Save $500 on this powerful gaming PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and RX 9070 XT

If you're in the market for a powerful gaming PC without completely breaking the bank, the Galaxy V2 just dropped in price by $500 on Amazon, and it comes equipped with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Radeon RX 9070 XT.

The Galaxy V2 is a beast on paper, sporting our current number one picks for both the best gaming CPU and best GPU. You might expect an AMD gaming PC like this to come with a cost that would require some serious saving up, but after this $500 discount, the Galaxy V2 can be yours for a very reasonable $1,799.99.

This gaming PC combines two of AMD's most powerful gaming components, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D and the Radeon RX 9070 XT. These are supported by 32GB of DDR5 6,000MHz RAM, an 850W Gold-rated PSU, and a 2TB SSD.

The AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D sits comfortably ahead of its predecessor, the 7800X3D, claiming victory in every gaming test we ran during our review. However, we also found that the 9800X3D is just as impressive in applications, although as an eight-core CPU, it does lose out on this front to the likes of the Intel Core i9 14600K with its 14-core configuration.

AMD's secret sauce for the 9800X3D is its 64MB 3D V-cache, which provides the CPU with additional cache and prevents the processor from having to access RAM for data. This is now situated under the CPU cores, as opposed to on top of them, as they had been in the past. This means your CPU cooler now directly cools the CPU cores rather than hitting the V-cache first.

As for the Radeon RX 9070 XT, it can beat the likes of the RTX 5080 and RTX 4090 in our benchmarks, but falls behind them when ray tracing is introduced. Despite this, its ray tracing performance is still among the best we've seen from an AMD graphics card so far.

One downside of this build is perhaps the high power draw from the GPU and CPU, but the 850W Gold-rated PSU has more than enough juice to handle the system's demands.

With the $500 discount bringing the Galaxy V2 down to $1,799.99, this is a great opportunity to snap up a high-spec gaming PC for an incredibly reasonable price. You can purchase yours from Amazon using this link here.

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