Need an Nvidia RTX 3080? Buy an MSI PC

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In today's "non shocking, but still welcome" news, MSI's lineup of gaming PCs is now available with Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 series GPUs. That includes the price-conscious RTX 3060 Ti, the powerful RTX 3070, the impressive RTX 3080 and the arguably best-in-class RTX 3090.

These graphics cards volition exist available in MSI's Trident, Infinite, Aeis and Codex gaming desktop lines, so in theory, there's a 30 series system to friction match any price range. (As long as your price range is "at to the lowest degree $1,400," anyway.)

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This info comes from an MSI press release: Every bit of today, GeForce RTX thirty series GPUs are bachelor in MSI gaming desktops. These GPUs back up both high-resolution gaming, as well as fancy lighting effects, such every bit ray tracing. By incorporating these graphics cards into all four of its desktop lines, MSI hopes to offer something for both "money is no object" ability gamers and more restrained, budget-minded fans.

"In that location were a few challenges with including the Ampere 30 series graphics cards into our pre-congenital PCs," Cliff Chun, an MSI product director, told Tom's Guide. Fitting the GPU into the company'south smaller chasses was one of them. "Since our Trident series is comprised of small form factor gaming desktops, with the increased size of the RTX 30 series cards, we had to modify the chassis a fiddling bit in order to accommodate them."

Chun also cited thermal dissipation and increased power consumptions as challenges related to installing RTX xxx series cards on iv split up lines of desktops. But the process plain worked, since some of the xxx-series-equipped machines are available right at present, while others are available for pre-club.

While it would take besides long to document every single MSI desktop variant bachelor, you can take a look yourself by navigating to the MSI website, then clicking on "Products," "Desktops" and your preferred line.

What RTX thirty Series PCs yous tin can buy

The least expensive model I found was an MSI Codex R gaming desktop at Best Buy for $one,399. It includes a GeForce RTX 3070 GPU, as well as an Intel i5-10400F CPU, 16 GB RAM, a 512 GB SSD and a 1 TB HDD, too as a mouse and a keyboard. Whether the auto itself is worth the price is hard to say, equally we haven't tested information technology. Merely at the very least, it seems similar a reasonable amount, considering the parts you get.

Unfortunately, this PC is currently sold out, but it'southward worth checking to come across if stock comes back.

More expensive models were actually somewhat harder to rail downwards, as MSI's website actually links to older or less powerful cards, even when you select the "3090" choice in its desktop search. The Aegis R at Best Buy is $iii,999 and features an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3090, with an Intel Core i9-10900K CPU, 32 GB Ram, a 2 TB SSD and, again, a mouse and keyboard. This model is currently out of stock, though.

In any case, if you're badly trying to runway down an Nvidia RTX 30 series card and don't mind buying a prebuilt machine, MSI's offers seem equally skillful as whatever. Building a similar system yourself would be cheaper, of course, but you'll also have to wait for stocks to stabilize.

Marshall Honorof is a senior editor for Tom'south Guide, overseeing the site's coverage of gaming hardware and software. He comes from a science writing background, having studied paleomammalogy, biological anthropology, and the history of scientific discipline and technology. After hours, you tin can observe him practicing taekwondo or doing deep dives on classic sci-fi.