Let's say you are looking to purchase a new gaming PC and your budget is between $1,600 and $2,000. Naturally, you would have pretty high expectations for any PC. It should have the latest, fastest CPU and equally fast RAM to be able to handle the latest games.

Naturally, you will also need a graphics card that supports all the latest graphics technologies and can handle any rendering task. Finally, plenty of storage, options for upgrades, and even things like cooling and lighting need to pass muster. This ABS Stratos Ruby gaming PC meets nearly all of these requirements.

Leading the spec sheet is the Ryzen 7 7700X CPU, an 8-core, 16-thread Zen 4 architecture with a boost clock of 5.4 GHz. Power consumption is fairly light, with a TDP of 105W-20W lower than comparable Intel processors; with ECO mode enabled, it can save power while delivering excellent performance.

AMD's Ryzen chips perform best when paired with fast dual-channel RAM, and ABS makes the right choice with two 16GB sticks of DDR5-6000, the ideal rating for a balance of speed and stability. They are made by the reliable Team Group and include RGB lighting.

All of this would be for naught if the graphics card wasn't up to scratch, but here it is with a GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super. All teasing names aside, this is a meaty GPU with 8,448 shaders, a 2,625MHz boost clock (it's Gigabyte's overclocked model), and 16GB of fast GDDR6X VRAM, just like all of Nvidia's RTX 40-series cards, It fully supports DLSS 3.5, so games that offer this feature can enable AI processing upscaling, frame generation, or ray tracing denoising for higher performance or better graphics.

Unfortunately, the NVMe storage is only 1TB. To make matters worse, this is a Kingston NV2 drive with peak read/write speeds of only 3,500 MB/s and 2,800 MB/s. For a PCIe 4.0 SSD, this is not very good; the Gigabyte B650 on the ABS Stratos Ruby The motherboard has only one more M.2 slot, so if you are considering an SSD upgrade, you should consider at least 2TB.

But that's about it for the genuine negatives, everything else is good; Ryzen CPUs can get a little hot at times (think high temperatures rather than big blobs of heat), but the ABS is equipped with a Thermaltake 240 mm AIO cooler which is a very cool and efficient cooler. Additionally, a total of four RGB fans keep air flowing through the case.

It looks great, has great hardware (aside from the SSD), and at this price is a $300 savings from the original list price. This is a great PC, easily handling 1440p gaming workloads and, with upscaling applied, will even handle 4K for the latest games. Best of all, AMD plans to support the AM5 platform used here for at least a few more generations, so you can upgrade the internals in the future.