Over the last few years, AMD CPUs have quickly made an impressive push in the market, providing better and faster performance than their Intel counterparts in many instances. Since building a new PC or upgrading your current one can be quite expensive, it's important to save every dollar you can by picking up components on sale throughout the year.

The Ryzen 9 9950X is AMD's flagship in the Ryzen 9000 series, delivering elite gaming and productivity performance. While the newer 9950X3D now tops the lineup, this Prime Day dea

If you need a graphics card to go along with your new CPU, a few Nvidia GeForce RTX GPUs are also on sale, including a few OC Edition (meaning overclocked) RTX 5000 series GPUs from Asus. The more powerful option is the Asus TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5070 OC Edition, which features 12GB GDDR7 VRAM and is on sale for $685 (was $740).