Wasted Potential: Lenovo Legion 5i Pre-Built $1050 Gaming PC Review & Benchmarks

The onslaught of prebuilt PCs continues with the Lenovo Legion 5i Tower. This benchmark & review compares Lenovo vs. iBUYPOWER, Cyberpower, ABS, & the scourge of the Dell G5 5000.
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This benchmark and review of the Lenovo Legion 5i Tower (or one of them, anyway) tests the i7-10700 and GTX 1660 Super in yet another configuration. This time, we get revisited by a single stick of RAM and McAfee, which are great friends who have a long and storied history of self-sabotage, and we also see the first sight of a real cooler in a prebuilt. It has some oddities, but is technically a tower cooler, which we haven't seen much of yet (this round). The Legion 5i falls woefully short of its thermal and acoustic potential thanks to its case, the frametime consistency isn't as competitive as configurations with better RAM and lower price, but the components aren't the worst we've seen. That still goes to Dell.

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Dell G5 5000 i5 Gaming PC on Amazon: https://geni.us/R6F03Mb
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TIMESTAMPS

00:00 - Lenovo Legion 5i Review
02:24 - Prebuilt PC Reviews Recap
05:05 - Tear-Down & Disassembly
07:28 - One Stick for $1050
12:05 - Paste, Pressure, & Cooler
15:50 - Thermals of Lenovo Legion 5i
17:01 - Gaming Performance - Cyberpunk 2077
18:00 - Rainbow Six: Siege (1080p, 1440p)
18:39 - Frametime Issues
20:03 - Hitman 3
20:19 - Red Dead Redemption 2
20:42 - Noise Levels & Hysteresis, Time to Ramp
21:53 - Power Consumption - Blender & Gaming
22:30 - BIOS, Setup, & Bloatware
26:05 - Disappointed, Not Surprised

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Host, Writing, Test Lead: Steve Burke
Testing: Patrick Lathan
Video: Keegan Gallick, Andrew Coleman