This Black Friday, you can get a great PC setup for under $100.

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This Black Friday, you can get a great PC setup for under $100.

Finding Black Friday PC gaming deals (opens in new tab) is never easy. It's especially difficult when your budget is set at $100, but you want to make the most of your hard-earned money.

Thankfully, we've found plenty of deals below that price ceiling.

There have been many ways to upgrade your gaming PC for less, but during the sale, the possibilities are even greater. There are more Black Friday gaming keyboard and mouse deals (opens in new tab) than you can shake a stick at.

Many are tenkeyless or 60% keyboards, but there are also full-size gaming keyboards under $100. The wireless, compact Keychron K4 costs $99.99 (opens in new tab) and might tickle your fancy if you like brown keyswitches.

As for mice, prices vary wildly. The Logitech G305 Lightspeed is $39.99 (opens in new tab), or our favorite gaming mouse, the DeathAdder V2 with BlackShark V2 X gaming headset and Gigantus V2 mouse pad The Razer bundle is $67.99, down from $149.99 (opens in new tab).

Meanwhile, a gaming headset is one thing every gamer needs. It's the one that can handle the sounds of battle and the sweetest tunes. There are plenty of gaming headsets out there, including one of our favorite headsets, the HyperX Cloud Alpha. The wireless Razer Quartz Barracuda X also sells for $56.60 (opens in new tab).

Of course, there is also the option of getting a professional-sounding microphone for streaming, ASMR recording, or just chatting with friends without sounding like you're in a tin can: the Audio-Technica AT2020USB+ is 79 (opens in a new tab) and the Blue Yeti Nano is $69.99 (opens in a new tab). The Blue Yeti Nano is also reduced to $69.99 (opens in a new tab).

Aside from peripherals, the Black Friday SSD sale (opens in new tab) allows you to upgrade your PC internals for under $100. Not only are they cheap, but they are also very easy to plug-and-play. That is if your motherboard has a spare M.2 slot. Check the specs before you buy and be careful if you move the Windows boot drive (open in new tab). You don't want to lose all your settings and apps.

You can also get RAM: 32GB of fast DDR4-3200 RAM for under $70. The following Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan for $69.99 (opens in a new tab) does just that and is $15 less than expected.

And if you're an AMD user and have been recommending upgrading to 16GB all along but haven't gotten around to it yet, now might be the time, with the PNY XLR8 Gaming for $49.99 (opens in new tab).

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