u/GnarrFacee

It was all going good until it wasn't going good anymore and now I feel gridlocked. It's either find a fix for the bottlenecks and space constraints or quit. Any ideas? Reworking anything takes ages and tons of time relinking. If I was to redo the entire thing I would have to figure out what component goes into what goes into what and I'd probably make a mess again. I went down a bit and created a storage hub and was considering sending lines down with every material there but that doesn't really fix the bottleneck and storage problem. Unless I do that, set up cargo dispatchers, and just leave. What's the play here?

(Edit: see picture posted below, I wrote down all the machines I had building what, set up a main platform, and I'm going to streamline this)

I bought this laptop a while back:

Lenovo Legion 7 Pro
Intel Core Ultra 9 275HX
Nvidia 5070 TI
2tb NVMe SSD
32gb DDR5 6400 RAM

I love it! If you were considering it I highly recommend it, and if you have it that's why I'm writing this. For power users, check it out. For everyday users, don't be afraid of this, it is safe. It's just a CPU power adjustment between what is already in the preset balance and performance modes.

You probably know this laptop likes to run the CPU hot. It's normal for modern CPUs to do this but if you're buying this to game for longer periods you're going to notice a very hot keyboard, the CPU slamming itself into the thermal limit, or just running heavily in the 80-90° range, especially in performance mode (red center legion LED). You could just say "balance mode is fine, temps stay cool" but you arent using your GPU potential like this and there is a better way.

The simplest way to maintain performance and run at decent temperatures is to use the Legion Space app and use custom mode. My goal is to run the laptop similar to performance mode under full gaming loads and have *only the brief CPU boost spikes* hit just under a new limit of 95° (instead of the default of 104°)

I have tested this for ~25 hours with Arc Raiders, Battlefield 6, Clair Obscur Expedition 33, Pragmata, StarRupture, and MX ATV Legends. This is the final revision with dialed in wattages

There are a few things to note here

* This custom mode power setting is not unsafe to do. It is within the safe power ranges of the balanced and performance mode toggles already preset. We are only lowering CPU power from Performance preset

* The GPU runs consistently around 65-72° and using maximum wattage lets it be fully utilized without ever overheating. Running it at full power is ideal

* "Balance" preset underpowers the GPU heavily while still getting unnervingly high CPU spikes and no fan control

* "Performance" preset runs the GPU at full power but now the CPU temps are alarming

* This custom preset for gaming brings the CPU wattage down closer to balance mode but maintains the full GPU performance of performance mode. It runs significantly cooler, manages boost better, has much higher FPS than balance mode, and gives you fan control. Temps max out on rare occasion just under a new thermal limit of 95°. It won't usually reach 95°, that is the new maximum limit brought down from 104° and has been carefully tuned for performance vs thermals. Even while boosting it only briefly/rarely reaches ~93°