found this on Misco yesterday, seems to be very good price for an i7. ordered one and got it today
I paid £408 including delivery fee; Lenovo is doing cash back on this so shall get £50 back next month
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Spence1115
18 Dec 152#1
4790S: the S series of CPUs offer about 5% lower performance than the standard no letter line. See Techspot for a comparison.
Graphics cards: most small cards will fit, including the Gigabyte 970 Mini ITX edition which means you'll have one damn powerful PC.
If you got this, I'd suggest adding an SSD to really boost performance, and then a decent graphics card if you want to game.
Seems good value though.
developers
18 Dec 15#2
Cashback terms at Lenovo say "areyou a business looking.........." is this cashback only for business customers?
mgregory0
18 Dec 15#3
any good for gaming?
JOHNNY_WILKINSON to mgregory0
18 Dec 151#4
A good base machine for gaming , although you'll need a graphics card that will ft small form factor and that limits your choices slightly.
low profile graphics card is needed
normal gpus are too wide
unreliabletext
18 Dec 15#7
if your thinking about adding a low profile gpu into this remember this will NOT be a quiet small form factor gaming machine
xela333 to unreliabletext
18 Dec 15#9
Why not? Are you suggesting it's loud?
xela333
18 Dec 15#8
Not as simple as that. Psu in this will be a low wattage model, would not power a 970. 750 should be ok. And it's most likely not using an atx psu so finding a higher wattage replacement would be difficult and expensive
JordUK
18 Dec 15#10
No I think they're suggesting that due to the PC being worked harder and not having a spec built around gaming, putting a GPU in to go with the 'office pc' specs is going to put a bit of strain on it.
Gaming PC's are built with gaming in mind, whereby a better spec PSU is used than what would be fitted to this.
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I paid £408 including delivery fee; Lenovo is doing cash back on this so shall get £50 back next month
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Graphics cards: most small cards will fit, including the Gigabyte 970 Mini ITX edition which means you'll have one damn powerful PC.
If you got this, I'd suggest adding an SSD to really boost performance, and then a decent graphics card if you want to game.
Seems good value though.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-4790S+%40+3.20GHz
normal gpus are too wide
Why not? Are you suggesting it's loud?
Not as simple as that. Psu in this will be a low wattage model, would not power a 970. 750 should be ok. And it's most likely not using an atx psu so finding a higher wattage replacement would be difficult and expensive
Gaming PC's are built with gaming in mind, whereby a better spec PSU is used than what would be fitted to this.
That's just my opinion though.