Nvidia educates channel on optimized PC concept

Nvidia recently organized a workshop on optimize PC for its channel partners
comprising systems integrators and resellers. At this workshop, the attendees
were shown how creating such a machine could ensure that their customers have
better performance at lower price.

“We held a pilot event at Pune and it was so successful that we told our
people globally, and now they are planning to have similar events around the
world,” said Rajesh Goenka, Country Manager-Marketing, Nvidia India.

The same event was also held in Mumbai, and saw the participation of around
150 partners, and it will be soon taken to Cochin. The company plans to have the
optimized PC workshop as an ongoing series this year.

The format of the event was a hands-on training session where partners were
broken into various groups and each group was furnished with an indicative price
list of the various components that go within a PC and asked to assemble a
machine using these components with the range of Rs 30,000. The non-optimized
PCs use quad core and dual core processors. These machines are then benchmarked
for performance.

Partners at Nvidia's workshop on optimize PC in Pune

Then the same groups were given the Nvidia products to build an optimized PC
using Pentium D processors and GeForce 9600GT graphics cards. A performance
comparison was then conducted between the non-optimized and the optimized PCs to
see which one fared better across all benchmarking tests.

The teams that build the best performing machines under than Rs 30,000 won a
cash prize of Rs 30,000. The two runner up teams get Rs 20,000 and Rs 10,000,
respectively.