Save $500 off a PC build, including $50 off the best budget Nvidia graphics card.
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Prime Day 2025 PC deals are here. And while there some great Prime Day MacBook deals about, Amazon's annual summer sale is also a great opportunity for anyone who wants to build their own PC for video editing or other creative work.
Building your own PC often allows you to get better specs for less money compared to what you would get in a laptop or a pre-built desktop machine. And that's even more true during Prime Day.
But can you get everything you need to build a PC for video editing using ONLY Prime Day deals? It turns out you can. Here are the details of those two deals above plus suggestions for the components I'd consider matching them with to build a PC.
.To grab some of these deals, you'll need to be a Prime member, but you can always sign up for a free Amazon Prime trial and then cancel it later. Let me know in the comments what you think of the build and if you find a deal on anything you would swap in.
Our GPU reviewer rates this as one of the best budget graphics cards for video editing, and it's certainly the best value Prime Day graphics card deal.
The 5060 is towards the bottom of the ladder in Nvidia's new 5000 series of GPUs, but the Ti version boasts 16GB of memory instead of 12GB, making it more capable for resource-demanding video work. Pros may want the 5070 or 5080, but this should do the job fine for an enthusiast or semi-pro video-editing setup.
CPU power is just as important as graphics for a lot of video editing software. Some people will say go for an AMD processor these days, but if you edit H.264 and HEVC, Intel's K series processors have the edge due to Intel's Quick Sync technology.
This is second on the ladder only to the Core Ultra 9, which is currently Intel's top-of-the-range chip. Based on benchmark results, I think the difference in price is more than what the difference in power will be worth for most people.
To complete a PC build, you'll need a motherboard, RAM and an SSD along with a power supply, cooling, and obviously a case that you can fit it all in.
There are plenty of Prime Day deals around to choose from, but here's a suggestion of how I think you could complete the build using only Prime Day discounted gear available at Amazon now. All of these deals together would give a total saving of almost $500.
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Joe is a regular freelance journalist and editor at Creative Bloq. He writes news, features and buying guides and keeps track of the best equipment and software for creatives, from video editing programs to monitors and accessories. A veteran news writer and photographer, he now works as a project manager at the London and Buenos Aires-based design, production and branding agency Hermana Creatives. There he manages a team of designers, photographers and video editors who specialise in producing visual content and design assets for the hospitality sector. He also dances Argentine tango.
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