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 97 PC parts we have enough history to judge today, only 11.3% are genuinely below their normal price — and 50.5% are priced at or above their typical, no matter what any sticker says.
As of 2026-08-14 · 162 parts tracked (37 still building history) · USD
Biggest real discounts right now
| AMD Ryzen 5 5500 | $74$99 | −25.3% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7700 | $193$235 | −17.9% | Buy |
| Corsair SF1000 Platinum | $193$235 | −17.9% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 5 9600X | $175$200 | −12.5% | Buy |
| Corsair RM750x (2024) | $80$90 | −11.1% | Buy |
| Arctic Liquid Freezer III 360 | $82$90 | −8.9% | Buy |
| Fractal Design Meshify 2 Mini | $85$93 | −8.6% | Buy |
| MSI MAG B650M Mortar WiFi | $110$117 | −6% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7900X | $320$340 | −5.9% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | $179$190 | −5.8% | Buy |
Median real discount among genuinely-cheaper parts: 8.9% below typical.
Priced above their typical — buying today means overpaying
| Cooler Master NR200P | $150$78 | +92.3% | wait |
| ASUS Zenbook 14 OLED (2025) | $1,149$600 | +91.5% | wait |
| Fractal Design Terra | $206$110 | +87.3% | wait |
| Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 360 | $260$142 | +83.2% | wait |
| MSI MPG X670E Carbon WiFi | $360$200 | +80% | wait |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 10GB | $730$410 | +78.1% | wait |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT | $1,099$650 | +69.1% | wait |
| Corsair HX1000 (2022) | $270$170 | +58.8% | wait |
| Noctua NH-L12S | $74$48 | +54.2% | wait |
| ASUS ROG Strix B860-A Gaming WiFi | $250$165 | +51.5% | 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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