Building your own PC is great, but sometimes you just don't want to. The older I get, the more I can relate to that feeling.) If you'd rather just slam down some cash and have a ready-to-run rig shipped to your door, then allow me to recommend this Skytech Blaze 3.0 for $1,700 at Newegg—that's a chunky $700 off a high-performance gaming unit.
The Skytech Blaze 3.0 is built around two very impressive pieces of hardware: An AMD Ryzen 7 5800X CPU running at 3.8GHz, and an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080 GPU rocking 10GB of GDDR6X RAM. The RTX 3080 isn't the king of the hill anymore with the RTX 40-series now out, but it's still an extremely powerful GPU, while the Ryzen 7 5800X offers great gaming performance, on par with anything Intel brings to the table. The one issue we had with it is that in terms of price-for-power, it didn't quite match up with Intel's Core 17 10700K CPU—but that's really not an issue here.
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On the RAM side of the coin, there's 16GB of DDR4-3200—not an overabundance but adequate, and easily upgradeable—while storage is handled by a 1TB NVMe SSD, also easily expanded upon with additional drives (these Cyber Monday SSD deals should see you right). It even comes with an AIO water cooler to keep the CPU running at a decent temp, which is appreciated for the price.
And because this is a gaming PC, it also boasts all the necessary illuminated accoutrements, including a Metallicgear Neo Air case and a trio of RGB dual ring fans to keep the air flowing. A "gaming keyboard and mouse" are also included with the package, but there's no indication about specifically what they are: Maybe it's a Corsair K100, or maybe it's whatever the hell this is. In any event, they'll no doubt get you started but you might want to be prepared to spring for more personalized peripherals at some point down the road.
$1,699 isn't the cheapest gaming PC you're ever going to run across, but if you're shopping around for an RTX 3080 unit then "cheap" isn't going to be at the top of your priority list anyway. And for an all-in-one jump into 4K gaming (or 1440p, if you want to prioritize performance over all-out eye candy), the Blaze 3.0 is definitely a unit worth considering.
