Perhaps the quickest and easiest way to get your hands on an RTX 3080 graphics card this side of New Years Day is to buy a pre-built gaming PC that has one included in the bill. This Alienware R10 gaming desktop is just that: It comes with a Ryzen 7 3700X CPU, 16GB of DDR4, and the option to upgrade to an RTX 3080, if you so wish. That brings the total to $1,910.99—$429 off the original list price.
Now there is a caveat, and potentially a big one, and that’s the fact this Dell PC will arrive on December 23 if you select expedited delivery ($25 more) on the checkout page. That’s what it told us when we just penned in our old New York office address, anyways. That may vary based on your location, but it’s cutting it awfully close for Christmas Day.
Otherwise you’re looking at an early January delivery date with the free delivery option.
That’s still likely sooner than you’ll be able to get your hands on one of these graphics cards as a discrete component (unless you’re particularly…