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There are still a ton of great Cyber Monday gaming PC deals alive out there. And our Andy has been running the rule over what’s left and in his wisdom he’s calling out these as the five best gaming PC deals still going strong today.
Look at it. JUST LOOK AT IT! Now, that’s a controller.
Seriously, this 8BitDo pad is outstanding. Not even just for the fact that it’s only $25 right now in the Cyber Monday sales, but because of what you get in it. We’re talking Hall effect sticks, so no more drift, AND Hall effect triggers, too.
Normally we find it hard to look past the stock controllers from Microsoft and Sony for a pad recommendation; they’re just so well built and genuinely affordable. But the 8BitDo Ultimate 2C has everything they do, and more.
Our Jacob has been testing it recently for a review and has become rather enamoured with the controller.
Just a good old fashioned great PC for a great price. There are cheaper RTX 4070 Super machines, but this one comes with a spec so well rounded that you will not be able to find a tangible flaw in this build.
Normally we will complain about a miserly 1 TB of SSD storage space in a $1,400 gaming PC, but not here, because iBuyPower has jammed a full 2 TB drive in there. We won’t complain about the memory so much, but we do expect at least 16 GB of RAM in our modern gaming PCs. Here iBuyPower has gone over and above again, with 32 GB of the good stuff in there. And I mean good stuff, too, because it’s quick 6000 MT/s DDR5, which is just about the sweet spot for that Intel Core i7 CPU.
It’s a quality spec, for a quality machine.
The Lemokey G1 is an excellent, affordable wireless gaming mouse, now made even more affordable thanks to the Cyber Monday deals. It’s accurate, lightweight, and feels good in the hand. In fact, I think I might prefer it to the DeathAdder V3 Pro which I use every day, and which now feels rather chunky in my soft gamer hands.
With the Lemokey G1 at just $52 at Amazon you’re getting a serious wireless gaming mouse for the money. With key specs, such as the 30K DPI, and 750 IPS tracking, it’s a great mouse for gaming.
Though I would ask you to ignore the 8K polling rate stuff; that’s of dubious benefit at the best of times, and here it doesn’t really work brilliantly and will just drain the battery more than is really necessary.
No rebate, no Prime members only shenanigans, just the cheapest price we’ve seen the Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super retailing for ever. Now, granted it’s not a spectacular discount in real terms—while the MSI MSRP is down as $839.99, the standard MSRP was $799.99—this is still the most affordable the card has been.
In the run up to the new GeForce generation dropping in January you might question spending even the $740 the MSI RTX 4070 Ti Super is going for on Amazon. That is a valid concern, and if you’re happy with your current setup and reckon you’d fine waiting until at least the middle of 2025 to upgrade, then by all means wait and see what launches in that price bracket, and wait for it to come back into stock after the first flush of RTX 50-series GPUs get swallowed up.
But if you’re after a new graphics card today, and one that is pretty damned powerful but not too punitively priced, then the RTX 4070 Ti Super—dumb name and all—is a worthy purchase.
Boo, the most affordable 4K OLED gaming monitor, that MSI one that was on sale for $700 over the past week, has lost its discount. Now that one is back up to $867 at Amazon.
Nightmare.
Well, not too much of a nightmare because the 240 Hz version of that MSI OLED, the MSI MAG 321UPX is still on sale for less, for $800 at Amazon. It sucks that it’s $100 more than the Black Friday deal, but is still a great price for a 32-inch 4K OLED gaming monitor that was once around the $1,000 mark.
In fact, most of the other 4K OLEDs using the same 32-inch panel are still retailing for over $1,000, so this still represents a good Cyber Monday gaming monitor deal.
Wireless gaming mice are grand, but largely a nice-to-have luxury. Wireless gaming keyboards are… well, IMO kinda pointless at best and a pain in the butt at worst. But wireless gaming headsets, that’s a PC peripheral that I would say was made for low latency wireless protocols.
Though it must be said a good wireless mouse is more affordable today than ever before. But I digress.
The thing is, whether you think the cable on a mouse is unsightly, unless it’s frustratingly stiff and gets in the way while you’re playing it will have no material effect on the performance of the mouse. The same goes with keyboards, though it’s actually even less useful as you keyboard, ideally, shouldn’t be moving around as you type, negating any freedom-of-movement benefit from being wireless.
But a wired gaming headset tethering your head to your PC is an abomination. Not only are you guaranteed at some point to stand up from desk while wearing your headset and either yank the cable out, bend the plug, or tip over your PC, but you will also hear that cable. You know that sound when the cable’s rubbing against your clothes as you move your head around, and it translates into the ear cups strapped to your head? Yeah, you don’t get any of that with a wireless headset.
So, I’m firmly in the pro wireless headset corner, and this Cyber Monday there are deals on the good, better, best cable-free cans that we recommend as the best wireless gaming headsets.
- Best budget wireless headset: Corsair HS55 | $55 @ Newegg
- Best overall wireless headset: HyperX Cloud Alpha wireless | $124 @ Amazon
- Best high-end wireless headset: Audeze Maxwell | $268 @ Amazon
From a pure price per gigabyte metric, these are the best-value SSDs around right now. Now, that doesn’t mean they are the absolute best in their capacity class—there are faster drives for not a lot more cash in our regularly updated best Cyber Monday SSD deals page, such as the 1 TB Nextorage NEM-PAB which is up there with the fastest PCIe 4.0 drives, for just $68 at Newegg ($0.068 / GB).
But on a pure costing basis, for the amount of storage space you get in return these three drives are the absolute lost price/GB SSDs on sale right now.
You know what I love most in tech? A piece of kit that punches above its weight class, something that delivers build quality and great value. That’s where I am with the Corsair TC100 Relaxed gaming chair. Is it the outright best place to park your butt when gaming? No, those are more expensive. But it is a really, really good chair. And what’s more it’s still retaining its Black Friday discount being just $180 at Best Buy.
And Corsair. And B&H Photo. In fact, it’s only not on Amazon because it had a run on the chairs and now it’s out of stock, which is the second time in a week that it’s gone out of stock at the retailer.
Which is the best part of this particular deal. Not only is it a great product, and not only is it available at an unprecedentedly low price, but it’s also available at that price in three separate locations, which gives me hope that anyone who wants one has a good chance of being able to buy one at this discounted price.
Okay, so it’s not specifically a ‘deal’ but if you’re at all interested in VR this is where the smart money goes. The Meta Quest 3S is the best-value gateway to virtual reality, being essentially an updated version of the classic Quest 2 for around the same money.
Representing more of a step up, however, is the Quest 3, which ups the ante again for comfort and visuals. I think, even at its $500 price tag, it’s a good price for the best VR headset around. So much so, that I bought one for my wonderful big brother’s birthday; happy birthday, Rich! 🎁
I would absolutely recommend getting a new head strap, though, because the basic ones are pretty rubbish.
There were some outstanding screens on offer over Black Friday, and I’m happy to report that three of our favorite OLED gaming monitors over that time are still on offer over the weekend. They all fill a spot in our Cyber Monday gaming monitor deals hub, and offer different displays for different kinds of gamer.
But, crucially, they’re all three OLED panels for under $900, which is testament to how the market has developed over the past year.
There are two ultrawide monitors, one a 34-incher and the other ultrawiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiide, at 49-inches. Then there is my personal favorite, the 32-inch 4K OLED from MSI for $700 at Amazon. That would be where my would go, because I love the 4K OLED I’m using at the moment, and I think it’s a great panel.
If you want to do a Bane and “go mobile” you could do a lot worse than the handheld gaming PCs still on offer as we come into Cyber Monday. Batman’s Bane? Too obscure? Ah, I’m going to run with it. Two of the best gaming handhelds are rocking a hefty discount right now, with the LCD Steam Deck available for a stunningly cheap, almost Nintendo Switch-level price at $337 from Steam.
There’s also our top pick overall, the ROG Ally X, for $700 at Best Buy right now, and it’s older sibling is $485 at Amazon. Those two handhelds essentially use the same APU, so will deliver similar performance, but the Ally X is the better of the two, with a better screen, better cooling, and a much bigger battery. But the old ROG Ally, with the Z1 Extreme chip, was still a good device… so long as you didn’t use an SD card with it. They were prone to, erm, breaking.
Just make sure you go for the one with the Z1 Extreme chip in it, not the straight Ryzen Z1 chip. That version of the Ally is also on sale for what looks like a good price, but the difference between the two chips is such that I wouldn’t want the lower-spec Ally even at its deal price. I’d absolutely go with the Steam Deck over the Z1 Ally.
There are some deals I’m particularly happy about them having survived Black Friday and still being on offer over Cyber Monday and into Cyber Week. This being one of them. I love the Mountain Everest 60 keyboard, and I’ve played with every enthusiast keeb going, yet this is still the one I come back to.
☝️ That’s me cradling my own Everest 60 looking tired because I am still live blogging deals.
Over Black Friday it was $40 for Amazon Prime Members, but now it $40 at Amazon for everyone. So, everyone should buy one.
Though the older TKL Everest board is also on offer for $40 at the Mountain store, and there’s the full-fat Everest Max, with all the wrist rest, numpad, and controller extras included for $80, too. That was a nigh $300 kit when it launched, btw.
🚨CHEAPEST RTX 4070 GAMING LAPTOP ALERT🚨
This is the absolute cheapest RTX 4070 gaming laptop I’ve ever seen. The Lenovo LOQ range of laptops was always meant to be its more budget oriented line of gaming laptops, but they launched at a price that just didn’t make sense considering their constraints. But we’ve seen some good discounts on them over Black Friday, and now this is probably my favorite Cyber Monday gaming laptop deal, and it’s not even Monday yet.
The miserly 512 GB SSD is pretty Scrooge-like, but aside from that the spec on offer here is outstanding for the money, and will make a fantastic gaming machine for someone. The RTX 4070 is a genuine 115 W version, so a very capable pixel pusher, and I’ve always been a big fan of Lenovo’s laptop keyboards; they the best in the business.
It’s a win from me.
iBuyPower is currently sitting pretty atop our guide to the best gaming PC you can buy right now, and it’s also got a full suite of fantastic offers we’ve just dropped into our Cyber Monday gaming PC deals hub.
We’ve had its rigs on this list for the super budget RTX 4060 machines over the Black Friday period, but here I want to highlight the more powerful, but still almost affordable gaming PCs it has on discount at the moment.
Just don’t forget the sneaky BLACKFRIDAY promo code for the big added discounts on the list price you’ll see on the iBuyPower site.
We have seen some cheaper RTX 4060-powered gaming PCs over Black Friday, but they’re all out of stock right now. There are also cheaper options available right now, but none that have a spec that I’m as confident about as this Yeyian machine.
It’s another Yeyian Tanto gaming PC, for $750 at Newegg, but comes with the 10-core, 14-thread Core i5 13400F. I know there’s been a lot made of Intel’s troubles with the 13th and 14th Gen chips, but so long as you get your mobo’s BIOS updated (as you should anyways) then there won’t be any issue with this impressive budget machine.
One of those new Cyber Monday gaming laptop deals I was talking about is actually the best-value RTX 4070 machine that I think I’ve ever seen. I’ve been working all hours over the past week, so my brain might be a little mushy at this point, but I don’t remember seeing another RTX 4070 gaming laptop that I’d actually buy at this price point. The HP Victus 16 is just $930 at Best Buy today. Seriously.
There’s nothing really that sticks out as a big 🚩either. That RTX 4070 seems to be either a 115 or 120 W TGP, so should be pretty damned performant, and you’re getting plenty speed 16 GB of DDR5 memory, too. Obviously that 512 GB is going to be an issue down the line, but the Victus 16 has a spare M.2 easily accessible under the rear casing, so you can just drop in a new 1 or 2 TB SSD as and when you need more space.
Right. Let’s have it.