I can't decide which of these $2,000 RTX 4080 Super gaming PCs I'd rather pick *checks feed* oh wait, yeah it'll be the AMD one

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You are also not getting the full PCIe 5.0 monty that AMD’s platform can offer as ABS is packing an MSI B650 motherboard into the Thermaltake chassis. That means no PCIe graphics slots or SSD M.2 ports, either. Right now, that’s not a big miss as Gen5 SSDs offer little more than some shiny benchmark numbers and a severe increase in heat generation, and graphics cards are barely using the full bandwidth of the PCIe Gen4 interface. But it is a pretty barebones motherboard, all that aside.

But those are the slight misses in a gaming PC otherwise full of hits. What you are getting on that motherboard is the necessary DDR5 support for Zen 4 CPUs, and 32 GB of the stuff in 6,000 MT/s trim. That is more than enough for both your gaming and content creation needs. The most obvious hit, however, is the graphics card. The RTX 4080 Super is an excellent 4K GPU, and the MSI Gaming X Slim ABS is offering is a solid option among all the Nvidia board partners.

You’re also getting a full 1,000 W power supply into the mix, too. Though it is only listed as a generic ABS power supply with the exact provenance of its power delivering tech not clear. That is still enough juice to keep the RTX 4080 Super fed, and should see you right for the next GPU generation… so long as they don’t start gettingreallysilly when it comes to their power demands.

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If you’d rather go down the Intel route—and who wouldn’t withall the positivity around the brandat the moment—there’s an equivalently priced RTX 4080 Super gaming PC with an Intel Core i7 13700F inside it. That is a 16-core, 24-thread chip, so has a little more about it than the Ryzen 7 7700X, but the Yeyian machine is otherwise very similar though with only an 850 W PSU, but a superior three-year warranty.

Either one of these machines will deliver an excellent gaming experience, and it will be a while before you find this sort of performance for less, I would bet.

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