If you’re in the market for a new PC build this Prime Day, doing all the legwork to find great parts that are on sale, in stock, and compatible is tough work. We’ve done the hard stuff for you and compiled a PC (mostly) built using parts on sale at Amazon Prime Day. The result? A $1,600-ish build (including a Radeon RX 9070 or RTX 5070) that won’t break the bank but should give you excellent 1440p performance.
Of course, there’s no pleasing everyone with a PC build, so take this as a guideline. We built around the still-spectacular Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU, but there are Intel processor deals to be had out there, too. You can tone down (or up) the motherboard, add a beefier SSD, or choose a slightly less jazzy cooler in the name of savings if you choose. With that being said, here’s the rundown of our parts and the build.
$1,600 Prime Day gaming PC
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This chip is among the fastest gaming CPUs on the market and drops into modern AM5 motherboards. It’s got 96MB of L3 thanks to AMD’s explosive 3D V-Cache, eight cores, and 16 threads. It also features a maximum boost clock of 5.0 GHz.
We don’t need an AIO for the processor here, so an excellent air cooler should suffice. If you really want the aesthetic and overkill of liquid cooling, you can add an AIO, but a decent one will add $50-$100 to your build.
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A powerful AM5 motherboard that will host our CPU and DDR5 RAM without breaking a sweat. This board gives us Wi-Fi 7 performance, plenty of USB ports, good PCIe expansion, and more.
Surprise, if you want a great GPU during Prime Day, you probably shouldn’t shop at Amazon. This RX 9070 gets a nod over an Nvidia card thanks to its great 1440p performance in our review. At $599, it’s just $50 away from AMD’s MSRP. It also sports 16GB of VRAM, and boost clocks of up to 2520 MHz.
If you really want an RTX card from Nvidia though, try this:
If you’d rather go with Nvidia and DLSS 4 tech, this MSI Ventus 3X OC RTX 5070 has a straightforward triple-fan cooler design without any frills, but what more do you need for gaming goodness?
After a $20 rebate from MSI and $70 back on a Newegg gift card, this card is effectively $20 under Nvidia’s $549.99 MSRP. It’s one of the cheapest RTX 5070s we’ve seen.
Get 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RAM with a dash of RGB flair, down to the excellent price of $90. Its DDR5-6000 speeds are great for Ryzen CPUs. Deals on 2x32GB kits are out there, too.
You could skimp and get a 1TB drive here for way less than $100, but a build of this caliber deserves a more premium storage solution. Despite its excellent speeds, this Samsung 990 EVO Plus is just $113 in the Prime Day sales.
The Corsair Frame 4000D is a case with some great new design characteristics. An emphasis on modularity lets you swap out parts of the case and choose different fan sizes to suit your preferences, thanks to Corsair’s InfiniRail system.
Mesh panels allow high airflow for cooling, and inside the case, there are cutouts for rear-connecting motherboards and a built-in GPU support bracket.
This Thermaltake is generously discounted and gets us 850W of 80 Plus Gold standard juice and a modular design, powering all our components and keeping cabling mess to a minimum.
This build represents our take on a “sweet-spot” PC that will deliver smooth gaming at 1440p without straining your wallet. You can add a larger SSD, higher-capacity RAM kit, or even a more powerful GPU to really power up this parts list, but it’s great as-is, too. Grab a high-refresh-rate monitorfrom our best monitor deals listto complete your setup.
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As the Senior Analyst, Graphics at Tom’s Hardware, Jeff Kampman covers everything to do with GPUs, gaming performance, and more. From integrated graphics processors to discrete graphics cards to the hyperscale installations powering our AI future, if it’s got a GPU in it, Jeff is on it.
