"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.

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.

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

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

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?

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....

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

Not all i3/i5/i7 are created equally.

Grade c= used by a gamer

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:

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?

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

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...

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...)

all gone :disappointed:

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

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

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

That's what Plenty of Fish taught me.

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.

​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.

Contacted Tesco and got a response,



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

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.

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

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:

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

...and it's gone

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

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

gone now

8.1 windows?

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

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.

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