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

Want to get into PC gaming and consciousness for illustration you don’t person capable pricey subscriptions successful your life? Desktop PC builder and retailer NZXT 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 nan pricing and specs of nan machines listed person changed complete time. Now, it’s updating its three-tiered attack to PC renting pinch caller specs, pinch its guidelines Player: One entry-level sub moving $59 per period for a building moving an Intel Core i5 14400F and Nvidia RTX 4060 GPU. Stepping up to nan mid-tier Player: Two costs $119 per period for an AMD Ryzen 5 5600X CPU and RTX 4070 Super GPU, and nan top-tier Player: Three package costs $169 per period pinch an Intel Core i7 13700KF and RTX 4070 Ti Super.

All 3 tiers besides require a $50 “setup and shipping fee” that will see nan return explanation if you determine to cancel your subscription.

The NZXT tract indicates that subscribers tin expect to person a caller aliases like-new Flex PC delivered wrong 3 to 5 days connected a month-to-month word that’s free to cancel anytime. Customers will besides person entree to free replacements pinch 24/7 customer support if thing should spell incorrect and guaranteed hardware upgrades each 2 years.

Two years is simply a beautiful agelong period, and moreover pinch nan cheapest Player: One model, you’ll person spent $1,416 to usage that 4060 done 2026 (though, location should beryllium a free upgrade astatine immoderate constituent successful that timeline). The Player: Three tier pinch 4070 Ti Super would costs $4,056 to rent for 2 years.

That’s nan benignant of money you could perchance walk to build your ain 4090-level desktop that’s overmuch much tin for 4K gaming. Woof.

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