It seems to be becoming a bit of a regular feature that whenever there's a big sales event on such as Prime Day or Black Friday, I've got to try and build the best PC I can using only the discounts available at the time. For reference, I've done this in the past for previous big Prime Day and Amazon Spring Deal Days, and now, for a bit of fun, here is the Eurogamer Prime Day 2026 PC.

Unkike other years of doing this silly article, we've actually got a veritable treasure trove of CPU deals to pick from, so it was quite difficult to know which to go for! In the end, I settled on this £199 AMD Ryzen 7 7700X that provides an excellent blend of performance and efficiency for a rather strong price, espeicially with the discount in mind.

As the -X variant, it's got slightly boosted clock speeds against the standard Ryzen 7 7700, although you lose out on a bundled cooler, meaning we've got to spend a little more than you might have expected.

This is an 8-core/16 thread chip that makes for an excellent option for both gaming and content creation workloads, especially at this price, as we've found in our testing. In actual fact, due to the single chiplet design, it actually offers as good, if not better gaming performance than the higher-end non-X3D chips AMD offers. In addition, while its content creation scores aren't as potent, they remain strong.

Building on AM5 is also future-proof for any further upgrades you wish to make down the line, be it to any of the Ryzen 9000 chips (if you want to), or anything that comes later on.

Surprisingly one of the easier reductions to find was on a GPU, and this isn't necessarily a form of price gouging, unlike with the RAM and SSDs a little further down this list. What we've got is a brand new RTX 5070 in Asus Dual flavour for £480 - not bad really considering the current situation

To delve into some numbers, the RTX 5070 in the DF review was found to constitute a good value mid-range GPU for 1440p gaming, with performance that put it a little ahead of the RTX 4070 Super - in Alan Wake 2 with RT enabled, the 5070 hit 36fps, while the 4070 Super managed 34fps. It's a similar margin in Cyberpunk 2077, while the 4070 Super actually pulled ahead in Avatar.

The key difference with the 5070 over its predecessor is not only its lower MSRP that helps it from a value standpoint, but there is the 'benefit' of DLSS 4 (and subsequently DLSS 4.5) with its multi-frame-gen tech. Of course, there is some latency involved with this, but it can still spit out playable results in the likes of Cyberpunk 2077 and Alan Wake 2 in our testing if you want to take advantage of higher refresh rate monitors and such.

You could spend more on a 9070 XT or RTX 5070 Ti, although it would be a fair bit more, of course. A 9070 XT is well north of £500, while an RTX 5070 Ti in excess of £600, making this 5070 a strong mid-range choice.

You and I both knew this was coming, but it doesn't make it any less pleasant. SSD prices have seemingly increased even since we did this article last, and where weirdly it was a 4TB dive that made the most sense from a value standpoint, this time it's a 2TB option to be a little more sensible. In fact, the drive here is identical - the respectable Crucial P310 that's going to run you £183 in 2TB flavour. I don't like the price, but it's one of the best I can find at the moment.

The P310 has often been one of the better value PCIe Gen 4 SSDs historically, and that doesn't necessarily change too much. It's plenty fast enough for most tasks, with speeds up to 7100MB/s reads and 6000MB/s writes, which are not to be sniffed at for fast data transfer and access to files. Moreover, random IOPS numbers of 1M reads and 1.2M writes mean very brisk boot times into games and the OS.

A 2TB capacity also means you'll be able to get a fair amount of games and locally stored media alongside a Windows install without so much as breaking a sweat. It's much stronger than 1TB without spending much more (the 1TB variant is £120 or so) and without spending even more on a bigger varaiant Truth be told, I'd nearly be running out of space without even installing games, with nearly 1TB being locally stored hi-res music. Your mileage will of course vary, and if you aren't a hoarder like me, I'm sure you'll be fine with 2TB.

Another component that's identical to last time around is this Corsair Vengeance RAM kit. It's not the flashiest, admittedly, but it comes with optimal speeds for the Ryzen 7 7700X, and tigher timings to suit.

We've seen DDR5-6000 RAM have an impact in offering an enviable performance boost in some titles in our CPU testing in the likes of both Cyberpunk 2077 and Flight Simulator 2020 against the base-spec DDR5-4800, and this Corsair kit provides the chance for you to get some extra performance while also giving you a fair amount of capacity. This kit's tighter CL36 timings also mean it's suitable for overclocking, too.

The problem, of course, is price - this used to be a kit that'd go for well under £100, although prices have risen nearly as high as £500 for this kit in the last few months. The only reason it's here is because it's a genuine reduction for the Spring Sale back down to £300. Again, I don't like it, but it's some of the best I can find.

I'd seen folks talk about motherboard prices seemingly crash down to no end in recent weeks online, but hadn't bothered to check for myself until writing this piece today. To my surprise, finding a feature-rich mid-range B650 or B850 motherboard is much easier than with previous Prime Day PCs, and they're more affordable, too. Considering this, I have upsold a smidgen to this MSI B850 Gaming Plus Wifi model at £150, which is even more modern than a lot of the £100-£120 boards you'll find for today in terms of networking, ports, andm more.

It's an ATX motherboard, and comes with all the things you could want from a modern choice, including PCIe 5.0 x16 for your GPU and three M.2 slots. One of these is a Gen 5 one too for brisk speeds, plus there are two PCIe 4.0 M.2 slots for adding more in if you need down the line. RAM support is DDR5, with speeds of up to 8200MT/s and overclocking if you want to go mad.

Networking is Wifi 7, plus you get support for Bluetooth 5.4 and 5-gig LAN, making this quite a modern choice. In terms of rear I/O, you've got a pair of 10-gig USB-C ports, a raft of USB-A ports (mostly USB 2.0, though, sigh), plus DisplayPort and HDMI for your CPU's integrated graphics if you need it. There's even an optical port for hooking up to speakers or a soundbar, plus a mic and line out, too.

Perhaps the biggest surprise of this entire list is the power supply. Yes, you don't need an 850W unit for the components in this PC - far from it - but this reliable Corsair RM850e (2025) model is actually as, if not more , affordable as some of the other 750W or lower units, and gives you more power budget if you want to upgrade anything down the line without changing the PSU. For £74, it feels like a bit of a no-brainer.

850W of power is enough for running even some of the beefiest components available, being in line with Nvidia's minimum recommendation for a 5080, and above the 750W that AMD recommends for the 9070 XT. With regards to last-gen components, it's the minimum recommended wattage for more 'standard' RTX 4090s (such as the Founders Edition), while also being above the minimum recommendation for AMD's top of the line RX 7900 XTX. In fact, you get a little bit of headroom in going for an 850W option with AMD's top contender. So, for an RTX 5070 and Ryzen 7 7700X, it's more than enough.

The RM850e is also fully compliant with the latest ATX 3.1 standards and PCIe 5.1 platform, so will play nicely with the latest systems. In addition, it comes with the new 12V-2x6 connector, too, so you can run modern high power 50-series Nvidia GPUs without needing to purchase any other adapters or cables, which is especially useful.

This is also a fully modular PSU, so you can save on some of the unneeded cable spaghetti when putting it in your system and connecting everything up. It is also Gold-rated with the Cybenetics efficiency rating, which Corsair moved to as it's a more stringent rating system than the 80 Plus system; it still means this is a reliable and efficient unit.

One thing I almost forgot about was that our Ryzen 7 7700X processor above doesn't have with its own CPU cooler bundled in the box - I think this week's heatwave is finally getting to me. Nonetheless, as the chip only has a more modest 105W TDP, it means we don't need to move heaven and earth to find a cooler. This Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE should do the trick, especially for just £25 - a bargain price for what is a legendary tower air cooler.

This Peerless Assassin is a dual-tower air cooler, which should provide enough cooling power for a large range of both AMD and Intel CPUs, judging by its previous results. It comes with dual 120mm fans, as well as six heatpipes. The fans on offer here are a pair of Thermalright TL-C12 PWM options, which offer speeds of up to 1500RPM and a rated airflow of up to 66.17CFM, which is in line with more premium choices that cost a lot more, such as the Noctua NH-U12A and bequiet! Dark Rock Pro 4.

In terms of compatibility, Thermalright rates the Peerless Assassin to work with a wide array of CPUs. AMD's most recent two sockets, AM4 and AM5, are supported, while there is also a range of Intel options from socket LGA115X all the way up to more recent options to LGA1851, so you're supported on both Ryzen 9000 and Intel's latesr Core Ultra 2. This is also a good-looking cooler with its two-tone grey chassis, meaning it'll sit well in a variety of systems, including this one where we're going for more of a monochrome and subdued aesthetic.

Admittedly, the case fans here are simply if you wanted to add more fans to the stock ones in the case we've picked out. These Arctic P12s are here for their solid value for money, as well as decent airflow for such a cheap set. Five (!) fans for £14 isn't really to be sniffed at.

As with the motherboard situation, there is a veritable treasure trove of ATX PC cases to choose from, and I could have easily gone with something from MSI or Fractal Design for this section. Instead, I've gone with a case I actually have here at home - the 2024 refresh version of the NZXT H5 Flow. For £51, it's a very good choice.

This is actually the exact PC case I used in the AMD Ryzen 5 5600 in 2025 article, which I liked a lot as it's an easy case to build in with lots of room for routing cables thanks to wide channels, as well as hooks and straps to tie them down in place. The case also has room for either a 360mm radiator in the front and a 240mm radiator up top, and comes with two non-RGB 120mm Core fans pre-installed - one for intake in the front and one for exhaust, which is handy. If you need more fans, then you've got the inexpensive Arctic fan pack above.

What's also handy here is the fact the top, side and front panels all pop off with magnets, and they come with a fine mesh pattern for helping airflow and reducing dust ingress, in spite of the fact there aren't physical dust filters as seen on other cases. They do a good job of preventing most dust from getting in, although in my experience, it can lead to dust sitting on the front of the PC in larger portions, arguably because of the power of the Noctua fans that are installed.

The PSU shroud is also perforated on the bottom side, so air intake can be properly directed with the bottom pair of 120mm fan slots. Front I/O is little more than passable though, with a singular USB-C and USB-A, as well as a power button and headphone jack. You may want to invest in an inexpensive USB-C hub to expand front I/O, or make full use of the rear ports that the MSI motherboard above offers.

So, there you have it - that's the finished build for you - here's a PC PartPicker list of components if that's easier - although their prices aren't all correct, hence the difference at the end. Nonetheless, this is a very competent system for 1440p RT gaming with a speedy CPU and GPU combo, as well as solid RAM, a snappy and capacious SSD, and decent room for upgrades down the line elsewhere. With some prices coming down a smidgen, we've also managed to make this PC slightly more affordable than the one earlier this year, which is always welcome.