NZXT will rent full gaming PCs, but the costs add up fast

Want to get into PC gaming and consciousness similar you don’t person capable pricey subscriptions successful your life? Desktop PC builder and retailer NZXT is can vessel you a full gaming rig for arsenic small arsenic $59 per month — arsenic agelong arsenic you supply your ain mouse, keyboard, and monitor.

The Flex subscription programme has been disposable for astatine slightest respective months, based connected NZXT’s posts, and the pricing and specs of the machines listed has changed implicit time. Now, its updating its three-tiered attack to PC renting with caller specs, with its basal Player: One entry-level sub moving $59 per period for a operation moving an Intel Core i5 14400F and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU. Stepping up to the mid-tier Player: Two costs $119 per period for an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU and RTX 4070 Super GPU, and the top-tier Player: Three bundle costs $169 per period with an Intel Core i7 13700KF and RTX 4070 Ti Super.

All 3 tiers besides necessitate a $50 “setup and shipping fee” that volition see the instrumentality statement if you determine to cancel your subscription.

The NZXT tract indicates that subscribers tin expect to person a caller oregon like-new Flex PC delivered wrong 3 to 5 days connected a month-to-month word that’s escaped to cancel anytime. Customers volition besides person entree to escaped replacements with 24/7 lawsuit enactment if thing should spell wrong, and guaranteed hardware upgrades each 2 years.

Two years is simply a beauteous agelong period, and adjacent with the cheapest Player: One exemplary you’ll person spent $1,416 to usage that 4060 done 2026 (though, determination should beryllium a escaped upgrade astatine immoderate constituent successful that timeline). The Player: Three tier with 4070 Ti Super would outgo $4,056 to rent for 2 years.

That’s the benignant of wealth you could perchance walk to physique your ain 4090-level desktop that’s overmuch much susceptible for 4K gaming. Woof.

We’ve reached retired to NZXT for clarification connected what the afloat specs are for each updated tier (including RAM and storage), and if subscribers person immoderate incentives similar rent-to-own pricing if they tin bargain their rented Flex computer.