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Lenovo Legion T730 Tower

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Meet the Lenovo Legion T730 Tower

The Legion T730 ticks key boxes on the gamer-essentials list, including an edgy design with RGB lighting, easy upgrade potential, and, in some configurations, automatic processor overclocking.

A Grille on the Side

Some of Lenovo's past desktops included case lighting, but they were never this bright. The Legion T730 has two LED strips mounted inside the case, one running along the top edge and the other down the front panel.

A Look at the Front

The front panel is perforated for airflow. The Y logo inside the "O" in Lenovo's prominently placed Legion brand name is backlit in white. (It can't be disabled through the Lenovo Vantage software.)

A Blacked-Out Design

The backside of the Legion T730 is blacked-out, a thoughtful detail. Less expensive desktops tend to leave unsightly bare metal back here.

On the I/O Panel

The streamlined port selection includes six USB Type-A ports (four 3.0 and two 2.0), an Ethernet jack, and a headphone jack.

Hold My Cable

To keep things looking neat, there's a rubber restraining strip near the power supply for cable management.

The Up-Front Ports

The connectivity along the top edge of the front panel includes two USB Type-A 3.0 ports, an audio combo jack, and a dedicated microphone jack. The power button sits on the far right. A media card reader is, unfortunately, absent.

Hiding That Legacy Drive

A slide-up top panel on the case front reveals the optical drive, a laptop-style DVD burner in our tester.

A Look Inside

The internal wiring is managed just well enough not to be called sloppy. The power supply isn't modular, but at least its cables are all black. The 80 Plus Bronze-rated model in our test unit is rated for 450 watts. Its bottom mounting location means the power cable doesn't have to hang from the top.

It's Air Cooling

The large processor air cooler and its 120mm fan dominate the case interior. The GTX 1060 graphics card just beneath it has a plastic front support bracket to prevent it from flexing the motherboard.

Two Drive Bays

The two 3.5-inch bays in the bottom of the desktop have slide-out caddies. No tools are required: Just pinch the bracket and pull. No screws are required to keep drives in the caddies, either.

Key Grip

The top handle on the Legion T730 makes hauling it around a lot easier.

Lenovo Vantage: The Lighting

The pre-installed Lenovo Vantage app governs the case lighting. You can switch around the 16.7 million colors of the RGB spectrum, adjust the brightness and patterns, or turn the lighting off across three profiles.

Lenovo Vantage: Overclocking

LenovoVantage Overclocking

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Computers are my lifelong obsession. I wrote my first laptop review in 2005 for NotebookReview.com, continued with a consistent PC-reviewing gig at Computer Shopper in 2014, and moved to PCMag in 2018. Here, I test and review the latest high-performance laptops and desktops, and sometimes a key core PC component or two. I also review enterprise computing solutions for StorageReview.

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