Black Friday is here, which means it's time to grab some new gaming gear at fantastic prices, or perhaps an entire new system.

Discounts on thousands of gaming-related products have hit various online marketplaces, and Amazon is no stranger to massive savings throughout Black Friday, especially when it comes to electronics. Pre-built PCs have been heavily discounted on the online retailer, with savings on select products of up to $400.

Buying a pre-built PC means you won't have to go through the hassle of installing the parts manually yourself, and while it will cost more money than purchasing all the parts individually and manually setting up the PC, it will save you time and is much more convenient.

Laptop prices have been slashed on Amazon in celebration of Black Friday, and discounts are massive, with potential savings of more than $1,000 on select models.

Black Friday is a prime time to pick up some new pieces of technology at fantastic prices, and browsing Amazon, there are a plethora of options available. Black Friday is a great opportunity to replace that old piece of technology you have been enduring with some shinier, faster, and more reliable, especially when the newer model is discounted by 74%.

Yes, discounts are that high, and on that specific product the savings are more than $1,000 if you buy it during Black Friday. Below are some of the biggest deals on laptops I found while browsing Amazon, and I have included the original price of the product, the current sale price, the percentage discount, and the amount of money you will save if you purchase it during Black Friday. Happy shopping!

Black Friday has arrived and that means thousands of products are heavily discounted across most major retailers, including Amazon, which has slashed the prices of several popular gaming monitors.

A new gaming monitor is one of the best ways to make your old setup feel brand new, and there isn't a better time during the year than late November to grab one, as there is plenty of choice when it comes to brand, specifications, and most importantly, price. Amazon has been inundated with Black Friday deals, particularly on gaming monitors, with discounts ranging up to 42% off on select products.

The deals have hit some of the biggest gaming monitor brands, such as MSI, ASUS, and Samsung. Below I have included some of my favorite deals I found browsing through the online retailer, and included the original price, current price, percentage that it's discounted, and the amount of money you will save if you purchase it during the Black Friday promotional period.

The Black Friday madness is upon us, and that means you can grab that new piece of technology or gaming equipment you have had your eyes on at bargain prices.

Amazon has covered its entire online marketplace in Black Friday deals, with thousands of products now heavily discounted for a limited time. One of the sectors hit by discounts is the Tech & Gaming category, which covers everything from a PS5 to an Apple MacBook Air 2025.

Below I have listed some of the best deals currently available on Amazon, which include the PS5 Digital Edition, MacBook Air 2025 13-inch, an ASUS gaming monitor, an SSD, and other items that have been heavily discounted.

Black Friday deals are kicking off nice and early, which means it's a great time to snag products you have been holding out on.

JIGOO is discounting some of its mattress cleaners in celebration of Black Friday, slashing prices on its handheld vacuums. The JIGOO J300 is one of the more advanced mattress-cleaning vacuums, offering a tech-heavy package at a very accessible price point. For Black Friday, JIGOO has slashed the price of the J300 down to $79.99, making its 500W motor that delivers 13 kPa of suction even more of an attractive deal.

Additionally, the J300 is paired with UV-C light, ultrasonic waves, and a 131°F (55 °C) heating system, designed to help eliminate dust mites and allergens from the surface it's moving across. Furthermore, it has a built-in dust sensor that monitors surface cleanliness in real time, alerting the user when the surface is 100% clean. With its double-cup design, sponge filtration, and a compact handheld form, the J300 is ideal for beds, sofas, and pet-heavy households.

The biggest shopping event of the year is here, and so are the jaw-dropping software deals you've been waiting for! The GoDeal24 Black Friday Sale offers an incredible opportunity to upgrade your PC with genuine lifetime licenses at prices that don't reach the sky. For a limited time only, you can secure a lifetime license to MS Office Professional 2021 for just $29.28 (Reg. $249). With this license, you get the complete professional suite trusted by millions worldwide: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, OneNote, Publisher, Access, and Teams (free version). Packed with new features, faster performance, and improved compatibility, Office 2021 is ideal for students, professionals, freelancers, and families who need powerful tools without ongoing subscription fees.

If your computer is still running an older version of Windows, Black Friday is the perfect time to switch to Microsoft's newest, fastest, and most secure operating system. For just $12.28 (Reg. $199), you can enjoy everything Windows 11 Professional has to offer. Windows 11 Pro provides a sleek, modern interface with enhanced multitasking tools like Snap Layouts, as well as advanced security features such as TPM 2.0, BitLocker, and Smart App Control. Designed for professionals, creatives, and everyday users, it delivers speed, stability, and smarter workflows. Gamers will notice the difference - with DirectX 12 Ultimate enabling ultra-realistic visuals and smoother gameplay.

The standout feature, though, is Microsoft Copilot, your built-in AI assistant. It helps you work smarter by summarizing content, generating text or images, launching apps, tweaking settings, or even writing code - all without leaving your workflow. At just $29.28 for Office 2021 and $12.28 for Windows 11, these are the lowest prices of the year, guaranteed. Once the Black Friday window closes, these discounts disappear - and so does your chance to upgrade at record-low cost.

NVIDIA is showcasing a new batch of PC games getting DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support this week, alongside some Battlefield 6 goodies as part of the Season of RTX. On the DLSS 4 front, one of the pleasant surprises is that we got some DLSS 4 gameplay for the upcoming release of Tides of Annihilation, a game that still doesn't have a release date.

Tides of Annihilation, from Chinese studio Eclipse Glow Games, is a new third-person action-adventure set in a "shattered" fantastical take on modern London, with a story inspired by Arthurian legend. This one has a lot of hype behind it based on the announcement trailers and gameplay seen so far, which feature impressive visuals, grandiose scope, and fast-paced balletic action.

Headed to all platforms, the PC version will include DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation support, and NVIDIA's trailer for the game showcases how DLSS 4 improves performance, from around 80 FPS in 4K with Max Settings to 300+ FPS on a GeForce RTX 5090. With a DLSS performance trailer, it's safe to assume that Tides of Annihilation is on track for a 2026 release.

Ever since AMD announced and released its latest FSR 4 update for its new RDNA 4 generation of graphics cards, which shifted its Super Resolution upscaling algorithm to a powerful AI solution, existing Radeon gamers with RDNA 2 or RDNA 3 GPUs have been wondering whether they've been officially left behind.

Although AMD hasn't formally announced that FSR 4 support is coming to RDNA 3 and RDNA 2 GPUs like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX or Radeon RX 6800 XT, the company has continued to state that FSR is open source and platform-agnostic. This means FSR 4, like FSR 3, should be available to all Radeon gamers, alongside PC gamers with GeForce RTX cards. However, that's not the case - and the feeling is that it might never be.

AMD's big FSR Redstone update for FSR 4 is set to launch on December 10, alongside a presentation on its new AI-powered features, including Ray Regeneration, Neural Radiance Caching, and Frame Generation. But, these "new performance and visual enhancements" will be exclusive to RDNA 4-powered Radeon RX 9000 Series graphics cards. Once again, leaving RDNA 2 and RDNA 3 Radeon gamers behind.

CyberPowerPC is one of the biggest names in pre-built gaming PCs and laptops, making it easier for those who aren't keen on shopping for individual parts or building a PC from scratch. And with the company's Black Friday Sales offering savings on its range of systems and gear, it has taken to social media to confirm that, as of December 7, the prices for 'all systems' will increase due to market conditions.

Due to memory (RAM) prices surging by 500% and even SSD prices rising by 100%, this has already impacted the cost of the PCs it has been building since October 2025. CyberPowerPC is making the announcement now to "remain fully transparent" with the PC gaming community and, given the timing so close to the holiday season, is aware it's "not ideal."

"Please know that CyberPowerPC will continue to strive to acquire the highest quality components at the best prices to ensure our customers continue to get top-performing systems with the best value on the market," the post concludes. Now, we're not posting this just to highlight that CyberPowerPC's system prices are about to increase, but also to warn that this may be indicative of a seismic wave of post-Black Friday Sales price increases set to hit the PC gaming market.

The IEEE ISSCC 2026 conference kicks off in February 2026, where SK hynix and Samsung will be showing off their very latest GDDR7, LPDDR6, and HBM4 memory products.

In the list of sessions at ISSCC 2026 is "DRAM, SRAM, and Non-Volatile Memories" and just that section alone -- outside of the hundreds of topics and sessions across the 5 days, we have SK hynix presenting its 1cnm SRAM 16Gb LPDDR6 memory with 14.4Gbps per pin of bandwidth, and its new 48Gbps 24Gb modules of GDDR7 memory for "mid-range" inference AI performance.

Samsung on the other hand will be showing off its new 36GB HBM4 modules with 3.3TB/sec of bandwidth per channel, and its new 16Gb LPDDR6 memory with 12.8Gbps of bandwidth.

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has some words of reckoning in regards to skyrocketing RAM prices, where he says that they will be a "real problem" for the high-end gaming market for "several years" to come.

We have all seen the explosive uptick in RAM prices over the last few weeks and months, with the AI race being blamed as companies are gobbling up as much high-end GPU technology it can, and all of them come with copious amounts of RAM (GDDR7 and HBM3, HBM3E, and HBM4).

Sweeney posted on X, where he said: "RAM price increases will be a real problem for high-end gaming for several years. Factories are diverting leading edge DRAM capacity to meet AI needs where data centers are bidding far higher than consumer device makers".

Microsoft's Notepad is one of those simple legacy apps that has been around for decades. It has been a go-to app for countless Windows users because it offers fast and straightforward text-based editing and note-taking. That said, the Notepad in Windows 11 is a version of the app that has seen several functionality updates, including tab support, text formatting for links and headings, and AI-powered rewrite and summarize tools.

As part of a new update available to Windows Insiders in the Canary and Dev Channels on Windows 11, Notepad (version 11.2510.6.0) now supports creating tables. The new option appears in the toolbar, and, in keeping with Notepad's lightweight, fast theme, it's a simple drop-down menu that lets you create a Table by selecting the number of rows and columns using a grid.

There's also some right-click functionality to add or remove rows and columns; however, the initial response to the update has been mixed, as the general feeling is that Notepad's basic text and note-taking functionality is what keeps it lightweight. And the more Notepad features Microsoft adds, the more it's going to lose sight of its original intention and become another unoptimized Windows app with too many unnecessary features.

Intel is finally preparing to take on AMD's awesome X3D cache on its CPUs with next-gen Core Ultra 400K series "Nova Lake-S" desktop CPUs reportedly featuring 144MB of bLLC (big cache) as an answer to 3D V-Cache (X3D) on Ryzen X3D series CPUs.

The latest reports suggest that Intel will only include its bLLC cache on the next-gen Core Ultra 400K unlocked SKUs, while AMD still offers X3D cache across a far wider range of Ryzen CPUs. In a new post from leaker @Jaykihn, who says that the Core Ultra 400K series will feature 144MB of bLLC (Big Last Level Cache).

AMD has been using its X3D cache on mid-range Ryzen CPUs which cost under $500, to beat out much more expensive flagship CPUs from Intel without any pool of cache, meaning gamers could buy a far cheaper CPU and still have commanding gaming performance thanks to the X3D cache.

The new ROG Xbox Ally handhelds will soon get an innovative new feature that automatically scales in-game performance to boost frame rates and battery life.

Microsoft and ASUS are introducing Default Game Profiles to the Xbox Ally and Xbox Ally X Windows PC handhelds. The new feature will natively optimize game software in such a way that prioritizes the fine balancing act of gameplay and power draw, leading to more fluid experiences that last longer while on-the-go. The setting has to be toggled within the Armoury Crate UI.

"Spend more time playing and less time fine-tuning. Default Game Profiles, available in preview starting today, automatically balance frame rate (FPS) and power consumption for 40 supported games at launch," Microsoft wrote on the Xbox Wire.

Rust developer Facepunch Studios reveals why the sim won't show up on Linux or be compatible on Valve's Proton, saying that the platform is a hotbed for cheating. This exposes some of the thinking around Valve and whether or not big online games with anti-cheat could show up on Valve's new Steam Machine.

Valve's Steam Machine sounds great on paper: It'll be a small form-factor PC with a discrete GPU, a zippy CPU, and plenty of RAM--all wrapped in Valve's flexible and capable SteamOS. But there's just one issue: Anti-cheat. SteamOS is based on Linux, and Valve has developed a Proton compatibility layer to ensure Windows games run on SteamOS. Devs don't like to bring their games to Linux because of the uphill battle with anti-cheat on the platform--Linux is apparently a wild west frontier for cheating.

This could be a drawback for Valve's Steam Machine and give Microsoft's reported Windows-powered Xbox PC an upper edge. While Valve has added in anti-cheat support into Proton, including Easy Anti-Cheat, it's ultimately up to developers to do the work and enable the function and get any first-party toolsets working with Proton. That being said, Valve is still working closely with high-level developers and publishers to find solutions--and to hopefully ensure that big live service games can be played on Steam Machine.

The DDR5 overclocking world record changes almost on the daily, with a new DDR5 speed record hit using Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory and the GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard, and overclocker "Sergmann" with an incredible 13,530 MT/s speed.

Overclocker "SaltyCroissant" had achieved a new DDR5 world record earlier that day using CENS DDR5 memory at 13,322 MT/s, hitting 6703.9MHz or 13,407 MT/s using a single Corsair Vengeance 24GB DDR5 module on the GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard.

However, later that day, Sergmann reached a new record of 6765.2MHz or 13,530 MT/s for a new DDR5 OC world record, using the same Corsair Vengeance DDR5 memory and the same GIGABYTE Z890 AORUS Tachyon ICE motherboard. The only difference between the two overclockers' achievements is that SaltyCroissant used an Intel Core Ultra 5 265K processor, while Sergmann used the higher-end Core Ultra 9 285K processor.

NVIDIA is cooking up a new China-exclusive GPU with the new RTX 6000D Blackwell GPU, recently tested on Geekbench and teases what is happening under the hood.

The company has sliced the CUDA core count, VRAM capacity, and GPU clock speeds of its new RTX 6000D "Blackwell Pro for China" GPU. NVIDIA created the RTX 6000D after ever-increasing US export restrictions for AI hardware were imposed, with the RTX 6000D Blackwell GPU being a different SKU than the one available globally.

Inside, NVIDIA's new RTX 6000D GPU for China features 156 SMs or 19,968 CUDA cores, representing 17% less CUDA cores than the RTX PRO 6000, as well as less VRAM with 84GB of GDDR7 memory compared to 96GB GDDR7 on the full RTX PRO 6000. We should expect to see NVIDIA using 3GB GDDR7 memory modules on the RTX 6000D for China, indicating a 448-bit memory bus compared to the 512-bit memory bus on the RTX PRO 6000.

Update: AMD reached out to us to inform us that this article had some incorrect information, with AMD telling me that Wccftech's story included "two sets of data" that were "mixed up". We've got some updated graphs that better compare AMD's "Strix Halo" APUs against Intel's new Core Ultra 386H "Panther Lake" CPU, with this article updated with that new information.

Intel's upcoming Core Ultra 9 386H "Panther Lake" CPU has been benched early, still unable to beat AMD's flagship Strix Halo APU in Geekbench 6, but great single-core and multi-core performance against its other processor rivals.

Intel will officially unveil its new Core Ultra 300 series "Panther Lake" CPUs at CES 2026 in January, with plenty of leaks and information in the wild and in the links below. So far, we've been seeing engineering sample (ES) processors which don't usually run at retail CPU clock speeds, but now it looks like we've got some benchmarks from proper, closer to retail silicon.

Intel will be unveiling its new Arrow Lake-S Refresh CPUs in 2026, with some new details on the Core Ultra 200K Plus family of processors, and the new naming scheme that includes the Core Ultra 9 290K Plus, Core Ultra 7 270K Plus, and Core Ultra 5 250K Plus processors.

We've been hearing rumors of Intel's new Arrow Lake-S Refresh processors for a while now, which should act as the last hurrah for the LGA-1851 socket before shifting to the new LGA-1954 socket for the launch of the next-gen Core Ultra 400 series "Nova Lake" desktop CPUs.

Intel's new Arrow Lake-S Refresh processors will include the tweaks and features that the Arrow Lake-S chips got in the form of special boost features and more, as well as some new surprises. The Core Ultra 9 290K Plus succeeds the Core Ultra 9 285K while keeping its 8P+16E CPU core configuration, but increases the Thermal Velocity Boost to 5.8GHz (up from 5.7GHz on the 285K). The E-Core turbo speeds also increase to 4.8GHz, while power limits remain the same at 125W base, and 250W max turbo TDP.

Sony has been slowly becoming more PC-focused with the release of its first- and second-party PlayStation Studios titles on Steam, and it's not hard to see why. According to a new report by Alinea Analytics, PlayStation Studios games released on Steam (PC gaming's number one platform) have generated $1.5 billion in revenue for Sony.

And even when you take out Valve's cut, that's still around $1.2 billion for Sony. With over 43 million games sold, the biggest seller for Sony isn't Marvel's Spider-Man, God of War, or Horizon Zero Dawn; it's Helldivers 2. And it's not even close, with Helldivers 2 reportedly selling 12.7 million copies on Steam, making it the most popular PlayStation Studios release on PC, with second-place going to Horizon Zero Dawn, which has sold 4.5 million copies.

Alinea Analytics notes that Helldiver 2's success on PC is Sony's first "megahit," with it selling over double the amount of copies on Steam as it did on PS5. Other big sellers on PC for Sony include God of War and Days Gone, which sold 4.2 million and 3.4 million copies, respectively.