Lenovo LOQ Tower 26ADR10

The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at 76th percentile is the standout here, making this a solid 1080p and 1440p gaming machine. But 16GB of RAM at 56th percentile and a compact score of 23/100 mean you're getting a big, heavy tower with a laptop CPU inside. At $1,570, it's a decent value if you can live with the compromises.

The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is the star here. At the 76th percentile, it's one of the better GPUs you'll find in this price range, and it'll chew through 1080p gaming without breaking a sweat. 1440p is also very doable, though that 8GB of VRAM might start feeling tight in a couple of years as games get hungrier. The Ryzen 7 8745HX is a solid performer at 71st percentile, but it's worth remembering this is a mobile chip. It's got 8 cores at 3.6GHz base clock, which is plenty for gaming and most productivity work, but it won't match a desktop-class Ryzen 7 or Core i7 in sustained heavy workloads.

The 1TB NVMe SSD is a nice inclusion at the 75th percentile. You'll fit a decent game library on there before needing to expand. The 850W PSU is overkill for this config, which is actually good news if you plan to upgrade the GPU later. You've got headroom. The 16GB of DDR5 is the weak link at 56th percentile. It's fine for gaming today, but if you're the type who keeps 40 Chrome tabs open while gaming, you'll feel it.

Against the HP OMEN GT22-3080, the LOQ holds its own on GPU performance but likely falls behind on overall build quality and port selection. The Apple Mac Studio M4 Max is a completely different beast, aimed at creators rather than gamers, and it'll crush the LOQ in workstation tasks while costing significantly more. The MSI Aegis ZS2 A9NVP-1407US is probably the most direct competitor, and MSI typically offers better port selection and more RAM at similar price points. The Dell Tower ECT1250 and CLX SET TGMSETRTU5204BM round out the field, with CLX being a boutique builder that usually offers better customization. The LOQ's main advantage is that RTX 5060 Ti at 76th percentile, which beats what you'd typically find in similarly priced prebuilts from Dell or HP.

At $1,570 USD, the LOQ Tower 26ADR10 is priced right in the middle of the mid-range gaming desktop market. The GPU and storage are the value drivers here, both sitting comfortably above average. But the RAM situation bugs us. 16GB at this price point feels like Lenovo cut a corner, especially when the 850W PSU suggests they were thinking about upgradability. You're paying for a solid GPU and a beefy power supply, but you'll probably want to add another 16GB of RAM sooner rather than later, which tacks on another $50-80 to the real cost. The single US listing at $1,570 means you're not going to find much price variation, so what you see is what you get.

The Lenovo LOQ Tower 26ADR10 is a weird mix of genuinely impressive parts and some head-scratching choices. The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB lands in the 76th percentile for GPUs, which puts it well above average for gaming desktops, and the 1TB NVMe SSD sits at the 75th percentile. That's a solid foundation for a mid-range gaming rig. The Ryzen 7 8745HX is a laptop chip stuffed into a desktop tower, which is unusual but not necessarily a dealbreaker at 71st percentile CPU performance.

But then you look at the rest of the package. 16GB of DDR5 RAM is just 56th percentile, which is about average but feels stingy for a $1,570 machine. Port selection is 64th percentile, fine but nothing special. And the compact score of 23 out of 100 tells you everything you need to know about this thing's footprint. At 11.5kg, this is not a small tower. It's a full-size desktop with a laptop processor inside, which is a strange combo we're still wrapping our heads around.

If you're tight on desk space, look elsewhere. The compact score of 23 out of 100 and 11.5kg weight mean this tower is a monster. Content creators and workstation users should also think twice, since the workstation score of 68.1 and creator score of 66.9 are both lower than the gaming score of 72.5, and the laptop CPU will hold you back in sustained rendering or encoding tasks. And if you're the type who wants max settings at 4K, the 8GB of VRAM on the RTX 5060 Ti is going to be a bottleneck sooner than you'd like.

The Lenovo LOQ Tower 26ADR10 is a capable gaming machine with a genuinely good GPU and a puzzling CPU choice. The RTX 5060 Ti at 76th percentile is the reason to buy this, and the 850W PSU means you won't need to swap it out when you eventually upgrade. But the 16GB of RAM at 56th percentile and the massive 11.5kg chassis with a 23/100 compact score are real compromises. If you're looking for a plug-and-play gaming rig that'll handle 1080p and 1440p well, this does the job. Just budget for a RAM upgrade and make sure you've got the desk space for a tower this size.