VERDICT
Big gaming power for a small outlay elevates this otherwise unremarkable compact PC
THERE WAS A time, not so long ago, when if you wanted a pre-built PC with a GeForce GTX 1060 graphics card, you could expect to pay around £1,000, perhaps £900 at the least.
Medion’s Erazer P4408 D is a sign of how things have changed: it’s a GTX 1060 system costing less than £700, making it the cheapest PC with a true mid-range GPU to have graced these pages since the current GeForce generation was launched.
It should be said that this is the slightly slower 3GB version of Nvidia’s GPU, not the full 6GB version, and the price is further explained by only having an Intel Kaby Lake processor – the quad-core, 3GHz Core i5-7400 – rather than a more recent Coffee Lake equivalent. You do get 8GB of modern DDR4 RAM, however, and our benchmarks show that even with last year’s CPU, the Erazer P4408 D is still a decent little all-rounder.
It scored 93 in the image-editing test, 98 in video-encoding and 91 in the multitasking test, for an overall score of 94. It will cope just fine with everyday use, and it’s good to see it has no particular weaknesses, even in the tough multitasking portion of our tests.
PLAYING DIVIDENDS
There are other mid-range PCs that can beat it on performance: PC Specialist’s Enigma K6 (Shopper 360), for instance, and especially the Overclockers Titan Merlin (Shopper 356), which scored 129 for multitasking and 122 overall.
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