NVIDIA Builds GeForce PC Kit

[highoctane]

Sure there are always better parts but the goal seems to focus on the building process/aspect not necessarily performance which is quite obvious from the parts list and the description.

GeForce PC Kit

Build your own cutting-edge rig with an NVIDIA® GeForce® PC kit, customized to provide an easy, first time building experience with GeForce graphics.

[Bobsama]

Which would still have led them to using a GeForce 9000 motherboard and not some shoddy G31 thing. Then again, I suppose they're right. It's easier to setup an Intel board than their own. The question is, if they're selling a barebones, why limit it so much? The MSI board isn't totally horrible, but the #1 issue I spotted was no gigabit LAN in addition to the hard drive's capacity.

[schlafmuetze]

Are wood screws included?


Hey I have an 8800GTS and after 3 years I still feel up to date.

Same here, currently running a 8800gt g92b from 2007 and im still soooooooo up to date

[grimREEFER]

the peculiar choice of these outdated components makes me think they are gonna try to sell this for absurdly cheap, sorta like the netbook of gaming pc's.

[ChaosAD]

This one made my day, lol. I wouldnt get this even if it was for free :P

[Circaflex]

This one made my day, lol. I wouldnt get this even if it was for free :P

you sir must be retarded then.

[saaya]

whats the price?
sounds like a good cheap gaming pc... but i guess its not cheap

oh and did anybody else notice how bfg and xfx are nvidias new best buddy and evga is getting no luv lately
whats up with that?

[Glow9]

oh and did anybody else notice how bfg and xfx are nvidias new best buddy and evga is getting no luv lately
whats up with that?

Do not question Dear Leaders methods.

[InSanCen]

This is not designed for people like us.

This is designed for your average joe to walk into a shop, see the shiny colour-coded box's, buy it, build it, and say "I did that".

If it's their first PC, then Nvidia will likely get repeat custom from them further down the road. First impressions count, assuming it doesn't blow up on them, or take their house out in a fireball, then this is what they will think of when building a new one.

It's the reason marketing exists. The fact that people in the know Nvidia's marketing is often plain wrong with their facts is totally irrelevant, because marketing does usually work on it's target audience, which we are most certainly not.

[ChaosAD]

you sir must be retarded then.

Thanx for your kind words but i m not. I just dont want crap on my desk

[zanzabar]

whats the price?
sounds like a good cheap gaming pc... but i guess its not cheap

oh and did anybody else notice how bfg and xfx are nvidias new best buddy and evga is getting no luv lately
whats up with that?

they have to make up for the short supply of ferni coming up and that evga will be getting the only ones as they sell to acer, hp and dell.

[saaya]

they have to make up for the short supply of ferni coming up and that evga will be getting the only ones as they sell to acer, hp and dell.

ohhhh so bfg and xfx get the cheap cr4ppy treats now and evga will get the real deal when it comes out

[RPGWiZaRD]

They really seem to wanna offer some low budget PC eh? Everything it's got is like cheap crap, the comp case for example is one of the entry-level Coolermaster Elite ~$50 cases. This should cost like 350~$399 I suppose.

[dietwaterrr]

whats the price?
sounds like a good cheap gaming pc... but i guess its not cheap

oh and did anybody else notice how bfg and xfx are nvidias new best buddy and evga is getting no luv lately
whats up with that?

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...380&CatId=3446

it is $499 lol.

[saaya]

They really seem to wanna offer some low budget PC eh? Everything it's got is like cheap crap, the comp case for example is one of the entry-level Coolermaster Elite ~$50 cases. This should cost like 350~$399 I suppose.

well its supposed to be a price perf pc i guess, and it def sounds good in that regard... i mean this thing is good enough to play every game out there at high res, except for some very demanding games which it can still play, just not at max...

if it would be 350$ that would actually be a good deal!

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...380&CatId=3446

it is $499 lol.

ouch... thats a joke...

[tajoh111]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...380&CatId=3446

it is $499 lol.

I just priced everything out at newegg.com except the power supply and this system costs 470.

Its not crazy terribly priced, however its not close to being a good deal.

The only place I could see this being a good deal if it was sold in Block and mortar stores.

Considering this is only being sold at tigerdirect. This looks like a tigerdirect bundle more than anything and tigerdirect bundles are rarely well priced.

I just priced this at tigerdirect and the total was 500.91.

If I had 500 dollars to spend, I would definitely spend it on something else. You could do worse those as they are not really overcharging you.

[saaya]

I just priced everything out at newegg.com except the power supply and this system costs 470.

Its not crazy terribly priced, however its not close to being a good deal.

The only place I could see this being a good deal if it was sold in Block and mortar stores.

Considering this is only being sold at tigerdirect. This looks like a tigerdirect bundle more than anything and tigerdirect bundles are rarely well priced.

I just priced this at tigerdirect and the total was 500.91.

If I had 500 dollars to spend, I would definitely spend it on something else. You could do worse those as they are not really overcharging you.

how did you get to 470$?

Processor: Intel Pentium E5300
Motherboard: MSI G31TM-P21
Graphics card: XFX GeForce 9800GT
Mmeory: 2GB DDR2
Hard Drive: 3.5″ SATA 250GB(7200RPM)
Optical Drive: DVD R/RW
Power Supply: Ultra LifeTime 500W
Keyboard and Mouse: Microsoft keyboard and mouse
Chassis: CoolerMaster Elite 334 NVIDIA Edition
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499$

newegg:
Intel Pentium E5300 67$
MSI G31TM-P21 45$
BFG 9800GT 512mb 89$ - Palit 9800GT 1024mb 100$
2GB DDR2 40$
3.5″ SATA 250GB(7200RPM) 45$
DVD R/RW 20$
500W PSU 20$
Microsoft keyboard and mouse 9$+8$
Gigabyte mid tower ATX 20$
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363$-372$

i mean ok, those are the cheapest parts you can find on newegg, but still...

i bet i can build a better pc for 400$ than this 500$ nvidia thing

[tajoh111]

how did you get to 470$?




newegg:
Intel Pentium E5300 67$
MSI G31TM-P21 45$
BFG 9800GT 512mb 89$ - Palit 9800GT 1024mb 100$
2GB DDR2 40$
3.5″ SATA 250GB(7200RPM) 45$
DVD R/RW 20$
500W PSU 20$
Microsoft keyboard and mouse 9$+8$
Gigabyte mid tower ATX 20$
--------------------------------------------------
363$-372$

i mean ok, those are the cheapest parts you can find on newegg, but still...

i bet i can build a better pc for 400$ than this 500$ nvidia thing

The power supply wasn't available at newegg. So I grabbed something like it. The power supply at tiger direct is 40 dollars so minus 18 dollars. Thus 470.

I really don't know why they use a laptop 7200rpm HD in the bundle. Probably tigerdirect way of clearing out old components.

[Chrono Detector]

I knew it, NVIDIA is going to rip people off with this "NVIDIA built" PC while you can build your own at a cheaper price. Fail NVIDIA, GTFO, why not entertain us by giving more info on Fermi and benchmarks instead.

[tajoh111]

I knew it, NVIDIA is going to rip people off with this "NVIDIA built" PC while you can build your own at a cheaper price. Fail NVIDIA, GTFO, why not entertain us by giving more info on Fermi and benchmarks instead.

This is more tigerdirect than anything. If you get their emails, you know that they love to bundle junk more than anything. This is sadly one of their better bundles. They still bundle Pentium 4 to this day.

It sad Nvidia let them put their name on it. But recently that what Nvidia has been lately, a sad sad company.

[saaya]

Intel Pentium E5300 67$
MSI G31TM-P21 45$
Palit GTS250 512mb 105$
2GB DDR2 40$
3.5″ SATA 250GB(7200RPM) 45$
DVD R/RW 20$
500W PSU 20$
Microsoft keyboard and mouse 9$+8$
Gigabyte mid tower ATX 20$

there you go, 5-16 us$ more and notably faster
this is still below 400 us$ and already notably faster!

looks like nvidia needs to get rid of 9800gt stock?

Intel Pentium E5300 67$
MSI G31TM-P21 45$
Sparkle GTS250 1024mb 119$
2GB DDR2 40$
3.5″ SATA 250GB(7200RPM) 45$
DVD R/RW 20$
500W PSU 20$
Microsoft keyboard and mouse 9$+8$
Gigabyte mid tower ATX 20$

there you go, 30-19 us$ more and notably faster
this is around 400us$ and notably faster!

in this price segment the 250 seems to be the best offer... amds 5700 series costs 15-50$ more, which is too much of a dx11 tax imo, as perf isnt all the different...
amds athlon2 is 20$ cheaper than intels, but its also slower...

The power supply wasn't available at newegg. So I grabbed something like it. The power supply at tiger direct is 40 dollars so minus 18 dollars. Thus 470.

I really don't know why they use a laptop 7200rpm HD in the bundle. Probably tigerdirect way of clearing out old components.

they mention 3.5", thats not laptop...

[tajoh111]

there you go, 5-16 us$ more and notably faster
this is still below 400 us$ and already notably faster!

looks like nvidia needs to get rid of 9800gt stock?


there you go, 30-19 us$ more and notably faster
this is around 400us$ and notably faster!

in this price segment the 250 seems to be the best offer... amds 5700 series costs 15-50$ more, which is too much of a dx11 tax imo, as perf isnt all the different...
amds athlon2 is 20$ cheaper than intels, but its also slower...


they mention 3.5", thats not laptop...

http://www.compusa.com/applications/...rkey=N500-3000

If you look at all three links, tigerdirect, compusa and compusa retail stores, they all say the included harddrive is a Seagate ST9250410AS Momentus 7200.4 Hard Drive.

Saaya, I am surprised your using such a cheap Power supply in your argument. Sure Ultra is not the best(it actually bad), but I would assume that with a lifetime warranty, they are not using a crap oem like deer.

Tigerdirect usually offers terrible price to performance ratios. Look at this bundle.

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicati...539&CatId=1911

Pentium 4 2.8ghz + case + 350W + 512Mb ram and a basic Intel Mb = $360.00

The NV bundle looks like a bargain in comparison.

[s1nykuL]

As far as I can see they have simply made a mistake or just plain lied with the marketing blurb...

"Build your own cutting-edge rig with an NVIDIA® GeForce® PC kit, customized to provide an easy, first time building experience with GeForce graphics."

What the advertising leader on the web page for this kit should have really said is

"Build your own *entry level* rig with an NVIDIA® GeForce® PC kit, customized to provide an easy, first time building experience with GeForce graphics."

Perhaps then they would be getting some praise for this kit rather than being ridiculed.

[Macadamia]

Sure there are always better parts but the goal seems to focus on the building process/aspect not necessarily performance which is quite obvious from the parts list and the description.

At the rate how f-ed up this is, if I were a complete computer noob I'd rather ask someone to assemble a rig for me.

But neither of those are the main argument. The fact that nVidia are willing to tack their name unto this, somehow making this the "definitive" Geforce kit, is just puke inducing.

It's their loss though, when people dumb enough to get this finally realize that the rig's incompetent enough to play most stuff without stuttering its way there thanks to the RAM/vRAM amount though.

[Chickenfeed]

That system would be suited for 1024x768-1280x1024 ( max ) with moderate settings, as far as current games are concerned. My issue with it isn't the fact I wouldn't buy it but the fact that their PR and marketing direction is very misleading. If they pushed this with words like "starter", "budget" , "affordable" then perhaps but trying to make it out to be way more than it is, is just unethical. "Hey guys, check out our awesome super duper high end gaming system that you can build yourself! Yeah!" Apparently their marketing departments need to maintain the size of their finctional man hoods (aka Nvidia's brand name) by touting anything with the word "Nvidia" on it as the second coming of Jesus... Its just a tad retarded. I'm not offended by the concept but by its piss poor execution of a pontentially good idea. They are just trying to take advantage of their brand awareness and cash in. Bad play, Nvidia, bad play.