Lenovo Legion T5 Ryzen 5 5600G/ 16GB DDR4 RAM/ 512GB SSD /GeForce RTX 3060 12GB GDDR6/Windows 11 Home

Would say if you can stretch another £40 the Palicomp 5600x / 3060ti might be a better deal.

Worth noting that the fans are absolutely tragic in these pre builds by Lenovo. We have two of the 5700G/3060Ti variants and I replaced mine with a box of Arctic P12 PWM fans for £22 from Scan. Amazing fans in their own right but now the rig is silent and somewhat cool.

The stock cooler is junk, even with the thermal paste changing. Although adding thermal grizzly helped a lot with keeping the CPU fan at low RPM.

The GPUs used are basic MSI units with a custom frame. Opened it up thinking it would be a quick repaste job but nope. Well worth doing, as hot spot temperature dropped from 89c to 83c max, and GPU die from 75c to 70c. Used basic thermal putty off Amazon (K5 Pro?) and piled it onto the VRMs and pretty much everything that made contact with the heatsink.

As stated above, the RAM is annoyingly restricted despite the fact that XMP is actually on the Motherboard, but Lenovo have it locked down. There are 3rd party BIOS available to unlock it, but use at your own risk.

Finally you cannot control fans manually. It's especially infuriating that in the summer heat I'm not able to set my case fans to ramp up quickly when my GPU gets going. Even on the "performance" setting, the fan curve is almost akin to what you would see on an Apple device. It will sit on its hands until the CPU hits 60-70c, usually from the GPU heat radiating upwards, until they kick in. All fans are directly connected to the motherboard, Lenovo just blocks all access from apps such as Fan Control.

Ideally you want the case fans linked to GPU temp so you can remove all that hot air before it has a chance to build, but every time it's a case of the heat building up very quickly before temps stabilise after 5-10 mins.

Crucial RAM works fine, but CL22 is painful for Ryzen. I upgraded to 32GB for like £24 on Amazon, as 16GB is now a noticeable bottleneck for modern games if you have things like steam, discord, Spotify etc open in the background as they all seem to use 400-500MB of RAM each.

I plan on replacing the CPU cooler with a Noctua at some point, as it apparently works with Intel LGA brackets despite being AMD. Then finally the motherboard/RAM (3200/CL14) and the PSU will be replaced along with the case.

TLDR: decent prebuilt but the only thing of value is the GPU. They're essentially an MSI Ventus card with small mods to fit Lenovo case better.

Shame these Lenovo rigs require special JEDEC RAM for the higher RAM speeds

Originally posted to say that I had this system and that the motherboard was a trash stock Lenovo B550 with extremely limited settings and I suspect is the reason I've had some problems with wifi and bluetooth connectivity. Wasn't sure if this system used the same motherboard but I suspect it does as there's no detail on it on the product page.

I bought mine as a Ryzen 7 5700g for around £750 last year via a Hotukdeal post and it's mostly served me well, but I wouldn't recommend as a long-term system purely because of the issues I've had with the motherboard.

8GB or 12GB RTX3060?

Does anyone know if this PC can be found frequently at this kind of price point, or would this be considered a real ‘deal’? I’m looking for something exactly like this, however, would prefer to hold off a few months if it’s likely to return to a similar price?

Thanks so much

Windows is the most important part of this system base when it comes to market challenges in VS battles.
(if u want to get into that)...

Excellent find OP, (or supported product)

Mind u; i can think of multiable ways on kickings its backside in many other builds, but it does hit the head on price "name" "windows though so it has its own exclusive method on being on it.

and their is many happy customers with these Lenovo's on this Platform, some have been returned because people has higher expectation on the systems when they bought from a higher cost supplier.
Lenovo C/S is debatable, Box is fairly allright.

£649.99 easy buyer, no frills. mum dad co for their kids, happy gaming. simple set up. done. its £650 what more u want. (edited)

Seems alright. Loads of folk will moan they could build a better machine for £40 though

This is a great deal!

No need for custom builds unless you are a tinkerer.

dam, I don't think buying the parts and building yourself would be cheaper. great deal.

£629.99 with Unidays.

I see people mentioning windows. You can get windows 10/11 license keys for a couple of £s. Not a big deal. I would not factor it in the price of the deal.