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8.2 / 10 Score Cnet Score CNET provides expert, unbiased reviews of products and services. When we assign a score, we use a scale of 1-10. Each product we score is evaluated by criteria specific to its category with most assessing pricing, quality, features and performance. Read more on: How we test Origin PC Millennium Pros Exceptional 1080p performance
Good upgradeability
Convenient air filtration
Clean aesthetic and cable management Cons Premium pricing
Needs a lot of space
Included storage is just so-so
The Origin PC Millennium makes some curious choices, but its strong foundation and customization options let you make smarter ones. The giant gaming desktop starts at $3,139, but as our test unit was configured, it's not a very smart buy against RTX 5080-powered machines like the Starforge Explorer III Pro or Lenovo Legion Tower 7 Gen 10. It's also dramatically more expensive than the Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 10 without providing much extra performance.
Make no mistake, it's a strong machine, but spending close to $4,000 for decent 1080p gaming, lagging 4K performance is probably not a compelling choice. Still, there's room to improve here with different options. That may not get the Millennium deep enough into value territory to compete against the Lenovo Legion Tower 5 Gen 10, but the Origin is a solid, well-built (if massive) PC that should be a lot easier to upgrade than any Lenovo desktop. That's a long-term value that can add up. With PC component pricing as messy as it is lately, the Origin PC Millennium at least manages to stack up well against the price of building a similar machine yourself.
Origin PC Millennium Price as reviewed $4,196 Size 100.2 liter (21.5 x 12.5 x 22.8 in/546 x 318 x 578 mm), 51lbs Motherboard Gigabyte X870E AORUS ELITE Wi-Fi CPU 4.7GHz AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Memory 32GB DDR5-6000 Graphics Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Storage 2TB NVMe M.2 PCIe Gen 4 SSD (boot) (Corsair MP600 Core XT R2) Networking 2.5GbE, Realtek Wi-Fi 7 RTL8922AE 802.1be, Bluetooth 5.4 Connections USB4 Type-C (x2 rear), USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type-A (x2 rear), USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C (x1 front), USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-A (x4 front, x4 rear), USB 2.0 (x4 rear), 3.5mm audio connector (x1 front, x2 rear), SPDIF (x1 rear), 2.5Gb Ethernet, HDMI 2.1 (x1 on motherboard, x1 on GPU), DisplayPort 2.1b (x3 on GPU) Operating system Windows 11 Home
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