Packaged Price?

SEANMCAD

If you have zero plans to ever 'build your own machine' ever in your life and under no circumstances otherwise, is the following a good price for all that is involved?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset-asus-g20cb-b13-desktop-package/9999260600050000.p?id=pcmprd259000050000&skuId=9999260600050000

Phry

SEANMCAD said:

If you have zero plans to ever 'build your own machine' ever in your life and under no circumstances otherwise, is the following a good price for all that is involved?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset-asus-g20cb-b13-desktop-package/9999260600050000.p?id=pcmprd259000050000&skuId=9999260600050000

I have no doubt that the equipment necessary to power the OR really does cost that much, maybe in a few years time that kind of gear will cost a lot less, and maybe so will whatever incarnation of the OR at that point will also, at the moment, its well beyond the finances of the average gamer.

SEANMCAD

Phry said:

SEANMCAD said:

If you have zero plans to ever 'build your own machine' ever in your life and under no circumstances otherwise, is the following a good price for all that is involved?

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/oculus-rift-virtual-reality-headset-asus-g20cb-b13-desktop-package/9999260600050000.p?id=pcmprd259000050000&skuId=9999260600050000

I have no doubt that the equipment necessary to power the OR really does cost that much, maybe in a few years time that kind of gear will cost a lot less, and maybe so will whatever incarnation of the OR at that point will also, at the moment, its well beyond the finances of the average gamer.

I suspect it will come down rather fast or at least as fast as PC tech always does.

I read Palmer saying that 'we are thinking of releasing budget versions of Oculus (aka Dk1?)" but then not but two days later he said 'there is little chance'

I think being 21 he says things to the press before talking with everyone involved.

Quizzical

Building your own with those specs (excluding the Oculus Rift) would cost around $1000-$1100.

Though building your own with those specs is doing it wrong, as you don't want to pay the large price premium to get Intel, only to get a very low clocked version of the CPU and miss out on the performance benefit.  The last time Intel released a lower stock clocked Core i5 than the Core i5-6400 in that system came way back in 2009 if you exclude the low power S and T versions, or 2011 if you include S but not T versions.  And both S and T versions of chips would be dismissed out of hand as ridiculous for gaming desktops.

To my eyes, it looks like an extra thin case, so it likely can't handle off-the-shelf replacement parts.  That, to me, makes a desktop a poor value unless you value the form factor very highly, or get it at a very deeply discounted price.

I also wouldn't bet on the power supply or motherboard being especially nice since they don't tell you what they are.