Live now: the best Prime Day gaming laptop, PC, GPU, and monitor deals still around today
As we count down to the end of Amazon Prime Day, we're live blogging all the best PC gaming deals you can still buy today.
Is Samsung's QD-OLED tech the ultimate in PC gaming screen tech? That's a tricky one. We certainly prefer Samsung OLED panels to LG's competing tech for PC usage. But then there are still things which old school LCD monitors do better. Like resolution and pixel density.
Anywho, if Samsung QD-OLED panels currently make for the best PC OLED monitors, then the good news is that Alienware's QD-OLED screen just got cheaper. Yup, you can now grab the Alienware 34 AW3423DWF for $899 at Dell. It's our pick as the best gaming monitor, not just the best OLED, either.
Lenovo has been making a real name for itself in this latest generation and the Legion Pro 7i is the best Prime Day gaming laptop deal I've seen so far. This is an immensely powerful RTX 4080-based notebook discounted to $2,249 at B&H Photo right now.
It was $50 cheaper earlier in the sale, but that's still a saving of $500 on a machine that we're happily calling the best gaming laptop right now. And it's not some miserly spec, either. Of course you get the Nvidia RTX 4080 graphics silicon inside it, which is mighty powerful in its own right, with DLSS 3 support and Frame Generation adding free frames per second in games that run it. But you also get the 24-core, 32-thread Intel Core i9 13900HX CPU inside it, 32GB of DDR5 memory, and a 1TB NVMe SSD.
What do you call it when our current best value gaming laptop gets a deep discount? That's not the setup for a joke, I'm actually asking. Hyper-affordable? Ultra-value? Whatever name you'd give it, it applies to the Gigabyte G5, which you can currently snag for well under a grand in this year's crop of Prime Day gaming laptop deals.
If your Steam Deck is already starting to sweat at your game choices, it may be time for an upgrade. There are two great Prime Day SSD deals on Sabrent drives that come in the small factor NVMe your Steam Deck requires. Both are faster than the Steam Deck's standard SSD, and the 1TB option is larger than the built-in storage space on even the largest Deck model for just $109.
If you've got one of the lower capacity Steam Decks with a current 64GB or 256GB drive, then you can get a storage and speed upgrade by grabbing the 512GB Sabrent Rocket 2230 for a modest $15 discount to $75. If you pay a bit more, you can bag the 1TB drive for just $109 which is a pretty steep 60% off its typical price.
There's a new version of the BlackShark V2 Pro (2023 Edition), which is great and all, but the original still has the same excellent sound quality, wireless ease of use and lightning fast connection, but is now half the price. If it were my money, I'd still be buying the classic BlackShark V2 Pro.
In fact, I'm still regularly rocking my own set at home right now.
I know I shouldn't be sitting here recommending you buy an RTX 3060 gaming laptop in 2023, not when you can get faster RTX 4060 machines for less than $1,000. But if I was looking for a great budget Prime Day gaming laptop deal I'd be sorely tempted by this Asus ROG Zephyrus G14 for just $800 at Best Buy.
It's not sporting the latest in either AMD Ryzen processor stock or Nvidia graphics card silicon, but the Asus design is so damned good that I can absolutely forgive those slight performance sacrifices. And it's probably the one I'd spend my own money on.
At this point SSD pricing is dropping so fast it's almost tempting to just sit back and wait for the manufacturers to just start giving them away. Almost. But when you can grab one of the fastest 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSDs for just $60—or a 2TB version for only $30 more—then it makes sense to just pull the trigger today.
Oh, and if you were thinking maybe you'd hold out for a PCIe 5.0 SSD instead, well... don't. They will make no material difference to your PC gaming experience except for potentially making your system a whole lot hotter.
The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is a good graphics card but one that's been mostly overshadowed by the both the RX 7900 XTX and RTX 4070 Ti. That said, with a good enough deal it's right back into contention, and that's exactly what we've got for you today. This stunning AMD graphics card deal does a lot to bring this graphics card out of the shadows and into the spotlight.
You can pick up ASRock's RX 7900 XT Phantom Gaming for just $720 at Walmart, or if you prefer you can grab it for the same price over at Newegg. That's a saving of around $90 if you take Newegg's pre-sale pricing as read, or around $179 off AMD's launch day MSRP.
This is a genuine no-compromise gaming PC. Forget the fact it's not sporting DDR5, you get the best budget gaming CPU around in that Core i5 13400F and the 12GB RTX 4070. That's a graphics card that at worst will give you RTX 3080 levels of gaming performance, and with support for DLSS 3 and Frame Generation available to it, sometimes significantly more.
For $1,300 this is a gaming PC we could have only dreamt about putting together for this price just a few months back. Hell, even a couple of weeks ago you'd have struggled to find something this powerful for this little.
I'm not a fan of the name—if only we lived in a world where corporations dropped their katana obsession and made laptops called things like the Zweihander and the Falchion—but in all other respects this deal on an MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop is very tempting indeed.
These things normally retail for $1,499, but Newegg has lopped a whole $340 off that price, creating a Prime Day deal that's actually way cheaper than the one you can currently get on Amazon.
One hundred and seventy nine bucks for a high refresh 1440p panel? To paraphrase Bruce Willis in Pulp Fiction, 1080p's dead, baby, 1080p's dead. Give it up for the MSI Optix G271CQP, yours for a mere $179 thanks to Amazon Prime Day.
At least, we'd struggle to pick 1080p now that you can have high refresh 1440p for such an affordable price. But there has to be a catch, right? Well, the obvious issue is that the MSI Optix G271CQP runs VA rather than IPS panel tech.
OLED technology is pretty awesome. But it's also pretty pricey. So, it's good to see some discounts for this year's Amazon Prime day. We've already reported on Dell's 34-incher beast being cut down to $899. Now here's LG's 27-inch Ultragear slimmed down to $849 at Amazon.
It's a classic 1440p display running at 240Hz. Factor in OLED's ridiculously quick response times and you have a recipe for some stupidly speedy gaming. The HDR visuals are pretty special, too, thanks to OLED's perfect per pixel lighting.
You might also consider Corsair's competing Xeneon 27QHD240, which is also on sale at $900. It's a little more expensive than the LG but uses exactly the same WOLED panel and performs very similarly.
That Skytech Nebula is an absolute banger of a Prime Day gaming PC deal. The RTX 4060 Ti doesn't make for a great DIY GPU upgrade, but as part of a full, sub-$1,000 system, it's a great graphics card. It's comfortably faster than an RTX 3060 Ti—which is only now making an appearance in gaming PCs at this price point—though it is just shy of the older RTX 3070's gaming performance.
Paired with the Intel Core i5 12400F, it makes for an excellent budget gaming PC and the Skytech Nebula is just $999.99 at Newegg. The core components are ably supported by 16GB of DDR4-3200 and a 500GB SSD. Honestly, that's our biggest regret about this rig. You're going to run out of storage space very quickly, and when a great 1TB SSD can be had for as little as $60 today, it's a real shame system builders are skimping on storage so much.
If you're sick and tired of the rubbish microphone on your gaming headset, but don't want to buy a desktop mic because they're a whole heap of money and a pain to set up... well, don't worry. I've been there, but the Razer Seiren Mini is about as accessible a desktop mic as you can get, and it's ridiculously cheap. Especially today, where you can buy the Seiren Mini for just $38 at Amazon.
It doesn't have the controls pro users might want—not even a mute button—but that makes it a true plug and play microphone. It uses the same internal hardware as Razer's more expensive mics, so it still sounds fantastic. It's the one I use as part of my home setup right now.
THREE HUNDRED HOURS BATTERY LIFE. Do I really need to say more?
We reckon ultrawide 34-inch panels are the sweetspot right now, so it's great to see that the ASRock Phantom PG34WQ15R2B is available for just under $300 at Newegg. That's a model we've reviewed ourselves. It was a really nice screen at its $379 launch price and it's only gotten better with that hefty price cut. In fact it's probably our pick of everything that's been offered so far, screen wise.
Yes, you can get a genuine 1080p graphics card for around $200. Intel's first foray into graphics cards had a slow start, with a weak driver stack, but it's only improved over time. Now it's blown the RTX 3050 and RTX 3060 out of the water in terms of value and regularly outperforms them, too.
If you're on a tight PC gaming budget then Intel's Arc A750 is great option for a gaming graphics card.
Everyone loves a Secretlab chair, right? And there are some healthy discounts off even the best of its gaming chairs for the next day or so.
Our pick as the current best gaming headset has never been as cheap as it is right now. The BlackShark V2 is on sale in both wired and Pro wireless trim, so take your pick and you won't be disappointed.
Amazon is currently offering a fantastic deal on the Shure MV7 podcast microphone, priced at just $189. This is a significant discount from its regular price of $311, making it an excellent opportunity to get your hands on one of the best gaming and podcast mics we've tested in a long time.
The Shure MV7 is a hybrid XLR/USB microphone, allowing you to connect it directly to your PC via USB or use an XLR cable to connect it to an audio interface. Its versatility is one of its standout features, and it provides stellar vocals.
It wouldn't be a deals event without one of Gigabyte's massive 43-inch gaming monitors going on sale withy a healthy discount. This isn't the FO48U with its OLED screen, but it's still a 43-inch 4K beast running at fully 144Hz and it's yours for just $769.99.
It's certainly a whole lotta screen.
Can I interest you in a super high refresh rate 1080p gaming panel for less than $100 in these trying times? ASRock is a pretty recent entrant into the gaming monitor market, but it's making a mark for itself with some well-specced and impressively performant screens for the money.
Considering a 512GB SSD for the Steam Deck is just $75 at the moment, you can bag one of the cheapest gaming handhelds around and upgrade it to be faster than the most expensive Deck, all for just $434.
That feels like a bargain to me.
Games are getting bigger and bigger, so here's a 4TB SSD for just $159. That works out to just four cents per GB.
And this isn't any old SSD. The TeamGroup MP34 isn't the ultimate in cutting-edge solid state storage, but it is a proper M.2 NVMe drive running TLC NAND memory, not some budget horror with QLC memory that falls off a performance cliff once you exhaust the SLC cache. It even has a Phison controller and some DRAM cache, though we can't quite work out how much.
The point is that for a proper SSD, one you might want to use for your main boot drive and not just bulk storage, you definitely want both TLC memory rather than QLC, plus some DRAM. And this drive delivers on both counts.
Is there such a thing as a gaming monitor that's "too big"? I think not! We have discovered a pair of Prime Day deals on massive displays at all-time lows.
The Samsung Odyssey Neo G9 is currently available at a staggering discount of nearly $1,000 off. This 49-inch curved ultrawide monitor boasts a buttery smooth 240Hz refresh rate and an impressive 1ms response time. You'll need a spacious desk to accommodate this behemoth.
If you're in the market for a new TV replacement, the 48-inch LG UltraGear OLED gaming monitor is another excellent option, now on sale for $997. It comes equipped with numerous features for both console and PC gaming enthusiasts. Notably, it includes a pair of HDMI 2.1 ports, enabling you to enjoy your PlayStation 5 and Xbox in 4K resolution at 120Hz
With most prebuilt gaming PCs, you have to compromise on RAM or storage capacity to afford a larger and more powerful graphics card. Occasionally, however, we come across a deal that offers everything while maintaining a competitive price. That's what you'll find with the Skytech Azure: one of the more affordable RTX 4070 Ti PCs we've encountered, equipped with ample RAM, storage, and PSU capacity.
The Skytech Azure delivers excellent value for your money. If you're interested in learning more about our experience with another Skytech machine, see our Skytech Chronos 2 review.
We spotted another great monitor deal on the stylish Razer Raptor 27 for only $314.99 at GameStop, nearly half of its current price. It's a great 1440p display on a speedy IPS panel that looks really nice on a desk, thanks to its clever RGB placement.
Here are the 10 most popular Prime Day PC gaming deals so far, based on what PC Gamer readers are checking out:
- Lenovo Legion Pro 7i gaming laptop ($2,249)
- ASRock Phantom 27-inch monitor ($100)
- Alienware curved 34-inch QD-OLED monitor ($1,085)
- Secretlab chairs gaming chair (save up to $150)
- HyperX Cloud Alpha wireless headset ($150)
- Razer BlackShark V2 headset ($60)
- Dell 34-inch curved gaming monitor ($347)
- Gigabyte G5 gaming laptop ($899)
- Razer Blade 15 gaming laptop ($1,800)
- Sabrent Rocket 2230 1TB SSD ($104.45)
Note that the Razer Blade 15 laptop on that list isn't a deal we've recommended this year (readers spotted it in our guide to the best laptops). We like the Razer Blade 15 a lot, we just think you should be looking at laptops with RTX 40-series GPUs, and the Razer Blade 15s that are on sale have 30-series GPUs in them. Here's our list of the best Prime Day gaming laptop deals for all of our current recommendations.
I'm afraid we haven't noticed any incredible, last-minute RTX 4080 deals—this Zotac just below MSRP remains the best one we've seen—but we did just notice that you can get the Bloodborne board game for $76.99 on Amazon, down from its original $119.99. Yeah, it's not a new 4080, but if you play it at your desk, you can tell your friends you're playing Bloodborne "on your desktop."
Two of PC Gamer's favorite board games, Cosmic Encounter and Star Wars X-Wing, are also on sale. So is the Frostpunk board game... break that one out on a chilly evening, perhaps.
Prime Day technically ends tonight, but it's really a week-long event—after they made one day into two, what was to stop it from expanding further?—so we expect lots of deals to remain active, especially at other retailers like Best Buy and Newegg.
Still, some of the bigger Amazon deals in particular may expire when the clock strikes midnight Pacific Time, so you might want to give our list of the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals a browse before then to see if any of our top recommendations are on your shopping list.
Our favorite RTX 4080 gaming laptop is still on sale for a great price today. It briefly went up to $2,250, but has dropped again to its original discount level. With $551 off the retail price, this is a great deal on PC Gamer's pick as the best gaming laptop around today.
It's impressive that both our favorite gaming laptop and our pick as the best budget gaming laptop were both discounted over Prime Day, and are both still available at their sale price. This Gigabyte machine is a great price for an RTX 4060 laptop, even if it could do with a little more RAM.
If you want a totally no-compromise gaming laptop for a surprisingly affordable price, then MSI's Katana 15 is that machine. It's sporting both an RTX 4070 GPU and a powerful 10-core, 16-thread Core i7 CPU of the Alder Lake generation. There's no compromise on wider spec, either, with a full 16GB of DDR5 memory and a 1TB SSD to back it up.
A great gaming laptop at a price only just north of $1,000.
If you're more interested in desktop gaming than a laptop, then Skytech's perennially the masters of discounted gaming PCs. The Nebula is our pick from this week, and it offers an RTX 4060 Ti with a healthy complementary spec for a sub-$1,000 price.
Big screen ✅ High refresh ✅ IPS panel ✅ Less than $100 ✅
I would really struggle to go back to just a plain ol' 16:9 display having spent the last few years with either a 34- or 40-inch ultrawide at the heart of both my home and office setups. But it doesn't have to cost a fortune to get a great gaming ultrawide monitor with a high refresh rate. As proven by this excellent ASRock panel for under $300.
Our Jeremy's been happily using this exact model in the office for ages, and he's a real snob about rubbish screens.
If you hear anyone whinging about the fact that Starfield has pegged an SSD as a minimum requirement then please feel free to fling this fast, 500GB WD Black SSD deal at them. Seriously, you can spend more than the $30 it will cost to bag this solid drive just going to the cinema.
If you want a bit more space than a $30 500GB drive will afford you, then may I present this 2TB version for less than $90. That's a 200% increase in price for a 300% increase in capacity.
If space is a concern for your Steam Deck, too, or you've just picked up the 64GB version because that's still on offer today, then this excellent 1TB Sabrent Rocket SSD is totally compatible and still less than half price.
Razer's best gaming headsets are still on sale at the moment. The wired version is sticking to its $60 price tag, which is welcome considering it's our pick as the outright best gaming headset today. Then there's the wireless version, which is $5 more expensive than it was over the Prime Days themselves, but is still a great price for one of the best wireless gaming headsets you can buy.
