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Why this Lenovo PC is my top choice for professionals and creators - even though it's for gaming

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Lenovo Legion T5 gaming desktop ZDNET's key takeaways The Lenovo Legion Tower 5 is available now for $1,880.

This desktop excels at a wide range of tasks, from gaming to 3D image rendering and graphic design.

However, because of the PC's squat design, some users may have difficulty finding a comfortable place for it. View now at Best Buy View now at Lenovo more buying choices

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Building a gaming PC can be difficult if you're new to the hobby. Fortunately, pre-built desktops remove most of the guesswork; you can expect them to deliver reliable performance straight out of the box. Especially since gaming desktops come with increasingly competitive hardware.

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Lenovo's Legion Tower 5 (or T5 for short) is a prime example of a solid prebuilt desktop. It is a gaming computer, but as I discovered over the couple of weeks of my testing, it is versatile enough to succeed in content creation. Allow me to explain.

Desktop footprint

Modern PC cases often have a vertically tall design, a style of computer referred to as a "tower." This shape is popular for a variety of reasons: they facilitate airflow for cooling components, but more importantly, they take up less physical space.

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