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 105 PC parts we have enough history to judge today, only 8.6% are genuinely below their normal price — and 44.8% are priced at or above their typical, no matter what any sticker says.
As of 2026-09-20 · 162 parts tracked (22 still building history) · USD
Biggest real discounts right now
| Corsair SF1000 Platinum | $193$235 | −17.9% | Buy |
| ASUS ROG Strix Z790-E Gaming WiFi | $274$328 | −16.4% | Buy |
| Intel Core i5-13400F | $179$197 | −9.1% | Buy |
| MSI MAG B650 Tomahawk WiFi | $160$176 | −9.1% | Buy |
| Fractal Design Meshify 2 Mini | $85$93 | −8.6% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 9 7950X | $375$405 | −7.4% | Buy |
| AMD Ryzen 7 7700 | $180$193 | −6.9% | Buy |
| Corsair RM850x (2024) | $140$150 | −6.7% | Buy |
| SteelSeries Apex Pro TKL Gen 3 | $190$200 | −5% | Buy |
Median real discount among genuinely-cheaper parts: 8.6% below typical.
Priced above their typical — buying today means overpaying
| ASUS ROG Strix B760-I Gaming WiFi | $358$140 | +156% | wait |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9900X | $860$403 | +113.4% | wait |
| Lian Li Galahad II Trinity Performance 360 | $260$142 | +83.2% | wait |
| Corsair RM650x (2024) | $207$120 | +72.4% | wait |
| AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | $1,200$699 | +71.7% | wait |
| AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | $809$479 | +68.9% | wait |
| AMD Ryzen 5 9600X | $509$307 | +65.8% | wait |
| MSI MAG B650M Mortar WiFi | $193$117 | +65% | wait |
| AMD Radeon RX 7900 XTX | $1,799$1,099 | +63.7% | wait |
| Corsair HX1000 (2022) | $270$170 | +58.8% | 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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