Black Friday 2026 UK PC Parts: What Is Actually Worth Buying

Black Friday falls on Friday 27 November 2026 and Cyber Monday on Monday 30 November. In practice the UK sales season is already running. Overclockers UK already had Black Friday deals running by Monday 2 November, Currys' Black Friday price guarantee covers purchases made from 28 October, and Amazon says its Black Friday Week runs from 19 to 30 November.

This year is awkward for PC builders. Graphics card and memory prices have spent the autumn going up, not down, so a "was" price on a sale banner tells you very little. This guide gives you the numbers to check a deal against and a short list of what is worth buying. We have not listed specific deals, because most have not been announced and those that have change daily. Forge PC has not tested any of the hardware mentioned here. Every price is the lowest new UK price we could find on 12 November 2026, and all of them are approximate.

The short version

• Write down today's price before the sale. A Black Friday price is only a deal if it beats the lowest price you could already pay, not the crossed-out RRP.

• Graphics cards: 16GB Radeon cards (RX 9060 XT 16GB, RX 9070, RX 9070 XT) are the ones most likely to be worth buying. Do not pay a sale price for an 8GB card unless your budget gives you no choice.

• Memory: only buy a genuinely lower £/GB price. Do not expect DDR5 to go back to last year's prices.

• Storage: some of the more plausible bargains are here, including PCIe 5.0 drives that already cost about the same as some PCIe 4.0 models.

• Do not wait for an RTX 5080 or RTX 5090 bargain. Nothing in the market points that way.

• Use the price promises. Scan and Currys both say they will refund the difference if a tagged Black Friday product gets cheaper during their event, and Citizens Advice says you normally get a 14-day cooling-off period on things you buy online.

Why "was £X" means less than usual this year

Consumer group Which? tracks Black Friday prices every year. In research published on 25 November 2025, it tracked 175 home, tech and health appliances at eight big retailers for the year around the 2024 sales. It found that 83 per cent were the same price or cheaper at least once outside the four-week sales period, and that none was at its cheapest only on Black Friday itself. That study did not cover PC parts, but the lesson carries over: the date on the calendar is not the discount.

PC parts add a twist in 2026. TechSpot's Q4 pricing update, published on 2 November, tracks graphics card prices in ten countries, the UK included. It found that cards had become about 35 per cent more expensive in three months. ramprices.uk's UK index (Amazon.co.uk prices, updated 12 November) shows the median DDR5 kit up about 20 per cent in 90 days and about 200 per cent in a year. When prices have climbed like that, a retailer can show a large percentage "saving" against an RRP or an old peak while still charging more than you would have paid in the summer. PC Prowler, which tracks UK component prices, published a whole guide in late October on spotting exactly this.

Your price anchors (12 November 2026)

These are the numbers to compare against. The graphics card and processor figures are the cheapest new, in-stock listings on SpecPrice's UK tracker (updated 13:40 GMT on 12 November). Premium partner models cost more.

Graphics cards

Processors

Memory

ramprices.uk's medians on 12 November were £18.48 per GB for DDR5 and £8.22 per GB for DDR4. Those are typical prices, not floors. Looking at individual desktop kits on the same site that day, the cheapest 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5 kit was about £455 (DDR5-5600), and a G.Skill Ripjaws S5 32GB DDR5-6000 CL36 kit was about £479. A 32GB DDR4-3200 CL16 kit started at about £198. At Scan, a Corsair Vengeance RGB 32GB DDR5-6000 CL30 kit was £549.98.

Storage

At Scan on 12 November, a 1TB Kingston NV3 (PCIe 4.0) was £129.98, a 1TB WD Black SN7100 (PCIe 4.0) was £159.98, and a 1TB Kioxia Exceria G3 (PCIe 5.0) was also £159.98. At 2TB, the Kingston NV3 was £234.98, the Crucial T710 (PCIe 5.0) was £329.99, the Samsung 9100 Pro (PCIe 5.0) was £469.99 and the Samsung 990 Pro (PCIe 4.0) was £519.98.

What is worth buying in the sales

A 16GB Radeon card, if you need a graphics card now. TechSpot's November update found the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT sitting 28 and 36 per cent above their launch prices on average, against 48 per cent for the RTX 5070 and 60 per cent for the RTX 5070 Ti. It also found the 16GB RX 9060 XT 20 to 40 per cent cheaper than an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. In September TechSpot's 52-game test had the RX 9070 XT about 24 per cent faster than the 12GB RTX 5070 at 1440p, and the two cost almost the same in the UK. Any genuine reduction from the prices above on an RX 9060 XT 16GB, RX 9070 or RX 9070 XT is worth a serious look. Our RX 9070 vs RTX 5070 and RX 9070 XT vs RTX 5070 Ti pieces explain which to pick.

A processor deal, but only with the full platform cost added up. Some modest reductions have already appeared, such as a one-day Scan offer on 12 November that put the Ryzen 7 9700X at £249.97 against a listed £301.99. A cheap AM5 chip is still a good buy if you have priced the motherboard and the DDR5 kit with it. If you own an AM4 or DDR4 Intel board, a drop-in upgrade such as a Ryzen 7 5800X3D will often beat a whole new platform once memory is counted. See our CPU guide and upgrade guide.

An SSD, especially a 2TB. PCIe 4.0 is still the sensible default for gaming. On 12 November, though, the 2TB Crucial T710, a PCIe 5.0 drive, was cheaper at Scan than the PCIe 4.0 Samsung 990 Pro. A sale could put some fast drives at genuinely good prices. Bear in mind that Micron said it would stop shipping Crucial consumer products at the end of February 2026. It says it will keep honouring Crucial warranties, but any Crucial stock now on sale is what is left in the channel. Our SSD guide covers which drives make sense.

A power supply, case or cooler you need anyway. These parts are less exposed to the memory shortage than graphics cards, RAM and SSDs, so a sale price is more likely to be a genuine reduction. Still check it against the normal price. KitGuru reported that Overclockers UK had TRYX Stage 360 AIO coolers down to £109 until 30 November and 15 per cent off selected HAVN cases. Just buy the wattage your graphics card actually needs (NVIDIA and AMD both publish minimum PSU figures) rather than whatever is cheapest.

What to be careful with

8GB graphics cards. An RTX 5060 or RX 9060 XT 8GB can be a fair 1080p card at the right price. TechSpot's testing has repeatedly shown 8GB cards falling over in newer games at settings the 16GB versions handle comfortably, though, and our VRAM explainer explains why. A discount on an 8GB card is not a reason to pick it over a 16GB card that costs a little more.

RAM "deals". Memory flash sales will be everywhere. KitGuru reports that Overclockers UK is running daily RAM flash deals, for example. Work out the £/GB yourself and compare it with the figures above. TrendForce, summarising industry reports on 12 November, said the latest price rises are concentrated in enterprise memory and that weak consumer demand has left more room to negotiate on consumer memory prices, so a real DDR5 discount is possible. We have not seen anyone forecast a return to last year's prices, though. Our RAM explainer and DDR5 vs DDR4 guides cover how much to buy.

RTX 5080 and RTX 5090. TechSpot believes the RTX 5090 has effectively been out of reach for gamers for months, and found the RTX 5080 up 22 per cent in a month on average across its ten countries. It also reported unconfirmed rumours of a 24GB RTX 5080 replacing the 16GB model in early 2027, and retail sources telling it that RTX 5080 prices are set to rise further. At £1,500 and £7,000, neither card is likely to be a Black Friday bargain.

Last-generation stock. SpecPrice's UK list on 12 November still had new RTX 3060 12GB cards from about £400, more than a new Arc B580 or RTX 5050. Older stock is only a deal if the price reflects its age.

Bundles and marketplace sellers. Price each part of a bundle separately. On Amazon and eBay, check who the seller actually is before buying. Unknown brands selling "gaming" graphics cards for the price of a game are not a bargain.

Use the retailers' own promises

Several UK retailers have published rules this year that take some of the gamble out of buying early:

• Scan says that if you buy a product carrying its Black Friday Tag and it lowers that product's price at any point during November, you can claim back the difference.

• Currys says that tagged Black Friday purchases made between 28 October and 24 November qualify for a refund of the difference if the price drops before 1 December. You have to register the purchase by 27 November.

• Overclockers UK says its deals will keep changing throughout November and recommends bookmarking its deals page.

Read the terms before relying on any of them. The general consumer-law backstop is that, according to Citizens Advice, you usually have 14 days to cancel something you bought online from a business, starting the day after you receive it. Faulty goods are covered separately: under the Consumer Rights Act 2015 you have 30 days to reject them for a refund.

Our verdict

The best Black Friday purchase this year is a part you already planned to buy, at a price below the anchors in this article, from a retailer whose promise or returns policy covers you if the price falls again. For most builders that means a 16GB Radeon card, a sensibly priced SSD or the PSU, case and cooler for a build you have already planned. Do not stretch a budget to catch an 8GB card, a DDR5 kit at an ordinary price or an RTX 5080 "saving". If nothing beats today's numbers, there's no need to panic-buy: Which?'s research found most Black Friday prices were matched or beaten at other times of the year. But graphics card and memory prices have been rising all autumn, so if you need a part soon, a fair price now may be better than waiting for a discount that never comes.