I swear to God it's too warm to do anything in the UK this week. I am barely coping in the heat if it wasn't for the array of small Ohyama Woozoo fans I have, plus an array of Meaco air circulators and more besides. Of course this week is the week that all the deals are happening - that's just the way of the world it seems - and none of us can catch a naffing break. Godspeed to anyone outside doing real work in this UK heat - can we make air con mandatory in new homes, please?

Being too hot to do anything means it's too warm to build your own PC as I see it, so to save you the hassle, I've gone on my merry way and found an array of six pre-built PC deals from up and down the price ladder across the UK and USA that should give you plenty of grunt for your favourite games. Finding discounts on pre-built PCs was surprisingly difficult, owing to the issues we've seem with everything from shortages for components to pesky overpricing that doesn't do anybody any favours, meaning that the whole pricing structure for certain tiers of PC have shifted up somewhat, which doesn't help anybody.

The six PCs I've put below have been picked out in the following order. First based on region, and then in order of mid-range, budget and then expensive - putting the one that I think is best for price to performance first and hitting a strong mid-tier choice with good power, then a more affordable choice for 1080p or 1440p gaming, and then a bit of a splurge option if you've got the spare cash to play at 4K. Given the way things are these days, I haven't gone mad with the latter choice and specced out a money-no-object choice, and kept to things that are a bit more reasonable given the circumstances for at least a hint of affordability.

Of course, we're sticking with the fact this is anti Prime Day coverage after all, so none of these deals are from The Retailer Who Must Not Be Named, instead from either PC builders directly or larger retailers with surpisingly good deals given the current context. If you're on the lookout for more deals after this, then you can check out James' master guide for our RPS Anti Prime Day deals coverage, or my roundup of seven more excellent deals across the UK and USA. Without further ado, here are six prebuilt PC deals I've spotted from other retailers that I think are worth your time.

UK pre-built gaming desktop PC deals

To start us off, here's a capable all AMD option from the good folks at AWD-IT that balances price to perofrmance well, especially given the current state of affairs of PC componentry by pairing AMD's flagship GPU with a more modest processor that's still capable enough.

Inside, this Frame 4000D PC utilises an AMD RX 9070 XT GPU, the fastest GPU in AMD's current lineup. It sits somewhere between an RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5080 in performance, with ray-traced workloads being strong against AMD's previous choices, and rasterised performance pushing this card closer to Nvidia's higher-end options. It's a very capable choice for gaming at 1440p and even 4K in some titles, especially if you don't mind using AMD's much improved FSR 4 upscaler that's able to extract more detail for a better overall look, albeit with a small performance overhead against FSR 3.

To go with the 9070 XT (and to keep the price a bit more reasonable), AWD-IT has opted to use an AMD Ryzen 5 9600X processor. This is one of the more affordable options in AMD's canon of Ryzen 9000 chips, with six cores, 12 threads and a boost clock of up to 5.4GHz. My old boss' Will's review of the 9600X for Eurogamer noted it to provide a small uptick in performance over the older 7600X, with results closer to the eight core Ryzen 7 7700X. Content creation workloads also got a handy boost, while this chip is also more efficient with its power.

By default, this PC only comes with 16GB of RAM and a small PNY SATA SSD, which is quite meagre, so I have specced it up a little bit so you get 32GB of DDR5-5600 CL40 RAM. It isn't ideal timing wise, but is still better in capacity, and the 1TB Crucial P310 you can bump things up to is much faster and better-suited than a SATA SSD with brisk 7100MB/s reads and 6000MB/s write speeds.

All of this is powered by a 750W Gigabyte UD750GM PG5 V2 PSU, which meets AMD's minimum recommendation for the 9070 XT, and it's 80+ Gold rated, too. It also comes with a three year warranty and takes a few days to build and ship.

For a slightly more affordable choice, this Chillblast option is currently £150 off, and provides a decent blend of mid-range components without cutting too many corners.

The RTX 5060 Ti GPU in here is unfortunately the lower end 8GB variant, rather than the 16GB variant James tested. Generally speaking, the raw performance here looks to be enough for solid 1080p and 1440p gaming, depending on the title, and it's faster than its closest rival, the AMD RX 9060 XT, according to benchmarking elsewhere. The caveat is the 8GB of VRAM, which can be a limiting factor for performance in more intense titles when you've got certain settings cranked or you're playing heavyweight open world games, for instance.

That 8GB RTX 5060 Ti is paired with an AMD Ryzen 5 8400F. This is a curious choice, admittedly, as it isn't the best gaming CPU in any case. It comes with six cores and 12 threads, sounding similar to the Ryzen 5 9600X above, but is running older Zen 4 architecture, has a lower amount of L3 cache and has downgraded PCIe support that tops out at PCIe 4.0. It's fine for the more moderate workloads this PC is likely to be used for, but is a good upgrade target if you find you need more grunt.

The 16GB of DDR5 RAM Chillblast supplies provides enough headroom for gaming, and you do get a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD to boot, although this is labelled as 'Our Choice', so it could be anything. Likewise, the PSU is rated as 650W 80+ Bronze, and has the same 'Our Choice' labelling. Chillblast nonetheless packs it all into a fetching Antec Flux M case, and backs this PC with a five year warranty.

Admittedly, trying to find a 'deal' on a higher-end PC that didn't feel like price gouging is quite difficult, but if you're after a capable gaming rig with an RTX 5080 inside, this CCL Horizon option is one of the most 'affordable' I can find at the moment.

The big draw of this PC is the RTX 5080 inside, which constitutes a decent uptick in performance over the previous RTX 4080 Super, while retaining the same RRP, making it a better deal all round. James' review last year called this card "the new 4K graphics card to go for", and he noted that the 5080 comes close to the RTX 4090 in 4K performance, and while the 5090 is brisker, performace here is still ample for playing intensive titles at surprisingly high frame rates. Plus, being a 50-series card, this benefits from DLSS 4 and the DLSS 4.5 update to take advantage of a new second-gen Transformer model for stronger upscaling and new multi-frame gen options such as a 6x multiplier and a Dynamic option.

It's with the processor inside where this PC isn't as strong as other, dearer RTX 5080-powered rigs. Instead of opting for one of AMD's beefy X3D chips, such as the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, this CCL PC features the Ryzen 7 9700X. This is the eight core and 16 thread chip that was released at the same time as the Ryzen 5 9600X, and provides a good uptick against the older Ryzen 7 7700X in gaming loads, with faster Zen 5 cores powering it to higher frame rates and scores in synthetic benchmarks. It manages to do this, as Will noted in the Eurogamer review, while sticking to its base 65W TDP, making it less power hungry than the 7700W that came with a 105W TDP.

In this CCL PC, you also get 32GB of DDR5 RAM and a 1TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. As with the Chillblast PC above, this is labelled as 'Our Choice', so it could be anything. There is an 850W 80+ Gold PSU supplied, although it has the same 'Our Choice' labelling. This PC comes in a Phanteks XT Pro Ultra case, and is backed by a three year warranty.

US pre-built gaming desktop PC deals

Moving over to the other side of the Atlantic reveals a potent deal from Walmart of all places on this very beefy all AMD-powered PC that's a staggering $750 or so off if the previous price is to be believed.

We've got an RX 9070 XT inside, pairing AMD's 1440p and even 4K-capable flagship GPU that's impressive against Nvidia's mid to high end RTX 50-series cards with the benefit of a much improved FSR 4 upscaler with the venerable Ryzen 7 9800X3D. This is the chip that tops our ranking of the best gaming CPUs due to its immense performance that beats off even dearer AMD processsors, largely thanks to the power of AMD's 3D V-Cache. Combine this with eight fast Zen 5 cores and 16 threads, and you've got an immensely beefy CPU who is only interested in getting you as high of a frame rate as possible in games, and little else. It's an even better choice than the more expensive X3D chips, such as the Ryzen 9 9950X3D, owing to not being split over two dies, so Windows always knows which cache pool to send data to. This essentially results in faster overall framerates, as things aren't being sent to the wrong places.

There are a couple of compromises it appears iBuyPower has made with this system against slightly dearer rigs with the same all-AMD core that are worth knowing about. It comes with 32GB of RAM, which is excellent, although it's a slower speed at 5200MT/s, rather than the more optimal 6000 MT/s or 6400MT/s, which would get the most out of the 9800X3D in testing elsewhere. A 1TB SSD is fine for capacity, but we don't know which one it is as the listing doesn't say, which is a bit of a shame. Nonetheless, this PC comes in a Hyte Y40 case which looks rather nice, and uses a 360mm AIO to keep the 9800X3D in check. You also get peripherals bundled if you'd like to use them, meaning you just need a screen to be up and running out of the box.

For the money, this is a very capable PC, but it's just worth being aware of the small corner cuts the brand has taken to get it to this price.

If you're on a smaller budget and still want a decent mid-range gaming PC that's up to the task of 1080p and a touch of 1440p, then there's a surprisingly capable option on Newegg for under $1000 with a discount code.

This ABS Cyclone Aqua system features an Intel Core i5-14400F processor inside, which is a solid 10 core and 16 thread chip from Intel's previous generation of desktop CPUs. The core arrangement is split between four Effiency cores and six Performance cores, and it comesx with four more cores and threads than the venerable Intel Core i5-12400F that works on the same socket. The only thing missing aganst a standard Core i5-14400 is the lack of integrated graphics, which is no issue as this PC comes with discrete graphics. Performance here is split between AMD's Ryzen 5 5600 and more modern, AM5-based Ryzen 5 7600X in terms of reviews and testing elsewhere, meaning it's a capable chip for the price that's going to do you well in a variety of modern games.

In terms of GPU, ABS has paired the Core i5-14400F with an 8GB Nvidia RTX 5060, which performed reasonably well in James' review in places, such as offering reasonable 1440p performance against the older RTX 4060 in the likes of Metro Exodus and Total War: Warhammer III. 1080p performance is much stronger, with this card pushing the beefier RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and Intel's Arc B580 12GB. It wasn't all plain sailing, though, as the 5060 suffered some driver issues in his testing, which marred a fair amount of the overall experience. It's worth noting those tests were conducted on much older drivers, so it is possible that issues have been ironed out with later releases.

The Core i5-14400F also has the option of working with DDR4 or DDR5 RAM, depending on the motherboard selected, and with this PC's specs in mind, the system integrator went for the former. DDR4 RAM is more affordable than DDR5 by quite a margin, and it's still fine for more affordable PCs like this one, with the 3200MT/s speed the usual sweet spot for price to performance. To go with it, you also get a 1TB Kingston NV3S SSD for decent capacity for a games library and reasonable PCIe Gen 4 speeds for snappy access, with this PC being powered by a Compucase CS650 650W 80+ Gold rated power supply.

If you're after more of a higher-end PC that isn't ridiculously expensive for the components inside, this Stormcraft Phantom pre-built packs in an RTX 5080 for $2500 - that's one of the better prices I've seen for a PC with this spec, and it's supposedly $300 off to boot.

The 5080 is a very capable GPU for 4K gaming, and benefits from a boost in raw power over the older 4080 Super, plus the addition of the DLSS 4 upscaler (and subsequent DLSS 4.5), whose feature set is unique to the 50-series. In this PC, it's paired with an Intel Core Ultra 7 265F chip that has the same composition as the overclockable Core Ultra 7 265K. The -F suffix just means it lacks the ability for overclocking or an iGPU, while a beefy set of 20 cores and 20 threads that makes it a capable chip for gaming and for content creation alike.

This PC pairs these two components with 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM that's more optimal in speed for the Intel chip on offer, plus a 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD for ample game storage. The Newegg listing also notes this PC to come with an 850W 80+ Gold rated PSU, with the Core Ultra 7 265F cooled by a 360mm AIO. You can also net a free handy extra with Intel's Spring Game bundle providing free access to the new Lego Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight title - that's neat.

So, there you have it folks - that's a range of six pre-built PC deals across both sides of the Atlantic that I think represent good bang for your buck at what is quite a tumultuous time for PC gaming. Components and such seem to have only gone one way, but there are still some 'deals' to be had on prebuilt PCs it seems.

Feel free to check out our other anti Prime Day coverage above, where there are lots more deals to be had on products that simply aren't from the big retailer everyone else is directing you to.