If you've been aching to upgrade your gaming PC, you'd really struggle to match this RTX 5070 Prime Day machine with a DIY build

A Thermaltake LCGS NE gaming PC on a custom PC Gamer Prime Day background. — (Image credit: Thermaltake)

This RTX 5070 rig has been on sale for $1,400 at Newegg for a while now—our Jess highlighted it bang-on a month ago—and ever since it was discounted I've been waiting for it to come off sale, but it hasn't. I've been checking retailers for the best gaming PC deals regularly and this one's not only the best I've seen in a while but is also pipping the competition as we head into Prime Day (week).

It is unfortunately not the market of yesteryear. This year, we're dealing with a global memory and storage shortage that's unlikely to let up any time soon, not to mention geopolitical events causing even more shortages. And in the market as it currently stands, $1,400 is damn good for an RTX 5070 gaming PC—most others are well north of $1,500.

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That doesn't mean we should accept any old nonsense, though. We still want our PCs to have decent processors, RAM, storage, and so on. And here the Thermaltake LCGS NE doesn't disappoint. Well, provided you're not expecting the world at this price point.

It only has 16 GB of RAM, but that's DDR5 in a time when half of the builds I'm seeing are cramming DDR4 in there. I have the same sentiment towards that Core i5 14400F CPU: it's decidedly budget, but at least it's pretty recent (though not current-gen) and performs well enough to support an RTX 5070 in the vast majority of cases.

And if you're worrying about that RAM capacity, by the way, our Nick did a bunch of testing and found that having 16 GB of RAM shouldn't hamper much at all if you keep your background apps light.

So what can you expect from this gaming PC? Well, the simplest way to put it is: playable framerates at 1440p in almost any game on high or ultra settings. Provided, that is, you're happy slapping on a little DLSS upscaling and maybe even some frame gen on the few really demanding titles that, well, demand it. You can check out the chart above to see what that means in terms of raw numbers.

With RTX 5060 Ti gaming PCs regularly going for above this price point, for sub-$1,500 I'd say this Thermaltake is where it's at.

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Jacob got his hands on a gaming PC for the first time when he was about 12 years old. He swiftly realised the local PC repair store had ripped him off with his build and vowed never to let another soul build his rig again. With this vow, Jacob the hardware junkie was born. Since then, Jacob's led a double-life as part-hardware geek, part-philosophy nerd, first working as a Hardware Writer for PCGamesN in 2020, then working towards a PhD in Philosophy for a few years while freelancing on the side for sites such as TechRadar, Pocket-lint, and yours truly, PC Gamer. Eventually, he gave up the ruthless mercenary life to join the world's #1 PC Gaming site full-time. It's definitely not an ego thing, he assures us.