Gamers Nexus claims NZXT’s Flex PC rental program is a ‘scam’

An hour-long video published Saturday by Gamers Nexus, a YouTube transmission focused connected PC gaming hardware, accuses NZXT’s PC rental programme of “bait-and-switch” tactics, with prices and specs that are perpetually changing.

The Flex program allows customers to rent prebuilt gaming PCs starting astatine $59 per period (not including a mouse, keyboard, oregon monitor). But Gamers Nexus shows that NZXT changes the specs and prices of PC models “day-to-day successful immoderate instances” and offers PCs with precise antithetic setups nether akin exemplary names depending connected whether you are looking to bargain oregon rent. The rapidly changing prices besides obscure the imaginable worth of listed “discounts” arsenic the packages displacement backmost and forth.

The video shows 1 lawsuit of NZXT’s Player: Three PC listed arsenic having an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card, on with an Intel Core i7-13700KF with the “buy” enactment selected. However, viewing the aforesaid PC exemplary nether the “subscribe” enactment showed the aforesaid processor with a little almighty Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti.

Despite the antithetic GPUs, it said NZXT listed some models arsenic having the aforesaid estimated frames per 2nd successful games similar Starfield and Call of Duty Modern Warfare.

Gamers Nexus besides highlights different elements of the Flex program, similar the pricing strategy that leads customers to wage much wealth than simply buying a PC outright and “aggressive” presumption of service. The Verge reached retired to NZXT with a petition for remark but didn’t instantly perceive back, and we haven’t seen a effect posted successful its assemblage areas oregon societal media channels.

“We conscionable deliberation this is simply a scam astatine this point,” Steve Burke, the editor-in-chief astatine Gamers Nexus, says during the video. “The show claims unsocial are hugely misleading, particularly since the lone quality successful 1 of these that’s meaningful is the connection ‘Super,’ which a batch of radical — particularly those who are perchance renting oregon buying a pre-built — won’t catch.”