It’s time for Amazon’s Prime Early Access (opens in new tab) sale, or Prime Day the sequel as we like to call it around here. It’s happening at this very moment and this hub is where we’re corralling all the best gaming PC deals on prebuilt rigs. Despite this being a made-up Amazon sales day, there are some other retailers jumping into the game, including Newegg and custom PC builder iBuyPower.
Prime Early Access is already showing up discounts on RTX 30-series graphics card powered gaming PCs, along with AMD’s latest installments. Between the RTX 40-series release, AMD’s RDNA3 teasers, and Intel’s Arc GPUs, the market is getting a little heated. That means plenty of gaming PCs are seeing discounted prices in anticipation of a spicy, graphical battle royal.
Don’t get me wrong: the components in the gaming PCs on this list will stay relevant for some time. You’ll just have to make peace with the fact you’ll soon be a generation behind, GPU-wise. It might mean potentially two or three generations when it comes to CPUs, depending on your budget, but you can still get some decent gaming sessions in on the PCs below.
We’re seeing the most discounts on prebuilt machines with high-end GPUs like the RTX 3080, RTX 3080 Ti, Radeon RX 6900XT, etc. It makes sense as those cards be replaced first. The next generation offering is looking to be a significant performance increase over the current standard, so expect high-end machines to boast bigger savings.
Of course, the GPU makes up a huge portion of a gaming system’s prowess, but that’s not the only component to pay attention to. CPUs are seeing price drops due to the AMDs 7000-series announcements and Intel’s allusion to 13th Gen CPUs coming next year. On top of that, SSD prices continue to tumble, and RAM (at least DDR4) has never been cheaper.
We’ve spent the first day of the sale tracking down the best discounts, and updating this page with the best gaming PC deals they can find. So keep checking back to see what we’ve unearthed. Alternatively, if you’re in the market for a laptop, then check out the best Amazon Prime Early Access laptop deals (opens in new tab).
Where are the best Prime Early Access gaming PC deals?
- Amazon – Save up to $460 on RTX 3070 gaming PCs already (opens in new tab)
- PC Gamer’s favorite desktop – Alienware Aurora PCs from $1,176 (opens in new tab)
- iBuyPower – Fast shipping on machines with up to $360 off (opens in new tab)
- Best Buy – Save up to $300 on gaming desktops (opens in new tab)
- Lenovo – Legion Tower 7i with RTX 3070
$2,239.99$1,599.99 (opens in new tab) - Newegg – ABS Gaming PCs starting at $1,250 (opens in new tab)
- Microsoft – Save up to $500 on desktop and laptops (opens in new tab)
- Dell – Save up to $690 on Alienware PCs (opens in new tab)
- HP – Gaming PCs from $550 (opens in new tab)
- Corsair – Up to $800 off Corsair’s gaming PCs (opens in new tab)
- NZXT – Affordable gaming PCs starting at just $799 (opens in new tab)
- Walmart – Plenty of RTX 3060 gaming PCs here starting from $699 (opens in new tab)
- B&H Photo – Gaming machines starting at $799 (opens in new tab)
Gaming PCs
- RTX 3080 – iBuyPower Gaming RDY S6MBG201|
$2,399$1,899 at iBuyPower (save $400) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3070 – Skytech Shiva |
$1,899.99$1,439.99 at Amazon (save $460) (opens in new tab) - RX 6700 XT – Alienware Aurora R10 |
$1,699.99$1,175.99 at Dell (save $524) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3060 Ti – ABS Master Gaming PC |
$1,699.99$1,399.99 at Newegg (save $300) (opens in new tab) - RTX 3060 – HP Pavilion |
$899.99$699 at Walmart (save $200) (opens in new tab)
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When is Amazon Prime Early Access 2022?
Amazon Prime Early Access, or Prime Day 2, started at 12 am PT, Tuesday October 11, and will run all the way through to 11.59 pm on Wednesday October 12. These 48 hours will be an intense bout of PC gaming deals, before we get into the meatier discounts expected to drop on Black Friday—that’s November 25 for anyone willing to wait that long. Truly, Amazon isn’t messing around when it says Early Access. In fact, let’s just have a deal event every month.