Lenovo IdeaCentre Y900 Razer Edition Review

[kewlguy239]

Ever wonder what the lovechild of Razer and Lenovo would look like? The Lenovo IdeaCentre Y900 RE gives us the best of both worlds for a discounted price.

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[Quaddro]

$1700 and bronze power supply..?
Dude..

But through the psu case, it's seems delta..

 

[doomtomb]

Let me get this straight. Gaming... Prebuilt... Desktop... GeForce GTX... Razer...
2017: spinning hard drives. optical disk drives.
Do we get why this is a mega fail??

 

[jkhoward]

6th gen? Wtf were they thinking?

 

[kewlguy239]

6th gen? Wtf were they thinking?

This product has been out for a little while. We gave it a look because it's still available, the pricing dropped, and we had it in our lab for a bit. I recently disclosed the reason for these late Skylake system entries (I was traveling, other projects were assigned that took priority) in the comment thread of our Gigabyte Gaming GT review, but the Lenovo Y900RE is still a relevant purchasing option for regular consumers looking for a flashy gaming PC with a popular brand's peripherals included. We all know that Skylake CPUs and Kaby Lake CPUs are neck and neck with bottom-line performance, so why wouldn't a price-conscious consumer consider this with its reduced cost?

Don't worry though, we have Kaby Lake reviews coming in hot!

 

[jchelios]

I get $1,557 for all of this (at current prices), including the operating system, keyboard, and mouse, as well as a (very nice) Fractal Design Define R5 case. Are you sure you didn't mean to put "Price" in the "Cons" category?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GVDs3F

 

[The original Derfman]

It is now $1599.00 on Lenovo. Bonus.

 

[10tacle]

Motherboard
Custom Lenovo Z170 Chipset

Memory
16GB (1x16GB) DDR4-2133

Power Supply
650W 80 Plus Bronze Certified

^All custom/generic/unbranded. That would be a big concern for me. Also, that 16GB single stick of memory would be useless to pair up against another 16GB and need to be sold off (and good luck with that). And what's up with not at least having dual channel 2x8GB sticks? Senseless.

 

[ddferrari]

I get $1,557 for all of this (at current prices), including the operating system, keyboard, and mouse, as well as a (very nice) Fractal Design Define R5 case. Are you sure you didn't mean to put "Price" in the "Cons" category?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/GVDs3F

Does your pcpartpicker system come fully built and ready to plug in?

Yeah... apple and oranges.

 

[jchelios]

[strike]Does your pcpartpicker total include the labor cost to build it- or did you forget that small detail?[/strike]
Does your pcpartpicker system come fully built and ready to plug in?

Yeah... apple and oranges.

You're looking at it bass-acwards: If someone cares enough about PC gaming to build a $1500 computer, they're gonna wanna build it themselves. Therefore the value of the labor factor of production during the assembly stage is negative — you'd have to pay them in the form of a discount to accept that particular annoyance.

 

[daddywalter]

I like to build my own computers -- but I'm not a gamer, just someone who appreciates having the power to get work done quickly. Skylake may be long in the tooth, but it's still very viable for those who don't need the absolute latest-and-greatest/

If you look at this machine as a high-end business computer, it makes a lot of sense. It could be a fine workstation (and the starting point for a much better system) for a professional photographer, a Youtuber, video editor, etc. It would also be great for CPAs, bookkeepers and others who just need to crunch numbers. Such users generally value their time too highly to build their own business computers, so at the current price it would be a bargain for them. As a bonus, after work it can entertain as a "good enough" game computer.