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While not explicitly a deal as such, the fact that the Radeon RX 9070 is finally available for close to its original launch price/MSRP is definitely something to celebrate. And celebrate it I did last week, when I made AMD’s second-tier RDNA 4 GPU our pick as the best graphics card for most PC gamers.
I’ll be honest, that was a tough journey to be on, trying to figure out what to recommend as the best graphics cards of 2025, especially given all the tough times we’ve been facing with scarcity, scalping, gouging, and tariff-related price hikes. But now we’re close to the $549 MSRP with a $600 ASRock RX 9070 at Newegg today.
In terms of performance, it gets seriously close to both the RX 9070 XT and the RTX 5070 Ti, both more expensive GPUs, especially when you bring in some easy overclocking.
Honestly, that’s a ridiculously low price for a genuinely good wireless gaming mouse.
Speaking of SSDs… Crucial’s new P510 has single-handedly created a whole new class of storage drives: the best budget PCIe 5.0 SSD. Up to now PCIe 5.0 drives have been hot, expensive, and largely pointless, but the new Crucial P510 uses some new NAND flash memory and Phison’s latest controller to create a budget drive that is absolutely nailing price-to performance right now. It’s just $100 for the 1 TB version at Amazon today, offering up to 11,000 MB/s read speeds out of the block.
Sure, you might only have one PCIe 5.0 slot in your machine, but now you don’t have to pay through the nose to fill it up with something worthwhile.
Crucial P510 | PC Gamer score: 86%
“With its own 276-layer NAND and Phison’s latest controller, this budget drive absolutely dominates those price-to-performance ratios and then some. If you’re looking for a cheap, affordable, versatile SSD for your next system, the P510 is a fine pick and well worth considering.”
Our pick as the best SSD for gaming right now, Sandisk’s new WD_Black SN7100, is on offer right now, with the 1 TB version on sale for $70 and the 2 TB drive being $138 over at Newegg.
This is the direct successor to the SN850X, our previous SSD pick, and it’s a fantastic, affordable update to a classic PCIe 4.0 SSD. In our review we said: “Despite product stack confusion, WD’s latest Black SN7100 delivers some seriously impressive performance, particularly on the read front. It’s cool, delivers where it needs to and is aggressively priced. Perfect for any gaming PC or console.“
Welcome, one and all. It’s Prime Day week for really reals, and there are already a bunch of decent deals live on Amazon ahead of the main event, and from all the other retailers going early on the sales front. Though, with 4th July just last week, most of the ‘sales’ events are just rolling right on into each other.
Whatever, I’m signing on to start picking through my absolute favorite deals around right now.
