Technically my job is to report, not preach, so for anyone wanting a cheap prebuilt game this Black Friday season: ta-daaaaaa. It’s a guide to the earliest Black Friday deals on desktop gaming!
… Okay, I’ll preach a bit. Buying pre-built is almost never better build your own PC; the second works cheaper, gives you complete granular control over the components, and is much easier than it looks. Pre-built desktops will save you an afternoon of labor but are more expensive, often have a lot of bloatware, and can make upgrading individual parts more difficult in the future. Some even use proprietary motherboard form factors, so you can’t swap them out.
However, that is your calling, and if you don’t want to build, you don’t want to build. In that case, your best bet is to stick with brands that regularly trade in custom-built PCs, like Overclockers UK or CyberPowerPC in the US. These use off-the-shelf parts, rather than the proprietary hardware you normally get in Acer or Alienware pre-builds, so any potential upgrade issues or threading glitches are generally avoided. undesirable atmosphere. And even though the big day isn’t until November 25, some of these handcrafted gaming PCs went on sale on Black Friday.
You’ll find these below and there are plenty of other early savings to be made in Black Friday PC gaming deals too central. That includes essential peripherals like a mouse and keyboard, as well as a multitude of standalone PC components. Suffice it to say, if you change your mind…
Black Friday gaming desktop deals
Trading in the UK:
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Refract Gaming Amber – £930 from Overclockers UK (was £950)This microATX system only has an Intel Core i3 chip, but its 1TB SSD should provide plenty of fast storage, and the RTX 3050 GPU will smoothly handle 1080p and even 1440p medium quality in most games. |
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Scan Gamer RTX – £1000 from Scan (was £1050)A mid-range, mid-range tower structure with AMD’s Ryzen 6 3600 and 1080p resolution RTX 3060. The 450W power supply is the only weak point. |
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Refract Gaming Jade – £1100 from Overclockers UK (was £1150)Gaming Jade’s RTX 3060 is ideal for high-fps 1080p and has some 1440p capabilities (especially with DLSS). It also has one of these Best gaming CPU of recent years, Intel Core i5-12400F and 1TB SSD. |
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Scan 3XS Gamer RTX (Core i5) – £1600 from Scan (was £1750)That’s £150 off for this high-spec RTX 3070 system, which also includes an updated Intel Core i5-13600K and 1TB of NVMe SSD storage. |
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Scan 3XS Gamer RTX (Core i7) – £1650 from Scan (was £1800)This PC uses the latest generation Intel Core i7-12700, but unlike the other Scan-integrated RTX 3070 system above, has a full-size ATX motherboard, leaving more space for upgrades potential hardware. |
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Scan 3XS Vengeance Ti – £3700 from Scan (was £4500)With the RTX 3090 Ti, water-cooled Intel Core i9-13900K, 32GB DDR5 memory, and 2TB NVMe SSD, this 4K-ready desktop costs nothing. Except, you know, the £800 discount. |
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