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This is pretty much as good as it gets for a gaming CPU, and the powerhouse chip is complemented by Nvidia's hefty RTX 5080. This 16GB VRAM beast has 10,752 CUDA cores, capable of breezing through titles at 4K. As you can see, the 5080 is only overshadowed by the RTX 5090, which costs more than this entire PC.
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Even in our 4K testing, the RTX 5080 is capable of sustaining 60 frames per second, and that's before you start using Nvidia's powerful DLSS suite of frame generation tools.
This potent one-two punch of CPU and GPU is well-supported by 32GB of DDR5 RAM, the sweet spot for AM5 gaming and a $400 commodity in today's market, as well as 2TB of PCIe 4.0 NVMe storage, offering ample space for your Steam library.
There's also a 1000W power supply, and the B850 motherboard offers Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.3, and plenty of ports.
So if you want a buy-it-once-and-forget-about-it PC you won't have to upgrade for the next five years, this is a substantial saving on a really solid and capable rig. The cost of the CPU, memory, storage, and GPU alone is almost $2,500 if you were to buy these parts separately, so if you factor in the motherboard, cooler, case, PSU, and Windows 11, plus the convenience, this looks like a pretty good deal.
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