r/LenovoLegion

Pretty much the title.

Went to get my laptop's fans get cleaned today and they mentioned they also do repasting for thermals but you have to bring your own.

Made me wonder what's the best or atleast recommended for my laptop. I mainly use it for video editing, gaming, and casual browsing

I have legion pro 7i gen 10 with 5080

Hey everyone,

I’m planning to study Mechanical Engineering next year and came to the conclusion that the Lenovo Legion 5 laptop is the best option to combine gaming, creative stuff and my needs for my study. It’s quiet, has a decent battery life, it’s light and features good specs. However, I’m still hesitating between 2 options.

Both options have 1 TB of storage, 32 gigs of 5600mhz ddr5 RAM and the same battery capacity.

Option 1 costs €1800. It’s the 2025 Lenovo Legion 5 with a Ryzen 7 350 and a RTX 5070. The screen is also a little smaller at 15.1 inches.

Option 2 costs €1700. It’s the 2026 Lenovo Legion with a Ryzen 7 450 and a RTX 5060. The screen is a little bigger at 15.3 inches, but I heard it does have adaptive sync, while the 2025 model doesn’t.

Both options are honestly pretty similar, but since one features a better CPU and a worse GPU and the other one the opposite, it’s really hard to make the right choice.

I don’t play very heavy games, mostly stuff like Valorant, Fortnite, Minecraft and Terraria. The heaviest games I’ll probably play are the Tomb Raider games. I don’t know what softwares my uni will be using for ME, but would suppose it would be mostly CAD or stuff like that. I also do video editing in Adobe After Effects and graphic design in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator.

Important for me are the battery life and performance. Is one going to outperform the other on one of these fields? What do you guys recommend? Would also appreciate total different recommendations. Thank you!

Hello

I know this trivial and i am bit OCD

1st when i got the laptop " 3 days ago " i found x rite in the quick settings panel

After i fresh installed windows it's gone

Is there any way to put it back in

Nothing major

Just my problem seeking brain

Hi, I spent a lot of money on this laptop and it's only been 2 years and all of a sudden computer shut down. When I restarted I got this error - No boot device found.

I restarted again and went into BIOS settings by spamming F2 and the SSD was not even detected there. Please help.

So funny thing, I was complaining earlier in another post that I may have sensitivity to OLED / PWM, and now the laptop is dead and already sent to the service center.

Here is my full story so you learn something from me.

I was on a hunt for a new gaming laptop and after lots of research found out that the Legion is supposedly a reliable, great brand with excellent performance.

I searched everywhere for good prices, but unfortunately local prices where I am, UAE, are around 1,000 USD more than the US variants. So I started checking the used market for something with warranty and found what looked like a great deal at the time.

It was a Lenovo Legion Pro 7, RTX 5080, 64GB RAM and 2TB SSD, with around 15 months local warranty remaining. I did all the testing I could think of. Lenovo app diagnostics, system testing, GPU tests, everything. All returned normal. The GPU tests ran without issues. The laptop looked clean, no scratches, and was in pristine condition.

I bought it for approximately 3,123 USD. It was used for only 8 months. A new model with the same specs here in the UAE costs around 4,200 USD

Fast forward. On the second time opening the laptop, I updated the Lenovo Vantage app, then closed the laptop. The next day I opened it, did some light browsing, and within the first 2 minutes I heard a clicking sound. Then the fans went ballistic. I mean extremely, extremely loud. I checked the temperature and it was normal. The laptop was not hot at all. Then it shut down on its own.

At first, I thought maybe Windows being Windows.

I opened it again, and within 1 minute or less after booting, the same thing happened. Fans went crazy, then shutdown.

I started searching with the help of GPT-5.5 and Claude Opus, and both pointed me toward checking the BIOS.

So I did, and that is where I saw the GPU reading as **Invalid**.

Then I made a stupid mistake. I changed the graphics mode to **Discrete GPU**, thinking maybe it would force the GPU to work or detect properly. Big mistake. After that, the screen went completely black. No Lenovo logo, no BIOS, nothing. Just pure black screen.

I tried everything I could safely try:

* Power drain reset

* Holding the power button for 60 seconds

* Blind BIOS reset

* External monitor

* Trying to get back into BIOS

* Charger only / battery only style checks

Nothing worked.

The laptop is now with the service center. Warranty told me they will give me an update on Tuesday on whether they will accept the warranty claim. They also told me if the laptop was opened before, they may not accept it. And this is exactly where buying used becomes scary, because even if the laptop looks perfect, even if Lenovo diagnostics pass, even if warranty shows active, you still don’t fully know what happened to it before you owned it.

The tests may all pass. But you still don’t know if it was opened, repasted, repaired, dropped, overheated, liquid metal touched, or anything else.

And now I am sitting here with a very expensive laptop that lasted me basically 48 hours.

The worst part is that I did everything “right” before buying it. I checked the condition. I checked warranty.

I ran diagnostics. I tested the GPU. I checked the specs. I compared prices. I thought I was being smart saving around 1,000 USD compared to buying new locally.

But honestly, after this experience, I don’t think the savings were worth the stress.

Moral of the story: **don’t buy used gaming laptops unless you are fully ready to accept the risk.** Especially high-end machines.

A used laptop can pass all tests today and die tomorrow.

Now I’m waiting for Tuesday to see whether the authorized repair center from Lenovo accepts the warranty or not.

If they reject it because it was opened before, then this becomes one of the most expensive lessons I’ve learned.

I’ll update once the service center gives me the final answer.

I need a .bin BIOS image for my computer. So I can save this computer can someone from reddit do this if you do what would you need?

Edit: sorry s7 ach6 laptop

Laptop model: lenovo legion 5 gen 10 (5070 core ultra 7 255hx variant)

Basically I bought this laptop like a month ago and it's under warranty. It's brand new. However I've been recently experiencing an issue. Basically I'm playing a game like pubg or remnant 2 and my gpu drops down to 0.6 volts and 1000 mhz. It's suppose to run at 0.9 volts at 2700 mhz. Due to this the fps drops significantly (from over 100 to barely 60). The issue used to get resolved by restarting the laptop but now it's persistent. Once this happens the gpu gets locked at 0.6 volts and low clock speeds and doesn't get better. It could be throttling but the gpu temp doesn't go above 86c although the cpu is going to 96c (it went to 102c today). The laptop is set at performance mode through the legion software during these sessions.

Is this a common issue? Is it something worth making a warranty claim over?