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Nickmercs signs multi-year sponsorship with Corsair
Nickmercs, one of the best-known streaming personalities in shooter games, has signed a sponsorship deal with game hardware maker Corsair. Nickmercs has an audience of over 15 million followers. And starting today he will exclusively play games with Corsair gaming hardware. I’ve regularly watched his skill with Call of Duty multiplayer games. When Warzone 2 […]
Corsair makes a $110 SSD that’s a great fit for your Steam Deck
This cost-effective option will give you speedy storage, but upgrade at your own risk
Ready up for The Last of Us PC with this Corsair RAM deal
The Last of Us system requirements are anything but lightweight, but you can currently revamp your rig for less with this Corsair RAM deal. While games typically only require 8GB memory to meet minimum PC specs, Naughty Dog’s apocalyptic adventure needs 16GB to run smoothly across the board.
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A trio of Corsair peripherals are 50% off at their US store
A trio of Corsair peripherals has gone on flash sale at the company’s US web store, making it a nice time to pick up a matching all-Corsair setup for about 50% off. There are three items included; the HS65 headset, the Sabre RGB Pro Champion Series mouse and the K70 Mini Wireless 60% mechanical keyboard. I’ve tested all but the keyboard, and they’re fantastic pieces of kit – and now at surprisingly low prices.
Pick up 32GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 CL36 RAM for £120 after a 53% discount
High speed, low latency DDR5 RAM continues to drop in price, and now it’s possible to pick up a high-speed 32GB kit of DDR5-6000 CL36 for just £120, as Corsair’s Vengeance dual-channel kit is down to £119.99 at Amazon UK. This is less than half the price that this DDR5 kit launched at in October last year, especially given that the RAM still cost £173 in February!
Get a Corsair 4000X PC case + H100i Elite Capellix 240mm AiO for £170
White PC builds seem to be on-trend these days, as brands finally get the memo that colour options are appreciated. If you like the sound of that, today’s deal on a Corsair 4000X PC case and H100i Elite Capellix 240mm AiO from Ebuyer in the UK is ideal, providing the two most prominent components of your build in gleaming white – and at a considerable discount. Normally the case costs around £110 while the cooler is a further £135, so you’re saving around £75 here by buying this bundle versus buying the items separately.
The Best PS5 SSD Deals for 2023: New Price Drops on WD Black SN850X and Corsair MP600 Pro
2023 might finally be the year where 2TB PS5 SSDs might actually be worth the upgrade. Last year, prices for 1TB PS5 SSDs averaged around $150, whereas 2TB SSDs hovered closer to $300. This year, we’re seeing 1TB SSDs trickle below the $100 price point and 2TB SSDs are under $200. The reason PS5 SSD upgrades are pricey is that you can’t use any old SSD and expect it to perform well on the PS5 console. You’ll want to pick up an PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 solid state drive with a rated 5,500MB/s read speed to match the PS5’s internal drive. That means, for better or for worse, picking a top-shelf SSD.
Note that Sony recommends a heatsink attached to your SSD. Not all SSDs listed here have pre-installed heatsinks. For the ones that do, we’ll be sure to mention it. For the ones that don’t, all you have to do is purchase your own heatsink (we recommend this one for $10) and install it yourself. It’s very easy.
2-Pack WD 2TB PS5 SSD with Heatsink for $299.99
Western Digital has the 2TB WD Black Series SN850X M.2 PCIe 4.0 SSD for only $179.99 but when you add two to your cart, price drops to $299.99 (or $150 each). The SN850X is the successor to the SN850 SSD. It has newer flash chips (BiCS5 vs BiCS4) and an updated firmware, which combined offer improved sequential and random read/write speeds. For PC gamers, there’s also an updated Game Mode 2.0 utility that’s designed to tune the SSD for better performance during gaming sessions.
Corsair MP600 PRO LPX 2TB “Optimized for PS5” SSD with Heatsink for Only $159.99
Corsair is a very well known brand for DIY PC builders. Corsair makes some of the best gaming products on the market, and that includes solid-state memory like RAM and SSDs. The MP600 Pro is the same super-fast M.2 NVMe PCIe x4 Gen4 SSD that’s marketed for enthusiast gaming PC builds. This one is “optimized for PS5” because it includes a rugged preinstalled heatsink that is slim enough to fit in the PS5 bay without any issues. Performance wise, the MP600 Pro matches the best SSDs out there with its 7,100MB/sec sequential read and 6,800MB/sec sequential write speeds.
Samsung 2TB PS5 SSD with Heatsink for $179.99
Samsung SSDs need no introduction. They’ve made some of the most popular and reliable PS5 SSDs on the market. The 980 Pro has been out for a while now, but it’s still one of Samsung’s fastest M.2 PCIe SSD, with only the newly released 990 Pro being faster. It is fully PS5 compatible in terms of form factor and performance, with blistering speeds of up to 7,100MB/s. It goes toe to toe with other well-known options like the WD Black SN850 and the Seagate Firecuda 530.
More PS5 SSD Deals
There may be other SSD deals out there, but these are the PS5 SSDs we’ve tried ourselves and highly recommend. They also double up as outstanding boot drives for your gaming PC, in case you don’t need additional storage for your PS5 console.
How easy is it to install the SSD?
It’s extremely easy! Removing the case cover is completely toolless. In fact, the only screw you have to remove is the one that keeps the cover for the SSD bay in place. You don’t even put it back when you’re done. Sony has a quick and easy YouTube video guide.
What if the SSD I bought doesn’t have a heatsink?
Sony recommends you install an SSD that has an attached heatsink. If the SSD you purchase doesn’t include one, it’s simple enough to buy one for about $10 on Amazon and add it yourself. Most of these heatsinks are just attached using an adhesive like thermal tape.
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The 2TB Corsair MP600 Pro is down to $155 at Newegg
The Corsair MP600 Pro is a great high-end PCIe 4.0 SSD, so to get the 1TB model for $155 at Newegg, a reasonable $45 off, is a deal worth writing about. As you’d hope from a drive of this calibre, this uses more expensive TLC NAND flash and has a DRAM cache, providing noticeably better sustained performance than QLC drives without a DRAM cache.