The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Laptop and Desktop Deals That Were Worth Waiting For

Cyber Monday deals are looking sharp this year, especially for gaming PCs. This was a great year for hardware, with Nvidia’s new Blackwell 50-series GPUs pushing both 4K performance and advanced AI potential, and we’ve seen some really great machines pass through the PC Labs testing portal. Below you’ll find some serious price drops on well-reviewed desktops and laptops, so snag your dream machine as soon as you can.

Finding The Best Cyber Monday Gaming Deals

It’s not as simple as clicking “sort by price.” Be careful when browsing retailers during the holiday season, as some sellers try to fake you out with fraudulent high base prices and “discounts” that aren’t any better than what you can get year-round. When it comes to gaming hardware, the best way to understand what you’re getting is by reading our in-depth reviews, where we benchmark components and compare to find where the actual values are.

Asus Gaming Laptop Deal

Let’s start the Cyber Monday gaming festivities with a recently released Asus gaming laptop that we gave an Editors’ Choice award to in our review, gushing over its wickedly crisp 2.5K MiniLED display with a blistering 240Hz refresh rate. Paired with the RTX 5070 Ti graphics card and you’ll get some of the best portable visuals you can pull off in this price bracket. The Strix R16 packs some very surprising bonuses as well. When we put it through our extensive benchmarks, we were wowed by how long the battery lasted, a rare thing in a gaming machine with a screen this good. Amazon is offering a 22% off deal.

HP Gaming Laptop Deal

We gave an “Excellent” rating to HP’s Omen Max 16 laptop in our review, gushing over the high-powered machine’s premium-grade chassis, complete with per-key keyboard backlighting, full-sized number pad and responsive touchpad. Under the hood, you’ll get a complement of excellent components, including a next-generation RTX 50-series graphics card. HP’s Omen Gaming Hub gives you access to robust overclocking controls, like per-core CPU multipliers, voltage adjustments, and more. You can snag this mid-range build for 29% off.

Lenovo Gaming Laptop Deal

It’s a budget baby, but there’s no better discount out there right now than an staggering 41% price cut on the Lenovo LOQ 15 gaming portable. We reviewed a significantly less capable loadout (with an Intel Arc GPU instead of a new Blackwell-series RTX 5050) and still liked it, noting that it had a great CPU for the price, along with a solid 144HZ full HD display and good port selection. This configuration also has a better CPU than the one we benchmarked, a 13th generation Core i5, so you can expect even better performance.

MSI Gaming Laptop Deals

On the other side of the spectrum, the MSI Raider 18 is about as powerful as a gaming laptop can be without a prescription. We gave it an Editors’ Choice award in our review, with product expert Charles Jefferies saying that it “goes for power, top to bottom,” thanks to its cutting-edge Core Ultra 9 processor and top-of-the-line RTX 5090 graphics card. The incredible huge 4K mini-LED screen can take every frame that thing pumps out in max resolution and look good doing it. Of course, it has all the connectivity you’d expect, including Wi-Fi 7 radios and Thunderbolt ports. It’s spendy, but slicing over $800 off makes it doable.

MSI gives budget gamers plenty of love, too, and we gave an Editors’ Choice award to the MSI Katana 14 HX, which is on sale for $200 off at Walmart for Cyber Monday. In our review, we approved of the low-priced portable’s comfy keyboard, wide range of connectivity options, and surprisingly capable RTX 5050 graphics card, which shreds in 1080p play. It is a bit chunky-feeling, which is to be expected from a budget gaming machine, and a 512GB SSD will struggle with too big a Steam library, but on the whole this is a very solid pick for gaming on the cheap.

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Alienware Gaming Desktop Deals

Looking to set up a new home gaming battlestation? We raved about the recently-released 2025 Alienware Area-51 in our review, with its totally redesigned chassis delivering futuristic appeal thanks to a metal front panel, illuminated RGB loop and tempered glass side panel. Inside, you’ll find top-quality components, including a new Blackwell-series Nvidia graphics card. If you’re a tinkerer, the access method for this tower is one of the simplest and coolest we’ve ever seen, and the positive-pressure airflow system is innovative and quiet, even under heavy pressure.

If you want to bump your graphics performance up a notch, this 2025 Alienware Aurora loadout comes with the excellent RTX 5080 card, which hits the sweet spot between performance and price and dazzled us in testing. We reviewed this prebuilt and rated it “Excellent,” praising its quiet operation and generous connectivity. We’ve supported Alienware’s decision to move into more restrained case designs, and this one combines form and function quite well, featuring a potent Intel Core i9 processor and ample RAM. Dell’s giving you 30% off on this one.

Lenovo Gaming Desktop Deal

For a deep Cyber Monday discount on a midrange gaming tower, look no further than the Lenovo Legion Tower 5i. We reviewed the base model 5 (which uses AMD Ryzen processors instead of Intel Core CPUs) and had a lot of very positive things to say about it, including praise for its quiet operation even under heavy load, powerful performance, and super-reliable Lenovo warranty support. If you’re the tinkering type, the somewhat non-standard case design might be an annoyance, but if you just want plug-and-play PC gaming at a nice price, this is it.

HP Gaming Desktop Deal

For a midrange tower at a great price, Cyber Monday brings you the HP Omen 35L, which we awarded an Editors’ Choice nod in our review, for a 41% discount. While this doesn’t blast into 4K with ease, the RTX 5060 is a fully capable FHD graphics card that leverages the latest Nvidia technology for AI acceleration and other notable features. We also liked the prebuilt’s reliance on industry-standard parts, rather than custom hardware, meaning repairs and expansions are a breeze. It even features Wi-Fi 7 support for high-speed streaming, a rare perk at this price point.

iBuyPower Gaming Desktop Deal

iBuyPower is one of several prebuilt brands competing to grab attention, and while it pumps out way too many different machines and configurations for us to review them all, we generally approve of the results. If you’re hunting a desktop that packs the latest Nvidia graphics and still comes in at under a thousand bucks, Walmart has a machine for you. This is a more than capable midrange battlestation with an RTX 5070 GPU, which on its own retails for $580. While the Intel Core i5 processor doesn’t dazzle, it gets the job done, and the RAM and storage loadout are acceptable.

Zotac Gaming Desktop Deal

Another reliable prebuilt brand, Zotac, produces a wide range of hardware, including mini PCs, graphics cards, and more. The MEK that Newegg has on sale for a juicy $770 off is a solid gaming PC with some nice components, including the much-praised RTX 5080 graphics card, which covers the spectrum from absurdly fast 1080p to consistent 4K with ease. This behemoth can support up to four simultaneous displays, or up to 8K on a single monitor, making it perfect for content creation as well. Throw in a solid 32GB of DDR5 RAM, a 2TB SSD, and 360mm AIO liquid cooling to keep the whole thing frosty, and you have a winner.

You also need to click through to our guide to Cyber Monday deals, because our editors are working tirelessly all weekend long to spotlight the best bargains.

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