The cheapest RTX 4080 gaming PC deal we've found sees $500 sliced off the cost of this well-rounded rig

Yeyian Phoenix | Core i7 13700F | RTX 4080 Super | 32GB DDR5-6000 | 1TB NVMe SSD | $2,499.99 $1,999.99 at Newegg (save $500)
Two thousand bucks is a whole heap of money, but it gets you a mighty gaming PC here. That RTX 4080 Super will blitz through any game and the 16-core i7 13700F CPU also makes it pretty handy for content creation. The case design is very nice, too.

If you're planning on spending big money on a new gaming PC, you'll certainly be expecting a few things ticked off your list. One of the fastest graphics cards you can buy, for one. And it should have a decent CPU to ensure it can reach its full potential. Lots of fast RAM, plenty of storage, sensible cooling—they're all important, too. Well take all of that, put them into a simple but stylish case and you've got the Yeyian Phoenix gaming PC.

Let's start with the Core i7 13700F processor. It's a last-gen model from Intel but that doesn't matter as it has eight P-cores and eight E-cores, for 24 threads in total. Its default TDP is just 65 W, though there's no guarantee that Yeyian is using the standard Intel configuration at the moment. Even if it's not, the 13700F won't get super hot, as it's a non-K model—that does mean you won't be able to overclock it, though.

Those E-cores won't help much in gaming, but they're ideal for handling tasks where lots of threads are important, such as rendering and video editing in content creation workloads.

Then again, why use the CPU for that when you've got an RTX 4080 Super? This is Nvidia's second most powerful gaming GPU in its current GeForce line up and it'll easily cope with any game you care to throw at it.  It supports the full feature set of DLSS 3.5 (AI-powered upscaling, frame generation, and ray tracing denoising) and while it's best suited for 4K gaming, its efficient architecture means it will churn out high frame rates at lower resolutions without getting hot or noisy.

High-end CPUs and GPUs need plenty of fast, dual-channel RAM in the motherboard