Lenovo Legion Tower 7i Gen 10 Review

The Legion Tower 7i is simply a cleanable and neatly packed gaming PC with a almighty Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 and Intel Core Ultra 9 285K tamed by a 360mm AIO cooler – which makes it a coagulated high-end prebuilt gaming rig, adjacent if it is rather expensive. It’ll springiness you that almighty show you privation successful a premium gaming PC, but if you’re into shiny RGB components, you whitethorn privation to opt for RAM that doesn’t look similar a bare portion of circuit board.

However, if each you’re funny successful is graphics performance, determination are surely cheaper gaming PCs retired there. And portion I bash similar the RGB lighting, the lawsuit screams fund much than thing else. That whitethorn beryllium a dealbreaker for some, but the Legion Tower 7i inactive offers everything you request successful a gaming PC to instrumentality connected modern AAA games astatine precocious settings.

Design and Features

The Legion Tower 7i slimmed down from past year’s model, which is large due to the fact that it was rather chunky. It present measures 18.8 inches gangly (previously 19.37 inches) and 16.34 inches wide (previously 18.27 inches). It’s inactive kind of chunky, but it’s an improvement.

But the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i is inactive your mean 35-pound mid-tower blasted successful a stormy grey overgarment that volition marque you mistake it for immoderate different nondescript gaming PC until you crook the lights on. Then, you’ll get blasted with the bold RGB, highlighting the tower’s caged honeycomb aesthetic alongside its agleam Legion logo. Meanwhile, the rounded edges and fans connected apical adhd to the mechanical aesthetic. If you’re looking astatine the tempered solid sheet erstwhile the lights footwear on, achromatic LEDs glow and item the components successful the chassis, portion the liquid cooler, GPU, and rear fans alight successful RGB. However, the RAM remains to beryllium bare successful the motherboard.

Popping unfastened the solid sheet was easy; I conscionable removed 2 thumbscrews successful the backmost and slid it disconnected (getting it backmost connected required akin minimal effort). While the RTX 5080 is simply a comparatively mean size, it does instrumentality up the size of 2 PCIe slots. Below that, there’s 1 PCIe 4.0 x16 and PCIe 3.0 slot, but if you privation to plug thing into those ports, they’ll request to beryllium comparatively bladed cards. But adjacent with the choky packing, this is an highly cleanable build, with the cables neatly packed.

Getting the backmost sheet disconnected was a spot harder. The thumbscrews were choky arsenic heck (I had to propulsion retired a screwdriver), and I had to enactment mode much unit than I should person to descent it disconnected (and backmost on). The cables successful the backmost were zip tied and shoved successful the bare abstraction successful beforehand of the PSU slot. It looks neat, but if you wanted to regenerate anything, you’ll request immoderate scissors and immoderate dexterity to debar knocking a cablegram retired of the PSU.

The beforehand sheet connectors are located astatine the apical alternatively of the front, adjacent the powerfulness button. There’s a headphone jack, 1 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 2 USB 2 Type-A, and 1 USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-C slot. It’s large to spot a Type-C larboard connected the beforehand since it was missing past year, and gaming PCs request much than 1 Type-C slot successful 2025.

You tin find the different Type-C larboard connected the back, which supports Thunderbolt 4. You besides get 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A, 2 USB 2.0 Type-A, an RJ-45 Ethernet, and six audio ports. The fig of audio ports is confusing, for sure, but its the aforesaid magnitude arsenic connected the erstwhile model. There’s besides a DisplayPort connected the motherboard, which astir radical shouldn't use, but tin beryllium utile for troubleshooting.

The Legion Tower 7i besides comes with a generic keyboard and mouse. If you’re buying an costly gaming PC similar this, you astir apt shouldn’t play games with a keyboard and rodent you could find successful a mislaid and recovered bin. That seems brutal, but aft playing a fewer matches of Marvel Rivals, the rodent could not support up with my movements to support myself earlier I got ganked. The keyboard is little offensive, but it’s inactive astatine the bottommost of the barrel. Its membrane keys are mushy and don’t connection the satisfying feedback you request from a gaming keyboard, and the kickstand connected the underside hardly lifts it up, providing astir nary enactment for my wrists.

Software

Unfortunately, the Lenovo Legion Tower 7i does person immoderate bloatware, similar the Lenovo Vantage app, which keeps way of your warranty, strategy information, and tin support hardware wellness with scans and operator updates. That is useful, particularly if you don’t privation to woody with Windows 11’s built successful hardware management. Lenovo besides pre-installed the ‘Lenovo Now’ app, which is fundamentally a nexus to the Lenovo Subscription Marketplace, which volition effort to merchantability you worldly you astir apt don’t request – you should astir apt uninstall that.

However, 1 instrumentality you should really support connected the instrumentality is LegionSpace. This is wherever you tin show your CPU, GPU, and RAM, alteration the lighting illustration of your PC and set show profiles betwixt Quiet, Balance, and Performance. You tin besides usage this app to overclock your GPU, which I wouldn’t bash unless you’re comfy doing the indispensable tinkering.

Performance

That chunky paper you spot successful the Legion Tower 7i is an Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 GPU with 16GB of VRAM – that's arsenic premium arsenic you tin get if you privation to enactment astir $3,000. It's paired with an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and 64GB of RAM. You won't beryllium getting triple-digit frames successful every crippled you play, but you won't request DLSS 4’s framework procreation for 4K, 60 fps gaming.

Jumping into Cyberpunk 2077 astatine 4K with the Ray Tracing Ultra preset and DLSS acceptable to Performance, the Legion Tower 7i hits a beardown 76 fps. If you privation to instrumentality vantage of that precocious refresh complaint show you got for your birthday, propulsion connected Frame Generation (x2) to get 124 fps. Jumping to Multi-Frame Generation (x4) volition nett you 198 fps.

Similarly, the Legion Tower 7i managed a beardown 62 fps successful Assassin’s Creed Shadows, portion framework procreation took it up to 94 fps. The Legion struggled the astir with the Metro Exodus benchmark, hitting 59 fps, but that tracks since it’s a dense workload without each the upscaling. A competitory crippled similar Black Ops 6 runs smooth, astatine 121 fps, which is capable to drawback the force slipping.

I hopped into a fewer matches of Marvel Rivals (trying to bash those weeklies) astatine 4K, with the Ultra preset and DLAA, 4x Multi-Frame Generation. I averaged astir 167 fps with 44 milliseconds of latency arsenic I scorched a Jeff from crossed the arena with Phoenix’s cosmic flame. You won't beryllium capable to capable retired a 4K, 240Hz show connected max settings, but the Legion Tower 7i offers much than capable for the mean gamer, adjacent a competitory one. If you crook down a fewer settings, oregon play little demanding games, you’ll decidedly beryllium capable to saturate a 240Hz refresh rate

If you don’t privation to compromise, you tin conscionable get the Legion Tower 7i with an RTX 5090, but past you commencement getting to prices that marque the Origin Millenium oregon the Maingear Apex Artist Series look a small much tenable – and that’s saying something.

Rami Tabari is simply a contributing writer astatine IGN with implicit 9 years of acquisition successful the tech and gaming industry. You tin find his bylines astatine Laptop Mag and Tom's Guide (and connected a random Predator reappraisal astatine Space.com). When Rami isn't wading done a oversea of the latest gaming tech, he's agonizing implicit the worldbuilding successful his upcoming novella.