During the holiday season last year, I made some big upgrades to my PC gaming rig with some of the extra funds I had from gifts and my personal savings. We're talking the whole nine yards: a new case, a cutting-edge GPU (despite the crazy prices), one of Intel's latest and greatest 12th Gen chips, 32GB of snazzy RGB DDR4 memory, and more. Since then, I've been incredibly happy with my system, as it handles every game I play at max settings and 3440x1440 ultrawide without breaking a sweat.
However, after seeing all of the components I chose get some big discounts for 2022's Prime Day sales event, there's a big part of me that wishes I chose to wait before buying my new parts. I could have saved quite a decent amount of money by doing so, and while I would have been stuck with a less powerful machine for the first half of the year, the RTX 2070 and i7-9700K I used to have would have served me more than well enough until Prime Day rolled around. If you're thinking about upgrading your rig like I did, take advantage of these Prime Day deals, like the Intel Core i5-12600KF at $218 (and others like them), that I was too impatient to wait for.
Looking for some other component deals to consider? Don't miss our roundup of all the best Prime Day deals on PC parts, as well as our guide to how you can build a powerful gaming PC for less than $1,100 using Prime Day deals. We're constantly hunting for the best PC component discounts, so if there's a killer deal out there, we've likely already found it.
