Monday, April 23rd 2018
MSI and AMD Prepare Their 'Combat Crate' Bundles
MSI has partnered with AMD to bring their new 'Combat Crate' bundles to the gaming market. These Combat Crates are comprised of a Ryzen 5 1600 or Ryzen 7 1700 processor, a MSI B350 Tomahawk motherboard, and, last but not least, a MSI RX 580 Armor graphic card. With the Ryzen 2000 Series processors already out and B450 motherboards probably on the way, the primary goal of this partnership is probably for both companies to clear their last-gen stock. The description on the packaging reads:
Truth be told, a Ryzen 5 1600 processor paired with a RX 580 graphics card is actually a pretty nice combo for 1080p gaming, and 1440p as well, if the user is willing to sacrifice some eye candy. The key here is pricing, and unfortunately, neither company has disclosed the official pricing for their Combat Crates.
Source:
VideoCardz
The AMD Combat Crate comes stocked with essential hardware you need to push your game to the next level and lay waste to the competition. With a lightning-fast Ryzen processor, powerful RX graphics backed by revolutionary Radeon Software Adrenalin Edition and a feature-ready MSI motherboard - the AMD Combat Crate is the ultimate arsenal for gamers.
26 Comments on MSI and AMD Prepare Their 'Combat Crate' Bundles
With it was with the newer 2600 though
This is a bundle, plain and simple, to help empty remaining stocks.
When buying those components separately, it comes out to about $588 so I am unsure what this bundle is about.
If they wanted to make this bundle appealing, they would add in memory although that make the collaboration harder as well as offer actual savings.
This bundle is currently a great idea, but just on paper
Profit.
Explanation- All companies are in business to make a profit, also another point different countries have different taxes applied on these bundles, so they set this at a flat rate, it's easier to find than trying to price out individual parts at that, so either way alot would buy it, alot won't, but in the end they make a profit. Now if GPUs were lower in price individually I'd pick up a Nitro+580 or Vega 64 and sell my 290 VaporX.
Has nothing to do with salesFrom a firm that uses those numbers
I couldnt link the image so here is the whole page.
The MSI RX 580 8Gb Armor right now is $325-350 which is expensive for what is MSI low grade version, and that's if it is a an 8Gb version as they don't really say.
Consider today without "mining inflation" and in the context of Polaris life span now a year on the market, such a card would be significantly less than the original $230 MSRP. Today the "real world" would be $200 no problem, while $180 working a rebate.
So $200 for CPU and Mobo, which is about the mix I'd consider and still have both making plenty of profit (so not a actual price in a 3 piece bundle). It's the card the is the "outlier" it's not worth $300 to me as prices are still marching down each week. If generous to MSI I might say that card is at this time might see value of $275 in the context of this bundle. All considered they still make profit on both the mobo and graphics, both are now "long in the tooth", and if the have a large amount of the Tomahawks still in the warehouse they're best to move them now.
A fair price on this today if an 8Gb card is more like $480...
8 of this in stock in the OC, while also that Armor. This is what I'd think about for the quality vs. the final $360 price. Though, I'm not saying anyone should think of buying till something like this is down to more like $280, but this same Asus was $300 @MC just a week ago!
This 1700 CPU/ASUS Prime B350M-E Mobo bundle is $250 that Asus 580 8Gb $360 = $610, much nicer deal today!