Live: The best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals as we find them - Day 2
Good deals, served fast
A liveblog? For Amazon Prime Day's PC gaming deals? I’d be lying if I said this wasn’t an unfamiliar use of the tech – normally I just use liveblogs to relay game announcements or make fun of Geoff Keighley’s clothes.
There is, however, a lick of sense behind it. Sifting through the hundreds, if not thousands of discounted gaming wares is a time-hungry process – just ask Ed and Liam, who I’ve shandhaied into helping this year – and the main Prime Day PC gaming deals hub, the Prime Day graphics card deals hub, and the Prime Day Steam Deck accessories deals hub all tend to get larger but less frequent updates. To say nothing of the Anti-Prime Day deals guide, which also highlights savings on quality hardware from non-Amazon sellers. Keep an eye on this liveblog, though, and we’ll point out the really great stuff more or less as soon as we find it.
The same quality standards for both product and discount still apply. We’ll only be bloggerising genuinely good-value savings on hardware – whether an SSD or a mechanical gaming keyboard – that’s worth buying. For all the deepest cuts, remember that you’ll need an Amazon Prime membership, though the 30-day free trial will work fine if you don’t have one.
 | Get Amazon Prime free with a 30-day trialAmazon Prime Membership gets you free next-day delivery, occasional free PC games via Prime Gaming, and access to all Prime Day deals. If you sign up now, the free trial period will cover Prime Day on July 11th and 12th; if you allow the subscription to continue after those 30 days, it's £9/$15 per month or £95/$139 annually. |
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Morning, deal hunters. Let's kick off with the HyperX Pulsefire Haste, one of my personal favourite lightweight gaming mice and a snip at £25. I thrust one of these in Ed's hands at Gamescom once and he seemed to like it too.
HyperX Pulsefire Haste - £25 from Amazon UK (was £50)Good timing for anyone who's grabbed a Steam Deck in the Steam Summer sale: the Samsung Pro Plus, our top-rated microSD card pick, is on sale in its 256GB and 512GB capacities.
I've had my nose in some monitors, and found a couple of nice options at both ends of the rez/price spectrum, First, the LG UltraGear 24GQ50F-B, which at £100 is one of the cheapest 165Hz screens I've ever seen. It's got Freesync Premium, too.
Next, for thee who covets thy neighbour's 4K gaming monitor, the fast and smooth BenQ Mobiuz EX2710U is down to £600. That's a £200 saving, and what looks to me like an all-time low.
It's turning out to be an auspicious day for Peripherals That Have A New Version Out But Are Still Good. Besides the Pulsefire Haste, Roccat's Vulcan 120 mech keyboard - a former resident on our best keyboards list - is down to £80. Not bad at all for such an excellent full-sizer, though note this is specifically the version with tactile (bumpy) key switches.
A rare price drop for the Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition, one of (if not the) best-value 1080p GPU out there at the moment.
Intel Arc A750 Limited Edition - £204 from Amazon UK (was £240)
A chunky saving, while it lasts, on this RTX 3070 Ti-equipped Razer Blade 15. It's one of Amazon's Lightning Deals, so get clicking quickly if you fancy a more slim-built gaming laptop.
Some deep cuts on the RTX 4080 and RTX 4070 Ti gathered up here - these are the lowest prices I've found on both. Been keeping an eye out for good RTX 4060 Ti deals, but no luck yet.
Wouldn't be a Prime Day without some kind of Logitech G520 Hero highlight, so let's do that. This time it's down to just £29 in the UK, and $35 in the US.
Another favourite: the WD Black SN850X, a best-in-class PCIe 4.0 SSD now available at frankly silly prices. Details here.
Back on the subject of the Steam Deck, Ugreen's nice metallic docking station is on sale as well. It's one of the Steam Deck's best accessories, and with these discounts is less than half the price of Valve's official dock:
Ugreen Docking Station for Steam Deck - £30 from Amazon UK (was £38)
Ugreen Docking Station for Steam Deck - $31 from Amazon US (was $45)
How about a few non-Amazon goodies from the Anti-Prime Day deals list? Like the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X, which here in the UK, Ebuyer has for the same price as Bezos (give or take 50p).
Over in the States, Newegg have $30 off the Gigabyte G27Q gaming monitor. A good 1440/144Hz screen, this.
Ebuyer have also cut this MSI Katana 15 laptop by nearly £400. This is seriously good money for an RTX 4070 lappy - only 1080p, but at least that will make it easier to fill out the 144Hz refresh rate.
Back to Amazon now for some thrilling keyboard action. I've only just seen the Roccat Vulcan 121 is down 50% in the US - that's an even better deal than the closest equivalent Vulcan 120 deal here in the UK. Especially since the 121 model offers a choice of linear or tactile switches, not tactile or bust like on the 120.
If you did grab that Ryzen 5 7600X posted earlier, or indeed any Ryzen 7000 series CPU, you'll need some DDR5 RAM. Its still much pricier than DDR4 on average, though this cut-price 16GB kit from Crucial is unusually affordable:
Crucial DDR5-4800 16GB (2x8GB) - £36 from Amazon UK (was £62)
Morning campers. Let's start off by brazenly stealing a deal from Digital Foundry's Twitter: a Gold-rated, 1000W PSU for a mere £151.
Werthead says: I have a 4090-fuelled new PC build arriving later this week, so I've been eying a good 4K screen to go with it. Some nice 4K-60hz options but it feels that's putting a straitjacket over the 4090 before I even fire it up, but it seems the nanosecond they go over 60hz the price doubles. The BenQ is a nice price, but it's already gone back up to around £700.It's not technically part of the current round of sales, but the AOC U28G2XU2/BK is a great 4K/1440Hz monitor for £600.
Nice low price for the RPS gaming headset top pick, Logitech's G432:
Lightning deal on the 1TB SanDisk Ultra, a thrifty tool for massive expanding your Steam Deck storage. Get it while you can:
Couple of deals on modern classics coming up. First, the Logitech G502 Hero mouse is all the way down to £29...
...and the Logitech G432, our overall best gaming headset pick, is only £35.
If you don't mind SATA storage, this 2TB Samsung 870 Evo SSD deal looks good:
Since the States are just waking up, here are a couple of keyboard deals from Amazon US. The Logitech G915, one of the finest wireless mechanical keyboards (for its great switches and minimal latency) is on sale in both its full-size and tenkeyless guises:
Remember that MSI Katana 15 gaming laptop that Ebuyer had for cheap? The one with the RTX 4070? Amazon UK have it for even less.
Aha, an OLED gaming monitor - the first I've seen as part of a big sale event like this. Corsair's Xeneon 27QHD240 uses an OLED panel for perfect blacks and (deep voice) INFINITE CONTRAST, along with a 240Hz refresh rate for mega smoothness. There are much cheaper 1440p monitors if you stick to IPS and VA tech, mind.
The Intel Arc A750 just went off sale *seconds* before I finished writing a highlight post about it, hold me
In brighter news: at last, good deals on the HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless! The UK deal isn't even marked as a Prime Day sale, so you shouldn't need a Prime membership for it.
HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless - £142 from Amazon UK (was £190)
HyperX Cloud Alpha Wireless - $150 from Amazon US (was $200)
ICYMI, friend of RPS Will Judd wrote up a very respectable deal on the 2TB Crucial P3 Plus. It was more than twice that on Black Friday 2022!
One last highlight before my deal-typing fingers give out entirely. The Logitech StreamCam - a sharp-capturing and feature-rich webcam that I own and use myself - is 55% off, plummeting to £63. I think I paid something like £100 for mine, so this is a great opportunity to make me look like a berk.