The best Intel Gamer Days deals

Intel’s processors excel at gaming because they deliver best-in-class single-threaded performance at fast clock speeds. When the 8th-generation Core chips hit desktops late last year, they came packing more CPU cores than ever before. It’s a great time to upgrade your old rig, in other words. Intel’s hoping to entice people to do just that with Intel Gamer Days 2018, a massive promotion rife with giveaways and big sales on gaming PCs and hardware.

The inaugural event kicked off September 1 and lasts through the 16th. If you swing by the Intel Gamer Days website and click the Experience sweepstakes tab, you can register to win all kinds of nifty stuff, including beastly gaming PCs from a wide variety of companies and free trips to BlizzCon or Intel Extreme Masters in Chicago. New limited-time deals pop up every day—you’ll see them listed as “upcoming” at the bottom of the page—so there’s an incentive to check back often, too.

Finding the deals takes a lot more work, as you’ll have to head to the websites of Intel’s partners to seek out the sales. You can find links to every sale page via the Gamer Days website, but we’ve scoured them all to highlight some especially juicy deals.

The best Intel Gamer Days deals

Let’s start with some straightforward PC deals, then dig into some intriguing bundle options.

Boutique PC builders are offering some enticing bundles of their own.

When you buy Origin PC’s Millennium desktop, the company will toss in free shipping and CPU overclocking, a $50 Visa gift card, a Steam key for Richard Garriott’s Shroud of the Avatar, and—if you opt for a system with Optane memory installed—an “Intel Optane Premium Creativity Bundle” worth $610 that includes a wide range of Corel and Magix editing software, Halo Wars 2, some World of Tanks items, and Warhammer: Vermintide II.

Boutique builder Maingear is offering a bunch of extras when you buy a desktop, including free upgrades for your processor, SSD, closed-loop liquid cooler, and warranty, free shipping, a “Maingear loot pack” of swag, and Far Cry 5. You’ll also get big discounts if you opt for an Intel Core i7-8086K or X299 processor, and up to $300 off Samsung monitors. Finally, Maingear’s Vybe gaming PC is $300 off.

There are more deals where those came from, but few as enticing. Hit up Intel’s Gamer Days website if you want to scrounge for more.