Hardware Prices,
Compared.

What is covered

8,713 published components across 23 categories:

Case Fans, Coolers, CPUs, External Storage, Game Controllers, Gaming Headsets, Gaming Keyboards, Gaming Laptops, Gaming Mice, Gaming Monitors, GPUs, HDDs, Microphones, Motherboards, Network Cards, PC Cases, PC Speakers, Prebuilt PCs, PSUs, RAM, SSDs, Thermal Paste, Webcams.

How prices are checked

The most popular parts are re-checked at every shop each night, and the full lists of most shops (Overclockers, CCL, Box, Ebuyer, AWD-IT, Chillblast and Stormforce) are swept every night. Scan limits how many pages we can read, so its older prices are worked through a bit at a time, and Currys and Novatech are read on alternate nights. Every price shows when we read it. A price read more than 7 days ago is marked as possibly out of date, and past 14 days it is left out of build totals, deals and alerts. What you are reading is a price with a timestamp on it rather than a claim about right now.

Building a whole machine

The PC Builder holds eight parts (processor, graphics card, motherboard, memory, storage, power supply, case and cooler) and checks the two things a specification can actually settle: whether the processor’s socket matches the motherboard, and whether the memory is a type that board supports. It also estimates whether the processor or the graphics card will hold the other back, and totals the cheapest price for each part so the build has a real number against it.

How VantaSpec is paid

Some of the shops listed pay a commission when somebody buys after following a link from here. It costs you nothing, and it changes nothing about what you see: Prices are listed cheapest first, always. Whether we earn a commission from a retailer has no effect on the order, and no retailer can pay for a higher position. Which retailers pay us, and how much of each catalogue we hold a price for, is set out on the retailers page.