So, you want to pick from the best Black Friday gaming laptop deals, but don’t really know what you should be looking out for? Well, we’ve picked out a selection of quality deals in our own deal lists, but it’s also worth taking some time to think about what exactly you need and what makes sense for you.

As part of our suite of helpful tips, our Jacob has compiled a list of five things you need to think about when you’re looking to buy your first gaming laptop. And even if it isn’t your first, there are some real salient points to consider. Give ’em a look.

Five things I want you to think about before you buy your first gaming laptop

I know we’ve got it up there 👆 already in the top deals slot at number one, but it bears repeating that this is an excellent price for a full RTX 4070 Ti Super gaming PC. That Nvidia GPU is running with the same silicon as the RTX 4080, albeit a slightly cut down version, yet it gets mighty close in terms of gaming performance.

But it’s not just the headline-grabbing graphics card choice which sets this $1,650 ABS system from Newegg apart, it’s also got a quality supporting spec, too. The eight-core, 16-thread AMD Zen 4 CPU is super reliable, and a great gaming chip, and the full 32 GB of DDR5 is impressive, too. You could maybe hope for a 2 TB SSD to go along with that, but you’d be wishing to the wind at this price; the 1 TB drive is fine for the bizarrely named Aeolian-M Ruby.

Seriously, ABS, who comes up with these names?

If that doesn’t work for you we have a bunch of other Black Friday gaming PCs with impressive discounts and great specs for you to check out.

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first gaming monitor

If you want a little assistance figuring out what you ought to be looking for when you’re buying your first gaming monitor I’ve got a little advice for you based on my many years of prodding and squaring my eyeballs with the best screens around.

And once you’re done checking that out, have a look at our Black Friday gaming monitor deals hub, because there are some stellar discounts on some great panels out there already.

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If I’m buying a Black Friday gaming laptop then I might find it tough to look past the excellent Asus TUF A14 I recently had the chance to test. It’s a surprisingly premium 14-inch gaming laptop considering it’s part of Asus’ more affordable TUF range. It’s beautifully designed, remarkably slim, and comes with AMD’s outstanding Strix Point CPU.

And it’s heavily discounted, by $150, over at Walmart right now, with the Asus TUF A14 for just $1,349.

Everyone wants to be heard, right? And if you want to be heard with absolute clarity then there’s only one choice: a Shure microphone. There’s a reason that you will see Shure mics whenever you watch the livestream of any popular podcast, and that’s because they are the best-sounding, easiest-to-use professional-quality microphone around. The latest release, the Shure MV7+ has gone straight in as the best podcasting mic, and it’s already on offer this Black Friday.

If that’s a little too rich for your blood, however, there is another. One of the other recent Shure releases is the Shure MV6. It’s $100 cheaper than the MV7+, even without a Black Friday discount. It’s still an outstanding mic and is our current pick as the best gaming microphone around today.

One of the simplest upgrades you can make to your laptop or gaming PC—so long as your system has a spare slot—is to jam a whole new SSD into your machine. Let’s face it, we always need more storage space because, after all, it’s a pain having to install and uninstall games, juggling your installed Steam library just so you can fit it around your Windows install.

When you can pick up cheap 2 TB SSDs for well under $100, and really good 2 TB drives for just over $100, it’s really an upgrade worth making with the current Black Friday SSD deals going down.

We’ve been creating a suite of advice columns to help when you’re looking to buy your first piece of PC gaming tech. I’m a total GPU nerd and have been obsessed with graphics cards since I first started as a PC gaming tech hack back in the early 2000s, so this is one of the first ones I’ve created.

Five things I always tell people before they buy their first graphics card

Did someone say AMD GPU?

In light of new graphics cards coming from all three of the discrete GPU manufacturers in the coming months I’m cautiously optimistic that we’ll actually see some good graphics card deals this Black Friday week. And, case in point, here’s one of the best current-gen AMD Radeon GPUs, the RX 7800 XT, on sale for $60 under the original $499 MSRP.

If you want to get yourself a brand new gaming laptop, but baulk at paying gaming laptop prices, then this Asus machine should be your Black Friday go-to. It’s just $700 for a full system that will deliver gaming performance well beyond what your standard RTX 4050 laptop can for the same money.

It’s an all-AMD setup, with a Radeon RX 7700S GPU and a Ryzen 7 7735HS CPU. It’s got a high refresh 16:10 screen, 16 GB of DDR5 memory, and the only thing I don’t rate is that 512 GB SSD. It’s a bit miserly in 2024 with the sort of size game installs we’re getting, but it’s also an easy upgrade down the line.

And hey, we’ve got Black Friday SSD deals for days.

A full gaming PC setup, including mouse, keyboard, and gaming monitor for just $800? Yup, it is possible and no, it won’t be a question of getting some ancient rig with an old RTX 3050 graphics card… or worse, no graphics card at all!

This is a full iBuyPower system (including mouse and keyboard) which is on sale right now for a penny under $700, and comes with an RTX 4060, an excellent budget Core i5 CPU, 16 GB DDR5-5200 RAM, and a full 1 TB SSD. Stick a 27-inch 1080p gaming monitor with a 165 Hz refresh rate into the mix and there you have it; an outstanding budget gaming PC setup out of the box.

Win.

If you want to get yourself an OLED gaming monitor, and not one of those rubbish 27-inch 1440p jobbies, then the Black Friday gaming monitor deals are where it’s at. Most specifically a pair of 32-inch 4K panels, one with a Samsung QD-OLED and the other with a slightly brighter LG WOLED display. Both are great, but will suit different sizes of bank account.

The first one I want to highlight is actually my favorite wee gaming keyboard. It’s the one I have sitting on my desk at home, and the one I use every single day, whether it’s for work or to game on. The Mountain Everest 60 has been my go-to keeb since it first landed on my desk and that hasn’t changed even after all the excellent boards I’ve cast my digits over since.

Right now the Everest 60 is just $40 at Amazon for Prime Members, but even at $50 without entry to Jeff’s Gang it’s still a steal and our current pick as the best budget gaming keyboard.

It’s diddy, RGB-lit, has fully hot-swappable switches and is beautifully dampened to deliver a fantastic typing experience. You might say I’m a bit of a fan.