Today’s best early Prime Day PC gaming deals
Now, enough preamble. Here are all the best Prime Day deals on PC gaming hardware:
Best SSD and storage deals Best gaming monitor deals Best gaming mouse deals Best gaming keyboard deals Best gaming headset deals Best graphics card deals Best RAM deals Best gaming laptop deals
Best SSD and storage deals
Several of the best SSDs for gaming are going cheap this Prime Day, with some deep cuts to the megafast WD Black SN850 and the stalwart WD Blue SN570. Not to mention deals on the Samsung Pro Plus and SanDisk Ultra: two of the best microSD cards for the Steam Deck.
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Best gaming monitor deals
LG and Samsung have some decent monitor deals going. I’ve long been a fan of LG’s UltraGear IPS displays, like the ones below, as they tend to look and feel faster and more responsive feel than most IPS screens without losing any colour punch.
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Best gaming mouse deals
Good news for those on the tightest of tight budgets, as both the SteelSeries Rival 3 and the Logitech G203 Lightsync (one of our best gaming mouse picks) have dropped below £20. There are more premium alternatives too, including an all-time-low price on the Razer Basilisk V3: my personal choice of desk rat.
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Best gaming keyboard deals
If you missed yesterday’s better-than-half-price sale on the Logitech G915 Lightspeed Wireless, there’s a good consolation price in its TKL variant. More of our best gaming keyboard picks have money off as well, including the optical switched-equipped Razer Huntsman V2 and the spill-resistant SteelSeries Apex 3 TKL.
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Best gaming headset deals
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Best graphics card deals
Since the graphics cards market is still recovering from the longest, most severe period of fucked-uppedness in its history, there aren’t many amazing deals on the latest GPUs. I’ve included a few RTX 30 models as they are, at least, decently priced by current standards, and the reissued RTX 2060 has some offers going as well. It’s still a respectable card for 1080p and some 1440p use, though save your cash if you can wait for something next-gen.
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Best RAM deals
When Prime Day began, there were hardly any appealing deals on CPUs and GPUs, but plenty on RAM. Now it’s switched - a bunch of graphics cards have appeared while the supply of memory deals shrivels up, at least in the UK. US dwellers have a much better selection.
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Best gaming laptop deals
A lot of Prime Day gaming laptop deals focus on older-spec models that retailers just want to shift. Even so, it’s easy enough to find discounted laptops with up-to-date CPUs and graphics processors. Highlights here include the HP Omen 15 and Lenovo Legion 5 creeping under £1000/$1000 respectively, and the RTX 3080 of the slim Razer Blade 14, which has £1000 off the RRP.
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If you’d rather ditch the guides – GEE, THANKS – and search for deals alone, be sure to make use of the search filters down the left side of the screen. Besides letting you hide all the phone stands, shower heads and testosterone supplements that may also be on sale during Prime Day, these will let you manage your budget by only showing items within certain price ranges. You can also filter for how deep the price cuts go, between 10% off and 70% off.
