Save £120 on a Vive Cosmos at Overclockers UK

28.02.2020

It’s been VR headset offers galore this week. On Monday, HTC slashed the value of its Vive Pro starter kit by £220, little question in preparation for the launch of the upcoming Vive Cosmos Elite, and now Overclockers UK are providing £120 off a daily Vive Cosmos as a part of their massive 20th birthday bash. Normally £699, this takes the headset all the way down to a quite tasty £579. If you’re nonetheless eager about shopping for a VR headset for the launch of Half-Life: Alyx, this could possibly be simply the ticket.

You’ll want to use the promo code “COSMOS120” at checkout to get the Vive Cosmos for its decreased worth of £579, however that is even cheaper than it was over Black Friday, the place each HTC and Amazon have been promoting it for £599.

In case you’ve forgotten, the Vive Cosmos is presently HTC’s top-end VR headset. While its specs are largely comparable the Vive Pro, its chief attraction is that it has a modular design, permitting you to swap in several face plates for various ranges of monitoring functionality. Until now, there haven’t been another face plates obtainable to make use of with the Vive Cosmos, however final week HTC introduced that they have been about to launch extra Cosmos headsets by the tip of March, primarily the cheaper and extra entry-level Cosmos Play, and the extra correct Vive Cosmos Elite, which helps exterior monitoring in addition to the Cosmos’ default inner monitoring.

Some of you may need your eye on the upcoming Vive Cosmos Elite, for instance, however when that headset will set you again £899 when it launches someday subsequent month, you’re most likely higher off shopping for a daily Vive Cosmos from time to time shopping for the devoted exterior monitoring Cosmos Elite face plate at a later date. After all, all Vive Cosmos headsets are successfully the identical headset. The solely actual distinction is the kind of face plate it comes with within the field, which can all be that can be purchased individually for £199.

Of course, even at this decreased worth of £579, the Vive Cosmos nonetheless isn’t fairly as low-cost as an Oculus Rift S. That prices £399 at time of writing, it additionally has a decrease spec than the Cosmos. The Rift S solely has a decision of 2560×1440, for instance, in comparison with the Cosmos’ mixed decision of 2880×1440, and its refresh price tops out at 80Hz quite than 90Hz.

So, if that Vive Cosmos worth seems to be tempting, right here’s that every one vital hyperlink once more:

HTC Vive Cosmos – £579 from Overclockers UK

It’s price taking a look at the remainder of Overclockers UK’s 20th birthday sale when you’re there, too. Highlights embody the tenkeyless model of the superb Asus ROG Claymore keyboard for £75 (down from £150), a Razer Blackwidow keyboard and Deathadder Elite mouse bundle for £165 (usually £265), as much as 35% of power supplies, a great deal of big savings on cases, and loads of nice graphics card offers.

I’ve included one of the best in right now’s freshly up to date Best graphics card deals round-up, however these ones bear repeating (particularly if you wish to be sure you’re getting one of the best VR expertise to your new headset):