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well hello good people this is the legion cube c 5:30 a portable gaming station that's all about the made range spec and i'm actually quite excited about this pre build system because of its price warranty and performance it's got its competitive advantage in that regard but the higher model the c 730 is also available with better GPU options and just other hardware and RGB illumination so the c 530 is all about that sweet spot for the target audience within that not exactly budget but value oriented consumer now I will say Lenovo Legion is a channel sponsor but they were like do your thing we want an unbiased genuine feedback loop so I would love to hear what you guys think about the system let's begin right after this the new Toshiba XS 700 external SSD comes in this beautiful and minimalistic design its ultra portable form factor is perfect for creative professionals on the go and with blazing fast USB 3 Gen 2 transfer speeds and Toshiba's excellent three-year warranty reliability shouldn't be a concern check out the X's 700 from Toshiba down below alright so let's begin with the most important aspect of any pre-built system and that is value and naturally we can expect some form of price premium but this is where the C 530 becomes really interesting so let's take the base model for example at 879 dollars you get an i5 8400 GTX 1050 TI 8 gigs of ram an optic module with one terabyte hard drive keyboard mouse windows license and a sweet case if you were to buy these parts individually you'll run about 810 dollars which is about an 8% price premium on the total value of the C 530 which i think is pretty decent this is not taking to account any shipping that you might have to pay for individual parts and of course the time saved of building the system yourself now for the higher-end configuration with an i7 8700 double the RAM the PCIe SSD and the rx 570 the price premium is about 17 percent making it less of a good value and so this base configuration then becomes pretty killer and price point but they do vary in regions and I wish that we had more hardware customization options like actually like a GPU drop down menu so if you don't want a 1050 Ti with your i5 potential a 1060 or anything higher and r-tx cards are supposed to be in the pipeline whenever they come out so they are thinking about the future upgradeable options but I wish that we had like a you know a little customization that is there and not just an entire spec sheet given to you per model but the one thing I appreciate is the warranty policy it is only one year but can be extended further but this whole system is designed to be user upgradeable so if you replace the hardware like your graphics card or swap out for additional CPU it does not void the warranty so the Nova Legion will still cover all the original hardware if anything goes wrong with that but one of the most interesting things about the C 530 to me is the enclosure itself I kind of wished it was sold separately because there's got a lot of cool elements like this front perforation with a built-in coarse dust filter behind it with a tasteful Legion logo illumination the dark gray color scheme looks nice and the side panels are easily removable so you can access the internals for hardware upgrades the handlers part of the frame that complex this compact size for transportation and the transparent honeycomb top is this good initiative to reveal the reddleman ation spill on the GPU and the back chamber although it is an acrylic piece and glass would have been so much better the front ago is almost hidden at the bottom with dual USB 3 and audio jacks while the rear i/o has six more USB ports two of which are Gen 2 with land graphics output and an additional HDMI on the motherboard there's also this rubber band to tighten exiting cables for a little extra organization the main airflow is delivered via the 292 millimeter fans at the front and 180 motor exhaust fan at the back the system is pretty quiet at idle but ramps up at audible levels upload so you'll need headphones to drown out the loud fans but I will be replacing those front fans with some nock twists and also populating a small low-profile CPU cooler for better temps and also quieter operation now lenovo tells us they might release a standalone version of this case which will be so awesome with some minor modifications to complement you know building system in it yourself so let us know if you're into this case or not in the comments below as you can see the interior looks fine cables are bunched up and secured all over the chassis the only non black cables are from the front fans but otherwise it's a clean job on both sides that pee-yew has an airflow shroud separating incoming air from the exhaust and I could replace it with something more powerful because we have an 8 pin PCI cable from the power supply but the power supply varies from 280 watts to 450 Watts so any upgrades must take that into account and the power supply is an ATX unit at 140 millimeters with bronze efficiency but if you're replacing it some units might not align with the cutout for the power socket at the rear now the sample configuration I received here does not actually exist in stores but with my i7 8700 GTX 1050 TI the frame rates at 1080p with high settings are quite good give me some Headroom for extra resolution at medium settings with ok frame rates but the gtx 1060 would definitely complement this cpu better the 1050 Ti used here is a non branded thread PCB open-air 1.5 slot card with a good factory overclock to 15 20 megahertz the ram is running in a single channel mode and branded as Ram Excel so finding an exact module will be super difficult so any ramp upgrades in the future will have to be totally new dual module kits the nvme SSD here are Toshiba XG 5 om drives with awesome performance the hard drives are Seagate 7200 rpm dry so not bad and the power supply is an ass belt branded Lenovo om unit that they use on many of their pcs now the cooler on here is pretty weak throttling to 3.4 gigahertz with 81 degrees Celsius at full load while the GPU stabilized at 78 degrees Celsius at 1520 megahertz and I wonder how many degrees we can drop by populating new fans and the beefier CPU cooler that still fits inside the chassis stay tuned for that Wow could this be the one this actually is the land cool one the case with a fantastic front panel design with a brushed aluminum plate complementing airflow and the gorgeous RGB illumination through the central cavity we've got a type C port at the front a capable interior for water cooling an airflow and a totally flush glass panel on the side and to spice things up the leonie's trimmer cables give off unique RGB illuminations for 24 and 8 pin cables controlled via the case lighting or through its own controller hub for this interesting color spill on the interior and you can check them out in the scripture all right so let's end this conversation with some real talk I want to see a standalone version of this case released with a glass top panel instead I want to see more hardware customization options like a GPU drop down menu so you can upgrade based on your preference I'd like to see a beefier CPU cooler included especially for the i7 models and the base configuration with only an 8% price markup versus if you were to buy the parts separately sounds like a really good deal however if you're entering the higher tier configurations then in price markup it reaches close to 20% making it less of a good value I do love the enclosure design and the compactness of this machine especially compared to other pre-built systems that sell for roughly the same price with the same configuration you know they're all mid towers and I really appreciate the compactness of something like this because you don't necessarily need an ATX motherboard for you know I 5 on a three with a single GPU I'm happy they're compacting things into this ITX form factor I would love to see the front panel redesigned to support larger fans so maybe do 120 s or single 140 fans so you can have slightly more airflow at quieter operation but now it is your turn to speak out given this whole user upgradeable nature of the system and an enclosure what might you upgrade first components wise would it be the GPU would you swap out the CPU cooler probably no the CPU itself you know like an i-5 for gaming is totally fine and yeah let me know in the comments alright guys that is it make sure to check out this other relevant content subscribe to our new boot sequence Channel and yeah we'll see you in the next video you