@Vyor @*THASF*
You're both (kinda) wrong. The secret is to buy prebuilts from EBay Hardware liquidators (or any overstock liquidator). If you know what you're doing you end up paying a fraction of the value of the PC.
I got my current PC for $1300:
i7-12700KF
RTX 3080
16 GB RAM
1 TB NVME SSD