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For anyone sitting on a laptop with just a 512 GB SSD inside it, and an endless merry-go-round of game library installing and uninstalling to get your games to fit, here’s an affordable solution: a capacious, speedy 1 TB SSD.
At $75 from Amazon you’re looking at top-end PCIe 4.0 SSD speeds and enough storage to hold a whole bunch of your currently played games. Of course, you could spend a little more for a slightly slower 2 TB drive, such as the Team Group MP44L, if you can spare another $30 for your upgrade budget.
Yes, it’s a little slower, but you’re arguably never going to notice that performance delta, not when you have twice as much space…
I was a big fan of the AMD RX 7800 XT when it first came out. For its $500 sticker price it was delivering the sort of gaming performance that you would have had to pay $650 – $700 for in the previous generation. That, admittedly, is the sort of generational improvement you want, nay, expect, to see but still given some of the pricing shenanigans of the green team in the RTX 40-series it’s not a given.
Now, with the Prime Day/Big Deal Days pricing pressure we’re seeing a healthy chunk chopped off the price of our favorite mid-range graphics card, making it just $430 at Newegg.
That’s a full $100 cheaper than the cheapest RTX 4070 GPU we’ve found for sale, but with broadly similar straight gaming performance. Of course, if you’re into ray-tracing heavy games, such as Cyberpunk 2077 et al, then the RTX 4070 will deliver higher shiny frame rates, but for standard rasterized gaming performance the RX 7800 XT has it down.
Gaming chairs are super expensive, right? Well, yeah, they really are. If you want the best gaming chair, like the Secretlab beast, you’re going to be spending well over $500 on that. But what if there was another way? What if you could buy an outstanding Corsair TC100 Relaxed gaming chair for $220?
That’s where we are here: a really beautifully finished chair, that is super-comfortable and oozes quality, while it doesn’t require you to take out a second mortgage just for the privilege of somewhere to park your butt.
This is my boi. I genuinely love this keyboard and it’s my daily driver in home setup. It’s the best compact gaming keyboard I’ve ever used, and the Mountain-own keyboard switches feel great. I was going to remove all the ones that came in my own unit with a set of Halo True switches from an older board of mine, but the typing experience is already so good I’ve never felt the need to do it.
At the full price I was already into this board, but now it’s just $50 for a full, dampened mechanical 60% keyboard, that has hot swappable switches, it’s an outstanding deal.
It’s an absolutely brilliant keyboard for a genuinely stellar price.
It actually feels weird to be kicking off talk of deals and be leading with a pair of Dell/Alienware systems. Though, to be fair, we do say you should always wait for a big discount before pulling the trigger on an Alienware gaming PC, so this excellent discount on the Aurora R16 really does stand out.
This is the sort of price you could realistically expect to see around an RTX 4070 PC, so the fact that you’re getting a full RTX 4070 Ti Super system for $1,500 is excellent stuff. Yes, Alienware rigs have proprietary parts inside them, but when the discount is this healthy I can happily overlook that here. After all, you’re getting a 1 KW PSU, so you shouldn’t have to replace that anytime soon, either.
I’m kinda disappointed, as a PC gamer of late ’90s and early 2000s, that Alienware machines look very much like pretty standard Dell PCs. They’re just boxes now, so no more shiny curvy Giger-ish chassis from Alienware, though sadly still with proprietary parts inside.
Still, good deal, eh?
But if you are looking to get yourself a whole new system to replace your existing gaming PC then there are some great options available already. This $1,300 Dell G16 is a great price for an RTX 4070 gaming laptop, and offers a ton of tech for the money.Â
Obviously, you get the RTX 4070 GPU itself, offering gaming performance along the same lines as the RTX 3080 from the last generation, but alongside that you have the Core i9 13900HX CPU. That’s a 24-core, 32-thread chip that’s great for multi-threaded creativity performance as well as with enough single-threaded grunt for gaming, too.
One thing to note, however, is that while 16 GB DDR5-4800 is an okay amount of memory for a gaming laptop, it’s notably just a single stick in this build. That will offer half the memory bandwidth of a dual-channel setup, which is a shame. But it’s also worth noting that it’s an easy upgrade, and 32 GB DDR5-4800 in two sticks will cost just $73.
With all those internal gubbins, you also get a lovely 1600p 240 Hz display, too. So yeah, lots of good things, in actually quite a large package.
This is exactly what I mean when I say that it doesn’t need to cost an absolute fortune to create a great gaming setup, and gaming monitors is the perfect case in point. A lot of the talk right now is about the rise of OLED gaming monitors, and sure, they do look stunning, but for a genuinely good one you’re still looking at near $800 at best.
But this 27-inch ASRock is just $157 and offers 2560 x 1440 as the native resolution, with a 165 Hz refresh. For $157. That sort of spec would have been around double that this time last year, which is pretty ludicrous. It’s not some dim wee panel, either, this is a bona fide 550 nits display which will deliver a surprisingly good HDR experience, too.
Well, hi there. Dave here, editor-in-chief on the hardware side of PC Gamer, so let me take you by the hand and lead you through the morass of PC gaming deals over the next few days.
I’m going to be running the rule over all the potential options in a whole host of different categories, and I’ve already picked a few goodies out that I think are great deals right now. So, stay tuned here for my top recommendations.
