Lenovo gives PC gaming another shot with new angry-looking desktops, laptops

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ars.AD.queue.push(["xrailTop", {sz:"300x251", kws:["bottom"], collapse: true}]);BERLIN—While Lenovo is perhaps better known for catering to the suit-and-tie brigade with its ThinkPad laptops and data centre servers, for the past few years it's also been half-heartedly churning out middling machines for the PC gaming crowd, such as the Erazer X510 and X315. Today, that changes. Lenovo's new gaming range, unveiled at IFA 2015, shows that the company is now serious about courting PC gamers.

The new ideacentre (yes, all-lower-case) Y700 and Y900 desktops sport the latest Intel Skylake Core i7 and i5 processors, with the Y700 most likely equipped with one of the newly unveiled mainstream Skylake-S chips, and the Y900 with a full-fat 95W TDP overclockable K-series Skylake chip.

Most importantly for gamers, the ideacentres will be equipped with far better graphics cards than the Nvidia GTX 760 featured in Lenovo's current gaming desktops. The Y900 goes all the way up to a 4GB GTX 980, while the Y700 tops out at a 4GB GTX 970. Both machines sport Blu-ray optical drives, 2x2 AC wireless, and the latest DDR4 RAM, which can be configured up to 64GB in the Y900. The Y900 also features support for faster PCIe M.2 SSDs.