with reckless abandon.
I can only assume it just keeps finding random CPU wafers down the back of Lisa Su's couch and wants to do something with them.
But, eventually, it will be time to move on. I get it, that's a tough thing to do given that a full platform switch is a big wrench, especially as it means doing some pretty invasive surgery on your rig.
It's also rather expensive, too. But thankfully it's Prime Day, which means there are deals on everything you need to upgrade your old PC and get it AM5 ready! Check out Nick's post on what you need, but for a quick reference you can get a seriously good setup for only a little north of $500.
- AMD Ryzen 7 7700X | $227 @ Amazon
- Asus TUF Gaming B650-Plus WiFi | $160 @ Amazon
- TeamGroup T-Create 32 GB DDR5-6000 | $87 @ Amazon
- Cooler Master 240 Core II | $70 @ Amazon
Total = $544
Finding a gaming PC deal this Prime Day that is able to mix both an affordable, reasonable price tag with a component list that isn't going to make you instantly think about what you need to upgrade the instant you pull it out the box is tough.
Thankfully our Dr. Fox has been sifting through all the Prime Day gaming PC deals on offer and has actually found one he would buy. At $1,156 at Amazon this CyberPower gaming PC isn't a budget build, but it's sporting a smart specs list, matching a Core i7 14700K Intel CPU with a 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti graphics card.
We've been big fans of the VRAM-heavy RTX 5060 Ti since it launched, and it will make for an excellent gaming PC, with a little bit of 1440p future-proofing, too. I'd prefer it had 32 GB of DDR5 than the 16 GB it comes with, and the storage will likely be the one thing you do want to upgrade down the line, but it's still a great, effective package right now.
How about something silly? I mean, really silly. How about saving $250 on a large OLED gaming monitor? You're interested now. How about something wide, really wide?
MSI's 49-inch curved ultra-widescreen monitor is a quite frankly ludicrous beast with a unfathomably large amount of screen real estate to play with. Sure, you could go further with one of those 57-inch monsters, but you've got to draw a line somewhere.
Our Jeremy has picked it out of a number of gaming monitor deals from this Prime Day that he says are the best he's ever seen.
He notes that we are talking about a monitor that demands you have the desk space to cope, "but you sidestep all that nonsense with this monitor's perfect per-pixel, ludicrously fast response and excellent viewing angles. Granted, it doesn't offer the fastest refresh out there at 144 Hz. But that's plenty quick enough for fluid gaming. And, anyway, if you're really into esports, a 32:9 aspect ubertron like this isn't going to be on your radar."
I'm a sucker for a Razer mouse. Now, that's not how I've always been; I used to hate their over-designed flair, and used to find them dreadfully uncomfortable. And now I find it's Razer mice I spend most of my time using.
At home, I use the DeathAdder V3 Pro. It's a mighty mouse, but today is just $86 over at Amazon. Yesterday that made it the pick of Razer's Prime Day gaming mouse deals, but things have changed in just 24 hours as The Bezos' deals have begun in earnest.
Now, there are three excellent alternatives for far less than even that bargain price:
- Razer Basilisk V3 | $36 @ Amazon
- Razer Viper V3 HyperSpeed | $54 @ Amazon
- Razer DeathAdder V3 Hyperspeed | $76 at Amazon
Ah, I was wondering if you would show up, Mr. TC100. You are such a relaxed chair, it's even in your name, I'm not surprised you're so late to the party... But I'm glad you're here, because damn it the best gaming chairs are expensive and so we need a budget hero to swoop in and deliver us from the thrall of Secretlab's pricey offerings.
Okay, so the Corsair TC100 Relaxed is not quite the premium gaming chair that Secretlab's Titan Evo is, but then it's also less than half the price, too. And it's still a really well-built seat that will support and keep you comfortable through many a long gaming session and belies its low price.
Even more so now that it's $80 off and just $190 at Amazon.
Dr. Fox has been testing myriad external SSDs over the past year, and has really got his testing down to a fine art. So, when he tells you that a drive is the fastest he's ever tested you really ought to sit up and take notice.
Now, it's not a cheap SSD, but if you want a portable device to use as a portable game drive or to lug around big, important video or photo files, then the SanDisk Extreme Pro is the one for you. The 2 TB version is $238 at Amazon today, which sounds like a lot, but is sporting a near $100 discount.
I don't just make Andy do things that make him sad—such as forcing him to use a dreadful gaming headset for an entire week—I also ask him with things that bring him joy, such as tracking down the best Prime Day mic deals.
He's a trained audio engineer, with a passion for sound, and he just wants to make everyone sound that little bit better. And he's found some great deals already, some as cheap as $50, all the way up to proper streamer-ready XLR setups.
- Razer Seiren V3 Mini | $50 at Amazon
- NZXT Capsule Elite | $70 at Amazon
- HyperX Quadcast | $80 at Amazon
- SteelSeries Alias | $153 at Amazon
- SteelSeries Alias Pro | $236 at Amazon
Our pick as the best webcam of all, and the one which graces the top of my gaming monitor right now, is getting a relatively hefty discount this Prime Day. The Elgato Facecam Mk2 is just $110 over at Amazon today, marking a saving of $30.
At its original price it was still our pick as the outright best, but down at nearly $100 it's a fantastic cam for a great price. Defo worth a pick if you're after a really good 1080p HDR camera.
When I wrote the original Elgato Facecam Mk2 review, this is what I said: "Elgato's second webcam supposedly isn't a sequel to the original Facecam, but it has effortlessly improved on the few problems we had with the MK.1 to deliver an outstanding webcam that deserves to be a hit for streamers and everyone else."
And I still stand by that.
It's been a while since we've been able to say that there are actually a whole bunch of graphics cards that you can buy brand new for less than $300. Such has been the combined scalping, gouging, and scarcity brutality of the GPU market of 2025 that finding a budget graphics card has long been an exercise in frustration.
But no more! Our Nick finds the best prices for every GPU each and every week, so he's been embittered by this frustration as he witnesses it first-hand. But this Prime Day he's managed to find six graphics cards you can buy for under $300.
Though, in reality there's only one that either of us would actually buy. And that's the Radeon RX 9060 XT. Even though it's the 8 GB version, that is still enough video memory for most gaming needs at 1080p, and you've got to make some sort of compromise somewhere. The RDNA 4 GPU at its heart has massively improved its ray tracing performance, so the AMD Radeon cards are more capable of standing toe-to-toe with Nvidia's competing GeForce cards on that front.
- GeForce RTX 5060 | $300 @ Best Buy
- Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB | $300 @ Newegg
- Arc B580 | $290 @ B&H Photo
- Radeon RX 7600 | $275 @ Amazon
- GeForce RTX 5050 | $270 @ Newegg
- Arc B570 | $260 @ Amazon
I waxed lyrical about a curved Gigabyte 1440p monitor for $160 yesterday, and, because it's actually actual Prime Day right now (and tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow... creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time) here's another super-affordable 1440p gaming monitor that's even cheaper!
For just $150 at Amazon this is a full 27-inch IPS display with a 180 Hz refresh rate, and that is a specs list which would have been a $600 gaming monitor a few years ago. How times have changed...
If the Alienware OLED is still a little rich for your blood, then how about this super affordable 32-inch 4K monitor? Sure, it's not strictly a gaming monitor, but it is a decent VA panel, with a 120 Hz refresh rate, and it's a pretty stellar $288 at Amazon right now. That makes it just about the cheapest 4K monitor I've seen, maybe ever.
At 32-inches you get a whole load of screen real estate and it is a big difference to the 27-inch 4K screens you'd otherwise find around the $300 mark. And while you might prefer a higher refresh rate having had your head turned by 240 Hz OLED monitors and 360 Hz 1080p screens, the 120 Hz of the Dell is still going to give you both a smooth desktop and gaming experience.
Now is the time to dust off that Prime membership, or at least grab your free 30-day trial because this is one of the best OLED gaming monitor deals you will find. The Alienware AW3423DWF was our favorite gaming monitor for the longest time; it was the first to really bring OLED panel tech into a genuinely quality place.
And with a Prime membership you're getting this gorgeous screen for $550 at Amazon. That's a $100 discount for now and almost half the original launch price from back when Jeremy wrote his Alienware AW3423DWF review.
The 34-inch screen and 3440 x 1440 resolution meant you were getting more screen real estate than a standard 1440p panel, and at that size your pixel pitch is pretty decent, too. One of the real kickers is that this AW3423DWF version is the one that comes with a glossy screen. In a brightly lit office that's maybe not ideal, but in a normal gaming room it makes the glorious contrast of OLEDs really shine.
Speaking of laptops I like... This Lenovo Legion Pro 7i is our current pick for the best high-performance gaming laptop and is the one I've recently been using to plug into my 4K projector at home for a little big screen FIFA FC24. Yes, I'm a soccer liker, and the Lenovo seems to like it too!
In my Legion Pro 7i review I loved the fact that it had such a configurable settings menu, which allows you to set the GPU and CPU power so that you can get great high frame rates without it sounding like a damned jet turbine. Oh, and that OLED display is stunning.
Oh, and it's also rocking a pretty stellar $700-odd discount from Lenovo direct right now. That makes it $2,897 at Lenovo, and it's an ace laptop for the money.
I've been playing around with the RTX 5070 version of the Asus ROG Strix G16 for the last month, and it's a great, affordable gaming laptop. But the RTX 5070 Ti version, however, is going to deliver even higher frame rates, and it's on a pretty hefty discount for Black Friday in July over at Best Buy. Despite it not actually being a Friday. Whatever.
The Asus Strix G16 is $1,610 at Best Buy with a tangible saving of $390. That makes it the cheapest RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop I've seen so far.
Secretlab makes the best gaming chairs and the best gaming desks, and both are on sale today. Admittedly, they're not up for a spectacular discount, with just the same deal in action as around Memorial Day earlier in the year, but at least you are getting the best with a bigger discount than around Black Friday last year.
- Secretlab Titan Evo | $499 at Secretlab
- Secretlab Magnus Pro | $799 at Secretlab
Good day to you, fellow deal hunters. It's the first day of Prime Day proper and I'm logging on to start the hunt for today's best PC gaming hardware deals just for you. There have already been some fantastic deals leading up to the start of Amazon's event, but more are coming...
The march of progress might leave you breathless when it comes to PC gaming gear, but that does mean the best tech of last year is the budget hardware of today. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the gaming monitor market, where a 27-inch 1440p screen such as this Gigabyte display, would have once been a premium gaming device. With a 165 Hz refresh rate and a curved 2560 x 1440 native resolution, the GS27QC is still a quality, and now impressively affordable gaming monitor in 2025.
After all, most PC gamers are still rocking 1080p panels. C'mon people, at just $160, surely it's time to upgrade?
If you're after a powerful handheld gaming PC because the Steam Deck just doesn't quite have the gaming grunt you're after, then the original Legion Go might be more up your street. Its Ryzen Z1 Extreme processor is a genuine eight-core chip, with a quality Radeon 780M iGPU at its heart.
That gives it a lot of 1080p gaming power, though maybe not quite enough to satisfy the Legion Go's 1600p screen. But after the Legion Go S launched, the original has had a series of discounts to where it's now not much more expensive than the Steam Deck OLED, and it's a superior device.
But it's got Windows, not SteamOS, you may cry. Valve, however, has optimised SteamOS so that it works well with the Lenovo handhelds, so replacing Windows isn't a big deal anymore, and you end up with a big ol' Steam Deck with Switch-like removable controllers. Smart, eh?
It's interesting to me that of all the Prime Day gaming PC deals it's the AMD-powered ones that are the best value. I guess that kinda scans given that Nvidia's GPUs have been incredibly over-priced at retail, but I somehow expected it wouldn't be quite the same for system builders.
Silly me. Either that or those system builders are sniffing some extra profit.
Whatever, it's these three RX 9070 XT systems that we're most keen on here on PC Gamer. Each would make for an excellent gaming PC, though obviously it's that iBuyPower configuration, with the Ryzen 7 9800 X3D that has piqued my interest. I loved both the Radeon GPU and the Ryzen CPU when I reviewed them separately, and together they make quite the pair.
The RX 9070 XT is one of the best mid-range GPUs around, rivalling the RTX 5070 Ti, and the Ryzen 7 9800X3D is the chip powering all the PC Gamer test rigs. And we designed it that way, because they are such good gaming chips.
- Cobratype Pilot | Ryzen 5 9600X | RX 9070 XT |
$2,000$1,590 at Newegg (save $410) - ABS Eurus Ruby | RX 9070 XT | Ryzen 7 7800X3D |
$2,300$1,782 at Newegg (save $518 with code ABS10FTT) - iBuyPower Y40 Pro | Ryzen 7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT |
$2,150$2,000 at Best Buy (save $150)
We hoped there would be RTX 50-series gaming laptops on sale over this week of Prime Day, but did we actually believe it? I'm not so sure. And yet our Andy has done the hard yards trying to track them down, and he's come back with some great deals for each of the latest RTX Blackwell mobile GPUs.
- RTX 5060 - Alienware Aurora 16 | $1,050 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5070 - Asus TUF A16 | $1,400 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $1,750 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $2,300 @ Best Buy
- RTX 5090 - HP Omen Max 16 | $3,000 @ Amazon
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
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.
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.
