Wallmart kills OVERPOWERED Prebuilt PCs - [UPDATE - They're back!... Now with a $400 discount!]

[Spotty]

Source: Ivan The Great https://twitter.com/LinusTech/status/1069730347762348032

https://www.walmart.com/nco/OVERPOWERED-Gaming-Desktop-DTW1-Intel-i7-8700-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1070-256GB-SSD-2TB-HDD-16GB-RAM-Windows-10-V2/537878963

https://www.walmart.com/ip/OVERPOWERED-Gaming-Desktop-DTW2-Intel-i7-8700-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080-512GB-SSD-2TB-HDD-32GB-RAM-Windows-10/341889368

https://www.walmart.com/ip/OVERPOWERED-Gaming-Desktop-DTW3-Intel-i7-8700-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1080TI-512GB-SSD-2TB-HDD-32GB-RAM-Windows-10/829662749

Note: Since writing this a few minutes ago, the walmart.com links have since been pulled down by Walmart and it now redirects to the "Gaming Desktop" search page. Will leave the links there in case Walmart relists the product.

 

Walmart's PCs have been removed for sale from the Walmart website. This comes days after Walmart dropped the price of the DTW1 $200 from $1400 down to $1200.

When trying to view the Walmart product listing for the OVERPOWERED DTW1, DTW2, and DTW3, the option to buy the product has been removed and replaced with a notice that the item is no longer available. If you're thinking it was a short lived product, then it was. The OVERPOWERED gaming PC lineup was only released by Walmart less than a month ago.

 

 

It's worth noting that the message displayed on the Walmart website states that the product is "No longer available", as opposed to the standard "Out of stock" message when an item is out of stock, so it's unlikely that they have simply sold out. (Although it is a possibility that it is just out of stock and this may be fake news. It's also possible that they are temporarily removing them for sale while they sort out issues in their assembly line or make a change to parts used in the system due to technical issues).

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Can't say that I'm surprised. They received a lot of bad publicity once units started to ship. Out of the 3 review videos I saw (GN, Bitwit, LTT), all 3 reviewers had serious issues with their system. Both Bitwit and LinusTechTips received systems that did not have the PCIe power connector to the graphics card plugged in; a state that would prevent the system from booting, and one that most tech-illiterate people (the sort of people who buy a prebuilt from Walmart) would not know how to fix. Gamers Nexus had it much worse, having ordered the $2100 DTW3 gaming system and instead due to a shipping error receiving the $1400 DTW1 instead. Judging by the reviewer experiences, and the customer ratings on the Walmart store which show an average 1.7 star rating for the DTW3 system, it's obvious that this OVERPOWERED Gaming PC lineup has proven to be problematic for Walmart.

 

There were also a number of other concerns with the PC, such as the DTW1 lacking front USB 3.0 ports and instead relying on a add in USB Type C card at the rear of the machine, partitioning the HDD in to 4 partitions for seemingly no reason at all, pairing the i7 8700 with an extremely cheap H310M motherboard, use of single stick 16GB of RAM instead of dual channel on the DTW1, a cheap power supply, hot gluing cables to the motherboard, extremely restricted air flow due to the glass front panel and insufficient spacing, and probably more.
 

You can view some of the reviews of the systems here to see the issues faced:

 

 

 

Update: It's been noted that the Walmart links to the DTW1, DTW2, and DTW3 have since been pulled down by Walmart. The links for the products instead now link to the search page on the Walmart website for "Gaming PCs". This change has happened in the last 10 minutes of posting this thread.

 

 

UPDATE #2: Walmart has revived their teammate and has brought the OVERPOWERED gaming PCs back to life! The DTW1, DTW2, and DTW3 are now all re-listed on the Walmart website and available to purchase. Turns out this was fake news after all, sorry folks!

 

DTW1 - $1199
DTW2 - $1899
DTW3 - $2099

 

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UPDATE #3 - @Jackson noticed that Walmart has dropped the price on all 3 models.

• DTW1 $999.00 (From $1199) (Was originally $1399 but was already discounted $200)
• DTW2 $1499.00 (From $1899)
• DTW3 $1699.00 (From $2099)

 

Edited December 5, 2018 by Spotty
They're back!... And now cheaper!

[Princess Luna]

Well... that was brief... I'm sure every one will remember it as a meme or something.

[Slottr]

Well, at least they did something about it.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

i mean did anyone expect anyhting less? they used H310 mobo's in "OP" systems... laughable.. 

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

i mean did anyone expect anyhting less? they used H310 mobo's in "OP" systems... laughable.. 

Still performed on par with other 8700/1070 prebuilts. But they should not have used bottom of the barrel parts.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, mynameisjuan said:

Still performed on par with other 8700/1070 prebuilts. But they should not have used bottom of the barrel parts.

the power supply's too... *pukes* 

[Blademaster91]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

i mean did anyone expect anyhting less? they used H310 mobo's in "OP" systems... laughable.. 

The H310 mobo was the least of the problems with those, the garbage PSU and case lacking front USB 3.0 was worse.

[Nowak]

Those links you provided just redirect to here now.

 

https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/pc-gaming/gaming-desktops/3944_3951_132982_1231068_1097445

 

And nothing of value was lost.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

Just now, Blademaster91 said:

The H310 mobo was the least of the problems with those, the garbage PSU and case lacking front USB 3.0 was worse.

i can live withgout usb 3.0... garbage mobo's (especially VRM's) are worse in my opinion..

 

i agree about the psu's.

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, firelighter487 said:

the power supply's too... *pukes* 

Thing is the PSU looks cheap and is a no name brand but we have no clue on how reliable of a PSU it is. I WANT TO KNOW!!!!

[bellabichon]

Holy sh*t. That quick? At least they can listen to consumers.

[Razor Blade]

I think if they had front USB 3.0 IO and a better PSU it would have been a better offering IMO.

 

[seon123]

Did not expect that to happen. At least not that quick. Maybe it's more of a conflict of interest thing with the other prebuilt brands, than just the negative press? I imagine the Ibuycyberpower companies weren't too happy. 

[Spotty]

Does anyone else want @AlexTheGreatish to use the laser etcher to change the OP logo on the side panel to read "NOPE"?

 

1 minute ago, Nowak said:

Those links you provided just redirect to here now.

 

https://www.walmart.com/browse/electronics/pc-gaming/gaming-desktops/3944_3951_132982_1231068_1097445

 

And nothing of value was lost.

Wow! They've pulled the links. I just used those links to grab the screenshots of the unavailable messages just a few minutes ago.
I'm going to leave the links up just in case Walmart puts them back online using the same link, but I'll add a note to the OP warning users they might not work.

[FezBoy]

The laptops are still available, so that's a thing.

[seon123]

Just now, mynameisjuan said:

Thing is the PSU looks cheap and is a no name brand but we have no clue on how reliable of a PSU it is. I WANT TO KNOW!!!!

GW isn't exactly a no name brand. They're one of the major PSU OEMs. They're the OEM of the Corsair SF, TXM, CS and CX. 

[bellabichon]

Just now, Razor Blade said:

I think if they had front USB 3.0 IO and a better PSU it would have been a better offering IMO.

 

Yes, with fan filters, along with much better quality assurance. If you recall, Gamer's Nexus was given the wrong system, and Linus's GPU power cable came unplugged. They also hot-glued some motherboard cables, as shown in the Gamer's Nexus video.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, mynameisjuan said:

Thing is the PSU looks cheap and is a no name brand but we have no clue on how reliable of a PSU it is. I WANT TO KNOW!!!!

the lack of 80+ efficiency says it all. 

 

i have no problem with a 500W psu for a system that doesn't need anything more. the thing is you can get good one's that have that wattage and good efficiency. 

example: https://www.corsair.com/us/en/Power/Plug-Type/RMx-Series/p/CP-9020177-NA

[mynameisjuan]

1 minute ago, seon123 said:

GW isn't exactly a no name brand. They're one of the major PSU OEMs. They're the OEM of the Corsair SF, TXM, CS and CX. 

Really

[bellabichon]

1 minute ago, Spotty said:

Does anyone else want @AlexTheGreatish to use the laser etcher to change the OP logo on the side panel to read "NOPE"?

 

Wow! They've pulled the links. I just used those links to grab the screenshots of the unavailable messages just a few minutes ago.
I'm going to leave the links up just in case Walmart puts them back online using the same link, but I'll add a note to the OP warning users they might not work.

Yeah. Interestingly enough, Over Powered is still listed as a system builder in their PC section, but when you click on any of the PCs it just redirects back to the main page.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/3600045

[Arika]

they already got their money out of gullible people

[FezBoy]

2 minutes ago, Spotty said:

Does anyone else want @AlexTheGreatish to use the laser etcher to change the OP logo on the side panel to read "NOPE"?

Yes, much.

[Princess Luna]

3 minutes ago, seon123 said:

than just the negative press?

Sending tech jesus the wrong model thou... Talk about bad luck, if they took YouTube any serious I don't think it's thaaat far fetched.

[bellabichon]

Also looks like they've kept the gaming laptops up on the site. Would love to see Linus, or someone else review them. 

[FezBoy]

Just now, bellabichon said:

Yeah. Interestingly enough, Over Powered is still listed as a system builder in their PC section, but when you click on any of the PCs it just redirects back to the main page.

https://www.walmart.com/cp/3600045

They still have the laptops, https://www.walmart.com/ip/OVERPOWERED-Gaming-Laptop-15-144Hz-Intel-i5-8300H-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-1050-Mechanical-LED-Keyboard-128-SSD-1TB-HDD-8GB-RAM-Windows-10/682079574