NVIDIA Builds GeForce PC Kit

[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...

[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$
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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

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.

[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.