A 4K-capable gaming PC needs top-tier components, but in a pre-built machine, you can often expect to pay a hefty premium for the privilege. That isn't the case with this Skytech gaming PC, on sale at Newegg ahead of the new year with a very respectable $200 discount that pushes it under $2,500.
For the $2,499.99 sale price, you're getting a Skytech Gaming Azure 3 Plus gaming PC that's packed with a serious spec sheet for gamers. Front and center is the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D, one of the best CPUs you can buy right now, along with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080, an elite-level GPU with 16GB of VRAM.
Save 7% ($200) Skytech Gaming Azure 3 Plus: was $2,699.99 now $2,499.99 at Newegg This Skytech Gaming Azure 3 Plus gaming PC is a 4K powerhouse, fitted with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080. It has 32GB of DDR5-6000 RAM and a 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD with Gen 4 speeds.
The coupling of the RTX 5080 with the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D is a potent one. Our 9800X3D review explains in depth why this eight-core CPU is a powerhouse for gamers, fitted with its game-changing 3D V-Cache, which boosts the available L3 cache to 96MB, reducing the dependency on your system RAM and vastly reducing latency as a result.
The 9800X3D tops our benchmarks, it is one of the fastest gaming CPUs out there, easily beating any of its Intel rivals and offering a measurable step-up to older X3D chips like the 7800X3D. If you want an all-out rig that can push the limits of your hardware at 4K, with ray tracing and other goodies enabled, this is the CPU you'll want in your machine. If you dip down to 1440p or 1080p, you won't be much challenged, as these CPU benchmarks below show.
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The RTX 5080, meanwhile, is the second-most powerful consumer GPU that you can buy right now from Nvidia's current Blackwell generation. Fitted with 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM, with a 256-bit memory bus, and with 10,752 CUDA cores at its disposal, this $1,000+ GPU is only beaten by the RTX 5090, which has (almost) double the cores and double the VRAM, and isn't too far behind the performance offered by Nvidia's last-gen flagship, the RTX 4090, either.
These two components alone set the tone for this Skytech gaming PC. This is a rig ready for 4K gaming, able to utilize the full power offered by Nvidia's Blackwell GPU, including DLSS 4 with ray tracing enabled in the games that support it. As long as you have a gaming monitor that can match it, this $2,499 machine offers performance that few other pre-build PCs can offer at this price point.
You're also getting 32GB of DDR5 memory, rated for 6,000 MT/s, with RGB lighting. A 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD is also installed, offering PCIe 4.0 speeds, which should be enough for a couple of big game installations, although there's always room to replace this with a bigger drive later. This rig also uses a 360mm AIO cooler with ARGB fans to keep your expensive CPU cool.
This $2,499.99 Skytech gaming PC isn't one you should easily dismiss in the current climate, especially with these specs. With PC prices expected to rise by around 8% next year due to the skyrocketing cost of flash memory, not to mention the risk of global economic crises, this might be one of the last chances to score a pre-built PC with these specs at a reasonable price. Don't expect this deal to be around for long.
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