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expiredwhenry83 posted Jun 22, 2024 10:35 PM
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Costco Wholesale
Deal Details
Costco Wholesale has for their Members: Lenovo IdeaCentre 3i Desktop (90VT0065US) on sale for $399.99. Shipping is $14.99.
Thanks to Community Member whenry83 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member whenry83 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- Intel i5-14400 10-Core (6P+4E) / 16-Thread Processor
- 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- Integrated Intel UHD 730 Graphics
- Wi-Fi 6 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.1
- Wired Keyboard & Mouse
- 260W Power Supply
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C (Support Data Transfer and 5V @ 3A Charging)
- 4x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x VGA Out
- 1x RJ-45
- 1x HDMI-Out 2.1
- 1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack
- 1x Microphone Jack
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $160.01 lower than the next best available comparable prices starting from $574.99. -SaltyOne
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
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About the Poster
Costco Wholesale has for their Members: Lenovo IdeaCentre 3i Desktop (90VT0065US) on sale for $399.99. Shipping is $14.99.
Thanks to Community Member whenry83 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
Thanks to Community Member whenry83 for sharing this deal.
Specs:
- Intel i5-14400 10-Core (6P+4E) / 16-Thread Processor
- 16GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
- Integrated Intel UHD 730 Graphics
- Wi-Fi 6 (2x2) and Bluetooth 5.1
- Wired Keyboard & Mouse
- 260W Power Supply
- Windows 11 Home
- Ports:
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C (Support Data Transfer and 5V @ 3A Charging)
- 4x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A
- 2x USB 2.0 Type-A
- 1x VGA Out
- 1x RJ-45
- 1x HDMI-Out 2.1
- 1x Headphone/Microphone Combination Jack
- 1x Microphone Jack
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- At the time of this posting, our research indicates that this is $160.01 lower than the next best available comparable prices starting from $574.99. -SaltyOne
- Rated 5 out of 5 stars from customer reviews.
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Top Comments
Size: This thing is tiny (photos below).
Performance: I installed my favorite video and RAW image processing software and put it through some quick paces. It performed very well on all tasks, navigating and rendering files and effects more rapidly than my 6 month old ThinkPad X1 Carbon with an i7-1365U processor and 32GB RAM. This is out of the box with the installed 16GB RAM. I haven't set up multiple monitors yet but am eager to see how it does.
This little desktop is cool and silent. There are benefits to small power supplies and no GPU.
Power cord is short -- about 5 feet long.
It's definitely not designed with mods in mind (but we knew that). You need to use a screwdriver to open it up.
The 3.5" SATA HD cage is very accessible and adding a one will be a piece of cake.
Upgrading RAM will be a more labor but not hard. The RAM slots are under the 3.5" drive cage, which means you have to remove the side and front panels, unplug the HD from the motherboard, unscrew the HD cage and lift it up, install the new RAM stick, and then put everything back.
This model is new so there weren't any YouTube videos I could find. Here are some photos: Image 1 [ibb.co] Image 2 [ibb.co]. The size of the HD cage should give you an idea of how small the desktop is.
EDITED: Removed the bullet about the rear audio out. I found it. :-)
HDMI Out is likely limited to 1080p max resolution is 3840x2160@60Hz (4K@60Hz);
The RAM is single stick (16GB x1);
There is one empty RAM slot (2 slots total);
There are no PCI-e expansion slots;
There is room for one extra hard drive.
This is not a 'basic' desktop unless your criteria is 'gaming GPU graphics', in which case, yes, get something else; the 260W PSU won't allow adding big PCIe GPU muscle. I see no clear way to even add PCIe cards, which is a bit of a surprise. The website makes no reference to this in the ports and slots section, and I can't find the manual.
For everyone else, this is a cheap, fully ready to go screaming fast machine with fully current CPU - at around $200 less (plus Costco returns, warranty) vs. almost anywhere else.
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Lenovo has made this form factor/price point for well over a decade. If there wasn't a target audience, they wouldn't even bother making them.
Since there is room for another hard drive slot, can I buy an identical 2nd SDD and then mirror the drives for redundancy? Does Windows 11 Home support this RAID1 setup so if one hard drive fails, the system is still available?
I did some Google searches and the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Utility seems to be available for Intel computers to support this. Anyone know if I can do this with this Lenovo desktop?
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Since there is room for another hard drive slot, can I buy an identical 2nd SDD and then mirror the drives for redundancy? Does Windows 11 Home support this RAID1 setup so if one hard drive fails, the system is still available?
I did some Google searches and the Intel Rapid Storage Technology Utility seems to be available for Intel computers to support this. Anyone know if I can do this with this Lenovo desktop?
Worst of all, it's a Lenovo.
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