Black Friday 2026 for PC Builders: The Price to Beat on Every Part
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Black Friday lands on Friday, November 27, 2026, and Cyber Monday on November 30. Amazon has not announced when its sale opens this year. In 2025 the deals started on November 20 and ran through December 1, and in 2024 they started on November 21, so the first wave of component discounts should come about a week before the day itself.
This page is the list to keep open when that happens. For every part we recommend, it gives the price on Amazon this morning, October 21, and the lowest Amazon price we have logged for that part in the last 90 days. Our price tracker reads Amazon every day, and those 90 days include Prime Big Deal Days on October 6-7. The low is the number a Black Friday price has to beat. Clear it and the deal is real. Beat only the strikethrough and it is not.
Three parts are already at or near their low today. They come first, because waiting five weeks for a discount you can have now is how a deal gets missed.
Already at a deal price: buy these now
The 990 PRO 4TB dropped to $799.90 on October 20 and held there this morning. It had been $949 to $989 for most of October, and $799.90 is the lowest price we have seen since we started tracking it in late August. That is 16% under its own 30-day price, on a drive in a year when NAND prices have gone up, not down.
Four terabytes is the size where you stop managing a game library. Modern Warfare 4 and Gears of War: E-Day are both 115GB at launch, and a 1TB boot drive is full after the two. If you were going to buy a big drive before the holidays, this is the price.
The catch: PCIe 4.0, not 5.0. You will not feel the difference in games.
The 16-core X3D chip fell from about $692 to $624 on October 20, 10% under its 30-day price. It was $569 for a stretch in late August, so Black Friday could take it lower, but $624 is the lowest it has been since late August. If you have been waiting to buy one for a mixed work-and-play machine, a further drop of $50 is the most a holiday deal is likely to add.
The catch: For a pure gaming build the 9800X3D is just as fast for less. This one is for people who also compile, render or encode.
The board under more AM5 builds than any other is $155 this morning, against its usual $176. Its 90-day low was $149.58 during Prime Big Deal Days. A Black Friday deal on this board can only save you about $5 more. Buy it with the CPU when you are ready, and stop watching it.
The catch: PCIe 4.0 on the graphics slot and the main M.2. No current card is limited by it.
Graphics cards: the deal is getting back to summer prices
Graphics cards went up in September, when the Blackwell price increases hit US retail, and they did not come down for Prime Big Deal Days. The RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 sat at their usual prices through both days of the October event. So the useful comparison for Black Friday is not the launch price, which no card is near, but what each card cost on Amazon in July and August. That is the realistic ceiling for a holiday discount.
Launch prices, for reference: RX 9070 XT $599, RX 9070 $549, RTX 5070 $549, RX 9060 XT 16GB $349, RTX 5060 $299.
The fastest card AMD makes is about $830 for the ASUS Prime model this morning. The cheapest RX 9070 XT we logged in the last 90 days was about $696, on August 1. It is a 5070 Ti-class card in rasterized games at 1440p with 16GB of VRAM, for several hundred dollars less, which is why it is the card we would watch closest.
Under $750 is a good Black Friday price. Anything near $700 is the summer price back, and that is a buy. Size the power supply at 750W, and run your CPU through the bottleneck checker first.
The catch: Ray tracing trails the RTX 5070 Ti, and FSR 4 is in fewer games than DLSS 4.
About $820 for the ASUS Prime model today, against about $616 on our July 21 logs, before the September increase. That gap is the biggest of any card here, so it has the most room to fall. It also has the weakest case at today's price, because the RX 9070 XT costs about the same with 16GB.
If you want DLSS 4 and NVIDIA's ray tracing, under $700 is the line. Above that, look at the 9070 XT.
The catch: 12GB of VRAM is the least we would put in a 1440p card in 2026.
The ASRock Challenger is about $700 this morning. At $130 under the XT it is hard to recommend; the XT is the better card for the money. It becomes the right buy if Black Friday opens a real gap, which means this one under $600 while the XT stays near $800. Watch the gap, not the price.
The catch: 10 to 15 percent slower than the XT, and today the XT is only about $130 more.
RTX 5080: about $1,947 this morning for the PNY model, against about $1,654 for most of the last month. That is 18% over its own recent price. Do not buy it now. Back near $1,650 is the month's normal, not a deal, and the July logs had it at about $1,250.
RX 9060 XT 16GB: the listing we track is out of stock on Amazon today. It was about $520 for most of the last month and about $420 in July, against a $349 launch. Under $450 is a good price for the card we would put in most 1080p and entry 1440p builds.
RTX 5060: about $460 today, the lowest it has been in 30 days, and $340 in July. An 8GB card at $460 is not a deal at any discount. Put the money toward a 16GB card instead. The RTX 5060 guide explains why.
CPUs: Prime Big Deal Days set the line
Unlike the graphics cards, processors did drop in October, and those prices are the lows to beat.
The gaming CPU we recommend for most builds hit $411 on October 6 and 7, during Prime Big Deal Days, and was back at about $444 by October 11. Amazon shows no first-party stock this morning, so check who is selling it. At or under $420 is a deal, and a repeat of $411 is the price to jump at. Pair it with the B650 Tomahawk above and the board is already bought.
The catch: Amazon shows no first-party stock on it this morning, so check the seller before you buy.
Eight Zen 5 cores, about $310 today, $290 during Prime Big Deal Days and $280 on August 2. Under $290 is a good price. It makes most sense when the X3D chips are not discounted at all and the budget will not stretch.
The catch: Without the 3D V-Cache it is a step behind the X3D chips in games.
Ryzen 7 7800X3D: about $348 today, and it has barely moved; the 90-day low is about $334. If the 9800X3D gets back to $411, that is the better buy for $60 more.
Ryzen 5 7600X: about $173 today, $142 during Prime Big Deal Days. Under $150 is the line, and at that price it is the cheapest sensible way onto AM5.
Intel Core i5-14400F: about $161, which is the lowest price we have logged for it. It is a fine budget gaming chip, but the socket is at the end of its life, and the 7600X at $150 gets you an upgrade path.
Cases
Fractal Design North: about $155 today, about $124 during Prime Big Deal Days and in August. Under $130 is the line, and it has hit that twice since summer, so wait for it. Lian Li Lancool 216: about $129 today against its usual $100, so it is up, not down. Do not buy it at this price.
What to walk past
RAM. A 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit, the Patriot Viper Venom we recommend, is about $485 on Amazon this morning. The same capacity cost about $75 in early 2025. A Black Friday discount on that is a discount on an inflated number. Buy the capacity your build needs and do not upgrade memory for the sale. The RAM and SSD prices guide covers what is driving it.
Strikethrough prices. Amazon's "list price" is often the launch price or a figure from months ago. A card that is "25% off" a list price it has not sold at since spring is not a deal. Use the 90-day lows on this page instead.
Prebuilt "deals" with unnamed parts. A holiday prebuilt listing that says "RTX graphics" or "DDR5 memory" without a model number is hiding a cheap part. If the listing will not name the GPU, the power supply and the RAM speed, walk past it.
The short version
Three parts are at a deal price already: the Samsung 990 PRO 4TB at about $800, the Ryzen 9 9950X3D at about $624, and the MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi at about $155. Those do not need to wait for November.
For everything else, the lines are: RX 9070 XT under $750, RTX 5070 under $700, RX 9060 XT 16GB under $450, Ryzen 7 9800X3D at or under $420, Ryzen 5 7600X under $150, Fractal North under $130. A deal that clears its line is real. Before you buy a CPU and GPU together, check the pair in the bottleneck checker, and use the build generator to price the rest of the machine around them.
We will update this page when Amazon announces its dates, and again on Black Friday and Cyber Monday, with what actually dropped.
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Frequently Asked Questions
When is Black Friday 2026?
Black Friday is Friday, November 27, 2026, and Cyber Monday is Monday, November 30. Amazon has not announced when its Black Friday sale opens this year. In 2025 its deals started on November 20 and ran through December 1, and in 2024 they started November 21, so expect the first wave of component discounts about a week before the day itself.
Will graphics cards be cheaper on Black Friday 2026?
Some, but measure the discount against the right number. Most current cards are selling well above their launch prices after the September price increases, so a Black Friday GPU deal in 2026 is a card returning to where it sat in the summer, not a card below its launch price. On our Amazon logs, the RX 9070 XT was about $696 on August 1 and is about $830 today; the RTX 5070 was about $616 in July and is about $820 today. Those summer numbers are the realistic ceiling for a deal.
Is Black Friday better than Prime Big Deal Days for PC parts?
For CPUs and motherboards, Prime Big Deal Days in October already produced the lowest prices we have logged this year: the Ryzen 7 9800X3D at $411, the MSI B650 Tomahawk WiFi at about $150, the Ryzen 5 7600X at about $142. For graphics cards it did nothing, since the RX 9070 XT and RTX 5070 sat at their usual prices through both days. If a part repeats its October low on Black Friday, that is a good price; if it beats it, buy it.
Should I wait for Black Friday to buy RAM or an SSD?
Not for RAM. A 32GB DDR5-6000 kit is about $485 on Amazon today, and a Black Friday discount on a kit that cost about $75 in early 2025 is still a very expensive kit. Buy the capacity you need when you need it. SSDs are different this month: the Samsung 990 PRO 4TB fell to about $800 on October 20, from $949 to $989 for most of October, which is the lowest price we have logged since we started tracking it in August. That one does not need to wait.
How do I know if a Black Friday PC part deal is real?
Ignore the strikethrough price Amazon prints next to it, which is often the launch list price or a number from months ago. Compare the deal against what the part actually sold for recently. Each part on this page shows today's price and the lowest Amazon price we logged in the last 90 days. A deal at or below that low is real. A deal that only beats the strikethrough is not.