Following last year’s Legion Tower 5/5i, Lenovo announced the Legion Tower 5/5i (26L, 8) at CES 2023. The Legion Tower 5 and Tower 5i share the same case and most of the internal hardware. The only major difference between the two desktops is that Tower 5i features an Intel Raptor Lake CPU, hence the “i” in the name, while Tower 5 features AMD Ryzen 7000 processors. is to be
Right off the bat, just like its big brother Tower 7i, the Legion Tower 5/5i’s casing features an illuminated Legion badge, mesh front, glass side panels, and ARGB fans.
The Legion Tower 5/5i can be configured up to the newly announced RTX 4070 Ti, 32 GB of DDR5 5600 MHz memory, and 2 TB of 3.4 inch SATA HDD + 1 TB of PCIe Gen 4 SSD. In terms of CPUs, Tower 5 starts with the Ryzen 5 7600 and continues up to the Ryzen 9 7900 on the B650 MATX motherboard. The Intel-based Tower 5i can be configured on an Intel B660 motherboard with a Core i5-13400 on the low end and a Core i9-13900F on the high end.
Moving on, the Legion Tower 5/5i packs quite a few ports. For example, a total of 4 USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A ports (2 on the back, 2 on the top), 1 USB 3.2 Gen 3 Type-C port, Ethernet port, etc. Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.2 are also welcome arrivals.
Lenovo claims the Legion Tower 5/5i will launch in March, with AMD and Intel versions starting at US$1,299 and US$1,499 respectively.
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