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This article first appeared in Issue 361 of PC Pro . Lenovo, as the heir to IBM’s PC business, has a long and illustrious history of producing among the best workstation designs. The P3 Tower is the latest in the line of mid-sized tower systems, with a solid construction and labour-saving features. However, the version we were sent came with a 13th generation Intel Core i9 processor, one behind other Intel-based systems this month, even though this system can be specified with the 14th generation. At least it’s a near range-topping 13900K, which has eight performance P-cores with Hyper-Threading and 16 efficiency E-cores without it. The P-cores have a base 3GHz clock and top Thermal Velocity Boost of 5.8GHz. The E-cores have a base 2.2GHz frequency with 4.3GHz boost. There is a KS version that’s a little faster still, but there’s not a huge amount in it – and Lenovo only supplies this workstation with vPro chips anyway. Lenovo has backed the Intel CPU with 64GB of 4,400MHz D...