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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.

2025-07-10T10:11:44.079Z

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)

2025-07-10T09:58:28.614Z

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.

2025-07-09T16:28:37.495Z

🚨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.

2025-07-09T16:21:47.252Z

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?

2025-07-09T15:38:29.015Z

🚨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

2025-07-09T15:06:20.309Z

🚨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.

2025-07-09T13:53:46.304Z

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

2025-07-09T13:17:50.778Z

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.

2025-07-09T12:36:01.971Z

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.

2025-07-09T12:35:00.988Z

🚨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.

2025-07-09T11:35:22.909Z

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

2025-07-09T11:12:50.468Z

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.

2025-07-09T10:55:56.906Z

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

2025-07-09T10:50:11.189Z

🚨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.

2025-07-09T09:57:53.429Z

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.

2025-07-09T09:30:53.238Z

🚨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.

2025-07-09T09:21:47.085Z

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.

2025-07-09T09:11:36.422Z

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…

2025-07-08T16:43:47.826Z

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

2025-07-08T16:17:35.228Z

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.

2025-07-08T15:55:28.977Z

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.”

2025-07-08T15:47:48.988Z

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

2025-07-08T15:12:06.436Z

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.

2025-07-08T14:05:24.701Z

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.

2025-07-08T13:56:18.824Z

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

2025-07-08T12:48:22.964Z

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.

2025-07-08T12:29:12.020Z

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

2025-07-08T11:45:40.633Z

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…

2025-07-08T10:46:59.698Z

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.

2025-07-08T10:02:37.253Z

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.

2025-07-08T09:31:26.503Z

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.

2025-07-08T09:22:49.939Z

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.

2025-07-08T07:11:17.421Z

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

2025-07-08T07:08:10.497Z

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…

2025-07-07T22:15:27.207Z

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?

2025-07-07T20:25:06.626Z

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?

2025-07-07T19:45:52.457Z

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)

2025-07-07T15:37:41.497Z

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

2025-07-07T15:19:10.069Z

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.

2025-07-07T15:03:51.228Z

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.

2025-07-07T14:48:30.599Z

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

2025-07-07T14:26:12.663Z

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

2025-07-07T13:06:31.841Z

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.

2025-07-07T12:29:41.032Z

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

2025-07-07T12:07:12.745Z

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.”

2025-07-07T11:46:47.021Z

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.“

2025-07-07T09:02:11.035Z

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.