It really is that time again: the time to sift through price histories, compare the latency numbers of two seemingly identical kits of RAM, get on your knees and yell at the sun when Amazon adds £5 to an SSD for no reason. That’s right, Black Friday 2022 is upon us, which means the early Black Friday deals on PC hardware too!
We’re doing things a little differently this year, essentially splitting our more focused Black Friday hubs (those that only feature gaming keyboard deals or graphics card deals, for example) with our friends at Eurogamer/Digital Foundry. That means you’ll be seeing more links to our in-house brethren in the run-up to Black Friday itself, November 25th, but this way you should get the best of both worlds: anyone willing to peruse some deals will find plenty of resources and recommendations, while RPS readers who’d rather ignore the yearly onslaught of affiliate links will see less of it in the latest feed.
I will be working on my share in the coming days and will link to these specialized hubs here once they are live. For now, here’s an all-in-one list of the absolute best early PC gaming deals I’ve found so far, with more to come.
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Black Friday SSD deals
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WD Blue SN570 1TB – £75 from Amazon UK (was £93)Not quite the cheapest ever, but still a good price for 1TB of fast PCIe 3.0 storage. If you have an empty M.2 slot on your motherboard and want to leave money for other upgrades, this is the SSD to buy. |
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WD Black SN850X 1TB – £118 from Amazon UK (was £158)This is a phenomenally fast PCIe 4.0 SSD – the second fastest for game load times we’ve tested. They could do a lot worse at the current price, but being a premium kit it may be worth waiting for a deeper cut until Black Friday gets closer. |
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WD Black SN770 1TB – £82 from Amazon UK (was £158)The SN770 has the high speed of a PCIe 4.0 SSD and the low price of a PCIe 3.0. Well, maybe not entirely on the latter. But it’s definitely one of your cheapest options to take advantage of 4.0 compatible CPUs and motherboards. |
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WD Black SN770 2TB – £145 from Ebuyer (was £190)The SN770 is also available from Ebuyer in a 2TB capacity. In terms of cost per gigabyte, this is actually a better deal than the 1TB model above. |
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Crucial BX500 1TB – £62 (was £74)SATA-based 2.5-inch SSDs are still a big upgrade over HDDs, even if they’re not NMe-fast. And the BX500 is one of the best, maintaining good speeds at prices that have steadily declined throughout 2022. |
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Crucial BX500 2TB – £126 (was £184)As above, only with twice the capacity. |
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SanDisk Ultra 1TB microSD – £110 from Amazon UK (was £218)Hey, a microSD card is still an SSD. Type of. This particular one is also one of the best microSD cards for the Steam Deck, and it’s even cheaper than usual. |
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Black Friday Gaming Monitor Deals
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Acer Nitro XF243Y – $130 from Best Buy (was $220)That’s an absolute sucker for a 165Hz gaming monitor, even with compromises like the not-very-adjustable stand. The 1080p IPS panel also plays well with AMD FreeSync, which syncs the refresh rate to your graphics card’s FPS output, preventing screen tearing. |
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LG 32GP750-B – $300 from Amazon US (was $500)For those who prefer a roomier, more expansive screen, the speedy 32-inch 32GP750-B with IPS is back down to its Prime Early Access Sale price. However, this time it’s available to everyone, not just Prime members. |
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Samsung Odyssey G5 – $250 from Best Buy (was $400)Best Buy has a big saving over the Odyssey G5’s 27-inch flat-screen model, a 1440p monitor maxing out the refresh rate at 165Hz. |
Black Friday gaming mouse deals
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Logitech G502 Hero – $39 from Amazon US (was $80)Ol’ reliable. Great feel, lots of remappable buttons, adjustable weights, a fast sensor… you can’t go wrong with a G502 Hero for gaming. |
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Razer Naga Trinity – $60 (was $100)The Naga Trinity’s party trick is the removable side plates, which allow you to customize the layout of the thumb buttons up to a set of 12 individual inputs. This makes it perfect for MMOs or any other game with multiple pages full of tax bindings. |
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Razer DeathAdder V2 Pro – $60 (was $130)Razer’s comfortable, high-performance wireless rodent is back down to the same price as it was a few weeks ago during the Prime Early Access Sale. |
Black Friday Gaming Keyboard Deals
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SteelSeries Apex 3 – £50 from Amazon UK (was £70)Membrane keyboards like the Apex 3 have an advantage over mechanical models: they are much quieter, without annoying click-clack. The specific membrane design that Steelseries uses in its Apex keyboards isn’t as unsatisfactorily squishy as you’d fear, either. |
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Roccat Pyro – £65 at Amazon UK (was £90)The Pyro is one of my favorite cheapest mechanical keyboards with a clean design and fast linear switches. |
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Cooler Master SK652 – £50 from Ebuyer (was £70)While Cooler Masters are somewhat of a wild card in the gaming keyboard arena, they make some good stuff, including low-profile boards like the SK652. It’s fully mechanical so a steal at this price point. |
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MSI MAG Z690 Tomahawk – $260 from Best Buy (was $280)MSI’s Tomahawk motherboards are pretty much always a good choice. This is an all-singing, all-dancing model for 12th Gen Intel processors, and it should work with 13th Gen chips after a BIOS update. |
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NXZT N7 Z590 – $168 from Best Buy (was $280)If you want something a little different, the N7 Z590 – and its board-wide armor – is on release. However, it uses the Intel 1200 socket and is therefore designed for older 11th Gen Intel CPUs. |
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Black Friday gaming laptop deals
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Razer Blade 14 – £1686 from Amazon UK (was £2200)Razer Blade laptops never forget that even the most powerful gaming laptop still needs to be portable. And this model is a good example of packing an RTX 3070 into a slim body built around the 14-inch, 1440p, 165Hz display. |
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Razer Blade 17 – £1200 from Ebuyer (was £2200)Another enticing Razer Blade deal, this time on a 17.3-inch model with an RTX 3060. Stretching a 1080p resolution across 17-inches doesn’t make for the sharpest screens, but at least the refresh rate is cranked all the way up to 360H. and there’s a generous 1TB of SSD space to boot from. |
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Gigabyte A5 X1 – £1199 from Ebuyer (was £1350)Gigabyte’s gaming laptops tend to be physically unremarkable but are generally well-equipped. You could easily say that about the A5 X1, which packs an RTX 3070 (for a lot less money than some other 3070 laptops), a Ryzen 9 5900HX processor, and a 15.6-inch 1080p display that clocks up to 240Hz . |
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Asus TUF Gaming F15 – $610 (was $650)If high GPU prices make building an entry-level PC difficult, you could try an entry-level laptop instead. The F15 has a relatively basic 8GB of RAM and Nvidia’s GTX 1650 GPU, but there are thousands of games that will run just fine with those on the 1080p 144Hz display. |
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Asus ROG Zephyrus 14 – $1300 from Best Buy (was $1650)Even with a particularly high aspect ratio, this ROG Zephyrus 14 model is well-equipped with a Radeon RX 6700S GPU and 1TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD storage. |
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