The best value way to bag a Prime Day RTX 5080 deal is inside a prebuilt gaming PC and I've found four worth a look

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You're best chance of getting a good Prime Day RTX 5080 deal realistically lies within a full prebuilt gaming PC. And, thankfully there are some good Prime Day gaming PC deals around right now.

I've been casting my eyes around this afternoon and there are four machines that I would recommend taking a look at, and while it would be tempting to suggest that you should just go for the cheapest option—the $2,350 Andromeda Insights machine at Newegg—I would definitely say that it's worth spending the extra $150 on the Stormcraft Phantom system for $2,500 at Newegg, with the more powerful Core Ultra 7 265 and the 2 TB SSD. Upgrading the storage after the fact is mighty expensive these days.

Though I will admit I do have a soft spot for the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D used in the $2,800 Andromeda Insights rig—it is the best CPU for gaming after all—but unless you really want that 3D V-Cache gaming bump the extra $300 is a lot to spend. The Alienware Aurora is the same price, but you have to decide whether the extra multi-threaded performance of the Core Ultra 9 285K is worth the trade off for the smaller 1 TB SSD. I think I'd still side with the AMD rig on this one, as a pure PC gamer at heart.

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In the current market, this is a decent price for a truly high-end gaming PC. The one caveat to that designator is the processor: it won't give you the same gaming performance as an X3D chip will, and we're certainly in X3D territory at this price range. That being said, the 265F is a decent enough productivity chip, and it won't be a massive bottleneck for gaming. Most games are GPU-bound, after all.

Key specs: Core Ultra 7 265F | RTX 5080 | 32 GB DDR5-6000 | 2 TB SSD

Price check: Amazon $2,699.99

There might be a couple of 'hold on' moments with this PC... first off, an Alienware machine being a comepetiviely priced machine, and second that we'd be recommending readers check out a PC with a Core Ultra 9 285K CPU inside it. Now for one, this is a Prime Member deal (you can get a free 30-day trial, so that's no deal-breaker) which is why the Alienware gaming PC isn't priced utterly prohibitively. And second, if you want some serious processing performance out of your PC outside of games then the 24-thread 285K really isn't a bad shout. The Ryzen 9 9800X3D chip in the same-priced system above is the better gaming CPU, no doubt, but it is only an eight-core, 16-thread chip. I know the Intel still only has eight performance cores, too, but the 16 efficient cores do a hell of a job in heavily multi-threaded workloads.

Key specs: Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | RTX 5080 | 32 GB DDR5-5200 | 1 TB SSD

Price check: $3,159.99 (2 TB SSD)

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Dave has been gaming since the days of Zaxxon and Lady Bug on the Colecovision, and code books for the Commodore Vic 20 (Death Race 2000!). He built his first gaming PC at the tender age of 16, and finally finished bug-fixing the Cyrix-based system around a year later. When he dropped it out of the window. He first started writing for Official PlayStation Magazine and Xbox World many decades ago, then moved onto PC Format full-time, then PC Gamer, TechRadar, and T3 among others. Now he's back, writing about the nightmarish graphics card market, CPUs with more cores than sense, gaming laptops hotter than the sun, and SSDs more capacious than a Cybertruck.