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[daze23]

Amazon now lets you finance gaming PCs and PC parts at zero interest

Five monthly payments, no catch

Amazon has introduced a new program that makes it a little more easier to buy gaming PCs and PC components. While the price is technically the same, the burden is spread out across several months at no penalty to the buyer.

Amazon now has a monthly payment system for big ticket items that shifts payments across five months instead of all at once. For instance, there's now the option to purchase a $2,000 PC with five monthly payments of $400 rather than forking over two grand at the time of sale. The applicable categories for this new program are: Laptops, Desktops, Tablets, Monitors, Computer components, Drives and storage, Memory, Networking, and Computer and tablet accessories.

The distinguishing aspect of this financing system is that it comes at zero percent interest. There's no penalty for spreading payments out over five months. Amazon states that there are "no finance charges, no interest or hidden fees, and no credit check or application required."

The obvious upside to this is that buying an expensive PC or PC parts is less intimidating for anyone who can make the monthly payments. That's an immediate advantage over other retailers who will require all the money up front, thus causing the the buyer to purchase it on credit which could eventually lead to paying some interest.

The downside is that Amazon's program isn't flexible. It's five fixed payments and that's it. Amazon will presumably charge the attached debit or credit card each month and then it's on you to have the money. If it results in overdrawing your bank account, that's your problem.

However, this seems like a great new program for responsible consumers who don't want the stress of immediately paying off an expensive commodity like a gaming PC. For those people, legitimate zero percent financing appears to be a fantastic alternate route to getting into PC gaming.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/re...d274de26777e295fb7afe5f90127b8&language=en_US

 

[Liquid]

Yep. Amazon has been trying to get the math right on financing items for years now. Glad to see pc parts being offered early

 

[Liquid]

Lol

fukking Intel with their bullshyt. Disabling HT on core i7 processors now

 

[BakoNoFlex]

fukking Intel with their bullshyt. Disabling HT on core i7 processors now

Them nikkas have no shame man. That 8700k too nice tho

They think they slick on that i9 move too.

Hopefully Ryzen 2 put even more pressure on em. No competition is demonic to consumers.

 

[daze23]

Yep. Amazon has been trying to get the math right on financing items for years now. Glad to see pc parts being offered early

for whatever reason, it looks like none of the EVGA cards offer the option

hopefully they'll get that straight if/when volta drops

 

[MMA]

Lol

Looks to be true, the i9 9900K will be direct competition with the ryzen 7 2800X (10 core possibly)

I believe they will work with z370, they did just release bios updates for z370 to be able to use 8 core cpu's. It would be very smart for Intel and Nvidia to release their new product at the same time.
Intel finally hearing our complaints, fukking crooks said it was not possible.

Intel Z370 Chipset Motherboards Get 8-core CPU Compatibility BIOS Updates

Amazon now lets you finance gaming PCs and PC parts at zero interest




https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/re...d274de26777e295fb7afe5f90127b8&language=en_US

Finance gaming is not the wave, end up picking up a i7 8700k/1080 ti when you really only can afford a i5 8400/1060

 

[Tunez]

Look at this

Details for Component Intel Core i7-9700K

 

[Barnett114]

Getting rid of hyperthreading the i7 SMH

 

[Liquid]

Getting rid of hyperthreading the i7 SMH

Ryzen gang?

 

[dc007]

Getting rid of hyperthreading the i7 SMH

What does this mean as far as gaming performance?

I am planning on buying a new processor this year. I'm still on a i5 ivy bridge.

 

[Huda2daf]

Amazon now lets you finance gaming PCs and PC parts at zero interest




https://www.amazon.com/gp/browse/re...d274de26777e295fb7afe5f90127b8&language=en_US

I'm bout this shyt here. I just wanna run fallouts n fps games.

 

[Liquid]

What does this mean as far as gaming performance?

I am planning on buying a new processor this year. I'm still on a i5 ivy bridge.

Its just intel being greedy. You want as many threads as possible especially if you are planning to stick with a system for a while. 8 threads seems like overkill now, but it won’t be in a few years. Essentially forcing the core i9 processors on the enthusiasts.

 

[Captain Crunch]

I know it’s early and we likely won’t see the game until 2020, but how much y’all think it would cost to have a rig that can run Cyberpunk at 60fps/1440p on high or at least 60fps/1080p on high?

 

[Liquid]

I know it’s early and we likely won’t see the game until 2020, but how much y’all think it would cost to have a rig that can run Cyberpunk at 60fps/1440p on high or at least 60fps/1080p on high?

1070 should be able to do 1080P60 for sure.

What do you have?

 

[Captain Crunch]

1070 should be able to do 1080P60 for sure.

What do you have?

I don’t have anything
I’ll likely build a pc in November/December, but I don’t want to have to shell out more money for a graphics card when Cyberpunk drops.