Well... good thing I just managed to score a 3080 FE for MSRP before that price hike,(reply>), @Ben Schneider For the parts- about $1070 total for just CPU and GPU including taxes. I could've afforded better than 5600x, but I felt that anything more would be a waste because almost everything I plan to do is single-threaded so I put that money into my 2TB game drive being an SSD, a super overkill AIO so that I can overclock the snot outta that CPU, and a bigger and modular PSU. I worked extremely hard for that budget of $2200 (~150 of that is to cover tax), so I wanted something that suited my needs extremely well.,(reply>), @project Channel how much did u pay?,(reply>), @Ben Schneider just get on the ATR-Stonks and stockdrops discord servers they scan sites 24/7 for hardware drops. it's also how I got my 5600x. if you watch, turn on notifications, and always have discord open in a tab it won't be that hard to get one,(reply>), How?!