Sunday, December 18th 2016
NVIDIA PC Gaming Revival Kit Detailed
Used to game in the 2000s, through your college, and then "life happened"? Want to turn your 4-year old Dell into a gaming PC, but its 350W generic OEM power supply is holding you back? For these things and other, NVIDIA is selling a "PC Gaming Revival Kit," a package consisting of a graphics card, an SSD, a PSU, and a game, to help you bring PC gaming back into your lives. The kit includes hardware to turn just about any desktop with a SATA port and PCI-Express slot, into a 1080p gaming machine (provided it meets some basic requirements of the graphics card).
Available in the EU, priced at 399€, the kit includes an MSI GeForce GTX 1060 3GT OC graphics card, a factory-overclocked GTX 1060 3GB card with a dual-fan cooling solution; a Corsair Force LE 240GB solid-state drive, a Corsair CX450M partially modular 450W power supply, an NVIDIA GeForce t-shirt, and a copy of "Gears of War 4." Bought separately, the graphics card goes for 229€, and PSU for 51€, the SSD for 77€, and the game for 45€, total: 402€, so it's not that big a value, but could point a lot of people in the right direction. It could also make for a decent X'mas gift.
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Available in the EU, priced at 399€, the kit includes an MSI GeForce GTX 1060 3GT OC graphics card, a factory-overclocked GTX 1060 3GB card with a dual-fan cooling solution; a Corsair Force LE 240GB solid-state drive, a Corsair CX450M partially modular 450W power supply, an NVIDIA GeForce t-shirt, and a copy of "Gears of War 4." Bought separately, the graphics card goes for 229€, and PSU for 51€, the SSD for 77€, and the game for 45€, total: 402€, so it's not that big a value, but could point a lot of people in the right direction. It could also make for a decent X'mas gift.
50 Comments on NVIDIA PC Gaming Revival Kit Detailed
A common issue with this sort of product is warranty. Since it has more than one components, it could be a headache when one of it goes bad.
Looking forward to seeing the people with C2D towers buying these.
Don't know if that's the final product but the box art shows FE art, just a logo implies MSI. Kid opens up his present and then goes, "Where is the FE card?" Installs it and says, "Hey were is the other 3GBs".
If they make a VEGA kit with a nice Samsung 1TB 960 EVO and a tripple X T-Shirt then I might be ready for a red team package - wonder what kind of PSU it would take...
SSD, video card, PSU, ok, those can keep an aging computer on life support for a while. But GoW4 requires Win10 which in turn requires a fairly recent CPU and will not run that well on old systems.
If they are not into PC building they would have probably gone for pre-build PCs that can be found in their local computer stores. No wonder the games do not work as promised if they listen to the owner 'Jeff' who says 3GB GPU handles all titles from this year at stable 60 FPS ^.^.
The prospect of what do they need is very daunting, and will gladly pay for an option such as this. For them, trying to pick what parts is scary. These people exist in far greater numbers than we enthusiasts, or even those with a little knowledge and are comfortable researching the parts themselves.
Considering that the 6GB 1060 would easily get a year of extra useful life over the 3GB model, considering that 3GB is already not always enough, the 6GB would be cheaper over it's useful life then a 3GB one.
If you are going to spend hundreds of dollars, might as well buy something that is going to last. Paying 25% more for a part that will get 2-3 years of useful life vs 1 year of useful life is a no brainer.