ASUS - ROG Gaming Desktop - Intel Core i7-11700KF - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 - 2TB HDD + 512GB SSD

Nice little pre-built that sells for cheaper than the card in it does on eBay these days. Crazy times. Luckily for me it’s been about 6 years since I’ve upgraded so I don’t need to part out the rest. I’m a fan of the little case. It sits nicely on my desk, is very cleanly wired, and has a calming slow changing light show in it. I keep reading about the lack of fans and a proper CPU cooler and how the mobo won’t overclock the i7. All valid points I guess, but I just played Cyberpunk completely maxed out w/ ultra ray tracing for 6 hours and this thing never broke a sweat or glitched out... and it was always above 60fps at 1440p. IDK, if you just wanna play games at a high frame rate w/ RTX and not be the benchmark stress test champion of the world this is a great buy in my book, and the gravy is I didn’t have to wait 4 months to get it.

Great PC, awesome specs for the price. TUF 3080 is one of the best 3080 out there and it has a good overclocking potential. The overall airflow and thermal is poor however, I definitely recommend to swap out the noisy factory fans on the CPU cooler and the back of the case(both are 92mm). The front of the case can fit 2x120mm, but there is no room for a liquid cooler since the GPU is too big. The top of the case won't hold any fans properly, but there is room to zip tie a 92mm fan.

Computer has great components but lacks proper cooling. I added a 120mm front fan and swapped out the back 90mm fan. Adjusted the fan curves in the bios and the noise is much better. Currently looking into swapping the cpu cooler. Yes I agree Asus should have done this, but for the price for what you get... this is amazing. I’m ok with doing a little work. 4K ultra setting in warzone with dlss on, rtx off gets 150 FPS.

System boots, runs somewhat ok. Sounds like a fighter jet, overheats. Going to talk to support before pulling off cooler and checking thermal paste. I've never heard a PC this loud outside of a rack mounted blade server. And I work different computers daily. I made side by side videos comparing this model to my desktop it's meant to replace, a i7-8700. And it's night and day, this thing hits 100c and throttles 10 seconds into test. My old rig with a smaller cooler on it Maxes out at 66c and never throttles. Either something is wrong with this cooler / thermal paste on CPU, or this thing is just an insane power / heat hungry CPU that I don't think even a water cooler is going to tame. Not sure what I'm going to do at this point, I was hoping to do a case swap with better cooling and RAM but I'm worried I won't be able to cool this new intel CPU.

Overall airflow & CPU Cooler are major issues. Any serious load and the red light comes on the motherboard saying that the temps are at maximum (showing CPU @ 100+ degrees on monitoring software). CPU starts throttling to try and compensate...it sounds like a jet engine when this happens. The case is probably too small for this CPU/GPU setup. With only one exhaust fan I'm really nervous about it.

It's a somewhat solid machine. Great component if properly installed. The cpu umis really bad, it does overheat and shuts dows! There's no room whatsoever to add more fans, you have to keep the case open with a home fan pointing at it if you want to make it a playable experience. But for the price especially now with inflation of this components? I'm perfectly fine having a home fan on it. I will replace this Case and get a water cooler for this system.

Terrible cooling in this machine. Disappointed. It runs the fans at max more than 70% of the time. It's so loud and sounds like a jet engine literally. The inside gets so hot. There are no where near enough fans to cool this. Returning!

I came here to review and let everyone know what came in my purchase since best buy customer service has no idea. The gpu is the asus TUF Gaming 3080 OC. The MoBo version is asus strix b560-g with built-in wifi and 2 antennas are included. Excellent Machine for this price especially with a TUF 3080 going for $1900 resale alone.