SSD prices have steadily been falling.
Aside from Black Friday, Christmas and the holiday season is typically the next best time of year to buy PC hardware. Between Christmas sales and retailers selling off end-of-year loss leaders, there are ample opportunities to score on upgrades or new builds.
With that in mind, we want to provide some insight on what’s a good purchase for Christmas 2015, and what you should hold off on purchasing.
Build complete, but can it handle the stress?
Very few things in life are more satisfying than assembling all the parts to a new PC, hitting the power button, and watching it boot up properly. That’s what we at Logical Increments are all about!
But even if your build starts up and seems to work without problems, you might want to make sure all the components are fully functional. Does your graphics card pump out pretty pictures at the level promised by the manufacturer? Does your RAM operate consistently for hours on end? Does your CPU process the desired number of ones and zeroes under intense loads without overheating?
To answer these questions, we turn to stress testing: Making sure that all of your parts can handle the work that they’re designed to do (or overclocked to do). They might be fine under normal use, but you want to know that they’ll be able to handle heavier tasks down the road, such as high-end gaming or media editing.
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Our good friend, the smooth-voiced YouTube gaming sensation RecklessYuki, just released a gamer gift guide for the 2015 holiday season. Watch it here:
If you haven’t checked out Yuki’s channel before, he makes great videos on custom PC builds and 4K gameplay footage. Really, check it out.
Here are the products mentioned in the video, in order of appearance:
As we approach the Q1 2016 release dates for the Oculus Rift and HTC Vive, many PC gamers are wondering how to best prepare their computer for VR gaming, while others are planning new builds from the ground up. We would know: Every year, more than a million visitors come to our website looking to build the best PC for their budget, and an increasing number of them ask us about VR headsets.
We just published a Guide to Building a PC for Virtual Reality. (Click the link to see the real guide.)
Missed out on Black Friday and Cyber Monday? Well, “Monday” means “a whole week” to Newegg, so you can take your pick from these Cyber Monday Week deals!
For more advice on getting good deals on Cyber Monday, read our article on Black Friday 2015: How to Get the Best PC Parts Deals. (Yes, our Black Friday advice also applies to Cyber Monday!)
Please note: The best deals are dependent on rebates. Rebates are reliable, but only if you follow the instructions exactly and submit everything on time, so be careful!
Logitech G602
You might have thought you were safe from deals now that Black Friday was over, but you’d be wrong. There is always Cyber Monday, with even more deals!
EVGA GTX 970 SC+ ACX 2.0
It’s finally the true Black Friday, and that means brand new deals from Amazon! We’ve combed through, and these are our favorite picks.
EVGA GTX 980 Ti
It’s finally Black Friday, and that means Newegg has rolled out even more deals to go along with their seemingly month-long Black Friday sale so whether you’re looking for a 13 inch gaming laptop or an SSD, now is the perfect time to buy. We’re continuing to round up the best deals we can find, and we’ve listed the newest ones at the top of this post.
MSI GTX 980
It’s Canada’s turn to get in on some of the crazy Newegg deals going on this week!
Samsung UE590: A 28″ 4K screen for $400.
Yesterday, we experienced Newegg’s Black Friday deals arriving almost a week early. As it turns out, Amazon was right in sync with them, also starting their Black Friday sales on Monday.
Following tradition, we have rounded up our favorite PC hardware deals from Amazon’s Black Friday sale.