Asus South Africa has announced the launch of the ROG G700 (2025) Build It Your Way experience. The ‘experience’ part of it is fairly limited, but this could still be one of the more affordable ways to get your hands on more RAM and storage. You’ll also get the rest of the PC, too, in case you were wondering.
This whole thing is supposed to make it easier for you to upgrade your ageing gaming desktop at a time when individual components have increased in price by more than 100% in some cases. It will also get less-equipped gamers up and running faster, by removing the need to put everything together themselves.
Hardcore PC enthusiasts will argue that can be the best part, but there’s nothing stopping you from tearing it down and putting it back together yourself. Except maybe a warranty. You should probably check on that before you start tearing.
Oh boy, a choice
If you’re in the market for a new pre-built gaming desktop, and you like what ROG has to offer, the 2025 version of the ROG G700 will now provide you with slightly more choice.
From what we can make out on Asus’ store page, you get a seemingly custom-built ROG chassis containing a motherboard of some description. Asus doesn’t say which, but we know it uses the LGA 1851 socket, features 2.5Gb Ethernet, and supports up to 128GB of RAM (not like anyone can afford that anymore).
There is an Intel Core Ultra 5 225F CPU installed in the mystery mobo, along with 16GB of DDR5 memory and a 1TB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD. Asus doesn’t specify if the memory is single- or dual-channel, but it does say “[m]emory speed is 5,600MHz, or 4,800MHz (6,000MHz if OC) base[d] on memory option, but clock down by processor setting.”
Then comes the all-important choice: your GPU. Asus provides 16 options, ranging from the piddly RTX 3050 6GB up to the second-mortgage-requiring RTX 5090. Your choice will obviously influence the final price.
At the low end, opting for the RTX 3050 6GB will bring your total up to R29,000. There’s an RX9070 XT option going for R45,500, and right at the top, there’s the RTX 5090. Specifically, the Asus RTX 5090 ROG ASTRAL 32GB OC. Adding that brings the total up to R100,000. That’s a lot of money for anyone, but considering that GPU sells for R70k on its own, it might not be a bad deal — even if the rest of the specs could end up being a bottleneck for all that GPU power.
If you want to drool over a PC you probably can’t afford, you can do that here.
