Lenovo Y900 RE

RGB as far as the eye can see

- Bo Moore

AFTER TESTING CRAZY multi-GPU setups for the past few issues, it was nice to kick back with a sleek, straightforward system. High-end machines are fun to play with, but their power levels (and price tags) are overkill for the majority of users, and SLI is becoming increasingly frustrating to deal with. This month, we’re looking at the Lenovo Y900 RE, a mid-tower desktop featuring top-end (but reasonable) components, accompanied by a 27-inch Lenovo Y27g RE curved monitor.

The Y900 RE itself is a respectable system aimed mostly at gamers. The Intel Core i7-6700K CPU is clocked at 4.0GHz, but a “one-key turbo” button can push it up to 4.5GHz. That’s enough to not bottleneck the GPU, and should be able to handle streaming or light video editing—though it would have been nice to see an updated Kaby Lake chip in there instead of last generation’s i7-6700K. The difference isn’t huge, but the i7-7700K would have given the system a bit more juice for basically the same price.