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What do you call it when our current best value gaming laptop gets a deep discount? That’s not the setup for a joke, I’m actually asking. Hyper-affordable? Ultra-value? Whatever name you’d give it, it applies to the Gigabyte G5, which you can currently snag for well under a grand—in the US and the UK—in this year’s crop of Prime Day gaming laptop deals.

This is our pick for the best value gaming laptop right now, and there’s a good reason for that. Despite its low price point the G5 is a serious bit of kit, boasting a current-gen Nvidia GPU (the RTX 4060) and a glittering, glimmering 1080p, 144hz screen. That’s more than enough to handle pretty much anything you can throw at it—especially when you switch on DLSS 3 and Frame Generation in games that support it—and in a durable, compact package too.

That’s not to say there aren’t any drawbacks, mind you. That 512GB SSD is downright stingy, and will probably have you juggling your game installations the second you want to play anything really sizable. Fancy playing Star Wars Jedi: Survivor? Better uninstall, well, almost everything else. Don’t worry too much though, this is one of those friendly laptops that lets you upgrade its storage, so you can always whack a 1TB or greater SSD in there later on down the line.

And, wouldn’t you know it, there just happen to be some great Prime Day SSD deals going down today, too. How fortuitous.

• We’re curating all the best Amazon Prime Day PC gaming deals right here.

The same goes for that Scrooge-like 8GB of RAM in the Newegg version of this laptop. It ain’t enough, but you can always put another stick in there if it all gets too much. Or, uh, not enough. You know what I mean.

Quibbles aside, this is a lot of laptop for relatively little money, and if it was a steal at its regular price point it’s downright larcenous now. If you’ve been looking for something sturdy and cheap that still packs a punch, you can’t really do better right now. When PCG’s Jacob Ridley scored the machine a lofty 83% in his Gigabyte G5 review, you can bet it earned it.

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