NVIDIA Builds GeForce PC Kit

[Chickenfeed]

People in this thread are Xtreme at everything other than intelligence hahahahha.

This PC can game better than most PCs available at every brick and mortar store like Best Buy etc.

For the cost yes, but considering alot of HP / Gateways $800-1400 models, this statement is not true. They include GTX 260s with i5/i7s/Phenom 2s with 6+ GB of ram and much larger HDs with many of their machines now...

If they sold this in a big box store with a detailed instruction manual, then it could have a life. Selling it on an online etailer however is... fail. Most people who buy online tend to know better or soon learn better ( due to comparitive shopping being much eaiser )


@sayaa

Not to pick fights but I still have a G92 (8800GT 512 aka 9800GT ) and they struggle at 1650x1050 in most games now days. I tend to run stuff at 1280x800 tops with no AA and medium to high settings. Hell even the 4870 has trouble in some games at 1680x1050 now. I suppose its down to what you deem "playable" but in my book, they don't have the juice anymore.

Anyways I still stand by the fact Nvidia *could* have made something out of this but it just wasn't done properly to have a real shot. With proper marketing, and availability in retail stores, they'd move a fair few units. When I worked retail I ran into countless customers seeking an affordable, store bought machine that could play games reasonably.

[zanzabar]

E5300 "800 FSB" hahahha
G31 "PCIe 1.0" hahahah
Re-branded 8800GT hahahahaha

This should be the hahaha nvidia edition

Instead of this they should have used:

E6300
P43
GTX 260

This is the bare min i would call a proper gaming system, 9800GT/GTS 250 are worthless "Buying a new one now a days" in my books.

It would have been so sweet if nvidia released a water cooled gtx 480/I7 or Thuban/890FX or x58 powered PC kit

that 260 would be kinda hard to do since its EOL, and this is clearly cleaning out backstock

[trinibwoy]

It really makes you wonder how many goddam G92's they had made.

[Bobsama]

It really makes you wonder how many goddam G92's they had made.

More than you can count and probably more than they can count too. Figure at least in the hundreds of thousands, at a bare minimum, going up into the millions. For a "gaming" card, that's insane; it's definitely their most successful single design, regardless of community response. A 9800GT is nothing to be scoffed at; there's much better AND much worse for the price, but not in nVidia's camp. From a business standpoint, G92 has defined the past few years at nVidia.

[lkiller123]

This "kit" might work if they pre-built.

But if they are for people who actually understands how to build a computer, it won't work considering that most people that understands computer components will know that they can build a faster computer for a lower price.

[grimREEFER]

im not sure how much better you can make something for just $500.
if you could put in a 4850 and athlon x4 620 in something at that price, that would be a good deal better.

[munim]

For the cost yes, but considering alot of HP / Gateways $800-1400 models, this statement is not true. They include GTX 260s with i5/i7s/Phenom 2s with 6+ GB of ram and much larger HDs with many of their machines now...

If they sold this in a big box store with a detailed instruction manual, then it could have a life. Selling it on an online etailer however is... fail. Most people who buy online tend to know better or soon learn better ( due to comparitive shopping being much eaiser )


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Agreed on the etailer part. Marketed properly at a brick and mortar, it would work. I don't see the big three ( HP, Dell, Other) too happy about it since the marketing would essentially say that this $500 dollar machine can game better than that i5 equipped, 8 GB rammed, $1200 machine.

[ExodusC]

Seems like a nice way to introduce someone into the world of PC building if they've never done it before. I guess at under $500 it's not a bad deal by any means, since it has decent components, but I think anyone who has done a bit of research will opt for selecting their own components individually.

[Chickenfeed]

Agreed on the etailer part. Marketed properly at a brick and mortar, it would work. I don't see the big three ( HP, Dell, Other) too happy about it since the marketing would essentially say that this $500 dollar machine can game better than that i5 equipped, 8 GB rammed, $1200 machine.

Exactly They like their high margins (given all oems use mainly lower end bulk parts ; eg no name memory, garbage powersupplys, basic / limited motherboard, and in most cases half ass plastic cases with no airflow ) and stuff like this would really kick up some dirt in their faces.