Newegg's ABS brand is selling its Flux II Aqua gaming desktop for $1,799.99, a $500 discount that brings the machine in under $1,800. The prebuilt pairs an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 graphics card with an Intel Core i7-14700F processor and is aimed at 1440p gaming, with the option of pushing into 4K. The sale price applies in the US market, where ABS is Newegg's in-house PC label.
The graphics card is the centerpiece of the configuration. The RTX 5070 carries 6,144 CUDA cores, 12GB of GDDR6 memory and a 192-bit memory bus. Tom's Hardware's review of the GPU describes it as a strong mid-tier performer for this generation, and the site lists it as its best all-rounder pick for gamers. Nvidia's DLSS features, including multi-frame generation, are available to raise frame rates.
According to the source article, the RTX 5070 delivers its highest frame rates at 1080p and can handle 1440p at Ultra settings. At 4K the card is pushed harder, and reaching stable performance may require lowering a preset or two or relying on multi-frame generation to fill the gaps.
The Core i7-14700F is a Raptor Lake Refresh chip with 20 cores, eight of them performance cores and 12 efficiency cores for multi-threaded work. Though the CPU is getting older, the article describes it as still popular and powerful. Paired with the RTX 5070, it presents little bottleneck for gaming and handles 1440p with little trouble, according to the report.
The rest of the build includes 32GB of G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5-6000 memory in two 16GB modules running dual-channel. Storage is a 1TB Kingston SNV3S NVMe SSD with Gen 4 speeds, which the article says leaves room for Windows plus a couple of large AAA titles.
Tom's Hardware's deals writer Ben Stockton, who has written about technology since 2018 with bylines at PCGamesN, How-To Geek and Tom's Guide, characterized the $1,799.99 price as a good one in the current market. The article notes that ABS is Newegg's own brand and that the specifications are formidable for a machine priced under $1,800.
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