Anyone that has ever built a computer knows what a time consuming process it can be to find and price out all of the different parts that you need. The PC Incubator site wants to help ease the burden of finding the best parts by laying them all out in an easy-to-configure fashion.
Once you visit the site the first thing that you’ll notice is that all of the products listed on the page come directly from Newegg. They pull in the top three parts from each of the categories, and then you can go through selecting which ones you actually want. When you’re done configuring your custom built computer you can see the total price in the right column, and then adding all of the items to your Newegg cart takes just one more click.
One of the more useful aspects of the site would be the price history aggregation which pulls in price data for each of the items so that you can see if the price might go down. A good example I found was with a Logitech Speaker system. I had taken this screenshot on July 10th, and as you can see the price on the previous day was $15 less which means I might want to hold out on the purchase:
I think the site is very well laid out, and it almost feels like you’re configuring a computer at Dell. The only difference is that you’ll be getting all of the individual parts so that you can build your own PC.
The only thing that I don’t like about Incubator is that it only retrieves the top three items in each of the different categories. Clicking on a “See more” link just takes you to the Newegg site, which means you’ll no longer have access to things like the price history. If you’re looking to purchase the most popular items, however, this can be a handy little tool.
PC Incubator Homepage
Thanks Jeremy!
This does look like a real cool concept. One thing that I do not like that I saw was it only listed AMD processors and motherboards. They should have an options page where you set what brand processor you want, then it would pull boards and processors from that company only. They should also add the option to specify how many top items to pull. I saw a lot of items that were popular, but were real budget items.
I just went through the process over the last two days to get a CPU, Motherboard and memory to upgrade my main system. I went with Intel. it took about 5 hours of going through motherboards alone.
I really hope they update this tool with some configurable options.
Yea it’s pretty lame only 3 options for each grouping.
Awesome, I wish I had known about this like 3 months ago though. Nice find!
It looks like you can switch to Intel parts at the top right corner of the page. Might not be very obvious at first glance.
As Austin pointed out there’s a button in the upper-right corner that will switch the configuration options over to Intel. Sorry I forgot to mention that in the article, but you can see it in the first screenshot.
While I love Newegg and buy most of my stuff there, if I am putting a computer together, I prefer to do some research on what I want as far as components go. The tool is a good idea, but make sure it’s not the only tool you use – research…