NVIDIA Reveals PC Gaming Revival Kit (GPU, SSD, PSU combo)

NVIDIA Reveals Its Near-$420 Gaming Revival Kit That Gives Your PC a Whole New Makeover
By Omar Sohail Posted 6 hours ago
http://wccftech.com/nvidia-reveals-near420-gaming-kit-pc-makeover/

"NVIDIA has a brand new product, which the manufacturer is calling it the Gaming Revival Kit. The idea behind the product is that the company wants to give your PC a whole new performance makeover by adding a total of three PC components. Here are all the details that you’ve been wanting to know.

The NVIDIA Gaming Revival Kit Will Also Get You a Copy of Gears of War 4 Along With the PC Components

According to details, the Gaming Revival Kit comprises up of a GTX 1060 GPU that features 3GB of RAM, a Corsair 240GB SSD and a 450-watt semi-modular power supply unit. In addition to these three, you also get a free copy of Gears of War 4.

Now, VideoCardz was able to calculate the total price of every product should you decide to purchase it separately, and it turns out that there is no advantage when cheaper pricing is involved because all of them will set you back by 400 Euros, which is the same price as this kit.

However, it does remove the amount of effort that’s going to take for you to purchase all the components and discard the boxes later, but if the Gaming Revival Kit was being offered at a slight discount, it would have provided great value."

 

Lol, Nvidia.

 

Indeed, it is pretty retarded.. Someone said that there is a $25 premium on the whole bundle compared to it being bought seperately and all you get is a NVIDIA t shirt lol

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Interested choice of parts, the PSU seems and odd component, who has a machine with less the 450W?

 

You can keep power draw pretty low with a 1060, I bet you could throw together a decent system that's under 450.

 

Pros and Cons of NVIDIA Corporation's "PC Gaming Revival Kit"
By Ashraf Eassa Published December 19, 2016
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/...nvidia-corporation-pc-gaming-revival-kit.html



The folks over at VideoCardz noticed that graphics specialist NVIDIA has begun selling a "PC Gaming Revival Kit." This kit is designed to allow buyers to turn their gaming-incapable desktop computers into computers that can handle the latest PC games at solid quality and performance levels.

The kit includes the following components:

• An MSI GeForce GTX 1060 with 3GB of video memory.
• A Corsair Force 240GB solid-state drive.
• A Corsair 450-watt power supply.
• A copy of the game Gears of War 4.
• An NVIDIA T-shirt.

VideoCardz says it could "only find this kit for Spanish-speaking countries, so it is unclear if this kit will be sold in other regions."

Is this kit a good idea? Or is this concept doomed to fall flat? Let's take a closer look..."

 

You could also use that as a starter kit for a new machine I guess.

 

When Vista came out, some bundles were introduced for upgrading PC's - older and recently sold, combinations of a new GPU, more RAM, a new CPU, and an upgraded power supply to drive all the new hardware.

It's not that unusual for people to want to get an upgrade for gaming, and in regions that don't have easy access to parts to put together on their own this would be a nice simple package to buy.

Here it seems odd, but other places it might very much be a nice package and attractive for purchase.

There are many pre-built desktop's with 2XXw-3XXw power supplies, weak disks, and weak GPU's that are candidates for this kit.

Maybe not in our experience, building and buying performance oriented computers, but there are many more "weak" computers built for every day use that can be good frames for upgrading to a gaming computer with these components.

You see them in offices and homes all over the world

 

Excellent points, it would be interesting to see what thought process went into the decisions, the SSD seems a bit more involved for a complete amateur to install so it could be aimed as a starter kit for a new machine but most people building a new machine would shop around for each part and discover better values on the parts. It could also be a nice gift to someone who needs an upgrade but is short on cash. In any case anything that keeps the PC market alive is a good thing IMHO.

 

I didn't think of that, that's actually a great idea.

 

PSUs tend to get old and lower output. It's pretty ideal package to me. Except Nvidia should've put RX470 instead

 

Suggest that to them. I'm sure they'll listen. Let us know how that goes.

 

At least they could have put a 6GB version...

 

The SSD is a nice touch, it's hard to enjoy your new fast GPU with HDD induced lag. It could have been bigger though, I usually recommend a 512GB.

The Power supply at 450w is just under my usual minimum recommendation of 500w, but it might be up to double what they currently have.

The difference between 3GB and 6GB in most games is small, this reviewer went through a bunch of games, and throwing out 1 outlier there is only a 7% average difference at 1440p between the 3GB and 6BG models.




These tests between a 1060 3GB and a 1050ti 4GB show the 1060 3GB outperforms the 1050ti 4GB by 50%-60%+:

 

That PSU is probably a crappy CX series unit... Can't say anything about SSD, never read anything about Corsair SSDs, but it's nice for them to include it.
The reason I would want to see 6GB GPU is because one might experience problems when trying to run ultra textures in modern games, or try to mod out Skyrim with extreme textures.
Otherwise this whole kit is pointless, because you can buy the same components for the same price. You would also be sparred the horror of getting nVidia t-shirt...

 

IDK, I like vendor t-shirts, been through lots of them over the years, maybe it's a fun one? I haven't seen it...

The kit has another point, which maybe you haven't run into.

External confirmation from an authority in the field, Nvidia.

Combining these parts into an "upgrade" kit tells newbies what they need for an upgrade, not just a video card - to get best performance.

You'd be surprised how often people question associated components used to attain a goal they have established. It's like they feel they are being over sold on what they need.

It was that way with Vista until companies started bundling GPU / memory / SSD / SATA controller's into upgrade kits for Vista.

Once I had external confirmation, I could point to them to back up my recommendations.

Otherwise, you end up doing a multi-stage upgrade, with the owner unhappy once or twice along the way, with the possibility they will "give up" part way through - not seeing the performance summed up with all the parts they really needed.

Fortunately I don't get too much of that, but I can see a more relaxed owner when I can give external confirmation and they aren't only relying on one persons opinion / expertise.

And, of course a low priced package isn't going to have top tier components, but again it gives you a starting point - you can tell them that is a minimum example of what is needed for any upgrade, and explain that better components can be purchased individually - and give them the choice.

Some will stick with the lowest price combination with an "approved" combination of components, with warranty support for all the parts functioning together as the upgrade.

I've watched a few videos about the 1060 3GB and surprisingly the lower VRAM doesn't seem to be an issue. Even tested at over 3GB VRAM utilization the performance hangs in there, with seemingly no penalty in some games at all.

There are some games that will exhibit a buffer load slowdown of a second, but it doesn't affect FPS. It seems that over the years the developers have found seemless ways of getting past the physical card limits that don't show through in game play.

But, I would recommend a 6GB card, just so I don't get that inevitable - "hey XXX game lags for a second because there isn't enough VRAM"

 

From my experience with "tri fiddy" GB of VRAM on my 970 I would say there are definitely some games which require more VRAM for ultra textures. Whereas Shadow Of Mordor ran fine with Ultra Texture package, Rise Of The Tomb Raider and Rainbow Six Siege had stutters when using ultra textures. It's not that Very High aren't enough, but you know, bragging rights .

Still tho, they could have offered a better deal. I know they need to make profit, but it's interesting to see they offer a 450W. Not that it's not enough (like you already mentioned), but it's interesting to see it there. For some reason I have a sneaky suspicion they had unused stock of those 450W PSUs lying around, so they decided to put them into this kit.

 

Yup, bigger is always better

The 450w power supply might indeed be a bulk deal for Nvidia, it's also likely a size consideration, I didn't check but maybe it's a smaller than normal one to fit more chassis, the typical cheap PC that was built with a 200-300w PSU will be a small fit.

Now we need someone that bought the bundle to find the thread and tell us how they like it, and post a photo of the t-shirt art

 

As is sit here catching up on the forums I am wearing a EVGA GT 470 T-shirt, I have two because that was the build my venture into SLI. I also have an Ailenware T-shirt that I got with the purchase of the original A-51, The T-shirt was the best part of that deal.

The more I think about this kit the more I think it's a good idea. A few years back I built a rig for my son who is now 14, about 6 months ago he was complaining about lack of storage, so I looked at the machine and all he had was a 640Gb WD Blue in there ( dad was being cheap) so after he did some manual labor for me I tossed in a 2 TB HDD and a 256 SSD, He was really impressed with the difference. Now he needs a new video card, had the rig I built for him he rig I built for him not have an ample PSU I would need all three items in this kit to bring this machine up to gaming speed. I know many people who have kids who want to do this but who's parents are clueless to PC parts and they may have a PC where this kit can breath some life into it.

 

Wish I had friend who would give me 400€ presents

 

Lol, I'm thinking more in the line of kids Xmas presents.

 

Manufacturer promo shirts are like half my wardrobe at this point.