Myk | RTX 5080 16GB + Ryzen 7 9850X3D + 32GB | Ready-to-Go Gaming PC | PC36

💎 Myk Dazzling to the eyes; fast in the hand Myk is a concept build - we're always on the hunt for new design styles and often build one-off PCs to get a feel of how they turn out. We loved the diffused RGB light bar across the bottom rim of this Powercool case, and the smaller mATX fishtank design. We felt it was worth a high end system, hence Myk was born. The aesthetic befits the spec inside. The fastest gaming CPU money can buy, the truly high-end RTX 5080, and memory that runs near the edge of what's possible on AMD. The ratios are tuned and verified on the bench rather than assumed. It's the prototype for a series we are developing, and we built it partly to photograph it, because a machine like this is more convincing standing on a desk than described in a paragraph. This is a PC with a timeless style, This PC is already built and ready to ship. The catch? Just one in stock, and it will not be restocked. Our already-built PCs take advantage of supplier deals, which we pass onto you, but aren't repeatable ad infinitum 🧬 Built to last, designed to evolve This system is built on AMD's latest AM5 platform, which offers one of the best upgrade paths available today. That means you can start with a great processor now and still have room to move up the stack later, while keeping the same motherboard, case, power supply and most of your core components. On this build the processor is already the fastest gaming part AMD sell, so what the upgrade path really buys you is the freedom to change the graphics card in a few years without touching anything else. The board also carries a free PCIe 5.0 M.2 slot and two free memory slots, so storage and memory both grow by addition rather than replacement. 📃 Specifications 🧠 CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Click or tap for deeper spec info 8 cores, 16 threads of Zen 5, 4.7GHz base and 5.6GHz boost, with 96MB of 3D V-Cache taking the total to 104MB. 120W TDP, and boost behaviour normally takes it above that with every core loaded, which is exactly what the 280mm cooler in the roof is there to absorb This is the fastest gaming processor AMD currently make. We want to be precise about that claim rather than let it inflate: the Ryzen 9 9950X3D costs more and has twice the cores, but it does not beat this chip in games. It buys you productivity, not frames. For gaming specifically, nothing sits above the part in this machine The cache is the whole point. Games are unusually sensitive to memory latency, and a very large L3 cache means the processor spends less time waiting on memory and more time producing frames. This is why an eight core X3D chip outruns sixteen core parts in games while losing to them in rendering The 3D V-Cache sits underneath the cores on this generation rather than on top of them, which is why these chips clock and cool far better than the first generation did, and why this one is fully unlocked for overclocking Against the 9800X3D that most of our high end machines use, the gain is real but modest: the same 8 cores and the same 96MB of cache, with 400MHz more boost. Expect a small single-digit percentage in games rather than a transformation. We would rather tell you that than imply otherwise ❄️ CPU cooler: Corsair Nautilus 360mm AIO Liquid Cooler, black with ARGB Click or tap for deeper spec info Top-mounted 3-fan liquid cooler The 9850X3D runs at 110-180 watts at max load. This cooler is rated for 270W+. That means plenty of cooling headroom to get excellent boost clocks from your 9850X3D Both the fans and the pump cap are lit, with a magnetic pump face featuring the Corsair logo The pump and fans are tuned by us to balance noise and cooling ability These are considered excellent coolers, befitting a high end machine 🔲 Motherboard: ASRock B850M Riptide WiFi (micro-ATX) Click or tap for deeper spec info AMD B850 on a micro-ATX board, socket AM5, with a 12+2+1 Dr.MOS power design under an enlarged VRM heatsink PCIe 5.0 x16 to the graphics card. The 5080 does not need it today, but it means the slot is not what dates this machine Three M.2 slots and only one is used. The occupied slot is the PCIe 5.0 one; of the two free slots, one is a full Gen4 x4 and one is a Gen4 x2. Worth knowing which is which if you add a fast drive later, and worth saying plainly rather than listing "3 x M.2" and leaving you to find out Four DDR5 slots supporting up to 256GB, with two free. Both XMP and EXPO profiles are supported Wi-Fi 7 and Bluetooth 5.4 built in with the aerial supplied, plus 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet Rear I/O gives HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4, one USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C at 10Gbps, one USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-A, two USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-A and four USB 2.0, with BIOS Flashback for updating the board without a processor fitted. Realtek ALC1220 audio, which is a step above the codec usually found at this size PC36 only uses motherboards chosen for stability and longevity. See our Trusted brands page 📏 Memory / RAM: 32GB (2×16GB) DDR5-6400 CL32 Biwin DW100 ARGB, running 1:1 Click or tap for deeper spec info A matched pair at DDR5-6400 CL32 with EXPO, lit along the top edge to match the rest of the build The "1:1" is the part worth understanding. On Ryzen 9000 the memory controller can run in step with the memory or at half its rate. In step is faster. DDR5-6400 is the top of the window where that is possible, and it is exactly what AMD themselves name as the sweet spot for this generation. Push to 8000 and the controller drops out of step, and you end up with a bigger number and no more frames. This is something we had to enable ourselves - most builders would just click on EXPO without checking this, leading to slower performance. We verify it rather than assume it. Memory controllers vary from chip to chip, so 6400 in the fast ratio is validated on this machine during testing rather than taken from the box - it is shown confirmed in the screenshot at the end of the photo stack. 32GB is the right capacity for a machine at this level: comfortable for every current game with a browser, Discord and a capture running alongside, and enough for real creative work Two of the four slots are free, so 64GB later is an addition rather than a replacement 💾 Storage: 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD, Integral ADVANTAGE PRO-1 Click or tap for deeper spec info This is a truly fantastic SSD, featuring rapid speeds, and a DRAM controller which is highly coveted in today's market Over 7,000MB/s sequential read on a Phison E18 controller, fitted in the board's PCIe 5.0 slot A controller with its own DRAM, which is the specification that actually matters. Cheaper drives leave out the DRAM cache and borrow system memory instead. It looks fine in a benchmark and shows up as inconsistency under sustained load. The E18 is a DRAM-based design and has been one of the more reliable enthusiast controllers of the last few years Rated for 500TB of writes with a five year warranty from Integral, who are a British memory manufacturer rather than a badge on someone else's drive 1TB is the one place this machine is deliberately lean. It is enough for Windows and a rotating handful of large games, and both remaining M.2 slots are free, so adding a second drive later needs no rebuild and nothing thrown away 🎮 Graphics card: NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB, PNY OC (shipped separately for safety, see below) Click or tap for deeper spec info This is a bulky and valuable graphics card, and as such it will be shipped separately with instructions for you to install it upon receipt To be clear about what that means: the card is fitted into this exact system, stress tested in it, and only then carefully removed and boxed for transit. Your machine is built and validated as a whole. We do not drop-ship graphics cards or send you parts to assemble Genuine 4K ultra performance in modern AAA titles, with the ray tracing hardware and DLSS 4 multi frame generation to keep path-traced games playable rather than theoretical 16GB of GDDR7 on a 256-bit bus, feeding textures fast enough that 4K stops being the thing limiting your settings A factory overclocked triple fan card, around 330mm long and three slots wide, drawing roughly 360W under load. That is the largest single heat source in this machine by a wide margin and the reason the side intakes matter more than the cooler does The case takes cards up to 420mm, so this one sits with a great deal of room around it rather than filling the chassis Power comes over a single 12V-2x6 connector, seated and checked by hand as part of our standard build process 🧰 Case: Powercool Aurora Black (micro-ATX, dual chamber) Click or tap for deeper spec info 430 × 285 × 410mm on the outside, or just over 50 litres, which makes it a full size chassis that happens to take a micro-ATX board This is the reason the machine looks the way it does. Two borderless tempered glass panels wrap the front and the side and meet at the corner with no pillar between them, so the build is viewed rather than glimpsed. An ARGB strip runs the full length of the bottom edge and turns the corner with the glass, lighting the machine from underneath instead of from a fan Dual chamber, so the power supply, the cable slack and the drives all live in a separate rear compartment. The side you look at holds the board, the cooler and the card, and nothing else Graphics cards up to 420mm and CPU coolers up to 165mm, which is a great deal of clearance for a micro-ATX chassis Radiator support is 120 to 360mm in the top, up to 240mm on the motherboard side, and 120mm at the rear. The cooler in this build is mounted in the top Front I/O is USB-C, USB 3.0, USB 2.0 and a combined headphone and microphone jack. Two 3.5 inch and one 2.5 inch drive mounts in the rear chamber, and dust filters top and bottom Powercool are not a household name, and we would rather say that than let you find out later. There is an honest note about it below 🌬️ Case cooling: 3 × 120mm PWM ARGB fans included with the case, plus the three 120mm radiator fans Click or tap for deeper spec info Two 120mm ARGB fans draw air in through the motherboard-side panel and one exhausts at the rear. The 360mm radiator sits in the top with its own 3 x 120mm fans. Six fans in total, all PWM, all on hand-set curves The airflow path is deliberate. Cool air enters at the side directly onto the graphics card, which is the part producing most of the heat, and leaves through the top and the rear. The card is not asked to breathe its own exhaust All fans and the light bar are ARGB and synchronised to the motherboard, so the machine lights as one piece rather than as several parts that happen to be lit Fan curves are set by hand before dispatch and verified through our standard stress testing rather than assumed Being straight about expectations: this is a 360W graphics card and a 120W processor in a micro-ATX case. At idle and in lighter games it is genuinely quiet, helped by the radiator doing the processor's work at low fan speed. Under a sustained heavy load you will hear it, and that is true of any 5080 in any chassis this size ⚡ Power supply: Corsair RM850e 850W, fully modular Click or tap for deeper spec info Cybenetics Gold efficiency, fully modular, with a 120mm fan that stops entirely below about 40% load Fully modular is doing real work in this case. Only the cables this build actually uses are fitted, and everything else stays in the box. In a dual chamber chassis where the rear compartment is where the slack goes, that is the difference between a tidy build and a stuffed one 850W is the right size for this machine rather than a number chosen to impress. A 360W graphics card and a 120W processor leave comfortable headroom, and a modern unit built to the current ATX specification handles the brief power spikes these cards produce without complaint Seven year warranty from Corsair, which is longer than most units at this level and a fair indication of what they expect from it 🔌 Cabling: Black cabling, routed and tied Click or tap for deeper spec info Black cables throughout, matched to the black interior. Routed behind the motherboard tray and tied down, with the excess folded into the rear chamber where the glass does not reach Nothing crosses the side intake path or the graphics card's own fans Braided cable extensions in a colour of your choice are available. See the upgrade options below 📶 WiFi / Bluetooth / Ethernet: Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 5.4 and 2.5 Gigabit Ethernet, included Click or tap for deeper spec info Built into the ASRock B850M Riptide WiFi. No separate adapter needed, and the aerial is supplied in the box Wi-Fi 7 with the 6GHz band, which is usually far less congested than 2.4 and 5GHz if your router supports it 2.5 Gigabit wired Ethernet, which we would still recommend over wireless for competitive play. To be plain about what that buys you: the extra bandwidth will not make a game feel different, because wired is about latency and consistency rather than speed. Where it earns its place is moving large files to a NAS or another machine on your network 🪟 Operating system: As chosen by you from the listing options below. Windows 11 Home (OEM) is recommended. 🧹 Setup and optimisation: PC36 High-Class Standard. Full stress test with certificate, bloat-free installation, and BIOS set up properly Click or tap for deeper spec info PC36 High-Class Standard, included free with every build Ready the moment you open the box. Your PC boots straight into Windows with a local account already set up. No account sign-in wall, no first-run questionnaire, no half-hour of setup before you can use the machine you just bought BIOS updated and configured properly: manual fan curves, PBO enabled, EXPO enabled, Secure Boot enabled Vanilla Windows 11 installation if you choose Windows, with no bloatware added by us, and all drivers loaded and ready to go Full stress test with certificate. Every system is torture tested on CPU, RAM and GPU before dispatch, and ships with the certificate to prove it PC36 Premier Optimisation, available in the listing options CPU tuning to bring thermals and noise down with minimal performance loss, a deeper strip and debloat of Windows, and the case fans tuned by hand for the quietest operation the machine will hold Worth taking on this machine. A micro-ATX case with a 360W card in it rewards a carefully built fan profile more than a large tower does, and the 9850X3D responds well to a per-core Curve Optimiser undervolt, which drops temperature and noise at the same time PC36 Ultimate Performance Tune, available in the listing options Advanced overclocking: memory tune, CPU tune and GPU overclock on top of everything in Premier This is one of the listings where it earns its money. The 9850X3D is fully unlocked, so the CPU portion is a real overclock rather than an undervolt, the memory is already in the fast ratio and has room to be tightened rather than raised, and the 850W supply and the 280mm cooler have the headroom to support both 🛡️ Warranty: 3 years parts & labour (return to base) Click or tap for deeper spec info Standard 3-year coverage included, parts and labour both Optional extended warranties in the listing options below 👁️ Transparency notes The graphics card ships in its own box to protect the PCIe connector in transit, with instructions for fitting it (click or tap to read more) This PC contains a large and high value graphics card. All graphics cards have a point of weakness at the PCIe connector, and shipping the card in its own box prevents damage that can happen in transit despite our industry-leading packaging. It arrives with simple instructions and fitting it takes a couple of minutes. If you have any queries about this, please contact us. This is without doubt the safest method to ensuring your high performance graphics card arrives pristine. Because this one is already built, the specification is fixed (click or tap to read more) Most of what we sell is built to order from a series we can repeat. This is not that, which means the specification here is the specification: unlike our built-to-order machines we cannot swap the case or the board for you, because this one is already assembled and tested. Anything you would like changed is worth asking about on live chat before you order rather than after. Powercool are not a household name, and we chose this case for how it looks (click or tap to read more) We normally build in cases from Fractal, Corsair, Phanteks and the like, and we say so on our Trusted brands page. This one is different, so here is the honest version. Powercool are a UK distributor brand rather than a household case manufacturer, and we picked the Aurora because the wraparound glass and the bottom light bar do something no case from the usual names currently does at this size. Having built in it, the fit and finish are genuinely good: the panels sit properly, the dual chamber layout is well thought out, and the included fans are PWM rather than the three-pin fans normally bundled at this price. What you are not getting is a decade of brand history behind the chassis. Everything inside it is from manufacturers we use every day, the whole machine carries our three year parts and labour warranty regardless of whose badge is on the case, and if a panel or a fan ever failed we would deal with it rather than send you to Powercool. TL;DR - we're trying them out, and the early results are very good. This is a machine with a lot of light in it, and it can all be turned down (click or tap to read more) Six ARGB fans, a lit pump cap, lit memory and a light bar along the bottom edge. That is the point of the build. It is also more light than some people want in a bedroom at night, so it is worth knowing that all of it is under motherboard control, every part of it can be dimmed, set to a single colour or switched off entirely, and none of it affects how the machine performs. Tell us what you would prefer and we will set it that way before it ships. The product images shown are real photographs of this exact PC. 🛠️ Popular upgrade options This machine is already built, which changes what is possible. The options in the listing below are the ones we can do without a rebuild: your choice of operating system, a larger SSD, more memory, the optimisation tiers, and an extended warranty. Anything else is a live chat conversation, and worth having before you order rather than after. The anti-sag bar is included in the price already, so there is no need to add one from the listing options 🙂 Storage upgrade: available in the listing options below. Click or tap for more info Worth it if you keep more than a handful of large games installed at once, since modern installs regularly run past 100GB each, or if you record and edit. 1TB is the one deliberately lean part of this build. You can also defer it entirely, because two M.2 slots are free and one of them is a full Gen4 x4, so a second drive later costs you nothing you have already bought. Memory upgrade to 64GB: available in the listing options below. Click or tap for more info Worth it only if you do heavy creative work, run virtual machines, or keep very large projects open alongside a game. For gaming at any resolution, 32GB is not the limit here and adding more will not gain you frames. Two slots are free, so this is an addition rather than a replacement. Note that a four-stick configuration usually runs a little slower than two sticks do, which is a real trade rather than a free upgrade. Operating system: choose from the listing options below. Click or tap for more info Windows 11 Home is what we recommend for a gaming machine and what almost everyone takes. Pro is worth it only if you need BitLocker, Remote Desktop or domain access. If you would rather install your own, choose the no-OS option and the machine still arrives with the BIOS configured and tested. PC36 Premier Optimisation: available in the listing options below. Click or tap for more info The tier most people should take. A micro-ATX case with a 360W card in it rewards a hand-built fan profile more than a large tower does, and the undervolt drops temperature and noise together rather than trading one for the other. PC36 Ultimate Performance Tune: available in the listing options below. Click or tap for more info One of the few builds where we would genuinely recommend it. The processor is fully unlocked, the memory is already in the fast ratio with room to tighten, and the cooler and power supply both have the headroom to hold a real tune rather than a cosmetic one. Braided cable extensions: available in the listing options below. Click or tap for more info Worth considering on this build specifically, because the glass wraps around the corner and the visible cable run is part of what you are looking at. On a solid-panel case we would tell you to save your money. Extended warranty: available in the listing options below. Anything else: speak with us via live chat before you order. You'll be talking to one of us, not a chatbot. 🎯 What is this PC best for? 4K gaming at high to ultra settings in modern AAA titles High refresh 1440p, where the 9850X3D's cache sets the ceiling rather than the graphics card Ray tracing and path tracing with DLSS 4 multi frame generation Streaming, recording and video work, with the encoder and the cores to do it while playing Desks where the PC is meant to be looked at, not hidden Anyone who wants a machine that is genuinely fast underneath the lighting rather than because of it 📊 Performance estimates Figures are given at both 1440p and 4K. Performance varies with game updates, maps, settings and background apps. These are estimates, not guarantees. Fortnite - Competitive Settings (click or tap to expand) 1440p: 350-450 FPS 4K: 200-260 FPS Native testing (no upscaling or frame generation). Cyberpunk 2077 - Ray Tracing Medium (click or tap to expand) 1440p: 140-180 FPS 4K: 90-120 FPS Upscaling set to Auto (DLSS / FSR / XeSS based on GPU). Battlefield 6 - High Settings (click or tap to expand) 1440p: 170-210 FPS 4K: 95-125 FPS Native testing (no upscaling or frame generation). DaVinci Resolve - PugetBench Standard (click or tap to expand) Estimated score: 10,000-11,000 💬 Need help? Not sure if this is the right spec for you? Ping us on live chat and we'll help you choose the perfect PC for your games, work and budget. You'll be talking to one of us, not a chatbot.