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.
