Lenovo - LOQ Tower Gaming Desktop - Intel i5 14400F - 16GB Memory - NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 - 512GB SDD - Luna Gray

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• Rated 5 out of 5 stars

  Great PC

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  Absolutely amazing pc. Im loving it. Great price as well

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  Posted 1 month ago by EdanY

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Good Budget PC for 1080p Gaming and Everyday Tasks

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  The Lenovo LOQ Tower 17IRR9 PC 16 G / 512 G Win 11 Home / Luna Grey is a good everyday PC with some decent 1080p gaming capabilities. The PC arrived extremely well packages in form fitted thick foam padding. Easy out of box and setup in minutes. Box includes a power cable, wired keyboard and wired mouse. The keyboard actually is well made and has a decent feel to it. Not mechanical but some nice tactile resistance on the keys. The mouse is pretty basic, but will work just fine. The form-factor is in the mid-range size I would say. It has a nice aesthetic appearance with some lighting down the front and around the power button. Should fit nicely on a desk or smaller places. The system feels well built overall and is fairly light. Windows 11 was a breeze to setup and runs quite nicely on this system with the Intel Core i5 processor 14400F, 512GB SSD and 16 GB of ram. It will breeze through everyday tasks like web browsing, video conferencing, editing photos and videos and running Microsoft Office applications. The system scored very good in the PCMark benchmarks with a score of 6610. Better than 76% of all results. The system includes an NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB graphics card and in my testing performed decent for 1080p gaming and some 2k gaming depending on the game. It should be a good gaming machine for the more casual gamer that doesn't want to run AAA titles in 2k or 4k resolutions primarily. Fortnite performed well in 1080p with 80+ fps ratings with most of the bells and whistles turned on although it struggled a bit in 2K without turning down the settings a bit. Borderlands 3 ran really smooth with all the settings cranked up and even ran very smooth in 2K. The 3DMark benchmarks software I ran it through scored 5250 in the Time Spy test which is roughly 55% of what my 2080 Super tests at. I wouldn't recommend the system for someone wanting to game primarily in 2K or 4K resolutions, but that's not really expected at this price point either. 2K is doable depending on the game, but this card is definitely better geared towards 1080p gaming resolutions. This card should handle 2D games and older titles in higher resolutions and smooth frame rates quite well. A 3060 might've been a better choice for this system and price point in my opinion, but the 3050 does an decent job. The inside of the PC is compact and clean. Good wire management with some expansion capabilities for adding additional RAM or hard drives. CPU has a nice sized cooling fan and heat sink on it and the system runs fairly quiet. It has a decent amount of external ports on it for adding USB devices, speakers, headphones or a LAN cable. The system has builtin Wifi and Bluetooth capabilities and had no issues connecting to either. Overall I would recommend this PC to someone looking for a more compact everyday PC that can handle day to day activities really well and also play a good portion of games at reasonable resolutions and frame rates. It would make a good starter gaming PC for someone and does allow for later expansion / upgrades.

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  Posted 11 months ago by DotNetJon

• Rated 4 out of 5 stars

  Good Entry Level Gaming Desktop

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  Lenovo's LOQ Tower is a sleek looking mid-tower desktop that will look great at any desk. Specs: Intel Core i5-14400F 1 x 16gb of DDR5-4800 RAM 2 DDR5 UDIMM Dual Channel DDR5-5600 slots NVidia RTX 3050 512GB M.2 NVMe PCIe 4 x4 used in one of the two M.2 slots PCIe 3 x1 slot Wi-Fi 6E and BT 5.3 used in one of the M.2 slots USB keyboard and mouse 500W power supply Front ports: 1 USB-C 3.2 gen 1 with 15W charging, 2 USB-A ports 3.2 gen 1, and 3.5mm headphone jack Back ports: 4 USB-A 2.0, 1 HDMI 2.1, 1 VGA, 1 1Gb RJ-45, and 1 3.5mm headphone jack Desktop Use: The desktop runs office applications without a problem. In an office setting, this desktop won't disappoint as it has plenty of CPU and RAM to run office applications. In my use of it, office type applications were snappy when loading and ran just fine. I have no complaints in it's performance in this scenario. At some point, I may want to upgrade the RAM to 32GB. Since the LOQ came with 1 stick of RAM, I can simply add a second 16GB stick which can help when I have many office applications and browser tabs open at once. Lenovo must have considered this with this model, so it's good to see that they thought ahead on that. The LOQ has a Wi-Fi 6E and Bluetooth 5.3 card in it which is really good to see in this system , but it is unfortunate that it is occupying one of the two M.2 slots. The other M.2 slot is in use by the 512GB M.2 SSD. That brings up the issue some may run into with the SSD being only 512GB. The SSD can have games installed on it, but it will depend on the number and size of games as to whether or not that fills up quickly. I would like to have seen a 1TB SSD or the 512GB SSD and a 2TB spindled drive. There is cabling in the case that supports adding in a SATA drive and a single 3.5" drive bay. Lenovo left a SATA data cable and power cable in the case, so it comes ready for adding in additional storage. I can will add a 2TB spindled drive or SSD in the future if I want to do that. Regarding the ports, it is good to see HDMI 2.1 supported by the RTX 3050, but the USB ports on the back of the case are USB-A 2.0 ports. Only the USB ports on the front of the case are 3.2 gen 1. It would have been good for all of the ports to support the 3.2 speeds. Gaming: With those specs, this is an entry level gaming system, but I didn't expect to be running an FPS at high frame rates with this. The RTX 3050 will run games, but the CPU being an i5 and the GPU being a generation behind, expect to run mid to low level graphics games such as strategy and a few other genres that typically don't require a higher level GPU or CPU. The RAM is also not the highest speed RAM than the motherboard supports. It came with DDR5-4800 RAM instead of DDR5-5600. Given the price point for this version of the LOQ 17IRR9, I feel you should be getting a better CPU or a better GPU. One or the other in a $1K desktop. The LOQ 17IRR9 with these specs will be good for me running office apps and can run a few of my games. I would consider it a really good office system, but regarding gaming, it is an entry level gaming system. The case looks good and it has lighting on the front. The light strip runs down the center of the front and there is lighting around the power button both of which can be disabled in Lenovo's app. If you are looking for an entry level gaming system that you won't be upgrading, then this may fill that need. If you need an office desktop, then this will fit the bill. I'm using it for office applications and have little complaints during my use, however, most of my games will need more CPU and GPU than what is in this in order to run at high frame rates, so I'll run a few of my games on it that don't need a higher end GPU and CPU.

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  Posted 11 months ago by James