Under the Hood of the Lenovo Legion 5 & SSD Tests

RE: Under the Hood of the Lenovo Legion 5 & SSD Tests

genebren — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 22:40:06 GMT

Thanks for the look under the hood! The performance of this computer seems to be pretty good. I recently bought a lower end Dell laptop, with not nearly enough RAM (12 GB, Windows 10). I am still waiting for higher density memories to be in stock so I can upgrade the RAM to the maximum of 16GB.

RE: Under the Hood of the Lenovo Legion 5 & SSD Tests

DAB — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 18:24:38 GMT

Nice look inside.

Have you considered testing its performance with encryption/decryption of the data files?

RE: Under the Hood of the Lenovo Legion 5 & SSD Tests

cstanton — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 12:52:08 GMT

It's crazy that we're starting to need to heatsink our storage. How're laptops going to cope? They're already embedding nVidia GeForce 30 series chips that are thermally throttling because they get too hot too quickly, and CPUs not able to reach their peak speeds.

And I'm sure we can't find something like this on a laptop SSD:

I fear we'll move towards remote access and subscriptions for processing being more common.

RE: Under the Hood of the Lenovo Legion 5 & SSD Tests

Andrew J — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 09:09:06 GMT

You’re on a roll! Good to see that it’s upgradeable in so many ways; I thought the trend was to prevent that at all costs. Soldered RAM anyone? TBH I’m not much of an upgrader, beyond avoiding Apple’s ridiculous prices for RAM in an iMac, and I’ve spent way too much in the past. I just want it to be repairable without recourse to big bills due to unnecessary replacements. Batteries are a big bugbear of mine, especially as the lack of serviceability results in stupid amounts of e-waste.

If you replace the Sata drive with an M.2 aren’t you going to need to heatsink that sucker? Your PCIe4.0 option in the future is TB connected in a heatsink case. This arrangement doesn’t seem to suffer speed-wise and is much easier to thermally manage. I guess if you were to do heavy 8k video conversion it may suffer a bit but I’ve not found an issue even “small scale” heavy-duty work like image processing and conversion, and it’s great for VMs.