The official date for Black Friday might be November 28, but many of the top PC hardware retailers online are already hosting blowout Black Friday sales on a number of products.
Black Friday is a great time to score PC upgrades of all varieties, including a new monitor, new peripherals, a new SSD or more RAM, or perhaps even a whole new CPU, motherboard, and cooler.
Black Friday is more pertinent than ever for PC builders, with an impending NAND apocalypse threatening to skyrocket prices of RAM and SSDs. Indeed, we're seeing price increases of over 100% on the most popular RAM products, so pay special attention to good deals on memory this year.
The Alienware AW3425DW is a 34-inch curved QD-OLED gaming monitor that offers excellent visuals with high-end performance. The panel offers a 3440×1440 resolution, 240 Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time, and support for both AMD FreeSync Premium Pro and G-Sync. The display also covers 99.3% DCI-P3 and hits 1000 nits peak brightness with VESA DisplayHDR True Black 400 certification.
A brilliantly fast SSD is now 40% cheaper. Get the 2TB Gen5 NVMe SSD from Crucial for $179.00, with on-paper sequential speeds of up to 14,900/13,800 MB/s.
The GeForce RTX 5070 12G Ventus 2X OC features a convenient dual-slot design, so it's a great fit for smaller systems. It offers a 2,542 MHz boost clock, which can be increased to 2,557 MHz using MSI's software.
The Delta memory kit features customizable RGB lighting to match your style, but also supports Intel XMP 3.0 and AMD EXPO profiles, making setup a breeze.
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An early low price on a speedy SSD
The Crucial T710 only came out a few months ago, but it is one of the fastest M.2 NVMe SSD drives on the market, with sequential read and write speeds of up to 14,900/13,800, respectively. SSD deals are going to be a little thinner this year with the AI-induced NAND crunch, so actually newer drives might present better value, and this is a great example. Down to $179.99, that's the lowest-ever price we've seen on this model, making it the same as the 1TB model. The 4TB model is also discounted to $379.99, again a low price.
Grab a massive saving on this 2TB Gen5 SSD that will be an upgrade to any PCIe 5.0-capable system.
A cool saving...
This Corsair iCUE Link Titan 360 RX scored really well in our performance testing when we reviewed it earlier this year, and is a particularly noteworthy pick if you're already part of the iCUE ecosystem. It's 30% off in this Early Black Friday sale from Amazon, $139.99 instead of $199.99, a new lowest-ever price.
If you move fast, you can score this 2TB 990 EVO Plus from Samsung for less than £100 at Amazon. We've only ever seen it £3 cheaper. The 4TB model is a record-low £192, but nearly out of stock.
Score a big deal on this 990 Evo Plus, one of the better all-around SSD drives on the market. The 4TB is also a record low, but nearly out of stock.
Grab at 5070 below MSRP at Newegg
If you're in the U.S., you can grab the RTX 5070 from Nvidia, specifically the MSI Ventus 2X variant, for just $479. That's the lowest price we've ever seen on this GPU.
The GeForce RTX 5070 12G Ventus 2X OC features a convenient dual-slot design, so it's a great fit for smaller systems. It offers a 2,542 MHz boost clock, which can be increased to 2,557 MHz using MSI's software.
So it begins...
Good morning and welcome to the start of our live coverage of Black Friday, a massive sales event that promises some great PC hardware and tech deals. Whether you're looking for an update to your CPU, GPU, a new SSD, a monitor, a keyboard, or anything else for that matter.
If you're in the UK, we're kicking off with a great deal on this Intel Arc GPU. Our readers have been loving this over the weekend, and it's still live!
