Razer Core chassis for external graphics card to cost 499 dollar

#5246813

konmarin

2016-03-17 19:13

Omg price!!! Wtf??? Buy seperate desktop...tooooo overpriced!!!

#5246814

Denial

2016-03-17 19:15

Omg price!!! Wtf??? Buy seperate desktop...tooooo overpriced!!!

Yeah, it's overpriced like crazy. You can get an i3 desktop for like $300 and just shove a GPU in it + buy the ultrabook and save $200 and arguably get better performance from the i3 than the mobile CPU.

#5246826

Agent-A01

2016-03-17 19:37

Yeah, it's overpriced like crazy. You can get an i3 desktop for like $300 and just shove a GPU in it + buy the ultrabook and save $200 and arguably get better performance from the i3 than the mobile CPU.

An i7 QM mobile chip will destroy a desktop i3

#5246834

isidore

2016-03-17 19:55

it's Razer, of course it's overpriced, other vendors will probably have it cheaper.

#5246837

mattm4

2016-03-17 19:56

Yeah.. I'm not sure who would buy this at the price of the laptop and razer core. Why not just get a gaming laptop or build a desktop with the same power for half the price.

#5246838

nhlkoho

2016-03-17 20:08

The people who would buy this would most likely keep it at home anyway so why not just buy a desktop and a cheaper laptop for portability? I couldn't see anyone lugging this thing around with them just to play games.

#5246846

fantaskarsef

2016-03-17 20:18

Wow. Imagine buying a high end laptop, plus at least 1000$ for an external gpu. I guess I'm not this product's target audience.

#5246847

Noisiv

2016-03-17 20:19

it's Razer, of course it's overpriced, other vendors will probably have it cheaper.

For sure. There is also $999 Magma ExpressBox 3T :P

#5246851

Reardan

2016-03-17 20:40

An i7 QM mobile chip will destroy a desktop i3

Considering the desktop i7s don't even "destroy" the i3, I don't feel that's likely. http://www.anandtech.com/show/10127/overclockable-core-i3-supermicro-c7h170-m-intel-core-i3-6100te-review/13. The overclocked variant here, is clocked just shy of a regular Skylake 6100 i3. And as you can see, you lose very little performance, a few percent, and this is at 1080p.

#5246855

vbetts

Moderator

2016-03-17 20:42

One thing I will say about the price of this, this is actually not all that bad. Thunderbolt to PCIE bridges are pretty high in price, on average they're about $500 and up and are not made for GPU support like this is. Not a bad deal, if my Alpha for example had Thunderbolt ports I would upgrade it with this and save me building a whole new rig.

#5246901

Agent-A01

2016-03-17 22:00

Considering the desktop i7s don't even "destroy" the i3, I don't feel that's likely.

I'm not talking strictly gaming performance. CPU benchmarks will show that the QM is vastly superior in crunching numbers. With gaming, most dont benefit at all with more than 4 threads and 2 high clocked threads will be fine for 90% of games

#5246917

RzrTrek

2016-03-17 23:27

At that price you might as well buy a new laptop.

#5246928

konmarin

2016-03-18 00:08

They can build it customizable to put in your own psu (tfx,sfx,normal-which is a lot cheaper) and support only one pci express x16 3.0 This is much more cheaper.Don't tell me that it will cost more than 150$-200$ because 50$-100$ for the case and 100$ for controller.It is by far mooooore cheaper.

#5246932

Primey0

2016-03-18 00:22

$500 for a metal case and a 500w psu????

#5246946

cyclone3d

2016-03-18 01:29

For sure. There is also $999 Magma ExpressBox 3T :P

That is a 3 slot enclosure. Here are a couple cheaper ones. This one is only dual Thunderbolt 2 for 20Gb/s Akitio Thunder2 PCIe Box: http://www.amazon.com/Akitio-AMZ-T2PC-TIA-AKTU-Thunder2-PCIe/dp/B00LTAUTHE/ref=sr_1_fkmr1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458260838&sr=8-1-fkmr1 The "frequently bought together list show a PCIe riser and a 500w PSU for a total of $259.98 Then there is the proprietary Alienware one for $183 http://www.amazon.com/Alienware-9R7XN-Graphics-Amplifier/dp/B00PCJXN0I/ref=pd_sim_sbs_147_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=516HrUdfJvL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0Q02HNPZK6BVBME09JQ2

#5246971

Lucifer

2016-03-18 02:31

I wonder what power supply they're using... with $500 asking price, it better be at least of a decent quality.

#5246976

undermined

2016-03-18 03:02

I agree that the pricing is pretty bad. This is Apple level price gouging. A decent 500w 1u seasonic psu sells for $99 USD on newegg and I cannot imagine a case and some minor thunderbolt to pci-e components on a pcb cost $400 more. Even the Alienware version of this sells for only $200 USD and less on amazon like cyclone3d listed http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/1132986-REG/dell_9r7xn_alienware_graphics_amplifier_stealth.html Even is somehow Razor did a lot of work optimizing and designing their enclosure, they didn't do $300 extra worth versus what the engineers at Alienware implmented.

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