Thought I'd share mine, Legion 5 Ryzen7 5800H with RTX3070 and other bits of accessories. Pretty please with it so far and I preferred the FHD 165HZ panel as I will be plugging it into an external monitor. I'm more conscious about the battery life when I'm on the road.



Really liking the RGB keyboard but I wished there were more customisable options


Legion XXL mouse pad




This post has been edited by Kelvw: May 23 2021, 12:06 AM

busted

Yeah, I'm currently residing in the UK. I got mine the next day from the retailer however we do have the same slow and late shipment if ordered directly from Lenovo itself.
I almost bought the Legion5 Pro when it was available and at almost the same price as Legion 5 but delivery was due in August. It's way too long and as mentioned, I didn't need a QHD on a laptop. Otherwise, the specs are similar-ish and I wanted a less gamer like looking laptop case. I'll be looking to add a second NVMe next too.

This post has been edited by Kelvw: May 23 2021, 12:15 AM

Which laptop did you get?

Sweet! Nice one! The Pros kept going out of stock so quickly.

My 34" UW Coolermaster monitor just arrived today. Can't wait to plug in the Legion 5.

Pretty pleased with the setup

Unfortunately you can't assign individual colours per-key although I believe the keyboard is quite capable as demonstrated in its presets. I don't know why Lenovo did not implement it.
You can assign various keys but it'll be just one colour.

That's the Coolermaster GM34-CW. The colour gamut on this thing is incredible.

Awesome bro! How do you like it so far? I see that they've put a massive sticker on the bottom right of the palm rest too
I just bought some games to test it out too, will try some over the weekend if the download isn't too slow. I have to say the laptop is good at keeping a low thermal.
I did try rendering at Cinebench at Performance mode, the fans were spinning up like a plane lol. However, I'm impressed with the Ryzen's performance.

You need a 44" super ultrawide next

Nice review Were you playing the COD on 2k resolution? Tbh I think the weight of laptop is ok but the power brick is heavy but still isn't too bad for me coming from having to lug a 17" Dell Precision workstation laptop in the past.

Those are pretty sweet big screens! Would love to see the setup when you get them.

Ah good to hear that the Legion support more than a 1tb NVMe. I presume I could safely order a 2tb NVMe for my Legion 5 as well?

Just purchased a 2tb Crucial P5 NVMe SSD for the Legion 5. Just thought I'd share this to those who are on the fence of upgrading in the future.
Btw this is a PCIe 3 but I'm not sure if the Legion would support PCIe 4?










It was installed on the Legion 5 (Gen 6) which comes with a SSD thermal pad and cover which I presume acts as a heatsink spreader. It's being used as an additional secondary drive as the main boot SSD drive SKHynix is equally as fast. This particular Crucial P5 is known to be quite hot in all the reviews I've seen and I was a little worried especially for a laptop. I'm glad Lenovo included the heatsink/cover plate as I've seen some Legion 5 especially with 60watt battery doesn't come with one but instead occupied with a 2.5 SSD caddy. ​





At idle the Crucial P5 is around 35c and whilst at load with CrystalDiskMark, I'm getting 63c max
In comparison to the SKHynix, idle is 43c and load at 56c

Temperature wise, it isn't too bad but I guess I had heatsinks to help manage the heat. I was worried initially about super high temperature but if you have the Legion 5s, Pros or 7s, this shouldn't be an issue.

Speed is pretty good and I'm getting speeds close to as advertised. Also I've transferred 32GB files in around 32secs between SSD drives.

Overall I couldn't be any happier.

Btw Love the small little details behind the back cover



This post has been edited by Kelvw: Jun 23 2021, 08:43 AM

I'm in UK atm, and I bought it through Amazon for £170 (MYR 980) as we had a 2 day Amazon Prime sale. Otherwise it's £282 (MYR 1,600) which is insanely expensive.

Yeah, I'm not too fussed. I just preferred a less gamer looking machine and a lower res screen to extend battery when travelling. Otherwise it's connected to an external monitor most of the time.

No issues but I'm not messing with anything else on the board. I make sure I''m discharged of any static first. I did killed a couple of RAMs many years ago at work as I was on a carpeted flooring. Lesson learned lol...
It was an expensive one as we were using Silicon Graphics machines.

For some of you that may be interested. The SKHynix drive that comes with the Legion 5 is pretty speedy.



In comparison to the Crucial P5 2TB NVMe



Just for heck of it and probably inaccurate, I enabled Momentum Cache on the Crucial drive which pages memory to the RAM. The boost is insane

You could try downloading Crucial’s Storage Executive from its website. I'm not sure if it works for non Crucial drives but worth trying it out.
There's an option in the software to enable Momentum Cache.

I've not found an answer anywhere but incase anyone is wondering if their Legion5 RTX3070 could handle a 49" Super UltraWide monitor, I'm happy to say 'Yes' and without any issues so far. It is able to drive the 5140x1440 resolution. I've manage to get about 90 - 100fps on Horizon 4 with Ultra Settings, HDR enabled.