"Grade C" = previously used as a football.

I wonder how good the power supply would be??
Wonder if it even has any PCI-E X16 slots....would be a decent 1080p gaming machine if you throw in a GTX 1050ti.

Wow. Nice deal! Shame I dont need a new PC.

Great deal and would be tempted simply for the processor and hard drive. that said though, the motherboard is likely to be cheap, the ram slow too.

I wonder how good the power supply would be??
Wonder if it even has any PCI-E X16 slots....would be a decent 1080p gaming machine if you throw in a GTX 1050ti.

8.1 windows?

The processor is worth 299 on its own lol, great deal. these wont be here in a few minutes.

I can't believe in the 10-ish minutes I've been oohing and ahhing and finally pressed 'buy it now', no one else has bought one.
Only 1 left people :smiley:

gone now

Gone now. Still, the deal lasted way longer than I expected.

I went to buy it 5 mins ago and it was gone from my basket :disappointed:

Guys, you can still try your luck, there's one on ebay on bid
Link: http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Zoostorm-7250-0129-Desktop-PC-Core-i7-4790-8GB-RAM-1TB-HDD-Windows-8-1-Grade-C-/401213495492?nav=SEARCH

...and it's gone

Will message Tesco to see if they have any more in stock and when would it be availble.

Contacted Tesco and got a response,



So guys if your interested in this check tommorow morning! :smiley:

​Well if it goes for the right price I think Grade C is acceptable if your just going to use the PC for parts as the processor costs more than £299 as its an i7.

From what I can gather other Zoostorm using that chassis seem to use the Asus H110M-A, which features a PCI-E slot.

With that 500w PSU you'd be fine with any low/middling TDP card, I'd drop a RX 480 or 1060 3GB in there personally and have a nice 1080p setup. The CPU is still up there with the best of them.

That's what Plenty of Fish taught me.

​is this true? benchmarks not out for 1050 yet? i am on 750ti

Good work Waleed. Some decent PC deals recently :wink:

http://www.trustedreviews.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-1050-ti-review-performance-and-benchmarks-page-2

says 1050ti beats 460 for same power consumption. pricer though. but not bad value

all gone :disappointed:

You're making a large number of assumptions here. I agree a better PSU is always going to be of higher quality, but that is not to say that using a sensible low powered card in a system such as this is unwise.

HP, Dell, Lenovo ship millions of machines a year with generic PSU equipped with numerous GPU, do you think they've all got it wrong and are selling a product unfit for purpose because warranty replacements are good for their business? There's best practice and there's good enough, I'd suggest that unless you know otherwise a 500w PSU of even generic description will be good enough to power the cards I described.

If they experience instability when doing a burn-in test or gaming, by all means buy another PSU, but suggesting you spend £60+ on a "decent PSU" off of the bat for a £299 system is absolute overkill.

Case in point, my Lenovo x510 came equipped with a i7 4770k, R9 290 and guess what... a generic 500w PSU, it didn't explode in my face. I replaced it (sensibly) when I dropped in a Fury as I wanted to then OC the card.

http://store.hp.com/UKStore/Merch/Product.aspx?id=ECC_BUNDLE_6068785&opt=&sel=DTP
(Guess what PSU that gaming oriented machine is also fitted with...)

Heated, great deal, that CPU is about the best Haswell based processor you can buy. I know newer generations are out but it's still a very capable processor. Pair with a decent graphics card and that would make one fine gaming machine, provided of course the PSU included has enough juice...

Meant to say lower price point - brainfart. 1050Ti is about 50% more expensive for a gain of about 4-6fps - https://www.ballicom.co.uk/xfx-rx-460p4sfg5-.p1288476.html?ref=PLA&gclid=Cj0KEQjwqMHABRDVl6_hqKGDyNIBEiQAN-O9hD1CUHVPwPGiE6Y9alyh0Nuv4l9LQqPKOzqRXgifIcYaAubk8P8HAQ

Would this be a good PC for Lightroom, Photoshop and light editing of video if I bought a 2GB Video Card and added an SSD?

I can't find any info about this model on the web.
Searching for this model number even brings this thread up as no. 1 in Google.
Zoostorm's own website doesn't even seem to list it.
:neutral_face:

Grade c= used by a gamer

Not all i3/i5/i7 are created equally.

Turns out the one I have received has a G3260 CPU.
I bet this was listed incorrectly in the first place :disappointed:

omg..... no wonder was cheap! i see on ebay a number of i7 but says "can be upgraded to i7" and really a pentium! what are you doing now? you should get refunded the difference between a pentium and i7 processor? that assumes you can sell the pentium processor! and what if not confident opening pc? then have to return. what a hassle....

maybe the person who bought it ripped out the processor and replaced it with a pentium and returned it! does the memory etc stack up?

The thing is, the sticker on the box itself, does say I7-4790, it just doesn't match the content.
It does have 8 GB and 1TB drive as advertised. But it also has Win 10, where the one advertised had Win 8.1, so I don't think it's a CPU switch.

I doubt they'll refund the difference.

I'd be curious to see if anyone else who ordered got the right one? I somehow doubt it.

Oh, and it doesn't actually even look like the one pictured in the auction.
It looks like this http://image.ebuyer.com/customer/promos/zoostorm-landing/Assets/zoostorm_home.png

You dont have to accept goods materially different from advertised. That cpu difference I would want 200 off the price or more likely a full refund/return and you dont have to pay any of the postage. Its fraud otherwise, I'd expect Tesco to recognise the situation hopefully

I called them yesterday.
The girl on phone sounded a bit perplexed when I started mentioning the difference between the CPU's.
She offered me a refund or a swap if a similar one came up - but that was something I'd have to look for, they couldn't help. They didn't, as expected, have any more stock of that model.

So, I'll probably just return it, although I could ask to keep it at a discount. I didn't ask, as it didn't occur to me that that might be an option.