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Dec 10, 2023

Daily Deals: Xbox Series X, Sonos Soundbar, WD Black PS5 SSD, OLED Gaming Monitor

Today's daily deals for Tuesday, August 29 include Xbox Series X consoles, Sonos soundbar, WD Black SSD, OLED gaming TVs and monitors, Anker power banks, and much more. Amazon is offering a really

Today's daily deals for Tuesday, August 29 include Xbox Series X consoles, Sonos soundbar, WD Black SSD, OLED gaming TVs and monitors, Anker power banks, and much more.

Amazon is offering a really cool Anker Transformers: Optimus Prime themed 10,000mAh Power Bank and 65W Wall Charger Hybrid for $69.99 after a $30 coupon that you can clip on the product page. If you're looking for an all-in-one solution for both when you're at home and when you roll out, and you want it in an attractive design, this is most definitely the device you're looking for. The Anker device itself is certainly more than meets the eye. This is a power bank and wall charger in one. What that means is that there's a 10,000mAh battery pack to charge your mobile devices when you roll out. However, it can also transform into a fast charging AC adapter so you can switch to using grid power whenever it's available.

Sonos is offering a factory refurbished Sony Arc SL Shadow soundbar for $509.00. This is a nice discount from the original price of $679 price for a refurb. Note that the Sonos Arc sells for $899 new. The Arc is Sonos' flagship product. This is a premium soundbar and it shows. You can't get much better in terms of sound quality from a soundbar, and that's thanks to its chunkier 45" length. There's enough space in there to contain eleven precisely engineered internal speakers, including two dedicated height channels. It's Dolby Atmos ready, and there's enough power here that you can probably get away without a subwoofer.

Sonos refurb products go through pretty rigorous testing (probably more so than new). They come with all accessories, manuals, and documentation and are reshipped in "pristine" packaging. Most importantly of all, Sonos stands by their refurbs enough to grant them the same 1 year warranty as buying new.

Today Amazon is offering a 2TB WD Black SN850X PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD for only $99.99. That's the best price we've seen since Amazon Prime Day. This SSD would make an exceptional (if not overkill) storage expansion drive for your PS5 console or as a blazing fast boot drive for your next gaming rig. The SN850X is the latest generation of WD's flagship Black series M.2 SSDs. It's easily one of the fastest SSDs on the market and other similar performing SSDs currently sell for about $150. The SN850X's upgrades over the SN850 include newer flash chips (BiCS5 vs BiCS4) and an updated firmware, both of which offer improved sequential and random read/write speeds

If you haven't picked up this masterpiece of a game, then now you have even better reason to. The outstanding Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom game for the Nintendo Switch has dropped from its original $69.99 MSRP to $49.99. That's the best price we've seen so far from Amazon and very worth it for a game that can easily take up to 100 hours of your time.

Walmart is offering a pre-built ASUS ROG Strix G15 gaming PC equipped with a GeForce RTX 3080 GPU for only $1299.99. It's also sold and shipped directly from Walmart and not a 3rd party marketplace vendor. The RTX 3080 is a great pick for up to 4K gaming without spending an egregious sum of money. Although now a generation old, the GeForce 3080 is certainly no slouch. It was the first card that could realistically handle 4K gaming (with the right settings).

Amazon is offering the OVIO PS5 Dual Controller Charging Station for a mere $9.99 after you (1) clip a 20% off coupon on the product page and (2) redeem a 40% off code "A9N9H4C4". This charging station normally costs $24.99, so you're saving a pretty massive 60% off for one of the most highly rated PS5 controller charging stations (by number of reviews) on Amazon.

Starting today, Dell is offering a bonus $75 Dell promotional egift card when you purchase an Xbox Series X gaming console for $474.99. You're essentially getting the Xbox Series X console for $399.99. You will receive the gift card via email within 20 days after the Xbox ships and it will expire 90 days thereafter. Use the gift card to buy almost anything at Dell including gaming PCs or laptops, monitors, electronics, and even Xbox games and accessories.

If you don't want to deal with the gift card, Woot has some deals on the standalone Xbox Series X console as well as bundles. These are straight dollar-off discounts without any hurdles to overcome. From a pure value standpoint, the Dell deal is still better since you can choose what game you want with the gift card and the maximum possible discount is higher, but these are still good and come with the full 1 year Microsoft warranty (Woot is owned by Amazon and is an authorized Xbox reseller).

Today Amazon has dropped the price of the 49" Samsung Odyssey OLED G9 gaming monitor to $1599.99, a hefty $600 price drop from its original $2200 MSRP. This is the lowest price we've ever seen and beats out the price we saw on Amazon Prime Day by $300. The Odyssey OLED G9 replaces the Neo G9 as Samsung's latest and greatest flagship gaming monitor. The most noticeable upgrade from the Neo G9 is the quantum dot OLED panel. The previous gen Neo G9 utilized a Mini-LED panel, which was already a step above the IPS panels you'd find in most other high-end gaming monitors. Samsung's QD OLED panel is even better. Quantum dot technology produces higher peak brightness levels compared to traditional OLED TVs without losing the color accuracy and range and wide viewing angles that OLEDs are known for.

Amazon just dropped the price on the 2023 LG B3 4K OLED Smart TV to $1996.97. This is the very first time we've seen this specific OLED TV drop below $2000. The LG B3 offers a better value than the C3 for both gamers and TV watchers alike. Because this is a true OLED TV, expect near infinite response time and contrast ratio and perfect black levels. It has a true 120Hz panel and two HDMI 2.1 ports for running 4K at 120Hz on a PS5 or Xbox Series X. It also supports variable refresh rate (VRR) and auto low latency mode (ALLM).

Includes two 5ft USB Type-C cables

Amazon is offering a 2-pack of Anker 20W Dual Port USB Fast Wall Chargers for only $14.39 after you clip the 20% off coupon on the product page. Each wall charger has one USB Type-C input and one USB Type-A input. Both are capable of charging at up to 20W max each (or 7.5W per port when used simultaneously). This bundle also includes two 5ft USB Type-C cables. In most cases, wall chargers do not come with any USB Type-C cables. A cursory check on Amazon prices two USB Type-C cables at around $6-$10.

The Anker PowerCore Slim 313 is one of the slimmest 10,000mAh power banks around. It's almost the exact same dimensions as an iPhone 14 (only 0.2" thicker). There are three types of connections, but it's important to understand which is input and which is output. USB Type-C and Micro USB are INPUT only, which means that you use either of these ports to charge the power bank itself. USB Type-A is OUTPUT only, which means this is the port that you use to charge your other devices. It's capable of delivering up to 12W of charge using Anker's PowerIQ and VoltageBoost technologies.

Amazon has the Samsung EVO 512GB Micro SDXC card for only $29.99. The memory card is compatible with virtually any device that accepts the Micro SDXC card standard. That includes the Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck, ASUS ROG Ally, any recently released smartphone that supports expandable memory, GoPros, cameras and much more. Despite its low price, it's faster than your average Micro SDXC card. It has a U3 A2 rating and boasts transfer speeds of up to 180MB/s.

The Silicon Power XS70 SSD with a preinstalled robust aluminum heatsink costs well under $100. The aluminum heatsink is still slim enough to fit in the PS5 without obstruction. It boasts transfer speeds of up to 7300MB/s read and 6800MB/s write, comfortably faster than the 5500MB/s minimum recommended requirement. It actually performs a little better than the Crucial P5 Plus, the original WD Black SN850, and the Samsung 980 Pro, although that won't make a difference in your PS5.

You must upgrade to the "RTX 4070 GPU" and "800W Power Supply" to get the config listed above. HP offers one the best prices we've ever seen for an RTX 4070 gaming PC. The GeForce RTX 4070 matches the performance of the older RTX 3080 but with a few new features exclusive to RTX 40 series GPUs. The RTX 4070 can still easily hold its own in any game at 1080p and 1440p. In fact, it's powerful enough to run older games very well at 4K Because it's a current gen 40 series card, the RTX 4070 also supports DLSS 3.0, which is DLSS 2.0 plus frame generation. The only other upgrade we might recommend would be picking the i7-13700 for only $1547.99 after the same 10% off code "10GAMER2023".

You must upgrade to the "RTX 4060 Ti GPU" to get the config listed above. The GeForce RTX 4060 Ti is best suited for 1080p gaming, although it is fully capable of handling 1440p gaming as well. The RTX 4060 Ti performs about 10%-15% better than the RTX 3060 Ti at 1080p, almost on par with an RTX 3070.