Best Buy Labor Day Sale Includes Gaming Laptops For $500, Monitors For Cheap, And More

By Darryn Bonthuys on August 30, 2024 at 10:35AM PDT

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If you've been looking to upgrade your PC gaming setup, Best Buy's Labor Day sale is loaded with deals on sharp displays and gaming laptops for every budget.

Best Buy Labor Day Sale 2024

Check out all the deals across each category:

In the gaming laptop section, Best Buy is offering the Asus ROG Zephyrus G16 laptop for $1,200, a substantial discount of $1,600. Asus ROG laptops are specifically geared toward gaming, and you can start enjoying new titles right out of the box with one of these. This has solid specs for a 16-inch laptop, as you're getting a full-HD screen, a 165Hz refresh rate, and a pretty powerful mobile GeForce RTX 4070. That's a nice balance between power and mobility, and the G16 is also a good-looking piece of hardware.

Another powerhouse notebook to consider is the HP Omen. This one can keep pace with the G16 as it boasts a crisp 15.6-inch display, an RTX 4060 mobile GPU, and 16GB of high-speed RAM. You'd normally pay $1,400 for one of these, but it's on sale for $1,000 at Best Buy.

On the budget side of things, there's the MSI GF63 for only $500. To be clear, this is a low-end gaming laptop that is largely suited for those who want to play indie games and old AAA titles due to its modest Intel Core i5 CPU and GeForce RTX 2500 GPU. It does have a 144Hz full-HD screen, 8GB RAM, and 1TB SSD--which is notable for a gaming laptop at this price. For $30 more, you can upgrade to the GeForce RTX 3500 GPU in the HP Victus 15.6-inch gaming laptop ($530), but this model only comes with a 512GB SSD.

For PC gamers with a big rig on their desktop, you can also save big on some gaming monitors. For something that'll take up most of the real estate on your desk, you can check out the massive 49-inch Samsung G9 OLED ultrawide display, which is on sale for $1,200. That's an impressive $600 savings for this beast of a 49-inch display, as it has a 5120 x 1440 resolution and a 240Hz refresh rate. Even better, it's an OLED display so games will really look nice on it.

On the opposite side of gaming monitor spectrum, there's the Acer Nitro XF243Y monitor on sale for $130 (normally $200). While this won't blow you away, it's a good option for budget shoppers. The 24-inch display size is decent, it has a high refresh rate, and it has FreeSync Premium. Several 1440p monitors have also received steep discounts, including the 32-inch LG UltraGear for $280 and the 27-inch model for $230. for and This is the sweet spot for PC gaming, as you're still getting a sharp display and you won't have to burn your GPU out to render some impressive graphical effects.

There's a nice deal on the Starfield-branded 5TB external game drive hub--this has sold out multiple times in recent weeks, so snag it while you can. Sure, SSDs are more commonplace now, but this is still an inexpensive way to back up several gigabytes of data on a good-looking device. You also can't go wrong with one of the best PS5 games, Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, for just $20, and you can score a 1TB Xbox Series X|S Seagate Expansion Card for just $130.

Check out more gaming deals in Best Buy's Labor Day sale below. Amazon is also hosting a sale this weekend, and we've rounded up the notable gaming and tech deals you can grab over there.

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