Save $500 on this 1440p gaming PC with an RTX 5070, now under $1,800
- ID
- 36949
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 19 Oct 2026, 6:01 PM
- Fetched
- 19 Oct 2026, 6:22 PM
- Provider
- Tom's Hardware
- Category
- technology
- Original URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/desktops/gaming-pcs/save-usd500-on-this-1440p-gaming-pc-with-an-rtx-5070-now-under-usd1-800-abs-flux-ii-aqua-rig-ships-with-a-20-core-intel-cpu-32gb-ddr5-and-a-1tb-ssd
- Source URL
- https://www.tomshardware.com/feeds/all
Summary
- Score
- 1.5
- Created
- 19 Oct 2026, 6:23 PM
- Tags
- Audience
- developersvibe_coders
What happened
Tom's Hardware flags a $500 discount on the ABS Flux II Aqua, a 1440p-targeted gaming desktop now priced under $1,800. The listed spec is a 20-core Intel CPU, an RTX 5070, 32GB of DDR5, and a 1TB SSD. The excerpt is almost entirely site navigation and membership copy, so there are no benchmarks, no VRAM figure, and no independent testing in the text provided.
Why it matters
Almost nothing here changes what a builder should do: it is a retailer deal post with no measured performance, no memory bandwidth or VRAM detail, and no availability info for Malaysia. The only actionable read is price anchoring — a 20-core CPU plus RTX 5070 plus 32GB DDR5 tier now advertised under $1,800 — which is useful only if you are currently budgeting a workstation and can verify the same config locally, including shipping, duty, and warranty. Because the text never states VRAM, do not treat this as a recommendation for local LLM inference.
Discussion angle
Use it as a 3-minute price check only: what does an equivalent 20-core / 32GB DDR5 / RTX 5070-class box actually cost landed in Malaysia right now, and does the local price gap change anyone's plan to buy versus rent cloud GPU time?