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Today’s best deals: Early Prime Day deals, AMD Ryzen CPUs, and more

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Today’s best deals: Early Prime Day deals, AMD Ryzen CPUs, and more

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Ars Staff - 7/6/2022, 6:01 PM

Today’s best deals: Early Prime Day deals, AMD Ryzen CPUs, and more
Ars Technica

It's Wednesday, which means it's time for another Dealmaster. Our latest roundup of the best deals from around the web includes a handful of early discounts Amazon has set live ahead of its annual Prime Day promotion, which is scheduled to begin next week.

This is still Prime Day, so several of the early deals Amazon offers aren't exactly winners: There are various discounts on middling TVs and less-recommended Amazon devices like the Halo View fitness tracker or Fire TV Cube media streamer. The pickings should improve during Prime Day proper, and as usual the Dealmaster will be sorting through the junk to help you find what's good next week.

That said, we are seeing a few deals of note at the moment, including the lowest prices we've tracked for the diminutive Echo Show 5 smart display (which is down to $35), the Kindle Kids e-reader—which, at $50, is a good value for those who don't want to pay up for the superior Kindle Paperwhite (which isn't discounted yet)—and the Echo and Echo Dot smart speakers, which are down to $60 and $20, respectively. (Just be completely sure you're willing to accept the myriad privacy and security risks with the latter two.) The extended Audible Premium Plus trial we noted last week, which gives new subscribers three months of service for no extra cost, is still available as well. There are a couple other deals of note that we've highlighted below; remember that you'll need to be a Prime member to take advantage.

If you want no part of Prime Day, our roundup still has plenty of non-Prime discounts on good gadgets, games, and gear, including new lows on a couple of AMD Ryzen 5000 processors, the 512GB version of Samsung's speedy Evo Select microSD card, and Vizio's well-regarded Elevate soundbar, among others. You can see our full curated list of deals below.

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The Echo Show 5 can serve as a bedside clock when not used for more involved tasks.
Enlarge / The Echo Show 5 can serve as a bedside clock when not used for more involved tasks.
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Early Prime Day 2022 deals

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Enlarge / Nintendo's Legend of Zelda Game and Watch is best seen as a fun collectible more than a full-fledged gaming handheld, but it does come with full copies of the original The Legend of Zelda, Zelda II: The Adventure of Link, and Link's Awakening for those wanting to brush up on the series' roots.
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Enlarge / Like many other GPUs, the RTX 3070 is only just starting to fall back to its initial MSRP, but if you're willing to pay up, it remains a quality option for those targeting 1440p resolutions with their gaming rig.
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Enlarge / The open-world racer Forza Horizon 5 is far more carefree and accessible than a typical racing simulator.

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Enlarge / Half-Life: Alyx is still among the best games available exclusively in VR.
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Enlarge / Some odd narrative choices aside, It Takes Two is one of the better co-op experiences in recent years.

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