There is such a thing as a good RTX 4080 gaming PC deal
Thermaltake Shadow 480 R4 | MSI RTX 4080 Ventus 3X OC | AMD Ryzen 7 5800X | 32GB DDR4 RAM | 3TB SSD | $2,999.99$2,499.99 at Best Buy (save $500)(opens in new tab) An RTX 4080 gaming PC with $500 off; except the rest of the spec around the graphics card doesn't suck. You actually get a whole lot of RAM and storage space here, which isn't something we see often in prebuilt PCs.
Nvidia and its partners ask for a lot of money to part ways with one of their powerful RTX 4080 graphics cards. It's a shame as the card delivers monumental 4K performance able to thwack an RTX 3080 Ti down a peg or two, but we just can't stomach its $1,200 asking price.
One deal with the devil we might make, however, is for this Thermaltake Shadow 480 R4 gaming PC over at Best Buy. It's sitting at $2,500 right now(opens in new tab)—$500 off the asking price.
For that money you can claim ownership of an RTX 4080. Not just any RTX 4080, it looks like Thermaltake's shipping an MSI Ventus 3X OC card with this particular build, which is a mighty three-fan card. We haven't reviewed that exact model, but we did check out the MSI RTX 4070 Ti Gaming X Trio(opens in new tab) and MSI RTX 4080 Suprim X(opens in new tab) and come away impressed with MSI's build quality on both counts.
That graphics card alone counts towards roughly $1,250 of this PC's $2,500 price tag, meaning the remaining parts need to total another $1,250, with some leeway for the system building fee we expect to see with a prebuilt machine. If you want to save that why not build it for yourself? It's fun, promise.
The remainder of this PC's specs list is pretty impressive. It's not a bad looking machine, either. The CPU is AMD's last-gen Ryzen 7 5800X, which is admittedly not quite the
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