Hi guys,
I have a cool project going on but I have some doubts about it succeeding.
Basically I want to crowdfund a prebuilt high-end SFF Gaming PC. All components are standard aside from the PSU which is not available to retail customers. The reason I want to resell it as a complete built is that most of the users will build it with the same specs for which the case is designed and I also want to serve costumers which are looking for prebuilt systems.
The case will inhabit a RTX 2080 FE or RTX 2080 Ti FE and the new i7/i9 CPUs or a RTX 2070 FE with the new 6 core i5 in a slightly different case. I guess it will be harder to get a PC crowdfunded with the 2 higher end cards even though the potential customers could choose between 2 GPUs and CPUs. The price would be too steep for a unknown brand for most of the people even if there would be reviews already out from well known youtubers.
Also I guess the minimum order quantity to even be considered by NVIDIA will be for one specific model and not the sum of different ones that get ordered at the same time. (I guess with Intel it will be the same.) So if that's true then I will obviously choose to get the RTX 2070 case model in production before I do anything else.
Anyways, I never saw a crowdfunded High End Gaming PC so I would be glad if I would get some opinions on it, or maybe someone already considered doing it and can tell me what the obstacles would be. Maybe there's some projects that failed or even succeeded that I am not aware of.
The PC will be competitively priced in comparison to normal PCs with the same spec. To make that happen it will help to order the stuff directly from the manufacturer. The PSU manufacturer told me already that their minimum order quantity is 100 pieces.
NVIDIA has its fill-up form to join the NVIDIA Partner Network, I guess Intel has something like that too. (About the other companies I don't worry too much, just about the big players.) That form is obviously not suitable for my inquiry. As I am based in Germany I called NVIDIA in Germany. They told me that I should directly call the NVIDIA Headquarters in the USA what I will do.
Also what I wonder about is how PayPal will handle a crowdfunding campaign in what this much money is involved. Is it even reasonable to run the Crowdfunding Campaign off a private website instead of using Kickstarter or Indiegogo etc? How are the funds of buyers handled by PayPal what will be needed to get all the components? I will get in contact with PayPal too I just want to be able think about every obstacle that could show up before starting a project of this kind.
I have a cool project going on but I have some doubts about it succeeding.
Basically I want to crowdfund a prebuilt high-end SFF Gaming PC. All components are standard aside from the PSU which is not available to retail customers. The reason I want to resell it as a complete built is that most of the users will build it with the same specs for which the case is designed and I also want to serve costumers which are looking for prebuilt systems.
The case will inhabit a RTX 2080 FE or RTX 2080 Ti FE and the new i7/i9 CPUs or a RTX 2070 FE with the new 6 core i5 in a slightly different case. I guess it will be harder to get a PC crowdfunded with the 2 higher end cards even though the potential customers could choose between 2 GPUs and CPUs. The price would be too steep for a unknown brand for most of the people even if there would be reviews already out from well known youtubers.
Also I guess the minimum order quantity to even be considered by NVIDIA will be for one specific model and not the sum of different ones that get ordered at the same time. (I guess with Intel it will be the same.) So if that's true then I will obviously choose to get the RTX 2070 case model in production before I do anything else.
Anyways, I never saw a crowdfunded High End Gaming PC so I would be glad if I would get some opinions on it, or maybe someone already considered doing it and can tell me what the obstacles would be. Maybe there's some projects that failed or even succeeded that I am not aware of.
The PC will be competitively priced in comparison to normal PCs with the same spec. To make that happen it will help to order the stuff directly from the manufacturer. The PSU manufacturer told me already that their minimum order quantity is 100 pieces.
NVIDIA has its fill-up form to join the NVIDIA Partner Network, I guess Intel has something like that too. (About the other companies I don't worry too much, just about the big players.) That form is obviously not suitable for my inquiry. As I am based in Germany I called NVIDIA in Germany. They told me that I should directly call the NVIDIA Headquarters in the USA what I will do.
Also what I wonder about is how PayPal will handle a crowdfunding campaign in what this much money is involved. Is it even reasonable to run the Crowdfunding Campaign off a private website instead of using Kickstarter or Indiegogo etc? How are the funds of buyers handled by PayPal what will be needed to get all the components? I will get in contact with PayPal too I just want to be able think about every obstacle that could show up before starting a project of this kind.