You'll save $854 building an RTX 3080-powered machine from these Memorial Day deals

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This is the high-performance RTX 3080-powered machine that the Memorial Day PC gaming deals(opens in new tab) have built. And it's a hell of a rig. It's also the first time in two years that we've actually been able to build a full gaming PC purely from the seasonal deals. It's a proper gaming PC as well, so comes with a decent graphics card and not just some depressing respin of an RTX 2060 or something equally unpalatable.

The fact that we can pack it out with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080(opens in new tab), for pretty damned close to the overclocked MSI card's likely MSRP, is what makes this machine stand out from the crowd. But it's the pairing with the awesome AMD Ryzen 9 5900X(opens in new tab) processor that puts it above the gaming PC deals(opens in new tab) that have impressed us so far this Memorial Day.

The 5900X is arguably the best CPU from the Ryzen 5000 series, offering better value than the Ryzen 9 5950X(opens in new tab), and more cores than the Ryzen 7 5800X3D(opens in new tab), while still delivering excellent single and multi-core performance. And for just $391 at the moment it's the chip we'd be spending our money on right now. What about the impending AMD Zen 4 CPUs(opens in new tab)? Well, they may offer a slight bump in performance, but I'd wager a Ryzen 7000 series chip at $391 would still fall behind the 5900X.

MSI GeForce RTX 3080 Gaming Z Trio | 10GB GDDR6X | 8.704 cores | 1,830MHz Boost | $1,299.99$849.99 at Gamestop (save $450)(opens in new tab)I sure wouldn't have expected Gamestop to be the place I found the cheapest RTX 3080 deal of Memorial Day so far, but that's how it's shaken out. And this MSI Gaming Z Trio is an overclocked version with MSI's excellent triple-fan cooling array strapped