Once a bargain price for RTX 3080-beating gaming PCs, Nvidia x Intel makes rigs like this the new normal
ABS Stratos Aqua | Intel Core i5 13400F | Nvidia RTX 4070 | 16GB DDR5-5600 | 1TB PCIe SSD | $1,499.99 at Newegg(opens in new tab)It may not be on sale, but we'd happily pay that price. Considering we're still seeing $1,500 machines packing RTX 3080 and 12th Gen Intel CPU combos, this 13th Gen machine is a steal right now. With access to DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation, that 40-series card will have today's ray-traced games running at 4K. Paired with a 1TB wad o NVMe storage and 16GB of dual-channel DDR5 RAM, and there's not much to complain about. Plus, you can always add more later.
Around a month ago we saw an RTX 3080-powered Alienware gaming PC deeply discounted down to $1500(opens in new tab). That was a bit of a bargain to be sure, but that level of gaming performance looks set to stay at that price point with the standard price of this ABS Stratos Aqua PC being $1,500 at Newegg(opens in new tab) today.
That's all thanks to the RTX 4070(opens in new tab), launched last week and in affordable gaming PCs this week. It's that GPU inside the ABS Stratos Aqua rig which gives it the same level of gaming performance as an RTX 3080-based machine, and gives it the potential to even push past that.
Despite the similar rasterised gaming performance between the RTX 4070 and RTX 3080, the newer Ada GPU has the opportunity to go further in terms of future gaming performance because of its access to DLSS 3.0 and Frame Generation. The voodoo of Nvidia's AI frame interpolation tech can deliver entirely unrendered frames into a game's output, making a huge difference to the overall smoothness of supported titles.
The ABS rig is ostensibly sporting a lower tier CPU—the Intel Core i5 13400F(opens in new tab)—compared with the previously
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