Lenovo Legion T5 Ryzen 7 5700g RX 6800 XT 16gb ram Gaming PC - £999.99 Delivered @ Box

If your going to go for a Lenovo with their spec boards/Rams and co (low Qual)
but u get that GPU, so they're nice when there down.

at least go for this one: 5800/6800XT

CCl and Box do both.

CCL might have some codes knocking about :P if u cant be bothered about doing cashbacks.
tCCL does 3% top cashback (cant be used with codes atm) (updated on CB amounts) (edited)

B550 motherboard

6800XT PCI-E 4.0 graphics card

Ryzen 5700G with PCI-E 3.0 speed

I don't know why these companies always hobble stuff like this.

Decent price if you cant/don't want to self build

The punchline is, if you buy this to sell the graphics card, which for obvious reasons people are doing less these days, to then use the 5700G's integrated graphics, you can't. One of the many areas where HP and Lenovo cheap out to save money is, no graphics out on their motherboards!

The choice of the 5700G is disappointing - buy the model with the 5800 for £40 more - the 5700G is considered a fairly good pairing up to an RTX 3070 but much beyond that it becomes a bottleneck; not awful, by any means, just not as good as a 5800X, or 5800/5700X. Also, even though paired with a B550 motherboard, the 5700G restricts you to PCIe 3.0, rather than PCIe 4.0 with the 5800X and 5700X/5800. Also impacting performance the 5700G has only 16MB of cache memory, compared to double that with the 5700X/5800.

Again, it's not that the 5700G is bad, just that if you're a competitive gamer... and no competitive gamer is going to go with an HP, Lenovo or Dell, because, to save money, they generally use basic motherboards with relatively poor cooling, fine for gaming but better suited to office duties/multimedia; there are few bios options to tweak, fine tune and overclock the CPU and memory; you're usually better served by a Palicomp or an AWD-IT build with a proper gaming motherboard. So, in other words, depending on cost, proper heatsinks on the VRMs, more features, greater connectivity.

Still, though I usually don't like PCs at this price from HP, Dell and Lenovo, this particular Lenovo is massively improved revision of an earlier model and, also, it's better in most ways, compared to the HP Omen 30L, which suffers from a poor design/poor airflow/cooling/thermal throttling (under load)/noise (though there are workarounds on Youtube for most of those, if you're into DIY and aren't risk averse). I think the Omen case is pretty but it's not a gaming case.

This is a much better effort from Lenovo, though unfortunately Lenovo's customer service has a reputation for being really, really poor. They have a Trustpilot score of just 1.3 out of 5.

Anyway! I would definitely pay £40 more for the 5800 CPU version, if you can. Though I had a poor experience with CCL when ordering a graphics card (no packaging, just a plastic wrapper on the flimsy product box), I know the packaging for this model, if it's Lenovo's original packaging, is excellent.

Though I wouldn't be happy with an HP Omen 30L, Lenovo at least tried, and got a lot of things right, as validated by some of the better reviewers who bought theirs anonymously for review, rather than accept review samples from companies on (unstated) condition of a good review; a bad review poisons your relationship with a company, who might then not send you further products to review.

Really hope this helps someone. Also, really hope the RX 6800 XT drops in price a decent chunk more. (edited)

I bought the 5800 version of this from CCL a few days ago. All is good so far, build quality and cooling is better than expected. Only issue is CCL not acknowledging the Last Of Us promo

Why does it have a G processor? Why does it only have a 512gb SSD, literally Windows and 1 game will fill that?

It’s a decent deal don’t get me wrong, but slightly weird. (edited)

Why a G CPU (APU)? That means the 6800XT will only run at PCIe 3.0 speeds. Who built that and why?

Would anyone tell me if its possible to add any internal ssd? thanks

How good is the power supply would it be able to handle a high end GPU for example rtx 4090 once the price comes down ?