Last chance to bag yourself some Prime-exclusive hardware savings
Alternatively, you can ditch Amazon altogether. Rival retailers are cutting their own prices in an attempt to spoil Prime Day’s fun, so you could potentially find all the cheap upgrades you want without handing Amazon so much as an email address. I’ll be rounding up all these competing offers in ourAnti-Prime Day deals hub.
27in, 2560x1440, 144Hz, IPS panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
15.6in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i7-12650H, RTX 4060, 512GB SSD
Sticking with Amazon? Hit these links to jump to each section, and if you like, have a read of somePrime Day deals-finding tipsas well.
Best Prime Day SSD and storage deals
27in, 1920x1080, 165Hz, VA panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
27in, 2560x1440, 180Hz, IPS panel, Nvidia G-Sync
31.5in, 3840x2160, 144Hz, IPS panel, Nvidia G-Sync
34in, 3440x1440, 175Hz, OLED panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
32in, 3840x2160, 240Hz, Mini LED panel, AMD FreeSync Premium Pro
27in, 1920x1080, 180Hz, VA panel, AMD FreeSync
27in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
27in, 2560x1440, 144Hz, IPS panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
34in, 3440x1440, 144Hz, VA panel, Adaptive Sync
34in, 3440x1440, 144Hz, IPS panel, AMD FreeSync Premium
15.6in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i7-12650H, RTX 4060, 512GB SSD
15.6in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i7-12650H, RTX 4060, 512GB SSD
15.6in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i9-13900H, RTX 4070, 1TB SSD
16in, 2560x1600, 165Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i9-14900HX, RTX 4070, 1TB SSD
15.6in, 1920x1080, 144Hz, IPS display, AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS, RTX 4060, 1TB SSD
16in, 1920x1200, 165Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i7-13650HX, RTX 4060, 1TB SSD
16in, 2560x1600, 165Hz, IPS display, AMD Ryzen 9 7940HX, RTX 4070, 1TB SSD
15.6in, 2560x1440, 165Hz, IPS display, AMD Ryzen 9 8945HS, RTX 4070, 1TB SSD
18in, 2560x1600, 165Hz, IPS display, Intel Core i9-14900HX, RTX 4080, 1TB SSD
Recommendations are recommendations, but you don’t have to take them as gospel, nor wait for some hardware editor’s approval if you already have a specific upgrade in mind. If anything, this could save you a bit of time (and effort) on the day - Prime Day is a major source of good deals, but it’s also liable to be packed with rubbish, and knowing exactly what to search for will save you having to dig through a mountain of unwanted offers.
One time-saving trick is to add your desired items to your basket before Prime Day begins. Then, once it’s underway, you don’t need to do any actual searching – just head back into the basket and see at a glance whether the things you want are on sale or not. Remove the non-discounted bits if you wish, then head straight to payment. Easy peasy.
Unfortunately, some sellers still try to pull a fast one on the principles of fair commerce, by raising their prices before a sale then merely lowering them back during the event – creating the illusion of a discount. In my experience, this practice is less prevalent on Prime Day than Black Friday, but it’s still something you can and should protect yourself against. I always recommend installing theKeepa extensionfor your chosen browser, which slaps a price tracking graph on any Amazon product listing you view.
This lets you spot any suspicious pre-sale price rises, and well as confirm that more legit discounts are the real deal.
Again, just because it’s Prime Day doesn’t mean that Amazon will have the best available price on every single piece of PC gaming equipment. I’ve regularly found that competing retailers (like Ebuyer and Scan in the UK, or Newegg and Best Buy in the US) can provide equally good deals on the exact same products. If you’re really lucky, they may be even cheaper.
Either way, it’s worth checking that prime Day deals, as attractive as they can look, genuinely do make the deepest cuts on what you want. RPS can help with that, via our annualAnti-Prime Day deals roundup.
