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you guys the packaging for the lenovo legion 7i which i am unboxing under the table here this is a pre-release unit that was sent over in non-finalized packing materials so i'm unfortunately unable to do that lenovo sponsored this video and we are going to be checking out their state-of-the-art legion 7i Windows 10 gaming notebook a slim fully featured machine that has as much gaming horsepower as you might expect from a machine twice the thickness but apparently it's got a cooling system on it that can more than tame the beast within wow first impressions of this are really professional and that's not a word that i would normally use to describe something with like a core i9 hk processor and 2080 super max q graphics card but this looks like you know it's like business but like gaming business look at this thing would you guys know this is a gaming machine i mean that's a hint the entire bottom of the thing has got perforations all across here and then for cooling we've got a vent on this side two vents on the back and then another vent over on the other side another thing we've got more of than you might expect in a modern machine is io that's really nice to see so we've got a type a over on the right hand side which personally i'm not a huge fan of on gaming machines especially when that's where all of the type a ports are lined up but fortunately this this i'm a big fan of we've got most of the i o here on the back so HDMI out two more type a's Ethernet thank you as well as a power plug and kensington log then over on the left hand side that is not one but two usb type cs one of which is Thunderbolt and we've got a headset jack that's about as much as most people are going to need now the main things lenovo asked me to draw attention to here are the screen the graphics horsepower their true strike keyboard which has 1.3 millimeters of travel in spite of the fact that this is a relatively slim gaming notebook and of course their cooling system naturally i want to know how you keep a core i9 hk processor and a 2080 super cool in a machine like this we were told lenovo submitted it to ul for verification and it ran for as long as nine hours without throttling that's impressive look at those fans now there has been a trend towards much much thinner fan blades over the years but those are tiny oh no way before even turning it on we know there's RGB lighting look at that tiny strips of RGB leds on the rear exhaust right there and right there i love it oh look at that wow look at that cooler the whole thing is one gigantic piece here now why would they do it that way let's run through what we're looking at here this is our CPU and the legion seven can be equipped with up to a core i9 hk that's Intel's top of the line mobile chip right here is our GPU surrounded by our graphics memory so here we're looking at anything from a gtx 1660 ti all the way up to an rtx 2080 super max q i actually don't know exactly what's in here but what i can tell you guys for sure is that it is not a 1660 ti because that is a gigantic die i will say though actually they did a fantastic job of their thermal paste application a lot of the time on these like pre-done machines you'll see just like gobs and gobs of thermal paste and it's kind of glopping all over the place but this is this is really tidy right over here is our motherboard chipset and over here we've got our dual m.2 drives so these are both oem versions of samsung drives i'm expecting very solid performance out of these and if i had to guess i'd say they're running in a raid zero configuration out of the box storage should be extremely snappy on this machine curiously whatever is under this here seems to be is it soldered down i can't tell oh that makes sense here i am all used to seeing soldered memory in laptops these days but no they have in fact not gone that route there we go so under this little shield right here we've got two slots for ddr4 soda memory and one of the remarkable things about this machine is that it can be equipped with up to 34 66 megahertz RAM that would be in a 2 by 8 gig configuration although i'm not 100 sure what we've got on here no it turns out we're running 32 gigs at 3200 megahertz something to note guys is that while they're using all samsung parts for the RAM and ssds in these it is very typical for these types of notebooks to multi-source so you wouldn't expect necessarily the exact same make or model especially when you choose a different memory configuration not all suppliers have the same availability of different speeds and capacities now to take a closer look at the cooler this is really neat i did notice that there was a surprisingly small number of heat pipes in the system and i guess this is to save on bulk because if you look at this they've actually got a heat pipe running over to this radiator right here and then this one goes and sits right next to the CPU and they've got a second heat pipe coming over near the GPU that runs over to this exhaust radiator right here but heat is actually carried from the CPU and GPU to these two the larger of the radiators by a vapor chamber vapor chambers are like a heat pipe except they are flat instead of tubes so that helps them save on some space and they're very high performance and it allows both of these to contribute to cooling for both the CPU and GPU depending on which one you're loading up more heavily because not every workload is going to stress both of them equally one thing you guys might have noticed is that on the inside there's no cooling for the m.2 modules that's because we've actually got these thick thermal pads on the bottom of the unit that are going to allow the m.2s to use the bottom of the laptop so the entire bottom plate as kind of like a giant aluminum heat spreader this is of course metal not plastic i'm impressed at how accessible this is it's only what like 10 screws and you can get at RAM storage pretty much anything that you'd want to upgrade after the fact oh there's even more RGB than i expected the keyboard is very RGB the good news is that i'm sure that there's a software way that you can tame that a little bit if you're not quite as into it this is pretty cool though check that out so you've got kind of like an RGB like underglow effect on the back where i showed you those strips that were coming out of the exhaust and oh oh there's more than i thought around the sides too look at this RGB all the way around the bottom of the unit i didn't even see that one immediately upon using this machine the high refresh rate display absolutely stands out it's about as light as you could possibly expect it to be i think they saved quite a bit of weight by going with a vapor chamber rather than heat pipes and that also seems to be a big factor for how they were able to keep it so thin so you can actually see from the outside what the internal layout is here under the touchpad which is relatively thin they've got the battery pretty much all the way across the front and then under the keyboard which they needed a lot of space for because they've got RGB lighting which is apparently Corsair iq compatible which is pretty cool so they've got that RGB lighting they've got that long travel on these keys and then of course they had to keep the rest of the machine all the performance guts as thin as possible it's pretty common to see the high performance stuff loaded towards the back so it's less likely that when you've got your palms down on the top of the machine you're going to get all sweaty and all that it occurs to me i never actually pulled out the power adapter so it's definitely a big boy this thing's rated at watts but they've done a pretty good job of keeping it relatively slim in fact it's not that different from the thickness of the laptop so whatever you're planning to slide your laptop into the power brick should fit in just nicely alongside it video editing might not have been lenovo's main goal when they were designing this laptop but given how many gamers put together montage clips or stream or whatever the case may be light to medium or even pretty heavy video production has become an expectation even if it's just like a gaming centric machine so the first thing i'm going to do is load up a timeline in premiere pro and we're going to encode a video and see just how well our CPU manages to turbo with that cooling solution we just looked at actually while i wait for that let's go ahead and see if there's any way for us to control the RGB on our keyboard and system here network boost prioritizes games all right what else we got in here what is auto close okay so it'll close apps you don't need when you launch a game suppress keyboard noise that's a handy feature not that the keyboard is particularly loud actually it stands out as not being particularly loud at all can you guys hear how quiet that is if you press it lightly you can't even hear the thing you definitely have to type with more intent than you might have to on a laptop keyboard that doesn't have such a long travel but it's closer to what you'd expect from a desktop like membrane keyboard curiously i don't see anything in the main app here for RGB control but what does draw my attention over here is an x right color assistant cog down in the system tray that is pretty cool so we're running the 144 hertz model but there are actually three different displays that this notebook could be equipped with from an hertz to an adobe RGB 144 hertz all the way up to the 240 hertz model all of which are up to 500 nits peak brightness and our vasa display HDR 400 certified with dolby vision awareness so you'll be able to interpret dolby vision content another standout feature of the display is g-sync compatibility now if we're running on the integrated GPU which you can see we are right now obviously we're not going to be able to do that but once we switch over to the NVIDIA GPU we should see that g-sync menu show up right here in the NVIDIA control panel man this CPU turbo's like mad so we're just generating peak files for the project right now and you can see we are regularly turboing up in the 4.5 plus gigahertz range now this is a light workload this is not a heavily multi-threaded workload but that's what gives you that snappiness this will give us a better idea of what to expect when this thing is being stressed this is eight to one red code raw footage that we're playing back in premiere you can hear the fans ramping up a little bit now hey but even at about 40 CPU load we're still turboed up to around 4.35 4.45 gigahertz that is not too shabby actually we don't even need to do a video export all i need to do is flick playback to full on 8k 8 to 1 red footage and that'll give us a full CPU load won't it yep so let's see what we turbo to when we're absolutely slamming this thing even the GPU is getting hit for about 20 high 30 low percent load here dang that is a surprisingly low hum let's flick it into the performance thermal mode and see how loud it gets now it's going holy shnikeys okay just a second we need to go back to that same segment and play this back again here wow in the performance mode it actually turbos several hundred megahertz higher across all eight cores and it's louder but it's not whiny it's more whooshy you can actually see the playback is visibly smoother than it was when we were in the balanced mode four gigahertz four plus gigahertz all core boost on mobile was a pipe dream not that long ago and yet here we are averaging over four gigahertz across all eight cores under heavy load all right enough thermal testing let's go ahead and jump into a game we're gonna start with apex legends all the settings are high with vsync off and we're just in training mode so we don't mess with other people's games this is so smooth apex is running at about 130 to 140 FPS at 1080p wow those guns sound good speakers are surprisingly boomy now on to forza horizon 4. all high settings again vsync off there is a ton of detail in these cars that's what a high powered GPU and a mobile device will do for you this is running really smooth thanks to the high refresh rate display and we're not seeing any tearing and as for the most important thing in car games the sound sounds good these speakers are real solid for a laptop with a surprisingly good cooling setup for the included core i9 and 2080 super a solid high refresh rate display and a quiet long travel keyboard lenovo has put together a pretty darn compelling machine starting at 50 99.99 us dollars oh i almost forgot what's pre-installed you've got the usual bloat that comes with Windows for whatever reason like from king.com you've got iq ah that explains why the RGB controls were not in lenovo software because you would use Corsair software for that that's pretty cool Corsair moving up in the world there we go okay everything is controlled from within iq we've got mcafee lenovo utility and other than that nothing that i would really consider to be egregious bloat everything else here is either stuff that we installed or stuff that i think is pretty cool like the x-ray color assistant that allows you to quickly change your display color settings so that's it that's a look at the lenovo legion 7i thanks to lenovo for sponsoring this video and to you guys for watching it oh i have more things plugged into the back than i remembered you're going to find a link to it in the video description if you want to check it out it's a lot of gaming laptop in a very slim form factor and with great thermals considering how thin it is"}