You couldn't build this RTX 4080 gaming PC yourself for less. And you wouldn't have anyone to blame if it went wrong, either 🫣
card—represented here by a Gigabyte Eagle OC version—is the main draw of this machine. While we may not have been bowled over by the value prospect of Nvidia's second-tier Ada GPU as a drop-in upgrade for the DIY market, when it's presented inside a prebuilt machine it's a far more tantalising prospect.
That's because its $1,200 sticker price is tough to swallow on its own. But when that makes up more than half the price of a full PC, and one that doesn't stint on the rest of its component choices either, well, consider our interest piqued. Unlike a lot of the 'affordable' RTX 4080 builds you'll find this ABS Eurus Aqua machine isn't relying on a last-gen CPU platform to save cash, or offer some paltry SSD storage. Its using the latest Intel Raptor Lake processor generation, with a Core i7 13700F as the CPU, an MSI Z690-A motherboard, and 16GB of DDR5-5600 memory. Backing that up is a 2TB NVMe SSD.
It all looks great, too, built into a white and black Thermaltake chassis, with RGB fans all over the shop. My one concern is maybe that top-down air-cooler atop the Core i7 CPU. Raptor Lake chips can get a bit toasty under heavy loads, and the heatsink there doesn't look the chonkiest.
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