Starforge Systems Navigator Pro review

If you're buying a pre-built gaming PC, broadly speaking, you're hoping to save time, resources and troubleshooting. For that to happen, whichever pre-built gaming PC you end up purchasing must be correctly assembled, securely shipped, and work as intended on arrival. Starforge Systems has sent me its Navigator Pro gaming PC for review, and it confidently manages all three.

The Navigator Pro is a ready assembled gaming PC with a pre-defined specification. That means if you were to order one today, you'd receive something extremely similar to the PC in front of me for review. 

The Navigator Pro I have here includes an Intel Core i5 13600KF, PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB Verto, and Teamgroup Delta RGB 32GB DDR5-6000. There's also a 2TB T-Force Z44A7, which is a good hunk of speedy storage. That's slotted into an MSI Pro Z790-P Wifi motherboard. Of that lot, it's possible to find a different model of graphics card or SSD installed, as neither are specified on the Starforge Systems website.

Altogether, it's a sensibly mid- to high-end gaming PC specification inside the Navigator Pro. I would put something similar together myself, if I were in the market. The 13600KF is the iGPU-free version of a CPU I rate as one of the best CPUs for gaming today, and the GPU is the much improved RTX 4070 Super, which feels a much stronger proposition than the regular RTX 4070 in 2024. That said, this is on the more expensive side versus some pre-built gaming PCs with a similar graphics card inside them.

CPU: Intel Core i5 13600KF
Graphics card: PNY GeForce RTX 4070 Super 12GB Verto
RAM: Teamgroup Delta RGB 32GB DDR5-6000
SSD: T-Force Z44A7 2TB
Motherboard: MSI Pro Z790-P Wifi
Cooling: 1x Deepcool LT520 AIO, 7x Deepcool FC 120mm (total)
PSU: MSI MAG A850GL
Chassis: XPG Invader X
Price: $2,100

Starforge Systems is asking for $2,100 to purchase your own Navigator Pro, and that's around the price you can find systems with RTX 4070 Ti and RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics cards inside them from more