It's not often you find an RTX 4080 Super gaming PC for under $2,000. Well, today's your lucky day
ABS Vortex-X Ruby | Ryzen 7 7700X | RTX 4080 Super | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 1 TB SSD | $2,399.99$1,999.99 at Newegg (save $400)
High-end gaming PCs should be all about the GPU and here you're getting Nvidia's 2nd most powerful one. Paired with a solid CPU and lots of fast RAM, you'll be good for years of 4K gaming.
Pre-built gaming PCs can sometimes be a little odd when it comes to the balance of CPU and GPU power inside. For 4K gaming, you want most of the build's budget to have been spent on the graphics card—as long as the CPU is decent enough, of course. Well, you've got no worries on both those counts with this ABS Vortex-X Ruby.
The star of the show is the GeForce RTX 4080 Super. It's an MSI Gaming X Slim model and offers a very mild overclock of up to 3%, via the MSI Centre app. Not that this really matters, as the RTX 4080 Super is Nvidia's 2nd most powerful gaming GPU—only the RTX 4090 is faster, but you're not going to get one of those in a prebuilt gaming PC for under $2000!
As with all of the RTX 40-series models, it supports all of the latest DLSS 3.5 AI-driven features, including Super Resolution upscaling, Frame Generation, and ray tracing denoising. In games that offer the option to use the first two, you can slap them on and enjoy great frame rates at 4K, with all of the graphics options set to their maximum values.
ABS has paired the GPU with a Ryzen 7 7700X processor. It's not AMD's best CPU for gaming (the Ryzen 7 7800X3D holds that crown) but you're not going to have any complaints—eight cores, 16 threads, 32 MB of L3 cache, 5.4 GHz boost clock, and a TDP of 105 W all go to making this is a thoroughly decent CPU.
AMD Ryzen chips need fast, dual-channel RAM to reach their full potential and the good news continues, as there's 32 GB (2 x 16) of DDR5-6000 fitted in the motherboard. That's the ideal balance of speed and stability for Zen 4 processors and it's great to see it being used here. The RAM even boasts RGB lighting, something that's not always
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