Yoyotech Warbird RS6 review

There’s not a huge amount of room for expansion with this system. Its MSI H81M-E34 motherboard has been mostly filled by Yoyotech’s components, with both RAM slots, three of the four SATA connectors and the only PCI-E slot already taken. This realistically leaves you room for another hard disk if you need it and a single PCI-E x1 expansion card such as a TV tuner or wireless card.

The bundled monitor is a 24in AOC E2470SWHE. It’s a Full HD panel, although it uses TN technology instead of IPS, so images aren’t quite as pleasant to look at as they are on similar IPS screens. We were a little concerned when we saw a fair degree of motion blur with fast-moving objects moving both horizontally and vertically, so this screen probably won’t suit twitchy gamers. Still, it covers 90.9% of the sRGB colour gamut and has a good contrast ratio of 994:1 so we can’t complain too much.

The bundled Zalman mouse is perfectly adequate and looks stylish, but the Powercool keyboard is atrocious. It has patchy coloured backlighting apparently able to light up in red, blue and green colours, but our model could only manage blue and red with the green setting instead switching the backlight off entirely. It was a pain to type on as well; the keys are spongey and the board itself doesn’t have enough elevation. In short, you should avoid this keyboard and choose something else when configuring your system.

Yoyotech’s warranty is good but not exceptional: you get three years of labour cover and one year of parts, but after the first month you’ll need to pay for shipping back to the company as it’s an RTB policy rather than a more generous collect and return agreement. You can upgrade to a Gold warranty for £40, which nets you a year of collect and return and three years of parts cover, or pay £70 for Platinum cover that gets you three years of parts cover and free courier collection.

The Yoyotech Warbird RS6 is a good value and well-balanced PC build that includes an SSD and a decent monitor. Processing performance is strong for the money, and if that’s all your after then this is a great choice. Our only real concern is the lack of flexibility for future upgrades, but if that doesn’t bother you, the Yoyotech Warbird RS6 is a good choice. If this doesn’t take your fancy, our top desktop PCs list will have something that does.