SLI-ready pre-builds

bonalste

Bronze Level Poster
On the home page there is a link to "SLI Ready" builds. Just a suggestion, but I notice in the "what is SLI?" text above the pre-builds that it states "Rather than to create an SLI configuration from the start, consider creating an "SLI ready" configuration instead. This way you can get a high level of graphics performance now and add a second graphics card in the future should you wish to gain even more graphics power!" This would be excellent, except that a number of the pre-builds do not have the power supply necessary to accommodate a second GPU. For instance, the 'SLI Ready 1600 PC' has a GTX 780 and a 750W power supply. Now, to actually have an SLI-Ready version it would need a 1000W power supply. I think this could be construed poorly. You could argue that you wouldn't want to charge them extra for a PSU that the customer does not require yet, but the fact that they are buying an SLI Ready pre-build strongly suggests that they will be needing a larger PSU in the further therefore instead of saving them money they end up having to buy 2 PSU's, rather than just the one larger PSU to begin with.

Just a suggestion, but it might be worth clarifying this somewhere in the text on the build page. Not everybody will add in their second GPU to check that the specs meet the requirements, and they will likely be quite upset when they realise they have to fork out for a whole new PSU because the suggested PSU wasn't actually good enough to meet the requirements that were being advertised.
 
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