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.

Compact gaming laptops under $1,000 are flat-out rare. At $899.99, the Asus TUF Gaming A14 is light to carry (just 3.2 pounds!) but a real heavyweight on value.

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These are some great components that we’ve praised in the past, including a CPU we heralded as the “king of gaming.” Let’s check out each component. This bundle gets you four major components you need for building a gaming PC.

Gamers are skipping expensive upgrades and opting for a $9.97 Windows 11 Pro license—boosting FPS and adding AI tools—while it’s on sale through July 20 at 11:59 P.M. PST.

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