The Best Prime Day Gaming Hardware Deals

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There are many pains that come with being a gamer, but one of the worst places it hurts is the wallet. To really get into the cutting-edge games of the future, you need to keep your hardware up to speed. And that costs money! GPUs are thankfully down from their crypto-driven price peaks, but you can still expect to shell out a lot for a well-equipped gaming desktop or laptop. That is, of course, unless you shop smart. Amazon is having Prime Big Deal Days, and other merchants are dropping prices to match. We did the legwork and set it up sou you can save hundreds of dollars with the deals we have below.

This is a juicy gaming laptop with slick cyberpunk-styled LED rims and an aggressive attitude. For Prime Big Deal Days, you can get $300 off retail The Strix G16 demands attention both inside and out, with a powerful Intel i9 processor and 16GB of RAM driving a GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card. A full terabyte of SSD storage rounds out the hardware. Great deal—probably won't last long!

Taking seven hundred bucks off this portable powerhouse drops it down into contention for slightly tighter budgets. You definitely get what you pay for with the Alienware x16. It's a bulky but beastly gaming laptop that can handle just about everything you throw at it, with a 13th Gen Intel Core i9-13900HK processor that clocks up to 5.4GHz and 32GB of onboard RAM. Massive storage and a satisfyingly clicky keyboard round out the deal. Check out our full review here.

ASUS ROG Strix Scar 15 Gaming Laptop for $1,499.99 (list price $2,049.99)

Alienware M16 Gaming Laptop for $1,399.99 (list price $1,999.99)

ASUS TUF Gaming A17 17.3" Gaming Laptop for $1,399.99 (list price $1,799.99)

MSI Sword 15 15.6" Gaming Laptop for $899.99 (list price