Prime Day came and went, and this morning I almost wept when checking out what gaming PC prices are like right now: it’s far from pretty. But this absolute trooper of an RTX 5070 machine is still hanging in there at an eminently reasonable price of $1,400 at Newegg. It’s been at this price for quite some time, and is somehow still holding out against the memory crisis storm.
Admittedly, that’s a little easier when you’re only rockin’ 16 GB of memory in what looks like a single DIMM slot, but at least that’s fast DDR5 memory. For this price with an RTX 5070, I’ll take it.
We weren’t too keen on the RTX 5070 at launch, but that was all relative to its pricing and the pricing of its competitors. The picture now is a lot different, and especially when it comes to pre-built gaming PCs, RTX 5070 rigs can often offer some of the best bang for your buck.
With the 5070, you’re getting something capable of achieving playable frame rates in most new games at 1440p, even without frame gen and upscaling. And with the latter enabled, you can expect frame rates decent enough to even make good use of a high refresh rate monitor in all but very demanding games.