The goal here is to put together a budget option for folks who want performance that plays all current games - most of which it crushes at 1440p.

It outperforms current gen consoles - so it will continue to be game ready for the long haul.

NVidia RTX 2080 TI 11GB. The 2080ti low key my favorite GPU. I doubt any GPU will have the staying power of the 2080Ti 11GB. It’s funny to me that a MSRP $1000 GPU is the smart-buy value GPU of the current era.

Beats the Steam Machine and PS5 in performance. Runs with the PS5 Pro with a better upscaler. See the included TechPowerUp relative GPU performance chart. Steam Machine is roughly a RX7600; PS5 is roughly a 6700XT.

Airflow is isolated for each of the CPU, GPU, and PSU - they all have separate airflow paths.

In the context of the current NVidia lineup, the 2080ti basically the (rumored) 5060 Super in VRAM and performance. One thing folks often miss is that the 2080ti is nearly +50% above the 3060 in performance. It offers a totally different experience.

• Ryzen 5 5500 (PS5 Pro CPU Performance)
• Asys ATX B550 Motherboard
• 16GG G.Skill DDR4
• Zalman Minitower case
• 128 GB SSD + 256 GB SSD
• 650W Rosewill PSU 80Plus Certified
• FRGB Fans
• Win11 (Activated)

No monitor/keyboard/mouse.