The Real Deal Report
A “sale” sticker means nothing if the price never actually dropped. We score every PC part we track against its own real price history — never a store’s inflated “was” price — and report how many are genuinely cheaper than normal right now.
Of the 134 PC parts we have enough history to judge today, only 16.4% are genuinely below their normal price — and 30.6% are priced at or above their typical, no matter what any sticker says.
As of 2026-07-31 · 162 parts tracked (13 still building history) · USD
Biggest real discounts right now
| Corsair HX1200 (2022) | $150$283 | −47% | Buy |
| Elgato Stream Deck MK.2 (15 keys) | $60$95 | −36.8% | Buy |
| Skytech Chronos (2025) | $1,199$1,880 | −36.2% | Buy |
| Alienware AW3423DWF 34" QD-OLED | $492$750 | −34.4% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 5 7600 | $119$169 | −29.6% | Buy |
| Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 | $1,430$1,729 | −17.3% | Buy |
| ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 | $70$82 | −14.6% | Buy |
| ASUS ROG Swift PG27AQDM 27" OLED | $370$430 | −14% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | $319$370 | −13.8% | Buy |
| Keychron K8 Pro Wireless Mechanical | $95$109 | −12.8% | Buy |
Median real discount among genuinely-cheaper parts: 12.5% below typical.
Priced above their typical — buying today means overpaying
| AMD Radeon RX 7600 | $300$170 | +76.5% | wait |
| Cooler Master NR200P | $110$63 | +74.6% | wait |
| Apple MacBook Air 13" (M4) | $1,049$635 | +65.2% | wait |
| MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 | $190$120 | +58.6% | wait |
| ASUS TUF Gaming X570-Plus | $199$127 | +56.4% | wait |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | $212$144 | +47.2% | wait |
| ASUS ROG Ally X | $1,000$680 | +47.1% | wait |
| Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | $530$400 | +32.5% | wait |
| ID-COOLING SE-224-XTS | $50$39 | +29.7% | wait |
| Fractal Design North | $110$85 | +29.4% | wait |
How we score this
“Typical” is each part’s trimmed-median price over its recent tracked history — the same baseline behind our deal scores. A part counts as a genuine discount only when today’s price is at least 5% below that, and as at/above typical when it’s 2%+ over. Parts without enough history yet are excluded from the percentages. We compare only to a part’s own real prices — never a retailer’s claimed “list” price.
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