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Primed by Amazon's Big Spring Sale, this is the first big deals event of the year, and while the Spring Sales have rarely been a time we'd get too excited about seeing mega discounts in the past, at a time when PC gaming hardware prices have only been going one way any chance to get some money off a new rig, graphics card, or peripheral can only be a good thing.
And that's why sales times in 2026 could be a time for anyone looking to upgrade their gaming PC or gaming setup to sit up and take notice. We've been constantly on the hunt for deals on the best hardware, and while prices have been rising thanks to the damned RAMpocalypse we've still been able to find some diamonds in the rough.
It's worth noting that not all PC gaming hardware is prohibitively expensive. You can find great deals on the best CPUs, the best gaming chairs are on discount again, and it has genuinely never been a better time to be in the market for one of the best gaming monitors. We've already found some good deals out there, and I'll be keeping this page updated with the best prices on the best PC gaming hardware around.
As a 21-year veteran, Dave's been doing the PC hardware dance since way back in 2005, and building gaming PCs since the '90s. You know, when it was difficult. In his time he's tested every type of PC component, peripheral, and accessory you can imagine, and probably some you can't. That makes him perfectly placed to recommend the best deals, and the ones you need to steer clear of this Black Friday.
Spring Sale deals - quick links
- Amazon: big Spring Sale with up to 40% off
- Newegg: the Super Spring Sale is on right now
- Best Buy: all today's top deals
- Secretlab: the best chairs and desks and WoW skins. Really
- Dell: up to $1000 off Alienware gaming machines
- Walmart: deals on pretty much everything, even PCs
- B&H Photo: discounts on a wide range of gaming goodies
Nvidia GeForce-powered gaming PCs
- RTX 5060 - MSI Codex | $999 @ B&H Photo
- RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB - CyberPower PC Gamer Master | $1,160 @ BH Photo
- RTX 5070 - Skytech Azure 3 Plus | $1,500 @ Amazon
- RTX 5070 Ti - Lenovo Legion Tower 5i | $1,850 @ B&H
- RTX 5080 - HP Omen 35L | $2,280 @ Newegg
- RTX 5090 - Yeyian Mirage | $5,300 @ Newegg
AMD Radeon-powered gaming PCs
- RX 9060 XT 8 GB - SkyTech Shadow | $1,200 @ Walmart
- RX 9060 XT 16 GB - ABS Cyclone Ruby | $1,300 @ Newegg
- RX 9070 XT - CyberPowerPC gaming PC | $1,750 @ Newegg
Gaming laptop deals
💻 RTX 5060 - Lenovo LOQ 15 | $1,000 @ Best Buy
💻 RTX 5070 - Acer Nitro V16 S | $1,250 @ Newegg
💻 RTX 5070 Ti - MSI Vector 16 HX | $1,550 @ Newegg
💻 RTX 5080 - MSI Vector 16 HX AI | $2,099 @ Newegg
Graphics card deals
🕹️ RTX 5080: $1,290 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5070 Ti: $950 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5070: $640 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB: $570 @ Amazon
🕹️ RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB: $360 @ Best Buy
🕹️ RTX 5060: $349 @ Walmart
🕹️ RTX 5050: $290 @ Amazon
🕹️ RX 9070 XT: $730 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9070: $630 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 16 GB: $440 @ Newegg
🕹️ RX 9060 XT 8 GB: $340 @ Walmart
🕹️ Arc B580: $300 @ Amazon
🕹️ Arc B570: $250 @ Amazon
Gaming monitor deals
📺 1080p: Asus 1080p 24-inch | $90 @ Newegg
📺 1440p: ASRock 27-inch 1080p 180 Hz | $130 @ Amazon
📺 4K: MSI MAG 275UPD (dual mode) | $310 @ Newegg
📺 Ultrawide: LG 34-inch UltraGear| $270 @ LG
📺 OLED: Acer Predator 27-inch 280 Hz | $400 @ Newegg
Hottest Spring Sale deals
PC Gamer's favorite kit
1. Best gaming laptop: Razer Blade 16
2. Best gaming PC: HP Omen 35L
3. Best handheld gaming PC: Lenovo Legion Go S SteamOS ed.
4. Best mini PC: Minisforum AtomMan G7 PT
5. Best VR headset: Meta Quest 3
1. Best gaming chair: Secretlab Titan Evo
2. Best gaming desk: Secretlab Magnus Pro XL
3. Best gaming headset: Razer BlackShark V3
4. Best gaming keyboard: Asus ROG Strix Scope II 96 Wireless
5. Best gaming mouse: Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro
6. Best PC controller: GameSir G7 Pro
7. Best steering wheel: Logitech G Pro Racing Wheel
8. Best microphone: Shure MV6 USB Gaming Microphone
9. Best webcam: Elgato Facecam MK.2
1. Best CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D
2. Best motherboard: MSI MAG X870 Tomahawk WiFi
3. Best RAM: G.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32 GB DDR5-7200
4. Best SSD: WD_Black SN7100
5. Best graphics card: AMD Radeon RX 9070
Live updates
First off we have a wee exclusive for Future folk. If you want to get yourself a good VPN for not much cash, NordVPN is offering up to 77% off a 2-year VPN subscription, with an extra four months added in gratis, and an Amazon gift card. To spend on more Spring Sale stuff, obvs.
That means you're getting 28 months of VPN coverage for $2.91 per month.
This Newegg bundle is a great starting point if you're looking to do a budget DIY build in this time where most of us thought that was going to be impossible. You're getting our current pick as the best budget CPU, the Ryzen 5 5500 (can't be beat for the money), as well as a motherboard and 16 GB of DDR4 memory. Yes, it's resolutley last-gen stuff, but it will absolutely do a job, especially when it's just $277 at Newegg right now.
The only sticking point for this is that you obviously still have to find all the rest of the components to build out the machine. But if you've got a case, hard drive or SSD from a previous system, you could be on to a good thing, here. Though if you're having to find some storage that is where this build does come unstuck against the pre-bult PC deals out there...
This is the rig which does somewhat make a mockery of the Newegg bundle below. Sure, if you've got existing hardware from a previous build you can make use of with the CPU, mobo, and RAM bundle, then happy days. But if you're going completely from scratch you are not going to be able to build a full, comparable PC, for under $900.
That's where the Zotac Mek comes in, sitting at a penny under $900 at Newegg right now.
A friend of mine recently purchased one of these keebs and was so enamoured with it that he had to show it off to me the last time I went around to his house. And quite right too, because this thing, while not really a gaming keyboard is a truly lovely keyboard. And comes with adjustable Hall effect switches which kinda does make it a gaming keyboard.
But it feels great to type on, and is a fantastically well-built keeb.
If you fancy completing the look with that Zotac Mek gaming PC down there, we've got some great deals on a host of budget PC gaming kit that will upgrade your setup for an impressively small sum.
iBuyPower is having a Spring Cleaning Clearance sale over this coming week, with discounts on its lineup of RDY prebuilt gaming PCs. Of course, if it really needs help clearing space in its warehouses, I'm there are a bunch of PC gamers out there only too willing to help... free on collection, yeah?
Sadly, until it really needs to clear out that space, iBuyPower is offering up to $200 off its prebuilt PCs with the code 'CLEARANCE'.
Ooh, I do like me an AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. With the possible exception of the X1950 XT, it's my favorite Radeon card I've ever tested. And it is considerably more powerful than that venerable GPU. And when it comes packed into a gaming PC for such a relatively reasonable price (I mean, it is still a lot of money), then I'm even more sold on it.
The ABS Stratos Ruby has a 10% extra discount code on it right now, which means it's just $1,665 at Newegg before tax.
Considering that it's capable of around the same levels of gaming performance as the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, especially when undervolted, this is a great price for a serious gaming rig. The cheapest RTX 5070 Ti machine we've found so far is some $1,850.
Our Nick goes through graphics card prices ever Thursday to deliver the best graphics card deals around and we've been using those efforts to track the historical pricing since the summer of last year. You can see here how the pricing of all the GPUs spiked around the end of last year, but have reasonably plateaued in the past six weeks.
To a higher level, obviously, but at the moment it looks like things are realtively stable in graphics card land. Prices aren't going down, but at least they're not going super stratospheric.
GPU pricing data
Tracking the lowest price for each GPU from 14 August 2025 to 26 March 2026
| Timestamp (Week) | AMD RX 9060 XT 16 GB (Price ($)) | AMD RX 9060 XT 8 GB (Price ($)) | AMD RX 9070 (Price ($)) | AMD RX 9070 XT (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5050 (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5060 (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5070 (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti (Price ($)) | Nvidia RTX 5080 (Price ($)) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 370 | 280 | 600 | 700 | 250 | 300 | 430 | 368 | 550 | 780 | 1100 |
| 2 | 370 | 270 | 600 | 700 | 250 | 300 | 430 | 340 | 550 | 750 | 1099 |
| 3 | 370 | 280 | 550 | 700 | 250 | 291 | 430 | 370 | 524 | 750 | 1000 |
| 4 | 370 | 280 | 550 | 695 | 250 | 296 | 430 | 345 | 546 | 750 | 1000 |
| 5 | 350 | 270 | 600 | 670 | 250 | 300 | 430 | 340 | 481 | 749 | 1000 |
| 6 | 350 | 270 | 600 | 670 | 240 | 289 | 379 | 340 | 499 | 749 | 929 |
| 7 | 350 | 270 | 550 | 650 | 240 | 299 | 430 | 350 | 520 | 750 | 999 |
| 8 | 350 | 270 | 550 | 650 | 250 | 299 | 430 | 342 | 500 | 749 | 980 |
| 9 | 350 | 270 | 560 | 650 | 250 | 299 | 430 | 323 | 500 | 750 | 999 |
| 10 | 360 | 270 | 550 | 600 | 250 | 299 | 430 | 340 | 480 | 730 | 989 |
| 11 | 340 | 250 | 550 | 600 | 230 | 280 | 400 | 320 | 489 | 699 | 990 |
| 12 | 350 | 275 | 530 | 600 | 220 | 279 | 400 | 320 | 500 | 730 | 989 |
| 13 | 350 | 280 | 530 | 600 | 220 | 279 | 420 | 342 | 527 | 750 | 1000 |
| 14 | 370 | 280 | 530 | 600 | 220 | 279 | 420 | 313 | 540 | 750 | 1000 |
| 15 | 380 | 288 | 530 | 600 | 200 | 279 | 430 | 350 | 499 | 749 | 1000 |
| 16 | 380 | 288 | 530 | 620 | 200 | 270 | 430 | 350 | 499 | 750 | 1100 |
| 17 | 390 | 310 | 580 | 660 | 235 | 260 | 430 | 330 | 549 | 750 | 1230 |
| 18 | 390 | 310 | 580 | 700 | 240 | 290 | 450 | 330 | 540 | 829 | 1268 |
| 19 | 400 | 310 | 580 | 720 | 240 | 299 | 450 | 330 | 549 | 899 | 1380 |
| 20 | 440 | 310 | 600 | 720 | 240 | 299 | 520 | 330 | 620 | 1000 | 1350 |
| 21 | 440 | 350 | 590 | 730 | 260 | 299 | 520 | 351 | 620 | 950 | 1365 |
| 22 | 400 | 346 | 630 | 730 | 260 | 299 | 520 | 360 | 620 | 950 | 1365 |
| 23 | 440 | 346 | 630 | 730 | 260 | 340 | 520 | 360 | 630 | 950 | 1290 |
| 24 | 440 | 346 | 620 | 730 | 260 | 340 | 520 | 360 | 625 | 950 | 1290 |
| 25 | 440 | 346 | 610 | 730 | 260 | 349 | 550 | 360 | 630 | 950 | 1250 |
| 26 | 440 | 340 | 610 | 730 | 290 | 349 | 550 | 360 | 604 | 950 | 1260 |
| 27 | 440 | 340 | 630 | 730 | 290 | 349 | 570 | 360 | 640 | 950 | 1290 |
Cyberpunk 2077 - VRAM usage and performance
In-game testing, Ultra RT settings
| Product | Value |
|---|---|
| RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB | 84 Avg FPS, 56 1% Low FPS, 9.28 Avg. VRAM |
| RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB | 78 Avg FPS, 42 1% Low FPS, 7.44 Avg. VRAM |
| RX 9060XT 16 GB | 86 Avg FPS, 68 1% Low FPS, 10.67 Avg. VRAM |
| RX 9060 XT 8 GB | 68 Avg FPS, 36 1% Low FPS, 7.69 Avg. VRAM |
Of all the graphics cards on offer at the moment, for my money, I would probably only be looking at these two realistically. The RTX 5060 Ti for $360 at Best Buy will deliver great performance at 1440p levels in even the most challenging games. I know some of you will tap the '8 GB isn't enough for gaming' sign, but I'm here to tell you, we've done the hard yards on that.
Andy did a ton of testing with the 8 and 16 GB versions of both the RTX 5060 Ti and the RX 9060 XT, from Nvidia and AMD respectively, to see whether gaming on 8 GB VRAM was okay in 2026 and just how much doubling the memory got you.
On the one hand, the performance gained with those 16 GB cards is rather surprising, but equally his testing shows that you can absolutely still get a great gaming performance out of the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB in pretty much any game you fling its way. There will always be edge cases, and ways you can force the card to its knees, but in any standard gaming situation you should be fine.
Interestingly, the Nvidia 8 GB card fared a lot better than AMD's, and while the RX 9060 XT 8 GB is $20 cheaper than the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, the extra performance is worth the money.
If you're looking for something more high-end I would suggest either the RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT. To be honest, the XT is looking a bit too pricey for me right now, but the RX 9070 is able to deliver very similar gaming performance, and has a ton of undervolting potential baked into it, too. And, for $630 it's not an awful price, though is still nearly $100 above MSRP.
Want a tasty OLED gaming monitor? Of course you do. It's one of the most impactful upgrades you can make to your PC gaming setup, and will deliver whether you're gaming, watching videos, or generally doing anything with your PC.
And at $385 at Amazon in the Spring Sale, this 240 Hz MSI 1440p OLED is a great price right now. Not so long back that was the price of a 27-inch 165 Hz IPS gaming monitor, and this is waaaay better,.
It's the Amazon Spring Sale, so of course there are spring cleaning products on sale right now, like this Wolfbox MF50 air duster for $36 at Amazon right now. With a 110,000 RPM motor this thing sure does push some air, so if you want to clean out your keyboard or blast out the vents and filters on your PC case, this will absolutely do the job.
Kicking off my Friday with a gaming PC which may be rolling back the years in terms of the CPU and RAM generations, but the six-core, 12-thread Raptor Lake processor still has the gaming chops to keep the Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU filled with data to keep frame rates rolling on. And the fact you're getting 32 GB of DDR4 more than makes up for the fact this budget gaming PC—which is just $855 at Newegg today—is running a memory system which is one generation old. For gaming, that matters little in all honesty.
There's no getting away from it, even though AMD recently released the Ryzen 7 9850X3D to be the defacto best processor for gaming, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D still hold the best gaming CPU crown for us. And this latest deal, dropping it to Amazon's lowest price of $420, only cements that position.
There are cheaper CPUs that will offer way better multi-threading and productivity chops, notably the new Intel chips, but if you're talking about pure gaming performance the 3D V-Cache technology inside this mighty silicon is what you should covet for your PC.
Don't get me wrong, it absolutely blows that this is the price of 2 TB SSDs in 2026. Back in November last year you could pick up these drives—even the PCIe 5.0 version—for more than $100 off the current price. But we are not in November 2025 anymore, Toto, these are different times, and even if Micron's stock is going through one mother of a correction, memory and SSDs are still hella pricey.
So, if you want a 2 TB drive for your rig, then these are probably the best value options we'd recommend.
Just a quick reminder we have an exclusive Nord VPN deal available right now. You get a free extra four months of cover as well as an Amazon gift card. Fancy, eh?
If you've been after a new monitor but don't want to go either ultrawide or 4K, and the price of OLEDs is still bringing the bile to the back of your throat, then this KTC H27T22C-3 screen is a great option. This 27-inch gaming monitor is just $151 at Amazon right now.
Honestly, it ticks all my boxes for an affordable 1440p gaming monitor, and we gave it a heady 82% score when we reviewed it last summer. It's bright, punchy, rapid, and responsive. It's pretty much all the 1440p screen you could want without going OLED.
There aren't a lot of good graphics card deals around right now. Pretty much everything is well above MSRP, and even the cards that are worth a look still cost more than you'd like this far into their lives. But Newegg is at least doing its best with the bundles it's offering. Whether that's CPUs, motherboards, and RAM at a discount, or SSDs getting wrapped up with other component sales, there are some good options out there.
Take this MSI RTX 5070 with free 750 W PSU offer for $650 at Newegg. That's not the best price for an RTX 5070 you'll find—there's another MSI RTX 5070 for $10 less at Best Buy—but given the fact you're getting a free power supply with it does make it far more tempting. Well, if you need a new PSU, anyways.
And if you are upgrading, it's quite likely you might need a new power supply to bolster your rig. With the PSU retailing for around $99, that drops the relative price of this GPU to almost sensible levels.
