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$3,500 gaming PC, part by part

An AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D with the GeForce RTX 5080, and the 6 parts around them that fit it: $3,877 all in.

Big titles at 1440p, high settings. Every part here was checked against every other for fit, and picked for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back. A price marked Amazon US is ScoutPrices' reading of the listing its button opens, dated; the rest are typical prices. Not a checkout total: no operating system, shipping, tax, screen, keyboard or mouse.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D and the GeForce RTX 5080 are well matched at 1440p.

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PartScore for the jobPriceBuy
ProcessorAMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D

Highest gaming score the budget allows next to this card: 8 cores, boosts to 5.6 GHz.

4 swaps that still fit
94
$475Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
MotherboardASUS ROG Strix B850-A Gaming WiFi

B850 board for the AM5 socket, DDR5, 4 M.2 slots, Wi-Fi.

4 swaps that still fit
83
$228Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
MemoryG.Skill Trident Z5 RGB 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6400 CL32

32 GB DDR5 at 6400 MT/s CL32; 32 GB or more is the floor for gaming.

3 swaps that still fit
85
$590Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
Graphics cardGeForce RTX 5080

16 GB of video memory, index 77 at 1440p; tuned for 1440p frame rates, with a CPU that will not hold the card back.

Buying it opens GIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5080 Gaming OC 16G, one of the boards built on this chip.

2 swaps that still fit
77
$1,800Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
CPU coolerArctic Liquid Freezer III Pro 360

Rated 330 W for a chip that turbos to 162 W.

2 swaps that still fit
96
$70Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
Power supplySuper Flower Leadex VII XG 1000W

1000 W, 80 Plus gold; this build draws about 750 W at full tilt, native 12V-2x6 cable.

4 swaps that still fit
92
$140Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
CaseLian Li O11 Dynamic Evo RGB

7 fans in the box, 7 of them lit, 4 is the least 522 W of parts needs behind a closed front. Takes EATX/ATX/MATX/ITX boards and cards up to 422 mm.

3 swaps that still fit
93
$295Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
StorageCrucial T705 1TB

1 TB PCIe 5.0 NVMe, 13,600 MB/s reads, with cache.

3 swaps that still fit
92
$280Amazon US, Oct 25
Buy on Amazon
Total8 parts, every price read on Amazon US$3,877

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