Are you looking for an affordable gaming PC that can achieve high FPS at 1440p and offers exceptional value for your money? Looking for a PC with a phenomenal upgrade path for both the CPU and GPU? Want a PC that is all set up and ready to go with all the drivers downloaded and Steam pre-installed? If so, look no further. With this rig, you can game (and stream if you like) with high settings at 1440p, get high FPS and can use features such as Nvidia DLSS and AMD FSR 3 frame generation to crank the frame rate even higher.

The specs:

CPU: AMD Ryzen 5 7500F -new (like the Ryzen 5 7600, only no integrated graphics)

CPU Cooler: Thermaltake TH240 ARGB aio liquid cooler

Motherboard: MSI B650-P Pro Wifi

RAM: GSkill Trident Z5 Neo 32gigs DDR5 6000MT/s

SSD: King Spec 1tb NVME M.2 gen 3 -new

GPU: Gigabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC 10gb

PSU: Corsair RM 750e

Case: Thermaltake S200 Plus TG ARGB ATX Mid Tower Case

The Benchmarks:

3D Mark TimeSpy: 15443 overall, 17359 for the GPU and 9502 for the CPU

Novabench: 3929 overall, 1836 for CPU, 1464 for GPU

Unigine Heaven: 6801

Fortnite: 102.9 avg FPS @ 1440p (default settings)

Call of Duty Black Ops 6: 90 avg FPS @ 1440p (default settings, no upscaling or frame gen)

Cyberpunk 2077: 107.97 avg FPS @ 1440p (High settings with low ray tracing and DLSS set to quality)

Black Myth Wukong: 82 avg FPS @ 1440p (High settings with DLSS set to high, no ray tracing)

*Windows 11 Home activated and updated

*Latest BIOS installed (board is Ryzen 7 9800X3D ready)

*EXPO and Precision Boost Overdrive enabled in the BIOS

*All drivers installed and updated (as of December 5th 2024)

*Steam pre-installed

The story behind this PC: This PC started its life as a prebuilt that was purchased from ABS in November 2023. I used it for about 6 months (lightly) and then removed the CPU, GPU and SSD in order to build a new rig out of those parts. With the rest of the computer still in great shape and perfectly usable, I decided late this year to buy a new CPU, a new SSD, get a refurbished GPU, and upgrade the ram (it originally had a slow kit of 16gb) so I can sell it and with the profits, help my disabled buddy get a new motorized chair (long story, but Medicare refused to replace the one he had that broke down). So should you buy this PC, know that your purchase will help a disabled person in need.

IMPORTANT DISCLAIMER: I got the Gigiabyte RTX 3080 Gaming OC refurbished from iBuypower. When I received it, I put it in the system and stress tested it overnight. It works great, temperatures are fine and it hasn't crashed or given me a single problem once. I did find out later why it was RMA'd: The RGB on the card doesn't work perfectly. With the Gigabyte Control Center utility software that controls the RGB on the card, only the red color turns on in "static" mode. It seems to work normally in other modes such as "wave" and "pulse." Therefore, I chose to leave the RGB on the graphics card turned off in the pictures. This is, to my knowledge, the only function of the PC that doesn't work as expected.