The Lenovo Legion Tower 5i is an extremely boring gaming PC , but that’s not a bad thing necessarily. It’s a small-ish gaming tower, packed with entry-level hardware, but without any of the shiny extras that more expensive prebuilt gaming PCs, like the Legion Tower 7i, charge extra for. It’s just an Intel Core i5 processor, 16GB of RAM and an RTX 4060 , and that’s all it really needs to be, especially at $1,000.
Lenovo does make up for some of that price by bundling an annoying antivirus software, but because you can just uninstall it, that’s not really a big deal. The Lenovo Legion Tower 5i is exactly what an entry-level gaming PC should be, and nothing more than that. And that is fine.
If you close your eyes and imagine a gaming PC, you’ll have an idea of what the Lenovo Legion Tower 5i looks like. It’s a black metal box with a glass side panel filled with PC components. The front of the case spices things up a bit by adding a unique honey-comb design that both looks cool and lets air flow more freely into the system, but beyond that, this is as simple as it comes.
The top of the tower has all of the front panel ports, netting you a headphone jack and two USB-A ports. This is a pretty standard array of ports, especially in a PC of this size, but it would have been nice to have one of the ports be USB-C. Luckily, the back of the system does include one USB-C connection, along with 6 other USB-A ports, an ethernet port, and the standard array of HDMI and 3 Displ.