We're deep into Cyber Monday, and as new deals arise, older ones are riding off into the sunset. Our $650 build was a truly spectacular bargain for PC builders on a budget, but as we warned could happen at any second, the DDR5 reaper has swung its scythe on that one. The motherboard-plus-RAM combo deal that made it all possible has gone out of stock, and you can't even buy a 16GB kit of DDR5 to make it all work.

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We don't want to leave you hanging, though, so we went searching for another cheap gaming PC that doesn't suck. The bad news - as we also warned - is that everything else in the $650 range is truly scraping the bottom of the barrel. You're dealing with ancient CPUs, awful graphics cards, and any number of other red flags.

Happily, ABS's Cyclone Aqua is here to save the day. It's got a Core i5-14400F CPU with 10 cores (6P+4E), 32GB of DDR4-3200 memory, a 1TB SSD, and a GeForce RTX 5060 graphics card.

The RTX 5060 is the most important component for gaming performance in this build, and according to our recent data, it should deliver awesome 1080p gaming experiences along with DLSS 4 upscaling and MFG in games that offer it. Just be aware of the limitations of 8GB of VRAM.

All this is just $800 at Newegg right now, and you get a full Windows 11 license in the bargain that we don't usually include in our build lists. ABS wraps this PC up in a nice case with three big RGB LED fans and a matching heatsink.

Affordable gaming PCs are becoming an increasingly endangered species right now as the AI silicon apocalypse mounts, so whether you're pondering a DIY parts list or a prebuilt like this ABS Cyclone Aqua, don't wait, or you may find yourself empty-handed.

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If you're in the market for a new graphics card and had been hoping to score a discount as late as this Cyber Monday, I hate to be the bearer of bad news: Depending on what you were waiting for, it may be too late.

A lot of the most attractive discounts we've seen over the past few days have been yanked this morning (especially on higher-end Nvidia Blackwell cards), leaving only a few scattered deals worth considering.

We've sifted through what's still around to find the bargains still worth jumping on. And there are a few new oddball deals out there that might fill a niche for a few gamers. Here's what we've got.

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And that's the best of what's still around in gaming graphics card discounts this Cyber Monday. If you aren't sure what GPU you need, check out our list of the best gaming graphics cards to see which one best fits your needs and budget. And if you find a sweet deal on a graphics card you know you want, act now—as we've already seen, deep discounts are unlikely to stick around for long.

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The Black Friday sale weekend is still in full swing, and although Thanksgiving in the US has passed, along with Black Friday itself, there's no let-up on the deals train as it continues to chug along and spit out last-minute bargains from our favourite tech retailers. If you've been keeping an eye out for a gaming laptop at an affordable price with some decent specs, then we have just the ticket for you today. Lenovo's Legion 5 gaming laptop is priced at just £1249.99, and includes not only an Intel CPU and OLED screen, but also a powerful Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics card. Getting you gaming well ahead of the Christmas holidays.

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Packed inside the Lenovo Legion 5 is a surprising amount of hardware for the asking price. Not only are you getting a luxurious 15-inch WQXGA OLED display, but you're also treated to a powerful Nvidia RTX 5070 graphics card, Intel Core i7-13650HX processor, an ample 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB SSD for storage. Windows 11 Home is pre-installed as your operating system. Both the memory and SSD capacities are upgradeable should you require more in the future.

The original list price for this laptop was priced at £1549.99, so you're saving £300 in this Black Friday deal, which is a pretty penny saved. You would normally expect to pay more for a laptop with similar-ish specs, but this Legion 5 model does use an older Intel CPU. The 13th Gen Core i7-13650HX is an older CPU, but it's not going to bottleneck this system, especially if you are playing games on a 2560 x 1600 pixel resolution on that OLED screen. The speedy 165Hz refresh rate will ensure buttery-smooth gameplay.

The Lenovo Legion 5 comes with 802.11.be WiFI connectivity, Bluetooth, a front-facing 5MP webcam, and plenty of ports for connecting peripherals and extra monitors. These include 5 x USB ports, an RJ45 Ethernet port, and an HDMI port.

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If you're in the market for a massive new monitor in the UK, then look no further than this frankly huge MSI MPG 491CQP, a 49-inch ultrawide monitor with OLED and 1440p resolution. Usually around £800, it has dropped to £679 in the Amazon UK Black Friday sale. With a spec sheet boasting a 144Hz refresh rate, OLED panel, and 0.03ms GtG response times, there is plenty to write home about with this model, a frankly smashing deal that scores you a huge amount of display for less than 700 quid.

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Of course, Black Friday was technically yesterday, but there are still deals aplenty including new savings. Notably, this monitor got its price drop on November 29, so sometimes it pays to wait around.

This is a massive monitor that falls into the "buy it and never think about it ever again" category. Unless you want 4K, this monitor would, in theory, solve all your display real estate needs for years to come. The resolution means you are effectively running two 1440p monitors side-by-side, making it perfect for both high productivity and ultra-immersive gaming.

The panel is a quantum dot OLED with 1.07 billion colors and support for DisplayHDR True Black 400. As noted, it comes with lots of ports, including USB-C with 90W power delivery, so you can use this monitor as a dock to tie your whole setup together if you really want to.

A quick glance at Amazon UK will tell you that you'll struggle to find another OLED monitor of this size, spec, and price. The Gigabyte AORUS, a 49-inch OLED, is £736, and Samsung's own OLED alternative is £798, as is the Philips Evnia 49M2C8900AM.

Under the hood, you'll find AI-assisted burn-in prevention features, and this monitor is hugely popular with customers based on the Amazon reviews.

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With NAND flash prices soaring, it's no surprise that we've not exactly been flush with huge discounts on SSDs during this Black Friday sale season. Luckily, Amazon has come to the rescue with arguably the best-priced SSD on sale in the UK right now, slashing the price of this Crucial P310 with 1TB of storage to less than £60.

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That's as good as it gets, and probably will get, for some time if you're looking for a 1TB SSD with Gen 4 speeds or better. Costing just £59.99, the Crucial P310 isn't quite back down to record low levels, but it has climbed right back down to a price level we haven't seen for several weeks, according to Camelcamelcamel's data.

In our Crucial P310 review, we saw that the Crucial P310 offered decent, all-round performance, but it wasn't especially great value at its RRP. Slipping under £60 changes the equation, however, making this a drive that would make for a worthy addition to a PC.

A lot of that is down to those read and write speeds. With sequential read and write speeds of 7,100 MB/s and 6,000 MB/s, the Crucial P310 isn't the fastest Gen 4 SSD you can buy, but it is significantly faster than older Gen 3 drives. Compare and contrast, for instance, against the fastest PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, the Samsung 990 Pro, which has read and write speeds of 7,450 MB/s and 6,900 MB/s, but costs almost twice as much at UK retailers right now.

The Crucial P310 uses the Phison E27T controller along with Micron’s 232-layer QLC NAND. Our benchmark tests showed that it sat comfortably in the middle of the pack, managing to beat even faster drives like the WD Black SN850X. This would be a good daily driver for your operating system, or you could use it as a spare backup drive for important files, or even as your go-to drive for your game collection, thanks to its impressive responsiveness and speed.

There's a five-year limited warranty thrown in with the P310, which does offer some peace of mind. There simply isn't a better-priced SSD available to UK buyers right now, and with prices soaring across the board, it's a pretty big outlier. Of course, if you need an even faster drive, Crucial's P510 1TB SSD with Gen 5 speeds is down to a record low £79.99 at Amazon, too.

Whichever drive you choose to buy, you'd better make it fast. SSD prices are getting higher across the board, and these are likely Black Friday-inspired outliers that might not last into next week. If you need to upgrade, this £59.99 1TB Crucial P310 is an especially great option on a budget, but it won't stay this price for long.

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We’ve seen OLED panels quickly spread throughout the gaming monitor space, and they’ve even made serious inroads in laptops. Given that many portable monitors often use the same panels found in notebooks, we’re starting to see more OLEDs crop up in this space as well. Innocn is a maker of value-priced portable monitors, and we’ve reviewed several of their products over the years, including the excellent 13K1F. At this time, the monitor has a retail price of $129.99 but is currently on sale at Amazon for $94.99 during Black Friday.

The 13K1F features a 13.3-inch OLED panel with a Full HD (1920 x 1080) resolution. Like most portable monitors, it has a 60 Hz refresh rate, and it’s rated at a maximum brightness of 400 nits (though our review unit didn’t reach that level). Thanks to its OLED panel, the 13K1F boasts a 100,000:1 contrast ratio, and it features a glossy screen coating that gives colors an extra bit of “pop” under ideal lighting conditions. The monitor also features two USB-C ports, a mini-HDMI port, and built-in speakers.

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Despite its sub-$100 price tag, the 13K1F features a sleek and sturdy aluminum-alloy chassis and weighs just 1.39 pounds. Add that lightweight frame with its trim 13.3-inch form-factor, and it’s easily transportable in a laptop bag. While you don’t get an integrated kickstand (which helps to keep the device thinner overall), it does come with a magnetic kickstand that attaches to the back. It’s adjustable and includes rubber feet to keep the 13K1F plant on a flat surface.

As for performance, the 13K1F excelled in our color tests, producing well-saturated colors. Even though the 264.8 nits we measured for panel brightness didn’t match the manufacturer's 400-nit claim, it still outpaced all other competitors.

When we first tested the 13K1F back in 2022, it was priced at just under $200. Now priced at less than half that amount, the 13K1F is an even better bargain for mobile warriors who want a “punchy” secondary display to boost productivity.

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We've been saying it for weeks, but it really is Black Friday, and there's an awesome sale on an Acer gaming laptop that's more powerful than any of its competition at this price point right now, thanks to this huge Amazon discount.

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That's because Amazon has slashed the price of this Acer Nitro V 15 gaming laptop to just £799.99, down from as high as £1,049.99 just a few weeks ago. It's the lowest this particular model has ever been on Amazon, according to Camelcamelcamel data, and it's the cheapest you'll find an RTX 5060 laptop in the UK right now.

This laptop has almost the same specs to the Acer Nitro V 15 we reviewed last year. Crucially, our model featured an RTX 4060 and only 512GB of SSD storage, along with a display that only has a 144Hz refresh rate. That means we can't really share gaming performance stats from our review, but the design and build quality will be the same.

The Nitro V 15 has a pretty understated design, but that doesn't mean it feels cheap. The plastic it uses is sturdy, and you aren't sacrificing ports for price, with plenty of Ethernet, USB-C, and USB-A connections on hand. The specs are pretty handy, with a 10-core Intel Core i7-13620H CPU, 1GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB Gen 4 SSD — no compromises to be found there, which isn't always a given on a budget-conscious laptop.

You've got decent options to upgrade this ANV15-51 model, too, with two DDR5 SODIMM RAM slots that you can upgrade to 32GB from the supplied 16GB. It also has two fully-sized M.2 2280 SSD slots included, so you can easily add extra storage, as well as replace the battery, should you need to.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 laptop GPU will be a solid upgrade over the RTX 4060 we tested, with 3,840 CUDA cores and 8GB of VRAM, using much faster GDDR7 VRAM memory modules. This latest-gen Nvidia GPU also unlocks DLSS 4, meaning you can use multi-frame gen in games that support it to boost frame rates even further.

8GB of VRAM is fine for 1080p gaming, which matches the resolution of this laptop's 15.6-inch IPS display. A boost to a 165Hz refresh rate, meanwhile, will ensure you have smooth motion in any fast-paced games you play.

Ultimately, a discounted £799.99 Black Friday sale price is an absolute steal for a gaming laptop that can hit high frame rates in modern games at 1080p. If you're a gamer with a strict Black Friday budget to spend, you can't go wrong with a laptop like this one, so grab one before it sells out.

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In case you haven't noticed, RAM prices have been rising faster than most of us can think of appropriate metaphors other than space. It's causing PC builders and upgraders a lot of consternation and financial pain during this Black Friday deals season, as capable and speedy DDR5 kits now cost as much (or more) than a current-gen gaming console. But just because modern RAM now resembles gold-pressed latinum in both form and value, doesn't mean you have to haggle with a Ferengi at a Micro Center to improve your PC gaming experience. We're here to help, with five smart ways to improve your gaming experience without paying full price for RAM this Black Friday deals season.

1. Get a better gaming monitor to make your games look better

First up, and perhaps the best bang for your upgrade buck, would be to pick up a new monitor – especially if you're still gaming at 1080p. Our recent RTX 5050 testing shows that anything at or above an RTX 5060 or RX 9060 XT is overkill for a 60 Hz 1080p display with modern games. Upping your resolution will both make your games look better and take a lot of the weight off your CPU and RAM. Monitor tech has advanced a lot in recent years, with OLED and QD-OLED models offering the best color and black levels, but IPS panels are still a good option if you're prioritizing value.

Want more advice about display upgrades and monitor deal options that will make your existing gaming frames look better? Our monitor editor, Brandon Hill, has hand-picked a few of the best gaming monitor deal options he's seen so far for Black Friday, including a 49-inch monster at its lowest-ever price. Just don't complain to us if you also have to upgrade your desk.

2. Grab a new GPU while some are still selling below MSRP

Of course, buying a GPU is typically a sure-fire way to increase gaming performance. And there are currently some deals that take current-gen gaming cards down to new low prices. And if you are in the market for one, you probably don't want to wait, as memory demand is expected to hit graphics cards as well.

But how do you make sure your new graphics card isn't bottlenecked by your older CPU and RAM? Our resident GPU expert, Jeffrey Kampman, just tested a half-decade-old AMD Ryzen CPU with a Radeon RX 9070 XT to figure out the best performance settings for maximizing image settings and GPU utilization, while keeping your older CPU from being the true bottleneck. That doesn't mean just turning on upscaling, but instead, involves a mix of higher resolutions, higher-quality upscaling settings, and framegen. You can find out more by checking out his test results and settings advice here.

3. What about a CPU upgrade in your existing rig?

Of course, a faster CPU can also increase your gaming performance – especially if you are sticking with 1080p resolution and aiming for triple-digit frame rates for competitive gaming. If you're currently on a DDR4-based platform with enough RAM, your best bet for better performance might be a higher-end CPU. But it may be tough or impossible to find AMD's best AM4-based X3D CPUs for gaming. If you're currently running an older, mid-range AMD CPU, you can still find a good deal on something faster or with more cores. But Intel-based platforms have a better upgrade path if you have a capable DDR4 kit, thanks to the company's decision to support boards with the older memory standard all the way through its Raptor Lake refresh cycle.

Since those 13th and 14th Gen chips can still better gaming performance than Intel's current Core Ultra models, and 13th/14th Gen CPU stock continues to be pretty good (though compatible DDR4-based boards are starting to become scarce), those who opted for Intel a few years ago may be in a better place in terms of upgrade options as DDR5 prices continue to increas. That's true, at least, as long as your CPU remains stable. But then again, AMD's higher-end chips have issues on that front as well.

For much more about your RAM-saving CPU upgrade options, check out our in-depth CPU upgrades aren't dead feature, from our newly appointed CPU editor, Jake Roach.

4. Forget DIY. Buy a prebuilt or a gaming laptop before prices increase

If you aren't dead-set on building your own PC, RAM price increases haven't hit prebuilt PCs and gaming laptops yet (though they certainly will soon). Thanks to this current disparity, it's actually cheaper now to buy a PC than to build one yourself – especially if you can find a good Black Friday sale.

Our systems expert, Andrew Freedman, recently investigated and found that you can save as much as $500 by opting for a prebuilt PC at the moment over building a system that includes DDR5. He's also sorted through the slop to find a few of the best current gaming PC and gaming laptop deals to save you from spending several hundred dollars on a good RAM kit.

5. Hold out hope for a good component bundle with RAM?

Lastly, you could keep an eagle eye out (which we'll be doing as well) for a bundle deal with RAM from Newegg (or Micro Center if there's a store near you). Just note that most of the Newegg bundles we've seen so far have been DDR4-based, and any DDR5 bundles are likely going to be paired with an Intel CPU / motherboard. At the very least, you'll probably have to live with some piece of hardware that your retailer of choice is trying to get rid of, whether that be a sub-par cooler or an older motherboard that's missing features you might want. It still might be a worthwhile option if you can catch the right bundle at the right time. Our news editor, Stephen Warwick, is keeping a close eye on component bundle deals here.

We'll be updating this page (and those linked within it) during the Black Friday/Cyber Monday deals season and beyond to help you find the best upgrade options as the cost of RAM remains too damn high. Frighteningly, we are also seeing some of those high-priced kits sell out, despite costing hundreds more than they did just a few months ago. We'll do our best to keep you abreast of the best (admittedly increasingly bad) upgrade options as long as we can. I just hope we aren't still doing this in 2035.

Meta has been dominating the world of virtual reality for some time, but if you’ve been reluctant to jump in until now, you’re in luck. For Black Friday, Amazon has slashed the price of its entry-level Meta Quest S3 VR headset to a record low price, allowing you to experience VR without a PC for under £230.

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That’s because Amazon has slashed the price of the Meta Quest S3 128GB to just £229.99, as long as you apply its £20 voucher. Camelcamelcamel confirms that’s the cheapest it’s ever been at Amazon, but it’s also the cheapest you’ll find it right now, even beating Smyths’ TV-advertised deal on the very same headset by £10.

The Meta Quest S3 is a standalone VR headset, so you don’t need to hook it up to a PC or laptop to use it – it works independently. It features Fresnel lenses, with three fixed adjustment settings, along with two LCDs, one for each eye, with a resolution of 1,832 x 1,920 and a refresh rate of up to 120 Hz. That works out to 773 pixels per inch, compared to the 1,218 ppi available on the more expensive Quest 3.

Specs-wise, the Quest 3 features a Qualcomm Snapdragon XR2 Gen 2 SoC, paired with 8GB of RAM. While you can pick it up with 512GB of storage, this £229.99 offer is only on the model with 128GB. It’s also a headset-only model and only ships with the two motion controllers, so it doesn’t come with some added extras like a carry case or elite strap – these will cost you extra. Power-wise, it features a 4,324 mAh battery, which should last for around 2.5 hours of play time, depending on what you’re playing.

It also comes with a free copy of Gorilla Tag, a nice little showcase for the headset, especially if you’ve never tried VR before. It also supports apps like Netflix, too. All in all, if you’re new to VR, or you’re keen to introduce someone else to it, you won’t find a better (or cheaper) way to do it than this £229.99 sale price right now. Expect this deal to sell out quite quickly over the Black Friday weekend, so if you want it, grab it now.

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Black Friday is the perfect time to pick up new tech — but instead of spending $$$ on a new CPU or GPU, why not buy something a little more wallet-friendly, like a new gaming mouse? This is actually one of the best years to pick up a new gaming mouse, as we've seen several companies release brand new versions that were, let's face it, more like updates. What that means is that you can find several fantastic gaming mice at a pretty deep discount — they're not the absolute newest versions on the market, but they're so good we're still recommending them over their successors.

Razer DeathAdder V3 Pro

Razer recently launched its DeathAdder V4 Pro, which has the same shape and size as the DeathAdder V3 Pro, because the shape and size of the DeathAdder V3 Pro were basically perfect. This lightweight wireless gaming mouse weighs just 2.22 ounces (63g) and features five programmable buttons and up to 90 hours of battery life over 2.4GHz wireless (with a 1,000 Hz polling rate).

It sports Razer's Focus Pro 30K optical sensor and works with Razer's HyperPolling Wireless Dongle (sold separately) to achieve a wireless polling rate of up to 8,000 Hz (at the expense of battery life, of course). The DeathAdder V4 Pro is also excellent, but the V3 Pro is still one of our favorites — and it's currently on sale for just $74.99 at Amazon, which is 50% off its MSRP of $149.99.

Read our full review of the DeathAdder V3 Pro here.

Razer Basilisk V3 Pro

Another one of our favorite Razer gaming mice is also on sale: the Basilisk V3 Pro, which is part of Razer's flagship Basilisk lineup. The Basilisk V3 Pro isn't as performance-focused as is the DeathAdder V3 Pro — this ergonomically-contoured wireless gaming mouse also features Razer's Focus Pro 30K optical sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 30,000 DPI and a maximum speed of 750 IPS, and can handle up to 70G's of force. It has 11 programmable buttons and 13 zones of bright, customizable RGB lighting, and it weighs 3.95 ounces (112g).

Like the DeathAdder V3 Pro, this mouse also works with Razer's HyperPolling Wireless Dongle (sold separately) to get up to an 8,000 Hz wireless polling rate; it's also compatible with Razer's Mouse Dock Pro (sold separately), which integrates the HyperPolling Wireless Dongle and also allows for wireless charging (and also features 8 zones of customizable RGB lighting, because why not).

Read our full review of the Basilisk V3 Pro here.

Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2

If you're looking for something ultra-light, well, it's in the name: the Logitech G Pro X Superlight 2 is a pseudo-ambidextrous ultra-lightweight mouse weighing just 2.12 ounces (60g) and designed for those who need speed above all else.

The Pro X Superlight 2 features Logitech's Hero 2 optical sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 32,000 DPI and a maximum speed of 500 IPS, and can handle up to 40G's of force. It has five programmable buttons; its primary buttons feature Logitech's Lightforce hybrid optical/mechanical switches, which can actuate both optically (for the lowest latency) and mechanically (for saving power).

Read our full review of the Pro X Superlight 2 here.

Corsair Scimitar Elite SE Wireless

Maybe ultralight and stripped-down gaming mice aren't your thing. If you're looking for a mouse with all the buttons, Corsair's newest Scimitar Elite SE Wireless is a good option, and it's currently on sale for almost 50% off at Best Buy — you can pick it up for just $74.99, which is 46% off its original MSRP of $139.99.

The Scimitar Elite SE Wireless features 16 programmable buttons, 12 of which are on its movable side panel — you can move the side panel forward or backward, depending on your hand size and what's most comfortable for you. It sports Corsair's Marksman S 33K optical sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 33,000 DPI and a maximum speed of 750 IPS, and can handle up to 50G's of force. It weighs 4.02 ounces (114g), but let's face it — if you're looking for a mouse with 16 programmable buttons, weight is not your top priority. The Scimitar Elite SE Wireless also features a pretty solid battery life of 150 hours over its 2.4GHz wireless connection, which means you'll only have to charge it every couple of weeks (and that's if you're a serious gamer).

Read our full review of the Scimitar Elite SE Wireless here.

Orbitalworks Pathfinder

If the perfect mouse for you doesn't seem to exist, maybe you should try your hand at making your own mouse — or, at least, putting together a modular mouse with a bunch of different pieces. Orbitalworks' ultra-lightweight, wireless, modular Pathfinder mouse comes with everything you need to fully customize the size and shape, and it's currently 10% off for Black Friday.

The Pathfinder comes with everything you need to customize it in a separate box, including four mouse humps, four left-side pieces, seven right-side pieces, three sets of side buttons, and spacers for adding more width/length to the mouse. There are thousands of different possible variations, but everything will end up giving you a mouse that weighs between 1.8 and 1.94 ounces (51 - 55g), which is incredibly lightweight even for ultra-light mice.

It sports PixArt's PAW-3950 optical sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 30,000 DPI and a maximum speed of 750 IPS, and can handle up to 70G's of force, and features five programmable buttons. It also offers a wireless polling rate of up to 8,000 Hz.

Read our full review of the Pathfinder here.

HyperX Pulsefire Saga Pro

If you're looking for something modular, but not that modular, HyperX's Pulsefire Saga Pro is a wireless gaming mouse with just a couple of modular options (plus the ability to print your own pieces, coming soon). This lightweight gaming mouse also features five programmable buttons and up to a 4,000 Hz wireless polling rate, and it's currently on sale at Best Buy for $99.99 — $20 off its MSRP of $119.99.

The Pulsefire Saga Pro sports HyperX's 26K sensor, which has a maximum sensitivity of 26,000 DPI and a maximum speed of 650 IPS, and can handle up to 50G's of force. This is the same sensor we've seen in HyperX's mice for a couple of years now — it's a solid sensor in terms of speed and accuracy, but it might not be for you if you're looking for the latest and greatest.

However, if you're just looking for lightweight modularity, the Pulsefire Saga Pro is where it's at: this mouse comes with two mouse humps, two sets of primary mouse buttons, and two sets of side buttons, and it implements its modularity well — everything fits together nicely and feels sturdy, and we had no issues with creaking or parts moving around in our testing. All configurations will give you a weight of 2.54 ounces (72g) — lightweight, but not quite as light as the Pathfinder.

Read our full review of the Pulsefire Saga Pro here.

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DDR5 prices are continuing to climb toward the sky, and the morale of PC builders is cratering along with them. What good is a shiny new Ryzen 7 9800X3D when a RAM kit to go with it costs almost as much or more than the CPU itself? If you're feeling DDR5 pricing pain this Black Friday season, you might be considering a GPU upgrade instead. But if you're contemplating a new graphics card, make sure that your monitor won't hold you back from the best gaming experience.

Now is a good time to grab a graphics card, as prices on many of the best GPUs, like AMD's Radeon RX 9070 XT and Nvidia's GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, have finally fallen to MSRP or even below. And GPU price increases are likely on the horizon due to the AI data center gold rush that's consuming every available silicon wafer.

But throwing a powerful new GPU into your existing system won't necessarily improve your gaming experience all by itself. You'll want to make that upgrade without limiting a GPU's utilization or spending its performance potential on rendering wasted frames that don't get displayed. You can also see some of our other tips for navigating the shortages in our RAM pricing survival guide.

How pairing a new GPU and a new monitor could be your best upgrade option

If you're rocking a five- to eight-year-old CPU and a 1080p monitor of a similar vintage, your CPU might not be able to keep up with the overhead of feeding a modern GPU at what is now considered a low resolution.

And even if you are suddenly seeing much higher frame rates in your performance monitoring overlay after an upgrade, you might not actually be enjoying a smoother, more responsive experience if you're still rocking a 60 Hz monitor.

Our recent RTX 5050 testing shows that, on average, upgrading to even a relatively affordable graphics card like an RTX 5060, Radeon RX 9060 XT, or RTX 5060 Ti will give you output frame rates well beyond what a 1080p60 display can fully show.

Hook up an RTX 5070, RX 9070, RX 9070 XT, or RTX 5070 Ti to that same monitor, and you're just rendering even more frames that never get properly displayed. And that's just with native rendering, not with upscaling.

The advent of the DLSS, FSR, and XeSS upscalers and framegen tech like Nvidia's Multi Frame Generation means that your monitor's native resolution and refresh rate are no longer hard caps on performance. You can now balance output frame rates and image quality at will. But if your display has a low resolution and refresh rate to start with, it greatly limits your degrees of freedom when balancing those factors.

Enabling upscaling on a 1080p display, and thus targeting a 1080p output resolution, means DLSS, FSR, and XeSS have lower-quality input data to work with than they would when upscaling to a target resolution of 1440p or 4K. Any performance you add this way is coming at the expense of degraded image quality.

Targeting 1440p or 4K gives upscalers more pixels as input at the same quality settings and, especially in the case of DLSS 4's transformer model, means that you might actually see higher-quality output than with modern games' sorry TAA implementations at native resolutions. You just need the extra pixels in your display to begin with.

Getting the best results from upscaling and framegen with an older CPU

To figure out what potential upgraders with older PCs might face by only upgrading their graphics cards, we pulled a five-year-old Ryzen 9 5950X off the shelf as a representative of the wildly popular family of Zen 3 CPUs and paired it with the thoroughly modern Radeon RX 9070 XT. We then hooked up our ROG Strix XG27UCS 4K 160Hz monitor and got to work with Marvel's Spider-Man 2, a notoriously CPU-heavy game.

With a 1080p monitor running at native resolution, the 9070 XT is already bottlenecked by the 5950X in Spider-Man 2, demonstrating just 88% GPU utilization while delivering 108 FPS. Your first instinct in this situation might be to enable FSR 4 Balanced upscaling, and that change does goose output frame rates to a 114 FPS average, but it only worsens the GPU utilization problem, lowering it to just 84.5%.

We're getting higher performance, but perceptibly worse image quality than native 1080p, and we're leaving resources idle on our $600 GPU. This isn't the way.

Going in the other direction, dialing in native 1440p Very High settings results in a 99.7 FPS average in Spider-Man 2 with 95% GPU utilization. This is better. We only lose a bit of performance versus 1080p, in exchange for a higher output resolution and better image quality, and we're using most of our GPU resources. Even so, further optimization is possible.

Stepping all the way up to 4K Very High essentially maxes out our GPU, which is now at 99% utilization, but output frame rates fall to just 62 FPS on average. Now we're losing smoothness. Dialing in FSR 4 Quality at 4K brings back an 87 FPS average and 99% utilization, which is much better, but we can do more.

The final step is to add FSR framegen, which boosts output frame rates to 164 FPS, on average, while keeping GPU utilization at 99.88%. Because the processing for framegen is occurring on the GPU, it doesn't place additional load on the CPU, as naively enabling FSR Balanced and Performance might.

With FSR 4's Quality preset and framegen enabled on our 9070 XT paired with a 4K display, we get higher frame rates and smoother perceived output than native 1080p, while avoiding CPU bottlenecks and giving FSR 4 room to deliver superior image quality. It's a win-win, and you can't tell that you're gaming on a five-year-old CPU at all.

Low-cost, big-time upgrades

That's a lot to digest, so in summary: If you're considering a GPU upgrade for an older system, make sure that you can keep as much of the work on the graphics card as possible. Counterintuitively, that may mean using higher resolutions, higher-quality upscaling settings, and framegen rather than performance-oriented upscaling settings alone. To enable all that tuning, you need a good high-resolution, high-refresh-rate monitor to go with your new GPU.

All that might sound snobbish, but the joy of PC gaming is that you can still be a snob and a penny pincher all at once. Upgrading to a high-refresh-rate 4K display doesn't have to be expensive at all.

For just one example, MSI comes in clutch with the MAG 275UPD, which is just $229.99 and offers dual 4K/144Hz and 1080p/288Hz refresh rate modes. Even better, Newegg will knock another $30 off with the promo code BFEFE82.

Just $200 for a display of this caliber—with wide color, variable refresh rates from 48-144Hz, and a fully adjustable stand—is crazy. And unlike many other PC components, a high-quality LCD monitor like this should last for a good long while.

Low prices on long-lasting components that might let you extend your existing PC's lifespan is the kind of Hallmark-movie Black Friday story we dream of, and here one is. Grab a new GPU and the right display to go with it, and you'll enjoy smooth, detailed gaming for many years to come.

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Memory is in a pricing apocalypse, the likes of which we might not see the end of for a decade. As AI data centers gobble up supply, and DRAM manufacturers capitalize on newfound demand, we’re in a situation where only those with the capital to spare (and that’s really the correct word to use here) can foot the bill for those sweet chips. That puts a bit of a damper on that upgrade to DDR5 you were planning for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, now doesn’t it?

Although DDR5 is now the standard, we’re still in the transition away from DDR4, reinforced by three generations (two and a half, really) of dual DDR4/DDR5 support from Intel, and AMD’s continued support for AM4. Every upgrade is a dilemma: You can’t buy a new GPU and risk a CPU bottleneck, and you can’t upgrade to a Zen 4, Zen 5, or Arrow Lake CPU without setting aside an extra $300 (or more) for just a kit of memory.

Still, there are upgrades available that will let you squeeze out a last bit of life in your DDR4 kit, particularly if you want to capitalize on low GPU prices over the shopping weekend. If you're focusing on a CPU upgrade over improving your GPU, or in tandem with a GPU upgrade, there are at least some options. This isn’t about making the best possible upgrade, money be damned. It’s about making the best of a bad situation. You can also see some of our other tips for navigating the shortages in our RAM pricing survival guide.

Best in-place Intel CPU upgrades for DDR4 owners

Intel is the easiest place to start, because you can actually get pretty far with DDR4. Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Raptor Lake Refresh all support DDR4 and DDR5, and Raptor Lake Refresh smokes Intel’s latest Arrow Lake offerings when it comes to gaming. You lose some of that advantage with DDR4 compared to DDR5, but the differences are marginal unless you compare the slowest DDR4 to faster DDR5 kits.

If you don’t already have an LGA1700 board with DDR4 support, stock has started to dry up. But you can still find some boards available if you shop around. This MSI Pro B760-P, for instance, is on sale for $60 off for Black Friday. And, frankly, if you’re still on 11th-Gen Intel or older, just about any new CPU/mobo combo is going to do wonders for your performance.

However, if you already have an LGA1700 motherboard paired with an older-gen Alder Lake or Raptor Lake chip, you can step up to a newer, faster model as a smart drop-in upgrade that will give your system newfound performance with your existing DDR4 kit.

The clear upgrade on LGA1700 is the Core i7-14700K. It offers 97% of the performance of the Core i9-14900K in games, on average, for 70% of the price – and that’s with current sales. At the time of writing, the Core i7-14700K is out of stock at Amazon and Newegg, but available for $30 more than it was selling for at Best Buy. I’d pick up the Core i7-14700KF instead, which is available for $305. It’s identical to the Core i7-14700K, minus the integrated graphics.

DRAM apocalypse or not, this is the best upgrade you can make on an LGA1700 platform, and it's even faster at gaming than Intel's newer platform: The newer Core Ultra 7 265K is 7% slower than the Core i7-14700K in games, on average. The Arrow Lake chip has a 6% advantage in multi-threaded performance and an 8% jump in single-threaded workloads, but shelling out for a new kit of DDR5 and an LGA1851 board doesn’t add up with such marginal differences.

Although the Core i7-14700K is the best upgrade you can make, it’s not available for the best price – the Core Ultra 7 265K has seen drops to around $50 less than what the Core i7-14700K is selling for now. If you want the best value, you should go after the Core i5-13400F, provided you can find it in stock. It’s available for $170 at Newegg at the time of writing, though only from a third-party seller.

The newer Core i5-14400 (or its F-series variant) is within a point or two of the Core i5-13400F, depending on the benchmark you look at, and that’s true across both games and productivity applications. The Raptor Lake Refresh chip is available for around $180 to $220, and that extra cost buys you… basically nothing. Go for the Core i5-13400F if you can find it in stock, but worst-case scenario, you’ll spend an extra $20 or so for the Core i5-14400.

Although both CPUs offer a great value proposition, they benefit more from faster DDR5 kits than Intel’s higher-end offerings, likely due to a significant reduction in L2 cache. You’re looking at around an 8% jump going from DDR4-3600 to DDR5-6800. At stock JEDEC speeds, however, DDR4 and DDR5 are in lockstep.

Best in-place AMD CPU upgrades for DDR4 owners

Upgrading an AMD platform is significantly more difficult, not only because AMD chose a hard cut-off for DDR4 support with AM4, but also because popular options like the Ryzen 7 5800X3D have been sold out for quite some time. From resellers, you’ll spend about $500 on the Ryzen 7 5800X3D and about $350 on the Ryzen 7 5700X3D, which kind of undermines the whole point of sticking with a DDR4 platform.

AMD launched Zen 3, its last architecture with DDR4 support, half a decade ago. Particularly for high-end chips like the Ryzen 9 5950X, you’re not going to find any stock at reasonable prices. Thankfully, AMD refreshed some chips from its Zen 3 lineup last year with the forgotten Ryzen 5000XT range.

First, there's the Ryzen 9 5900XT, which has to be one of the biggest naming blunders I’ve ever seen out of AMD (and that’s saying something). You’d assume this is a souped-up 12-core part that builds on the Ryzen 9 5900X, but no. It comes with the same sixteen Zen 3 cores as the Ryzen 9 5950X. It’s the same silicon, cache, and all, just clocked 100MHz lower than the original 16-core Zen 3 chip.

It’s backordered on Newegg at the time of writing for around $270, or you can get it faster by spending around $290 at B&H. These prices are fine – you’re getting a 16-core chip – but we’ve seen the Ryzen 9 5900XT drop to around $220 earlier this year. We’re in a precarious situation with these XT chips. Although AMD says AM4 chips still make up a significant portion of sales, I suspect these XT models don’t have a ton of shelf life left in them.

If you don’t need 16 cores, you have two options. The Ryzen 7 5700X is the best bang for your buck right now at around $166, though, like the majority of the original Zen 3 lineup, you might run into stock issues. The Ryzen 7 5800XT is more readily available at $200, but that extra $40 or so buys very little in performance. And, like the Ryzen 9 5900XT, we saw the Ryzen 7 5800XT at a much better price of $133 earlier this year. Shame that the sale isn’t running for Black Friday.

These chips share the same silicon with identical cache amounts and the same eight Zen 3 cores, but the XT model has a 105W TDP while the original X model is capped at a 65W TDP. As we’ve seen across several AMD generations now, Zen is extremely efficient around that 65W mark, and if you want to make up the gap, PBO (or manual overclocking) is always an option with one of the best CPU coolers.

Regardless of the CPU you go with, it doesn’t make sense to upgrade if you’re already using a Zen 3 chip. Unless you need the extra core count for heavily-threaded applications, you shouldn’t replace, say, a Ryzen 5 5600X with a Ryzen 9 5900XT for better gaming performance. You’ll be disappointed.

An upgrade in-place like this makes sense on older Zen platforms. Zen 3 is significantly faster than Zen 2 in games across the board, and leaps and bounds ahead of Zen and Zen+. Although AMD is now largely considered the performance king of CPUs, it only really hit its stride with Zen 3. The Ryzen 9 5900XT and Ryzen 7 5700X are your best options based on what’s available, but if you miraculously stumble upon a Zen 3 X3D chip at your local Micro Center or Best Buy, jump at that opportunity.

As is always the case with AM4, make sure to check your motherboard’s compatibility before buying anything. AMD's 400 and 500-series chipsets should be safe, but 300-series chipsets are iffy. Double-checking is especially important if you’re picking up an XT chip and want to make sure your existing board has the power delivery circuitry to fully exploit the newer, high-core-count options.

The best of a bad situation

With current memory prices, there aren’t any slam-dunk CPU upgrades unless you already have a current kit. You’re locked out of X3D CPUs, and that’s what you should go for if you want the highest gaming performance – even the $230 Ryzen 7 7600X3D can keep pace with non-X3D chips that cost twice as much.

For my money, Raptor Lake refresh is looking very attractive right now. Arrow Lake was a disappointment on the gaming front, so you’re not giving up much by picking up a last-gen Intel chip, and the LGA1700 platform supports DDR4, so you don’t need to shell out a ton of money for a kit of memory if you are using a kit that you already have. It seemed silly to support DDR4 beyond Alder Lake at the time, but the decision is paying off for Intel now.

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Amazon has been busy cooking up some juicy bargains ready for Black Friday, including a big discount on this Razer gaming mouse. The Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed, the wireless version of the OG Basilisk V3, is down to a record low price on Amazon right now, making it one of the best value mice for gaming that you can pick up right now.

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This Black Friday deal makes it even better value than normal, dragging the price of this Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed mouse down to just £38.49, saving you 45% on its usual price. Newer models like the V3 Pro and V3 Pro 35K might have superseded this solid performer, but this is still a great option, especially for under £40.

Don’t think that low price means you’re settling for low specs, though. Budget-friendly as this Razer mouse might be, it delivers with a decent spec sheet, including an 18,000 DPI sensor, which can track up to 450 inches per second, with an acceleration rate of 40G. It features the familiar ergonomic design used on other Basilisk models, with a shape that is comfortable for long periods.

It also gives you easy access to seven different programmable buttons, as well as the tilting scroll wheel, which you can set up to use macros or quick commands using Razer’s Synapse control software.

Synapse is also where you can configure your DPI settings, along with presets which you can quickly toggle between using a button on the bottom of the mouse. You can also set up your RGB preferences, setting up different lighting effects for different environments, as well as setting up colors to work in Chroma-integrated games.

This is a fully wireless version of the original Basilisk V3, with the ability to use Razer’s low-latency HyperSpeed wireless mode over 2.4GHz, or Bluetooth, to connect your mouse to your PC or laptop. Razer reckons that you’ll get a huge 535 hours on Bluetooth, with a reduced 285 hours on HyperSpeed, and all on a single AA battery.

If you’re using basic, office-grade peripherals, this £38.49 Razer Basilisk V3 X HyperSpeed gaming mouse will feel like a significant upgrade. If it doesn’t run out of stock, it’ll certainly jump back up in price after Black Friday, so make sure to jump on it before it does.

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If you're looking for stellar performance in a compact system, then look no further than Cooler Master's own MasterLiquid 240 Atmos, which is 34% off at Amazon UK. The cooler's design and superb aesthetics are just the cherry on top of what is one of the best 240mm AIOs that money can buy.

In our 4.5-star review, we noted that the cooler boasted strong performance, quiet noise levels, and excellent aesthetics. Given the discount on offer here, it's unlikely that you'll find a better 240mm AIO deal at this price point, so long as you're not bothered about having a configurable display.

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In the box, expect to find a pair of Cooler Master's Sickleflow Edge 120mm fans, alongside CryoFuze thermal paste and applicators, a PWM Splitter, ARGB hub and splitter, and support for all modern CPU sockets. This AIO is commonly used in small-form-factor builds for its size and performance, as the CPU block is relatively low-profile, which means you'll have no issue with clearance for any large RAM heat spreaders. Additionally, with a total radiator and fan thickness of just 52mm, it'll fit just about anywhere.

Boasting impressive results in our testing, considering its size class, the MasterLiquid Atmos 240 often performs on the same level as a 360mm AIO, without all of the bulk. Expect this cooler to be able to handle the most power-hungry chips out there. If you're using a less demanding chip, the Atmos 240 will be able to handle it with no sweat.

Cooler Master's AIO was observed as reaching 38.2 dBA when paired with a Core 17-13700K, which is plenty quiet using the default fan curves. Just note that things can be noisier when pushing the cooler to its limits. Given the performance on offer here, even if you have a larger chassis, this might still be an excellent purchase. But if you have a smaller case that can only support up to a 240mm AIO, then Cooler Master's MasterLiquid Atmos 240 becomes a no-brainer.

Given that the price has plummeted by 34% this Black Friday season, it's reasonable to assume that you'll likely not find a better cooler than this right now. Thanks to its low-profile design, it'll fit just about anywhere, and the CPU block looks great, without being outwardly garish, as many RGB-laden PC components lean toward.

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If you're serious about your storage, then you're not going to be switching completely to SSDs (at least, not yet). Nothing quite beats the traditional hard drive when its come to sheer storage capacity, which is why a serious data hoarders is going to take a strong interest in this WD external hard drive deal, available with a huge £148 saving for Black Friday.

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This WD Elements 16TB external hard drive is down to just £258.99 on Amazon right now, and while the drive has yo-yo'd in price, according to Camelcamelcamel data, this is still a historically good discount, even if it isn't the lowest it's ever been. This great deal is also priced well against the wider market, with drives featuring similar capacity and specs priced higher, even with discounts.

The WD Elements 16TB is designed to be a portable place to store all of your treasured files, whether it's your photos, music, movies, or improved documents. 16TB of storage is significantly more storage than the common PC or laptop might typically hold, putting it closer to a NAS in terms of the sheer volume of space you'll have at your disposal.

Unlike a NAS, however, you're not hooking this up to your network with an Ethernet cable. This connects to your existing system easily with a standard USB 3.1 Gen 1 port, so compatibility shouldn't really be a concern, and a Windows PC should detect it with no fuss.

The good news, for those who like cracking open their equipment, is that the WD Elements 16TB features a shuckable drive. That means you can easily remove the physical drive, hidden inside the enclosure, and reuse it in your PC or NAS. This will void the two-year warranty that comes with the drive, however, so make sure you're happy with that before you proceed.

Measuring 5.31 x 1.89 x 6.53 inches and weighing 0.9 pounds, this isn't a physically heavy or large drive to handle, and can be moved around, even if it isn't as portable as an external SSD might be. It does require external power, however, and you'll need to keep a spare socket nearby to hook it up with juice, as it can't be powered over just USB.

If you're looking for a large repository for your files, this £258.99 WD Elements 16TB drive is ready for you to plug in and start loading. Mac users will need to format it with a file system that macOS can read, but that isn't too much bother, either.

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Black Friday sales are well underway at Newegg, and they'll continue through November 29, 2025. Every day at 9 am PT, Newegg releases special Black November Doorbuster deals. The retailer also offers a range of deals with Black Friday Price Protection, guaranteeing they won't be found at a lower price during the shopping season. These offers are selling out extremely quickly because the Doorbuster deals offer limited quantities, but there are far more deals to be had beyond the Doorbusters — check out the full range of Newegg's Black Friday sales and see if there's an excellent bargain to pique your interest.

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We've seen deals on CPUs, Graphics Cards, Routers, Wi-Fi extenders, Monitors, Headphones, SSDs, Flash Drives, AIO Coolers, and more. As deals are released, we'll update this page with Black Friday pricing. The Doorbuster deals sell out very quickly, so you'll need to be ready in advance. Check back often to see if there are any early Black Friday bargains that catch your eye. Aside from the list below, we also have a more general roundup of PC and 3D printer deals in our Early Black Friday hub.

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You can also preview the deals that will be on offer, but you just can't see the Black November deal price on the product until it releases on that particular day. Here are a few standard deals that caught our eye in a list format, with the main highlight deals further below:

• Asus ROG Strix OLED gaming monitor 27" 1440p glossy WOLED panel, 240 Hz: Normally $593, now $524.99
• Gigabyte Eagle GeForce RTX 5060 8GB Graphics Card: Normally $309.99, now $299.99
• ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming 4/ac AM4 AMD B550 ATX AMD Motherboard: Normally $124.99, now $74.99
• ASRock X870 STEEL LEGEND WIFI AM5 AMD X870 ATX Motherboard: Normally $229.99, now $199.99
• Gigabyte - GS34WQC - 34" Curved Gaming Monitor 3440x1440 - 120Hz/OC 135Hz: Normally $329.99, now $249.99
• ASRock Z890 Taichi LGA 1851 Intel Z890 ATX Motherboard: Normally $459.99, now $299.99
• Gigabyte GS27QC 27" Curved Gaming Monitor - QHD 2560x1440 - 165Hz/OC 170Hz: Normally $229.99, now $134.99
• ASRock B850M Pro RS AM5 AMD B850 MTX Motherboard: Normally $159.99, now $129.99

If you’re tempted to treat yourself to a new gaming laptop for Black Friday, then you’re in luck. This Asus deal is unbeatable for the specs, fitted with one of Nvidia’s latest GPUs, along with a ten-core Intel processor, all for less than £800 and reaching a record low price on Amazon.

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That’s because this 16-inch Acer V16 gaming laptop is priced at just £799, down from as high as £1,199 just a few months ago, according to Camelcamelcamel’s data. For your money, you’re getting the mobile version of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, with 8GB of VRAM and 3,328 CUDA cores. It also supports DLSS 4, including ray tracing with multi-frame generation in games that support it.

You’re also getting the Intel Core Ultra 240H CPU with this rig, which features those 10 cores we mentioned. Those 10 cores are split into six performance cores, which are great for gaming, along with four efficiency cores, which are good for multi-threaded task work. It has a typical 2.5GHz clock speed, but it does boost up to 5.2GHz, where needed.

A 16-inch display, with a 144Hz refresh rate, gives this Acer V16 laptop a decent amount of screen real estate to work with. It’s a boost from 1080p, too, with a max 1,920 x 1,200 screen resolution on a 16:10 aspect ratio. While you might have to lower your graphics presets at 1200p in the most demanding modern games to get the best frame rates, they should remain playable.

With a budget-friendly laptop like this one, you’re usually expecting a compromise – less RAM or storage, for instance. That isn’t the case here, as you’re getting a 1TB SSD with Gen 4 speeds, along with 16GB of DDR5 SODIMM RAM, which you can upgrade at a later date (once RAM prices stabilise) to 32GB.

This £799 Acer V16 is the cheapest gaming laptop with an RTX 5060 that you can buy right now, thanks to Black Friday, with other models costing £150+ more. If you’re looking for solid gaming performance on this screen’s native 1200p display, you won’t find a better option than this one on a budget right now.

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It’s Black Friday week, but Amazon is already several days into its big sales event, with huge discounts to be had, including deals on several monitors to upgrade your setup. This 27-inch Lenovo gaming monitor is one of them, and it’s one of the cheapest 1440p displays I can find on sale right now (at least, from a reputable brand), if not the cheapest one out there.

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You’ll be paying just £129.99 for this Lenovo Legion R27QE monitor, which knocks £70 off the RRP for this particular model. Camelcamelcamel’s data also confirms that, while Amazon has steadily discounted the price, it's now at a new record low.

So, what are you getting with this Lenovo display? A 1440p resolution makes this an obvious step-up if you're still rocking a 1080p monitor, but it's also got an IPS panel, which will deliver great viewing angles compared to other rival LCD panel types. The big win, especially if you're considering this for gaming, is the display's 200Hz refresh rate, which will be great for fast-paced gaming.

The faster the refresh rate, the better your monitor will be able to keep up with your GPU's frame rate output without screen tearing. That's also helped by its support for AMD FreeSync, which syncs your refresh rate with your GPU's output. Nvidia G-Sync support isn't mentioned, but we've often seen FreeSync-supported monitors work with G-Sync (and vice versa), although we can't offer any guarantee that it will work here.

Two HDMI 2.1 and one DisplayPort 1.4 connections are included, too, so you can hook this up to your PC, handheld, and console, all at the same time. All-in-all, this is a serious spec sheet for a monitor with a £129.99 sale price, even if you're not a gamer. If you're upgrading from an ancient 1080p display, it's almost a no-brainer. Expect this one to sell fast!

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The Black Friday fever is well and truly extending to GPU sales right now, because this absolute banger from Overclockers is one of the best we’ve seen in a long time. Thanks to OCUK, gamers can pick up this Intel graphics card, fitted with 10GB VRAM and enough power to smash through 1080p gameplay on high settings, for under £170, with a free game thrown in for good measure, thanks to this Intel Holiday Bundle promotion.

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A discounted price of just £169.99 for this Acer Nitro Intel Arc B570 OC graphics card is ridiculously good value, thanks to that 35% saving, and one that I personally think makes this an essential purchase if you’re looking for a GPU on a budget. Seriously, ignore the AMD and Nvidia entry-level options right now, as they'll cost you £100+ more with just 8GB of VRAM. You simply won’t see a better cost-to-performance ratio than you'll find with this Intel GPU right now.

Looking at the specs first, this Acer Nitro-branded Arc B570 graphics card ships with 10GB of GDDR6 VRAM, operating on a 160-bit memory bus. It also comes with 18 Xe2 GPU cores, along with a beefed-up boost clock rate of 2,690MHz. You also get a three-year warranty as standard, so there’s coverage if you run into any issues.

The Arc B570 is an entry-level GPU, so you’d be forgiven for thinking it might struggle with performance. The benchmark data from our Intel Arc B570 review, featuring a similarly overclocked ASRock card, proves that simply isn’t the case, with decent frame rate scores on average across the board, and even remaining playable when using ultra graphics presets with ray tracing enabled.

Intel has also been taking great strides to improve performance further with its XeSS upscaling tech by adding multi-frame gen support to cards like these. That’s a feature we’ve only seen on Nvidia GeForce RTX 50-series cards up until now, and before its AMD rivals have seen anything similar. It’s also a feature that can have an immediate positive impact on frame rates in any particularly resource-intensive games.

The Acer Nitro Arc B570 OC would be astronomical value on its own at this price, but Intel’s Holiday Bundle makes it a jaw-dropper. Running until 31st January, 2026, you can claim a free copy of Battlefield 6, Dying Light: The Beast, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, or Civilization VI with each purchase. BF6 retails for around £60, so getting the two together makes the equivalent value of this Acer-made B570 just £110, especially given Battlefield 6 is essentially brand new and can't be found on the likes of Xbox Game Pass.

A sales price of £169.99 for a 1080p-capable gaming GPU with 10GB VRAM, along with a free copy of Battlefield 6, makes this the essential upgrade for any budget-conscious gamers out there. This is one Black Friday deal that we expect to sell out pretty quickly, so if you’re looking for a graphics card that won’t break the bank, jump on this Acer Nitro card, fast.

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It’s time for some Amazon Black Friday price drops on PC hardware, starting with this Gigabyte AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics card. With 16GB of VRAM and enough power to rival the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, this AMD GPU is a firm favorite among gamers, and this new Black Friday sale price makes this enthusiast card one of the cheapest you can buy right now.

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That’s because Amazon has slashed the price of this Gigabyte Radeon RX 9070 XT Gaming OC graphics card to just £569.90. Camelcamelcamel’s historical price data confirms that this Gigabyte card has been steadily dropping in price over recent weeks, but this is as low as it’s been up until now. While one or two RX 9070 XT cards without the beefed-up OC specs can be bought for slightly less, this Black Friday deal is the pinnacle right now if you’re looking for an AMD GPU upgrade.

Let’s look at why the RX 9070 XT has had such an impact on the gaming GPU market and why we've placed it at the top of our best GPU list. As our RX 9070 XT review explains, this is a GPU that offers serious performance improvements over its predecessors. It comes with 64 RDNA 4 compute units, but as this card is factory overclocked, it also ships with an increased boost clock speed of 3,060MHz. The RX 9070 XT is also equipped with 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM on a 256-bit bus, operating at a memory speed of 20 Gbps.

For gamers, this means you’re getting a GPU that can rival the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, despite typically being £100 cheaper. It will smash through 1080p gaming on Ultra graphics presets, as our benchmark graphs show, while also easily handling gameplay at 1440p. It’s even an option for 4K, depending on the game you’re playing, with that extra memory providing a boost over weaker, entry-level GPUs with only 8GB of VRAM like the RX 9060 XT.

A £569.90 sale price makes this Gigabyte-made RX 9060 XT graphics card one of the best bargains for a Black Friday PC upgrade, especially if you’re a serious gamer. If you want to unlock 1440p and 4K gaming on the cheap, you’ll want to pick up a card like this one, especially before the stock runs out.

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If you're in the market for a new graphics card, then Black Friday is a great time to get your hands on some more FPS. Many of the deals have already begun on both sides of the pond, and that includes UK PC hardware vendor Overclockers UK, which is currently shaving a welcome few quid off the RTX 5070 Ti, bringing the price below £700 and RRP in a rare discount. Our top pick would be the Zotac Solid SFF, now just £698, but there are similarly priced Palit and Gainward options too.

• RTX 5070 Ti sales at OCUK

According to price tracking tools, this is the cheapest you can expect to pay for an RTX 5070Ti in the UK right now, and it's also the best price we can recall seeing on this particular model. The RRP in the UK is £729, and even in late 2025, finding an RTX 5070Ti below recommended retail can be considered something of a rarity.

The RTX 5070 Ti sports 8960 CUDA Cores, a boost clock speed of 2482 MHz, and 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM for solid 4K gaming performance, even at fairly high fidelity settings. You can see our benchmarking data below to see how it stacks up against rivals.

If the 5070 Ti, which is admittedly still quite an expensive card, feels out of reach, then OCUK does have more deals on the cheaper 5070 and 5060 Ti RTX options. You can scoop a 5070 for £479, well below the RRP of £539. Likewise, the excellent 5060 Ti deal we covered earlier this week is still available, now just £379.99 for a card that sports the crucial 16GB of VRAM most serious PC builders would expect from a GPU.

If you're looking for more savings, check out our Best early Black Friday PC Hardware deals for a range of products, or dive deeper into our specialized SSD and Storage Deals, Hard Drive Deals, Gaming Monitor Deals, Graphics Card Deals, or CPU Deals pages.

An investment in a new gaming chair or desk is one of the biggest improvements you can make to your setup, and thanks to Secretlab's Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals, you don't have to break the bank to do so. Secretlab's holiday savings are now in full swing with huge price cuts on its chairs, desks, recliners, and accessories that could help you save you up to £200. Prices are slashed from 12th November to 5th December, or at least until the stock runs out, so you best be quick.

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Some of the company's biggest products are on sale right now, including the Secretlab Titan Evo and Secretlab Titan Evo Nanogen, as well as newer favourites like the Recliner add-on. With Secretlab producing some of the best gaming chairs that you can buy, these Black Friday deals are the perfect chance to upgrade your comfort and save some pennies while you're at it.

Secretlab Black Friday Gaming Chair Deals

Secretlab Black Friday Sit-to-Stand Desk Deals

Secretlab Black Friday Desk Accessory Deals

Secretlab Black Friday Skins Deals

Secretlab Black Friday Ergonomic Recliner Deals

Secretlab Black Friday Lumbar Pillow Deals

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One of our favourite 3D printer manufacturers, Bambu Lab, has dropped its big Black Friday and Cyber Monday sale, and we're excited to see discounts on our favourite printers. Taking place from Tuesday, October 28, to December 5, 2025, the Bambu Lab Black Friday sales extravaganza will feature discounts on all of their most popular 3D printers, accessories, and bundles.

You can grab savings of up to 31% off Bambu Lab products site-wide. Plus, if you subscribe to the Bambu Lab newsletter, you are entered into a competition to win a free H2C printer, with the draw taking place on December 5, 2025.

We have selected our favourite 3D printer deals and listed the Black Friday sale pricing below. We've also had the opportunity to review all of these printer models, so we can provide an extensive and authoritative review of the performance of the models listed.

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These are the best deals on the standalone 3D Printers from Bambu Lab, with some printers having up to a staggering £200 price reduction in this sale. There's never been a better time to get into maker hobbies, and 3D printing is one of the most enjoyable for making some fantastic projects.

Bambu Lab 3D Printer Deals

Automatic Material Systems Attachment Deals

These AMS addons (Automatic Material Systems) for the Bambu Lab printers add the abilities to perform multi-color prints, or help with filament drying and storage. Depending on the 3D printer combination and compatibility you can link multiple units. All of the following AMS units are discounted in the Bambu Lab Black Friday sale.

The main peak-trading sales are over, we're now in the holiday season hunting for any leftover or new deals on our favorite bits of tech. Today's deal is on a new large-capacity 4TB SSD that's compatible with Gen 4/5 motherboards and laptops and manages to cost the same price as it was on offer for in the recent sales. There are of course cheaper 4TB SSDs floating about, but this is a Samsung and does come with a good track record for performance and support.

You can find this deal at Amazon where the Samsung 990 Evo Plus is now $239. This matches a previous price point in the Black Friday sales but is not the lowest-ever price, That was a tiny $2 less, so it's pretty close to the all-time low. Check out our review of the Samsung 990 Evo Plus for more information and benchmarking results.

The 990 Evo Plus employs Samsung's proprietary 5nm-based Piccolo controller, which can be used in PCIe 4.0 x4 or PCIe 5.0 x2 configurations, depending on your setup. The drive uses 236-layer (V8) TLC V-NAN but is DRAM-less and instead uses HMB (Host Memory Buffer) for its operations. The 990 Evo Plus performs well, has reasonable all-around performance, and is quite power efficient whilst still achieving sequential read and write speeds of 7,250/6,300 MB/s. The random reads and writes, too, stand at an impressive 1,050K IOPS and 1,400K, respectively.

Samsung's 990 Evo Plus is backed by a standard 5-year warranty from Samsung or until the 2500TBW limit is reached - whichever comes first. With standard use, the TBW limit should easily outlast the 5-years by a considerable margin.

If you're a fan of Samsung products, why not take a look at our Samsung Coupon Codes for December 2024, you might be able to bag a tidy holiday discount.

Today at Amazon, you can find the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 34-inch QD OLED WQHD gaming monitor for its lowest price. It debuted at $799, but right now, it's available for just $569. This is a big screen with plenty of high-quality specs to back up its beefy price tag, including an AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certification.

This monitor is one of our favorites. We had the opportunity to review the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 last year and gave it a rating of 4.5 out of 5 for its high-quality performance. Our biggest complaint was its lack of RGB color temperature adjustment options. However, its overall performance was excellent and left a wonderful impression.

The Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 features a 34-inch quantum dot (QD) OLED panel with a dense WQHD resolution measuring 3440 x 1440px and a curvature graded at 1800R. The refresh rate can reach as high as 175 Hz, while the response time can reach an impressively low .03ms.

It has a USB hub that includes one USB Type-B port, one USB Type-C port, and four USB Type-A ports. For video input, it has a DisplayPort 1.4 input and two HDMI 2.0 ports. You also get a 3.5mm audio jack and two integrated 5W speakers.

We're not sure how long this offer will be available, but you can check out the Philips Evnia 34M2C8600 product page at Amazon for more details and purchase options.

If you want to increase your bulk storage for pictures, videos, archives, and backups, a cheap and deep hard drive is always the best way to get the most bang for your buck. That's especially true during Cyber Monday when you can find great deals on hard drives, like the 10TB BarraCuda Pro that we found listed for $170, which is $110 cheaper than its previous all-time low pricing, which works out to a mere $17 per TB.

BarraCuda Pro has many advantages over the non-pro variant. The drive operates at 7,200 RPM and uses CMR tech that's faster than the lower-performing and lesser reliable SMR drives. The other major advantage is the peace of mind of a five-year warranty on the hard drive, along with a free two years of Rescue Data recovery services, meaning you get free data recovery if the drive fails. That's unmatched in the industry.  

Lower-cost mechanical hard drives typically use SMR tech, which is slower and delivers inconsistent performance. They also have a shorter warranty period and no data recovery services. 

We reviewed the Seagate BarraCuda Pro 10TB HDD and compared its performance against other mechanical HDDs. As the target use case is for data that you don't need at blinding SSD speeds, the drive's read performance is critical.

As you can see in our in-depth benchmarking, the BarraCuda drive has the chops to deliver strong and steady performance that matches or exceeds competing drives, like the Seagate IronWolf 10TB. The IronWolf 12TB is also currently on sale for $199.99, so you can choose between the two with the difference being the price and 2TB additional storage.

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Cyber Monday deals feature amazing deals for several PC components - either as an upgrade or a complete build from scratch. RAM is a key component to your system's performance, and hence, many wouldn't mind skipping fancy RGB effects in place of either cheap or high-performing pair of sticks. Luckily, you are getting good deals on memory kits during this Cyber Monday sale - like other components you'd buy - starting with the TeamGroup T-Force Vulcan 32GB DDR5-6000 kit with 30-30-36-76 timings with 38 CAS latency. The best part is that you're getting this at an attractive price of $87 with no coupons or rebates.

For the price, you get a pair of 16GB x 2 with low-profile heat spreaders with a choice between three colors- black, silver, and red- with no price difference (silver shaves off a few cents). This way you can choose the color you prefer best. Having a low-profile memory kit is great if you choose to use a large CPU air cooler or just don't want anything fancy.

A few months ago, the same memory kit was priced at $103. According to its retail history, this is the lowest price yet. The memory kit supports Intel XMP 3.0 for easy setup, and you can also pair these with a system built around an AMD 7000 series CPU since it supports DDR5-6000 spec. Earlier, we spotted some good deals on both Intel and AMD CPUs. Irrespective of the option you choose, this is likely to be one of the memory kit options with an attractive value for the performance you'd shortlist.

A good 32GB kit such as this one gives you adequate memory legroom needed by most users, especially for gaming. If you require anything more, TeamGroup also has 64GB (2x 32GB) kits available for $156, which is a bit cheaper than double the cost of this kit but with C38 timings.

Based on the user's review on Amazon, most are satisfied with this memory kit either for an existing system or to be used in a brand new build. Assuming these memory kits fit your needs, it is going to be tough to get a better deal on a value-for-money option during this Black Friday / Cyber Monday sales season.

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If you're looking for the most affordable mechanical hard drive with large storage capacity, Amazon sells a Seagate BarraCuda 8TB for a meager price of $109.99. This would be perfect for those who want an internal hard drive for cold storage- given that games, files, and media take up a lot of space, and hence, keeping a backup is useful. This drive is offered at 19% off its price, and Amazon mentions that it is its #1 best seller.

Expectations must be set as this is the least expensive 8TB you can get. It has a two-year warranty and a low workload rate limit of 55TB per year. The tradeoffs are expected for such a large capacity drive at a low cost—the Seagate BarraCuda uses SMR technology and a 5400-RPM spindle. As our review of this hard drive mentioned, the BarraCuda is best for writing large files and reading the data. The drive is made for large storage capacity and lower pricing above performance, which you'll be looking at a different series like the 7200-RPM-based FireCuda series for better performance.

But you want something cheap and can hold a large amount of data. As long as the performance expectations are grounded, this will likely be one of the choices. Despite being a Black Friday deal, the BarraCuda 8TB has been at this price point multiple times, with one exception last year, when it briefly sold for under $100. If you compare this with the competing WD Blue 8TB drive, it is cheaper, even with the $5 coupon that's included with it. 

Many who have purchased this drive have mentioned that they are satisfied with the Seagate BarraCuda 8TB because it is lighter on the wallet and has a large capacity. Not everyone requires a secondary drive to have much quicker performance, either sequential or random read or write speeds with lower access time—and that's something the user's reviews on Amazon reflect.

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Ultra-wide gaming monitors could change how you work and game on your computer. So, if you’re looking to upgrade your workstation or gaming rig, you’re in luck because the Samsung Odyssey G5 Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor is on sale for $219 on Amazon. This is a massive drop from its original list price of $549, giving you a 60% discount (or over $330 in savings) on the 1000R curved display.

Samsung makes some of the best gaming monitors, with another Odyssey model getting picked as the overall best monitor for 2024. The Odyssey G5 Ultra-Wide Gaming Monitor is an excellent choice for gamers looking for a 1440p display that could hit 165Hz. While it may not have the ultrasharp screen of 4K displays or the ultrahigh refresh rates that competitive gamers demand, the G5 Ultra-Wide offers an excellent compromise that gives you the best of both worlds without requiring an expensive, high-end GPU.

The 1000R curve on the G5 Ultra-Wide makes gaming much more immersive, especially with its 21:9 aspect ratio. The display is equipped with AMD FreeSync Premium for the smoothest gameplay possible. At the same time, its 1ms response time reduces motion blur, allowing for crisp images, even during the most hectic of battles. The Odyssey G5 won’t let you down when watching movies, too, with HDR10, giving you the deepest blacks and brightest whites while delivering true-to-life colors.

The monitor supports input via DisplayPort 1.4 or HDMI 2.0, making it convenient to switch devices. It also has a 3.5mm port for your headphones, allowing you to enjoy the full volume of your games without disturbing anyone else in your home.

So, if you think it’s time to level up your battle station with an ultra-wide display but don’t want to break the bank, the Samsung Odyssey G5 Ultra-Wide gaming monitor is what you need.

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If you want a deal on Intel's 14th Generation Raptor Lake Refresh CPU, Amazon sells the Core i9-14900K for $413.39. Like all deals and coupons, it is dependent on stock while it lasts or the time before the deal expires.

The Core i9-14900K is a 24-core, 32-thread CPU with eight P-cores and 16 E-cores with a P-Core base that can clock up to 6 GHz and E-Cores clocking up to 4.4 GHz. These Raptor Lake Refresh chips are on the same LGA1700 socket, so they're drop-in compatible with LGA1700 motherboards if you're upgrading from a slower CPU.

The main advantage the Core i9-14900K has over the KF variant is the on-chip graphics. Though many wouldn't need them, it is best to have on-chip graphics for diagnostic purposes if you don't have a spare discrete graphics card, just in case. But if you still prefer the Core i9-14900KF, you are getting a $40 coupon, which will shave off the $436 price tag to $396.

You can see how this chip ranks with our in-depth testing in our CPU benchmarks hierarchy, and excerpt of which you can see above. This strong performance is also why this chip ranks on our list of the Best CPUs for Gaming.

We did mention a good deal on the Core i9-13900K for a cent under $400. However, the Core i9-14900K pricing is not so far away, thanks to the discount coupon. Raptor Lake Refresh has previously gained a bad reputation due to a voltage issue affecting the CPU's instability. However, Intel has since launched microcode updates to remedy the problem, so make sure your motherboard is running the latest firmware before plugging it into the Core i9-14900K.

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Black Friday brings plenty of deals for storage devices, and today, you can buy a 20TB WD Red Pro NAS hard drive for only $319 — an all-time low price for this drive. While the WD Red Pro is marketed as a NAS drive, it is also designed to offer top-tier performance in desktop PCs, too, so you can use this drive in your PC with confidence. This pricing is exceptional, too, working out to only $16 per terabyte of storage. 

Hard drives aren't as popular for speedy data access as they used to be — you'll want one of the best SSDs for that task — but they're still great for cheap and deep storage for data that doesn't need lightning-fast access, like pictures, videos, and backups. 

The WD Red Pro is perfect for bulk data storage, and it doesn't use the slow SMR technology that's common in cheap drives; instead, it uses faster CMR recording to ensure consistent, fast performance. 

The WD Red Pro provides 20TB of storage capacity, driven by a 7,200-RPM motor that delivers up to 272 MB/s of performance in sequential read/write workloads. That's more than enough for speed for bulk storage in a PC. The Red Pro connects over a standard SATA 6 Gb/s connection and has a 300 TB/year workload rating, meaning it is designed to have 300TB of data written to it per year. The drive also uses WD's OptiNAND tech to employ flash storage to offload metadata storage, thus delivering better performance in some workloads. 

The WD Red performs similarly to other top-tier offerings in heavy sustained workloads. The drive also has a 512MB DRAM cache for metadata and delivers great 4KB latency, which helps when accessing the small file types that HDDs struggle with. 

Our Western Digital Red Pro 20TB HDD Review has extensive benchmarks for your perusal. Our only complaints about this drive in our review were pricing, which is addressed by today's sale, and the comparatively lower workload rating. However, this drive is more than enough for even demanding NAS works and far exceeds the needs of the majority of PC users. It also has a five-year warranty to ensure peace of mind, and comes with expanded rotational vibration protection mechanisms to help ensure a longer lifespan in demanding multi-drive environments. 

We are working hard to find the best deals for you this Cyber Monday. If you're looking for other products, check out our Cyber Monday Computer Hardware Deals Live blog for a range of products, or dive deeper into our specialized SSD and Storage Deals Live blog, Monitor Deals Live, Graphics Card Deals, or CPU Deals pages.

Black Friday deals are still in play this weekend. For most people, especially parents like myself, this time signifies that the holidays are just around the corner, which means buying gifts for my kids… and more importantly, availing those precious cost-saving discounts before they’re gone! Black Friday/Cyber Monday is that small window of time when most toy makers offer their best and most popular products for less. And so, the hunt is on to find the coolest and best educational gifts that you know your kids (and even “big” kids) will love. There is no better feeling than seeing your child excitedly tear into their presents and get lost playing with them for hours on end. STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) toys spark creativity, promote critical thinking, and boost self-confidence.

From programmable cars, pets, and robots to electronic building blocks and puzzles, we are here to help you find the best deals on STEM gifts for the young enthusiast in your life.

Quick Links: Best STEM Deals

• Up to 40% off all STEM Kits @Amazon
• Popular Coding Kits for kids ages 8 -12 @Amazon
• Lego Learn-to-Code Kits @Amazon
• mBot2 AI Robot, now $109 (was $159)
• Petoi Bittle X Dog, now $223 (was $279)

Our Favorite STEM Deals

STEM Shopping Guide: What to Buy?

Whichever STEM kit you buy, you should pick one based on your child's current interests and the specific STEM skills you want them to develop. Here are a few examples:

• Robot kits: Not surprisingly, these are the most popular STEM toys. A good robot kit will teach your child how to code by having them write programs that cause a real-world device to move, perform tasks, and generate lights and sounds. The best robot kits also teach some engineering skills by having you build the device from parts. Bonus: your kid won't be disappointed when they open up a toy that looks like it's from a sci-fi story.
• Programming kits: Similar to robot kits, these toys allow children to control a real-world object through programming. However, the device is not what most people would call a robot. Think of a lightbox or even a drone, for example.
• Circuit kits: These fun toys teach kids about electricity and electrical engineering by having them build small circuits, complete with inputs and outputs like motors, lights, and sensors.
• Computer kits: There are a lot of kid-friendly computers on the market. Choose ones that are explicitly designed to build STEM skills. Most come preloaded with a slew of programming challenges for your child to conquer.
• Construction kits: These toys may look a lot like standard building blocks (such as Legos), but also include engineering lessons.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is now just $186.97 on Amazon for Black Friday. We compared this Zen 4-based CPU a few months ago to the Intel Core i5-14400, and found it provided a substantial performance while being $100 more expensive. But now it's just $186.97, which is 37% off its retail price.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is a six-core, 12-thread 5nm CPU with a clock speed of 4.7 GHz, which can be upped to 5.3 GHz with max boost enabled. It supports up to 128GB DDR5-5200 memory over two channels, features PCIe 5.0 interfaces, and has integrated graphics with clock speeds of up to 2,200 MHz. The Ryzen 7000 series has hardware acceleration for AVX-512 workloads, which is important for heavy-duty tasks. This is an unlocked CPU, which means you can overclock with AMD's own Ryzen Master utility.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is on the lower end of our CPU hierarchy. But it is a cost-effective option to consider, especially for gamers who are putting more money in graphics cards and power supplies.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X is a better option than the Intel Core i5-14400. The latter exchanged blows with the Intel Core i5-13600K, which supports DDR4-3200 and DDR5-5600 and is currently on sale for $210 for Black Friday. You'll need to keep in mind the motherboard and RAM you're pairing with your CPU — AMD allows overclocking on its motherboard chipsets (aside from the A-series chipsets). If you choose to overclock, you'll also need to factor in the cost of the CPU cooler, but if you're upgrading your CPU, motherboard, and RAM, you've may already have a compatible CPU cooler.

The AMD Ryzen 5 7600X might be a great deal for you, especially at 37% off. 

Black Friday is in full swing and we're super excited to see that Prusa, one of the best and most popular 3D printer brands, is joining in on the sales. They've got tons of deals on their printers and are offering free shipping site-wide along with handfuls of gifts to go along with many of their offerings. Here's a glimpse at some of our top picks from their Black Friday deals but you can check out the full list of promotions over at the official Prusa website.

If you want to check out the Black Friday promotions at Prusa, head over to the official Prusa website and be sure to check back here to see our reviews to get an idea of what you can expect from their top 3D printers. We have been very pleased with our Prusa experiences -- the company is known as a premium standout, like the Jaguar of 3D printing -- so if you can afford one of these, it's well-worth the money.

Microsoft's 2024 Surface Pro 2-in-1 Laptop is on sale for its lowest price ever this Black Friday, at a record-low $999. For $999, you get the cheapest-ever Copilot+ 2-in-1 machine, with the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite processor, 16GB RAM, and 256GB storage.

The Microsoft Surface Pro 11th edition (or 2024 edition) offers a unique experience as a 2-in-1 laptop. The form factor provides a degree of customizability to your workflow; take notes typed or by hand with a stylus, draw or sketch on the go, or fire up some heavier programs thanks to the Snapdragon X Elite processor inside.

As someone who drove a Surface Go daily for productivity in my early college years, I can attest to the quality experience offered by Microsoft's 2-in-1 family of machines. DMing Dungeons and Dragons with a compact device, taking handwritten lecture notes, and having a digital sketchpad on the same device I typed essays and articles on was a game-changer for my workflow.

In addition to the Snapdragon X Elite, the machine comes with 16GB RAM and 256GB storage. The RAM in Surface Pros is soldered to the motherboard and non-upgradable, but the 256GB SSD is a replaceable M.2 2230 SD, which can be manually upgraded to 2TB or more. We'd recommend stepping up the storage from here to at least 512GB, if not 1TB, as 256GB is a bit of an un-fun experience. Check out our Black Friday SSD Deals landing page for help finding your compact SSD.

As a Copilot+ PC, the Surface Pro 2024 also comes with all of the Copilot+ AI features Microsoft loves to share. The much-maligned (and thankfully optional) Recall feature is back, offering total surveillance over your browsing to help you find what you forget. Other helpful features like Live Translation Captions, AI image generation, and resolution upscaling are also ready.

Microsoft's Surface Pro 2-in-1 (2024) is a steal for $999, representing $400 off on an exciting product. If your workflow wants versatility or a unique computing experience, look no further than this endearing tablet.

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The Dell Alienware m18 R2 featuring Nvidia's flagship RTX 4090 mobile GPU alongside Intel's 24-core i9-14900HX has dropped to $2,999 this Black Friday. Whether it be heavy workloads, gaming, or internet browsing, the m18 carries 64GB of DDR5-5200 RAM, a 4TB SSD, and a stunning 18-inch 480 Hz display to fulfill all your needs.

The RTX 4090 laptop GPU - based on AD103 silicon - offers 9728 CUDA cores and 16GB of VRAM. We see Intel's i9-14900HX on the CPU end in action - with a massive 24-core count (eight P-cores and sixteen E-cores) and 32 threads. Intel's "HX" processors are essentially rebadged desktop processors in the mobile form factor. This allows the i9-14900HX to boost up to 5.8 GHz and is further backed by 68MB of total cache (36MB L3 + 32MB L2).

The Dell Alienware m18 comes installed with Windows 11 Home and includes a 360W SFF power adapter. Check out our detailed review of this laptop for a closer look at its relative performance. Below, you can see several of our extensive gaming benchmarks we ran on this laptop to compare it with other leading models. 

Modern workloads are memory-intensive and to address that problem, the m18 comes equipped with 64GB of DDR5-5200 RAM (2x32GB) - running in dual-channel. The 4TB SSD, on the other hand, should eliminate all storage concerns, although Dell did not disclose the specific speeds.

Moving over to the externals, the m18's chassis is built using anodized Aluminium and offers a Dark Metallic Moon finish. The display is decked out with a large 18-inch 1920x1200 panel, running at 480 Hz, with G-SYNC compatibility, and can display 100% of the DCI-P3 color space. All this performance does come at the cost of a lower battery runtime. However, the 97Wh 6-cell battery should be ample to provide a few hours of backup.

You also have the option to swap the existing keyboard with an LP-mechanical US-profile keyboard with CherryMX switches for $50 more. While ultrabooks and slim laptops are all the hype, they compromise on I/O ports. On that note, the m18 offers a robust selection of ports, including four different USB 3.2 Gen 1 ports, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one RJ45 Ethernet port, one 3.5mm port, one HDMI 2.1 port, one power-adapter port, one mini-display port and one SD-card slot.

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Budget gamers looking for a deal this Black Friday will be happy to see that the Nvidia RTX 4060 is currently at an all-time low. The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4060 Gaming OC 8G entry-level GPU is currently on sale at less than $285 on Amazon and Newegg, although it’s already out of stock in the latter, so you should hurry if you want one. The sale price is 11% off Gigabyte’s RRP of $319.99, giving you savings of over $35 on the discrete GPU.

Those who want to be on the cutting edge of tech might want to hold off from getting a new Nvidia GPU, especially as it’s rumored that Jensen Huang will announce the 50-series at CES 2025 early next year. Furthermore, the RTX 5060 is expected to arrive in April 2025, so you don’t have to wait long if you want the latest entry-level GPU. But if you can’t wait any longer for Nvidia’s Blackwell GPUs, this RTX 4060 deal is one of the best we’ve seen so far.

The RTX 4060 made our list of the Best Graphics Cards for Gaming, where we crowned it as the best budget Nvidia GPU. And even though it’s an entry-level offering, it’s still more than enough for the gaming needs of most people, as evidenced by Tom’s Hardware’s GPU benchmarks hierarchy test, with the factory overclocked 4060 GPU hitting nearly 150 FPS at 1080p Medium and more than 80 FPS at 1080p Ultra settings.

One drawback the 4060 has against the previous-generation RTX 3060 is that it only has a 128-bit 8GB VRAM, compared to the latter’s 192-bit 12GB VRAM (for the 12G version). Nevertheless, our comparison of the two GPUs showed that the RTX 4060 consistently outperformed the 3060 in all aspects.

This makes the RTX 4060 an excellent value GPU, especially for those looking to upgrade from an RTX 2060 or even older card. It’s also a great option for those looking to build their own entry-level gaming PC, although we’ve also found this RTX 4060-powered desktop gaming PC with an Intel Core i5-13600KF, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD for $699.

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If you’re looking for a budget upgrade this Black Friday, Gigabyte is now offering an Nvidia RTX 3060 12GB at an all-time low on Amazon. The Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G (Rev2.0) is currently less than $264—an 18% discount from its list price of $319.99. This sale price makes it even more affordable than the two-fan Gigabyte Windforce version, which is listed for $269.99.

Although the RTX 3060 is more than three years old at this point, it’s still a good budget GPU for 1080p gaming. More than that, the Gigabyte’s Gaming OC variant will allow you to get more performance out of the same card, especially with its triple-fan setup and factory overclocking. Tom’s Hardware’s own GPU benchmarks hierarchy testing shows the RTX 3060 hitting more than 100 FPS at 1080p Medium, and if you prefer Ultra settings, you could still hit a respectable 70 FPS or higher.

This GPU’s 12GB of VRAM, a 50% bump from the memory you’ll usually find on older and lower graphics cards. More than that, the RTX 3060 will let you enjoy Nvidia’s DLSS technology, allowing you to use AI and machine learning to get a few extra frames for smoother gameplay. This GPU also gives you two DisplayPort 1.4a and two HDMI 2.1 outputs, so you can have as many as four displays for those who are into multi-monitor setups.

If you’re tired of relying on your PC’s integrated graphics card or want to move up from an older GTX video card, the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3060 Gaming OC 12G (Rev2.0) is a great upgrade that will not break the bank. It’s also a good option if you’re building a gaming PC on a budget and must have a discrete graphics card to enjoy your favorite titles.

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The Black Friday season has arrived and so have the deals, including on this great 34-inch curved gaming monitor from LG. With a VA panel, HDR 10 and 160 Hz refresh, you get a lot of monitor for your money.

The ultra-wide QHD VA panel has a resolution of 3440 x 1440 and an aspect ratio of 21:9, and the screen curves to place you in the middle of the action, (or the middle of a spreadsheet). Using HDMI you get the full 3440 x 1440 resolution at 85Hz, but to unlock the full 160Hz 3440 x 1440 you need to use DisplayPort.

With a 160 Hz refresh rate and 1ms motion blur reduction (MBR), your gaming will be free of ghosting and blur, useful for esports gaming. AMD FreeSync Premium support means that screen tearing, flicker and stuttering are smoothed out, to keep you in the game. There's also an on screen crosshair, for those times when you need accuracy to save the day.

The one-click stand is easy to assemble, and provides a stylish means to support the monitor, but you can also use a VESA mount to connect it to your favorite stand / arm.

Head over to the LG UltraGear QHD 34-Inch Curved Gaming Monitor 34GP63A-B product page for more details and purchase options.

It's almost Black Friday and we're excited to see that our overall best monitor recommendation, the Samsung Odyssey G9 G95C, has dropped to its lowest price to date. This huge, high-performance monitor has been going for around $999 but right now it's marked down to just $769.

When we reviewed the Samsung Odyssey G9 G95C monitor, we were overwhelmed by our experience. It has impressively high brightness, a stellar response time and other specs that landed it with a rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars. Our biggest concern was the price, but this discount makes a world of difference in that regard.

The Samsung Odyssey G9 G95C monitor is huge, featuring a 49-inch SVA panel with a curvature of 1000R. It has a dense resolution of 5120 x 1440px, paired with a refresh rate of 240Hz and a short response time of just 1ms. It's also AMD FreeSync Premium Pro certified for its performance.

The Odyssey G9 G95C has impressively high brightness with 1000 HDR support. It has a USB hub with three USB Type-A ports to use for peripherals and a 3.5mm jack for audio devices. There are multiple video input options to take advantage of, including two DisplayPort 1.4 inputs and one HDMI 2.0 port. It's backed up by a 3-year warranty from Samsung as well as Amazon's 30-day return policy.

Head over to the Samsung Odyssey G9 G95C product page at Amazon for more details and purchase options.

Right now at Amazon, you can find the Crucial X9 2TB portable SSD available for its lowest price so far this year. It usually costs around $148, but today, it's been marked down to $109 as part of an early Black Friday promotion—this puts the price at around 5 cents per GB. Overall this is a pretty good deal for a portable SSD but it's not exactly the fastest on the market. This drive is well-suited for anyone looking for storage on the go with a budget in mind.

We haven't had the opportunity to review the Crucial X9, but we did review the Crucial X10 Pro and really enjoyed our experience. It made its way to our list of best External SSDs as our top recommendation for portable USB 20GBps SSDs. The Crucial X9 has different speeds, supporting only 10 GBps connections.

This discount applies to the 2TB Crucial X9 portable SSD, which also comes in 1TB and 4TB capacities. Under optimal conditions, the read speed can reach up to 1050MBs. It's compatible with USB 3.2 Gen 2 interfaces, which support speeds as high as 10GBps.

Because this is a portable drive, it's designed to withstand a bit of everyday use and can handle temperature variances, it's also vibration-proof and can handle drops of up to 7.5 feet on carpeted floors. The purchase comes with three months of Mylio Photos+, Acronic True Image, and Adobe Acrobat Pro, but you have to register the drive to get access to these, and this offer is only valid through December 31st, 2024.

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OLED displays have become more standard across the PC and console gaming marketplaces. Gamers know that OLED provides industry-leading gaming performance, contrast, and color accuracy— albeit at a significant price premium, at least until we spotted this great Black Friday deal from Corsair. The Xeneon 27QHD240 is now just $499which, which is half off its original MSRP.

A 27-inch OLED monitor would be unthinkable at this price point a year ago. Now you can get a 27-inch OLED with a 240 Hz refresh rate and 1000 nits brightness for superb DisplayHDR 1000 support for a steal. Add in the expected gaming features like Adaptive Sync (G-Sync/FreeSync) support and glowing reviews from several reputable outlets, including our own Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240 review, and it seems the entry to high-quality OLED desktop gaming has never been cheaper.

In our original review of the Corsair Xeneon 27QHD240, we praised the monitor on every key point. We loved its deep contrast and saturated colors, its near-perfect, calibration-free accuracy, and next-level gaming performance in a package with premium build quality. Our issues were with its original price point (now very mitigated) and some minute HDR color inaccuracies.

Black Friday deals like this are sure to be snatched up quickly, so act fast if you've been waiting for a great OLED gaming monitor at a reasonable price point! Considering OLEDs at this grade have been regularly priced at and above $1,000 (pricing comparable to much larger but slower entry-level OLED TVs), $499 is an absolute steal.

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Gamers looking to upgrade their rigs now have a fantastic opportunity to grab the XFX AMD Radeon RX 7900 GRE at a discounted price at Best Buy. Down from its original price of $570, this particular GPU is currently selling for $520, saving buyers $50, which is not the lowest-ever price for a RX 7900 GRE, but it is the lowest-ever price for this model.

The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a performance powerhouse, featuring 16GB of GDDR6 memory and AMD’s advanced RDNA 3 architecture, delivering exceptional performance for 1440p gaming. In our testing, we found that the RX 7900 GRE can deliver 88.1% of the performance of the fastest card, the RTX 4090, at a much lower price point. In our GPU benchmark hierarchy, the RX 7900 GRE gives solid competition to Nvidia's RTX 4070 Super in 1440p and 4K gaming, which is comparatively priced higher.

The GPU originally made its first appearance in 2023 as a China exclusive but was later introduced globally in February 2024. Based on the Navi 31 architecture, if we glance over the spec sheet the RX 7900 GRE is a cut-down version of the RX 7900 XT.

The GPU also offers features such as AV1 encoding support, DisplayPort 2.1 outputs, and improved AI hardware acceleration. While the AI capabilities like frame generation and ray tracing might not be as good as Nvidia, the recent driver improvements with FSR (FidelityFX Super Resolution) and AFMF (AMD Fluid Motion Frames) should offer a noticeable performance boost depending on the game title.

Considering its performance and the current price drop, this deal represents exceptional value in the premium GPU market. Whether you're building a new gaming PC or upgrading your existing setup, the Radeon RX 7900 GRE is a great choice for delivering top-notch gaming experiences. The discounted price may not last long, so visit Best Buy today to secure this powerful GPU at a great price.

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Snag Intel's Core i5-13600KF this Black Friday at Amazon for a steal, slashed to its lowest price of $175, down from $304 (MSRP). If you're unwilling to update to Team Blue's latest Arrow Lake processors but still need a capable enough CPU to meet your needs, the Core i5-13600KF is a fantastic choice in terms of performance and affordability.

The Core i5-13600KF is based on Intel's Raptor Lake architecture - employing six Raptor Cove P-cores alongside eight Gracemont E-cores and twenty threads. The CPU operates at a base clock of 3.5 GHz but can turbo up to an impressive 5.1 GHz. With a TDP of 125W, going up to 181W (PL1/PL2), ensure you have beefy cooling on hand to tame this beast.

The CPU hosts 24MB of L3 cache and 20MB of L2 cache and does not ship with built-in graphics (iGPU), so you'll need a dedicated graphics solution. Regarding memory speeds, the 13600KF can support DDR4-3200 and DDR5-5600 RAM - but those are baseline JEDEC specifications and can go higher with XMP kits.

While the Core i5-13600KF is a great contender for productivity workloads, it certainly is no slop in gaming. Based on our extensive testing, the 13600KF trades blows with the Ryzen 7 7700X and ironically ends up faster than its direct successor - the Core Ultra 5 245K - even with optimized memory. Combined with cheap and readily available LGA1700 motherboards, the Core i5-13600KF should be a top pick if you want to upgrade.

Admittedly, the recent CPU degradation fiasco doesn't paint a good picture of the entire 13th and 14th Generation lineups. However, you can mitigate all these issues by simply updating to the latest 0x12B microcode. In any case, the Core i5-13600KF is an excellent option for various applications, offering support for technologies like PCIe 5.0, Thunderbolt 4, and Wi-Fi 6E (motherboard dependent).

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Network devices aren’t the sexiest upgrades and are often ignored by many enthusiasts. But if there’s more than one gamer in your home or multiple devices requiring reliable, high-speed internet, you should invest in a decent and reliable network switch. So, if you’re tired of relying on Wi-Fi with its high latency, you should check out the TP-Link TL-SG108-M2 network switch. This unmanaged 8-port 2.5 Gbit switch is now at $99.99 on Amazon — a 50% discount from its original price of $199.99.

The first version of this switch was named Tom’s Hardware’s Best All-Around Budget Network Switch in 2022, and it seems that it still delivers excellent performance for its price. What we like best about this new version is that it now has a much higher bandwidth, allowing you to use faster 2.5 GbE network devices, like some NAS, and enjoy the faster speeds some internet providers deliver.

But even if it’s much faster now, it’s still easy to set up—plug the switch into a power outlet and your router, then attach your devices to it, and you’re good to go! You don’t need to go through any complicated configuration settings to get the most speed out of it. And since it works with CAT5e, CAT6, and CAT6A cables, you don’t have to go through the expensive and time-consuming process of upgrading your in-house LAN wiring when upgrading to this network switch.

So, if you love hosting LAN parties, own multiple devices that require a fast internet connection, or have two or more people in your house who would appreciate a reliable wired connection, now is the time to upgrade from the simple router from your internet service provider. This network switch will let you unlock the speeds you’re paying for and solve your lag and latency problem at half the regular price.

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This Black Friday, powerful AMD Z1 Extreme handhelds are on sale for their lowest prices yet— especially a killer $227 discount placed the Lenovo Legion Go at a mere $472.97, below the price point of even Steam Deck OLED and far undercutting the likes of the Asus ROG Ally X, even during the Black Friday sales we're seeing now. The Asus ROG Ally X has only marginal performance gains over other Z1 Extreme-based handhelds like Lenovo Legion Go and Asus ROG Ally. Unlike the Asus handhelds, the Legion Go boasts a much larger 8.8-inch screen size and even detachable controllers akin to the Nintendo Switch.

Legion Go is one of the best gaming PC handhelds available at this price point. While Z1 Extreme/Ryzen 7840U/Ryzen 8840U handhelds do require a sufficiently powerful outlet or battery bank to be run at speeds that defeat Deck and Deck OLED, it's still quite nice to have that performance on the table, especially if you plan on using the handheld for home gaming, too.

It's difficult to overstate just how good the Lenovo Legion Go becomes at this price, though some potential downsides should still be mentioned in the interest of objectivity.

For one, users who don't have a desktop at home and hope to use an external GPU docking solution may be better off with Ally Extreme or Ally X since those handhelds at least have superior eGPU support. While Legion Go's dual USB4 support is nice, it's not reasonably equivalent to OCuLink (the best case) or Asus' proprietary eGPU connector, so powerful GPUs will be bottlenecked by the connection.

Secondly, the screen here is IPS instead of OLED...but because OLED has yet to be standardized across handhelds, this is less of a downside and more of a trade-off. While Steam Deck OLED will provide superior contrast, IPS screens are still pretty good— especially when at 8.8 inches versus Deck OLED's 7.4 inches and running at higher resolution and refresh rate (1080p 144Hz vs 800p 90 Hz). The Legion Go could be the right fit for gamers who love screen real estate and immersive gaming experiences.

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Are you in the market for a cheap yet capable processor that can handle taxing multithreaded workloads and be ideal for resource-intensive games, but doesn't cost an arm and a leg? The Ryzen 7 5700X fits the bill, and it's now available at an all-time low of $130 at Amazon for a limited time.

The Ryzen 7 5700X packs eight cores and sixteen threads designed using AMD's Zen 3 "Vermeer" microarchitecture. It offers a boost clock of 4.6 GHz and has an unlocked multiplier - if you want to go the manual overclocking route. The single CCD design sees the Ryzen 7 5700X ship with 32MB of L3 cache alongside 4MB of L2 cache. As a part of AMD's long-lasting AM4 platform, it is supported on all 300, 400, and 500 series motherboards, but a BIOS update may be necessary on some models.

Apart from that, it has a default TDP of 65W (88W PPT), but that can be adjusted and fine-tuned through AMD's Precision Boost Overdrive 2 (PBO 2) in the BIOS or through Ryzen Master. By default, memory support is limited to DDR4-3200, however, based on silicon quality, you can use overclocking to achieve higher speeds. An important note: the Ryzen 7 5700X does not feature an iGPU (Integrated GPU), unlike the newer Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors.

A quick search shows that all previous octa-core Zen 2 and Zen+ offerings are still more expensive than the 5700X - despite their aging design and architecture. This makes the Ryzen 7 5700X a great bang for your buck since its X3D counterpart - the Ryzen 7 5700X3D - hovers in the $190-$200 territory.

If you're already on the AM4 platform, the Ryzen 7 5700X should be a no-brainer. Admittedly, AM5 is still expensive, given the costs associated with fast DDR5 memory and good motherboards. The 5700X can serve as an excellent intermediary solution if you're in no hurry to upgrade to AMD's latest offerings.

The CPU comes box-packed and interestingly ranks as the number one best-selling CPU on Amazon as of writing.

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If you're looking for a great deal on a PC case to accommodate XL-ATX and E-ATX motherboards, Newegg has 22% off Fractal's North XL PC case, bringing the regular price of $179.99 down to $139.97. Newegg mentions that this case is now priced at its lowest price, all thanks to the Black Friday deal.

We reviewed this case a few months ago, emphasizing it as an upsized, prettiest PC case made of wood, glass, and brass. We had little to complain about the PC case, but the design choice and the combination of the materials resulted in a good-looking case.

The North XL, true to its suffix, is 36% larger than its North version, allowing you to mount a pair of 180mm Fractal Torrent fans should you decide to purchase it separately. The case also has a hub to power up four 4-pin fans, while three 140mm fans are included. The clearance of the case allows the graphics card to be up to 14 inches and the CPU cooler to be up to 6.6 inches. On the top, the North XL lets you install up to 360mm radiators and 420mm towards its front. The front panel I/O has two USB 3.0 Type-A and one USB Type-C port with the headphone/ mic jack.

Regarding thermal performance, It is surprising to see the North XL performing just like the standard North PC case. One can't help but appreciate such case designs at a time when many manufacturers are engrossed in cases that are equivalent to a fish tank. Of course, everyone has preferences, but cases like the North and North XL cater to those who want something more good-looking and not glass fitted together on all three sides. Using wood at the front panel with brass case feet accentuates the PC case design.

The deal is only on the variant with a walnut front and the tinted toughened glass side panel, with other variants selling for US$179.99. Since you are saving $40 on it, it gives you that legroom to buy a good set of fans should you choose to replace the three 140mm fans included with the case.

This case was available as a deal through other retailers but has run out of stock due to the Black Friday deal. But Newegg still has the deal while stock lasts. So, if you're in the market for a case, this would fit your requirements.

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