How To Build A Gaming PC With A RTX3080 Graphics Card

I don't have time for much gaming anymore, but fortunately, I know plenty of people that do. The other day, a friend said that they'd managed to get hold of a Gigabyte GeForce RTX3080 graphics card.

A beast. And it should be for the $950 it costs.

These things are hard to get hold of, and it's not the kind of card that you shove into any old system. So, she wanted some advice on what else to buy.

The only limit: No spending more than $2,000 (excluding the money already paid for the GTX3080), and the processor had to be an Intel chip (not my decision, but makes it a bit easier for me).

That should be possible. With change for at least a pizza when it's done.

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Note: The parts I've listed here do not include a PC case (there are too many to choose from), any peripherals, or Windows 10.

Intel Core i7-10700K CPU

Without overspending on silicon, this is a great chip for gamers. 8-core humming along at 3.8GHz. You can spend a lot more on more cores and more speed, but games aren't really all that optimized to make use of it. 

$380 at Newegg

WD Black 4TB hard drives

Workhorse drive for the games. My favorite high-performance hard drive for gaming. I actually recommended installing two, so there was enough space to breathe, but not putting all the eggs into a single basket.

$190 at Newegg

The total price for the components came to $1,740 (excluding taxes and delivery, but including the two hard drives I specified).