The individual cost of some of these components makes this a pretty remarkable deal in Fall 2026. The RTX 5080 GPU in this rig alone will set you back more than $1,500 in today's market. The CPU is nearly $500, bringing the cost of just those two components to 2/3 of the build's entire price.
RAM and SSD prices are heavily inflated, which means 32GB of DDR5 would normally set you back $400 right now. Add the storage to the bill of materials, and you've covered nearly the entire cost of this PC before you've added the case, fans, cooler, motherboard, and PSU. With the best CPU for gaming on the market and a huge GPU, this PC is no slouch either.
Grab a huge saving on this ABS Kaze II Aqua gaming PC, made and shipped by Newegg. It comes equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, 32GB of DDR5 RAM, and a 2TB SSD.
While the 9800X3D is not quite the fastest gaming CPU on the market these days, it is still the best all-rounder by some distance thanks to its combination of power efficiency and performance compared to the 9850X3D. This 8-core, 16-thread CPU chews through gaming titles, even at 4K, thanks to its 3D V-cache. Reducing reliance on slower RAM, this industry-leading tech makes AMD's X3D CPUs the best gaming chips on the market, as you can see from our testing data.
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The RTX 5080 likewise needs no introduction. This behemoth features 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 10,752 CUDA cores. As you can see from our GPU hierarchy, that translates into average frames per second of 60 even at 4K, performance eclipsed only by the extremely powerful and expensive 5090. At 1440p, we clocked average fps of over 100. The 5080 will also unlock Nvidia's powerful DLSS 4.5 and new DLSS 5 technology for frame generation and neural rendering.
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Headline components aside, this build features 32GB of Kingston Fury DDR5 6400 RAM, a fantastic addition considering it's easy to hide cheap, slow RAM inside a pre-built PC. The SSD is Team Group's NV5000 2TB Gen 4 drive, giving you plenty of storage and gaming performance. The motherboard is a Gigabyte B850 with Wi-Fi 6, giving you plenty of power and performance as well as room for expansion in the future. The build also features a 360mm AIO cooler for the CPU, Windows 11, and a 1000W 80 Plus Gold to keep everything running.
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Jabberwocky79 I mean, honestly if I had the extra cash, I'd buy one of these pre-built deals, use the parts I wanted to upgrade my own build, and sell the rest piece-by-piece, potentially for a profit of sorts. Reply
FoxTread3 Jabberwocky79 said: I mean, honestly if I had the extra cash, I'd buy one of these pre-built deals, use the parts I wanted to upgrade my own build, and sell the rest piece-by-piece, potentially for a profit of sorts. Agreed. I've thought the same thing from time to time. I have doubts that I would have the inclination to spend time trying to sell the parts though. That's just me.😊 Reply
Eximo Well, the problem with keeping the good parts and selling the rest means the other person has the opposite problem. Getting the expensive parts to plug into the cheaper parts you have discarded. It would have be an incredible deal for them to consider it. Basically, are you really saving money if you have to sell the discarded components for half their value? Spam and scams are also pretty annoying these days when you post things for sale. Reply
FoxTread3 Eximo said: Well, the problem with keeping the good parts and selling the rest means the other person has the opposite problem. Getting the expensive parts to plug into the cheaper parts you have discarded. It would have be an incredible deal for them to consider it. Basically, are you really saving money if you have to sell the discarded components for half their value? Spam and scams are also pretty annoying these days when you post things for sale. Yep. While I think Nvidia's new logo should be a guy with a mask and a gun.. with the new company slogan.. "Give us your money.. all of it!"😁🙄 I would like to see what the RTX 6000 series GPUs will look like, with fingers crossed that it be a better design than the 5000 series. I know.. "Hope springs eternal in fools."😏 Thanks for your reply and stay well. Reply
Eximo 6000 series isn't likely for another year, probably into 2028. My guess would be they will prioritize more silicon to AI, DLSS, and Ray Tracing and leave rasterization basically where it is at. They may finally opt to use the 3Gb chips and give us 9,12,18,24 GB variants of cards. Beyond that, another small node shrink. But their pursuit for ever higher performance will likely keep the 90 class cards near the 600W max. Hopefully mid-range power consumption finally comes back down. I suspect AMD will carry on with their mid-high end offering, maybe match Nvidia with 24GB versions of their 16GB class cards. I will probably pick up a 10070 XT or whatever they call it. Intel seems to be done with discrete gaming cards, but maybe they will keep making workstation cards. I wouldn't mind getting a used Intel B70 at some point. Reply
FoxTread3 Eximo said: 6000 series isn't likely for another year, probably into 2028. My guess would be they will prioritize more silicon to AI, DLSS, and Ray Tracing and leave rasterization basically where it is at. They may finally opt to use the 3Gb chips and give us 9,12,18,24 GB variants of cards. Beyond that, another small node shrink. But their pursuit for ever higher performance will likely keep the 90 class cards near the 600W max. Hopefully mid-range power consumption finally comes back down. I suspect AMD will carry on with their mid-high end offering, maybe match Nvidia with 24GB versions of their 16GB class cards. I will probably pick up a 10070 XT or whatever they call it. Intel seems to be done with discrete gaming cards, but maybe they will keep making workstation cards. I wouldn't mind getting a used Intel B70 at some point. Interesting. You know a lot more about the specs. and so on than I do. I try to keep up by watching the well known YouTube Tech channels, but I admit that a lot of the info they offer goes over my head. Thanks again for your kind replies… as us old Star Trek fans say.. "Live long and prosper!🖖"😊 Reply
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