Software and Hardware bundles

[digitalnav]

Do bundles like NVIDIA's Holiday bundle and AMD's Never Settle make a big impact on your choice when choosing components?

[MbV93]

Definitely.

[MangoJuiceStain]

Yeah

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[Wauthar]

I think is matters to a lot of people when choosing new hardware.

 

Unfortunately, here in the Netherlands there is only 1 shop that offers the Holiday Bundle and Never Settle and their stock levels aren't always perfect

[pit5000]

every motherboard should come with windows

every GPU should come with free games

every android phone should come with a chromecast

every Mac Pro should come with Final Cut and Logic Pro

every SSD should come with free anti-virus

every optical drive should come with a free movie

every webcam should come with skype credits

 

need i go on?

[Ryan Leech]

Personally no

[Stonep11]

Do bundles like NVIDIA's Holiday bundle and AMD's Never Settle make a big impact on your choice when choosing components?

They are definitly a value add, but I would rather they take the cost directly out of the GPU.

[DarrenP]

every motherboard should come with windows

every GPU should come with free games

every android phone should come with a chromecast

every Mac Pro should come with Final Cut and Logic Pro

every SSD should come with free anti-virus

every optical drive should come with a free movie

every webcam should come with skype credits

 

need i go on?

All sorts of No come up in this statement.

[dusty594]

Sure, inclusions are nice and seem like a great idea but they are just that- inclusions. Very few things are truly free, which basically means that you're paying for software (or even additional hardware) that you would otherwise have absolutely to desire to purchase. I'd prefer to see honest BOM costs, price margins, cost of "inclusions," and final cost to the consumer on everything, and for bundles to be basically non existant... but as we're all aware that will quite obviously never happen.

 

In short: No, bundles suck IMO and I prefer to choose where my money goes specifically rather than being "given" a load of value add garbage that I had no intention of purchasing.

 

Edit: I appreciate the Never Settle promotion because they have quite a selection of games to choose from and are things that most people buying a shiny new GPU are actually interested in, but I'd still prefer the cost of the card alone without the bundle and to be able to purchase any game under the sun with the funds not spent on the bundle.