Finding a good deal on one of the best graphics cards can be difficult, doubly so for AMD's Navi 21 GPUs that tend to be in short supply. Nevertheless, we've found what is perhaps the lowest price we've seen on a Radeon RX 6800 desktop. The Allied Gaming Patriot Desktop is currently on sale for $1,799. That still might seem rather expensive, but buying a standalone RX 6800 will currently set you back about $1,330. $470 more for a complete PC looks pretty decent!
This isn't to say that the Allied Gaming system is an ideal build. Most of the components are reasonable, like the Ryzen 5 3600X processor, 16GB DDR4-3200 memory, and 512GB M.2 NVMe SSD. It also comes with a reasonably attractive case and an 800W 80 Plus Gold certified PSU. The only real problem is the motherboard.
Allied has chosen a Gigabyte A520M Aorus Elite motherboard to tie everything together. That's a rather odd choice of a budget micro-ATX board for what otherwise looks like a reasonable build. We suspect the board will drop some performance relative to better B550 and X570 chipset offerings, and you also lose PCIe Gen4 support for the graphics card and storage. Still, the remaining components are all perfectly acceptable.
