The RTX 4070 Ti itself, which you'll find just below the top end of the $2,000 budget, offers RTX 3090-level gaming performance, and considering that was a $1,500 graphics card of the last generation which you'd never find close to this price. With RTX 3080 performance from the RTX 4070, and systems on sale for under the $1,500 mark with the Nvidia GPU inside it, there's no longer a case to be made for RTX 3080 or RX 6800 XT machines that cost more. But this is where it's no longer okay to be going with a last-gen graphics card, because the RTX 4070 and RTX 4070 Ti have now launched and are the best GPUs around this price point. It's a crowded market, but the positive part of that is there are a lot of options to choose from. The $1,000 to $2,000 price point is arguably the most important one for PC gaming this is where the majority of PC gamers will be aiming to spend their budget and for us that's where the best gaming PC really lives. Not an issue for gaming, but potentially for video editing, etc.
Skytech has also opted for the cheaper DDR4 motherboard, rather than DDR5, which means you get much slower memory. It does have eight full performance cores, but it's not a productivity beast. ❌ You need high-end productivity: The Core i7 12700F is a gaming chip first and foremost. ❌ You crave space: The 1TB of SSD storage is about enough for a system at this price, but ideally I'd want more given the current low pricing of SSDs.
