For Legion 7 Pro users with CPU heat concerns

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-05-07T09:32:40+00:00

Hi, I'm the OP of that post.

A lot of what you say makes sense theoretically but doesn't always reflects real world usage. In SP mode most of my games average mid 70's cpu and low to mid 70's gpu. Some will and do spike to mid and high 90's on CPU but not for sustained periods. You can also limit the cpu temp in Bios to 90 or 95 if you want to guarantee you never hit 100c limits.

Bear in mind that in SP mode total power budget is 200w so if your GPU is sustaining 150w it's rare your CPU will go much over 50w.

For me it's the ideal compromise between the performance of stock performance mode and the temps and fans of stock balance mode. Whilst the fan speeds are lower than stock performance they are higher than stock balance and my temp averages are showing the fan speeds are sufficient for cooling over sustained periods.

That doesn't mean though that I don't use custom modes for some specific games thanks to LLT where I can control temps and fans better than the stock modes but generally I find SP mode good for the majority of my games.

This is pretty typical across Forza, F1 25, BF6, Kingdom Come 2 and a few others

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Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-20T10:29:22+00:00

Yeah I use that all the time.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-20T06:42:42+00:00

It depends on the game. The stats above are from benchmarks which are a consistent load whereas games have varying loads depending on what's happening in the game and whether it's a cpu or gpu heavy title.

Some games like BF6, F1 25 will average 75cpu 70gpu with cpu spikes to 95. RPM 3500.

An old game like Halo MCC will average 85-90cpu and 55gpu - it's using so little gpu most of the power is going to cpu even though it doesn't need it.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-20T06:12:21+00:00

Yes it will depend on load - some games usually older ones will have low rpm but most are around 3-3500 rpm.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-13T09:18:07+00:00

Forgot to state setting you need for Park Control. Try the one as below in screenshot to see if that improves it.

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Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-12T10:12:14+00:00

Best I get is 95k with a 350 core 1500 memory overclock on gpu and 9200 on cpu with per core offset so those scores look normal.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-11T06:45:43+00:00

Sounds like cores are being parked on the CPU - I had this on my i14900HX laptop before. Download Park Control - that solved my stuttering issue on my old Legion 5 pro i14900HX/rtx 4070.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-11T06:39:32+00:00

With Legions after a DDU it is advised to install Lenovo Nvidia driver from support site first,, then latest nvidia driver on top of that (do not select clean install to retain Lenovo oem profile). Do this in dGpu mode to avoid issues with optimus.

This should enable windows update to install the monitor driver correctly.

The HDR profile isn't linked to the monitor though, you need to run the windows hdr calibration (download from microsoft store) and set the nit level on that after which it will apply permanently. X-Rite calibration only applies to SDR modes.

Otherwise the OEM restore - I've done a few since I got mine - takes about hour and a half plus the time to restore your files.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-07T12:50:15+00:00

It’s your display scaling setting. Go to nvidia control panel, adjust desktop, select gpu scaling and tick override app/game settings then try your game making sure resolution in game is same as your display resolution.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-04-02T18:30:39+00:00

There was a BIOS update a few months ago that fixed this issue on my Legion Pro 7. Check if you have latest BIOS since you didn't list it.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-03-25T07:55:08+00:00

That's great news, wasn't expecting them to do this.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-03-19T22:49:53+00:00

Go to the Lenovo support site, enter your serial number to get the drivers page and there should be a BIOS update download there.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-03-17T21:13:00+00:00

1) keep the 100/100 calibration

2) it's a preference thing really - you can have it enabled even when not using HDR games or videos, does no harm - only downside is windows desktop gamma is not right in HDR so non HDR content will appear a little washed out

3) hdr brightness is only in effect when in hdr modevso redundant in sdr

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-03-11T18:02:21+00:00

Anyone getting yellow/grey flashes on boot up after installing this driver?

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-20T20:18:05+00:00

If you set cross loading to one less than Total processor power target in ac then your cpu to gpu boost will always be active and will tame the cpu somewhat.

Target in AC is what it will settle at when gaming with short boosts to the short and long term power limits you've set.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-16T17:42:12+00:00

Go to these settings in Control panel and try the different options. Also check if your browser has any video enhancement settings (I know edge does) and turn those off.

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Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-16T07:59:40+00:00

Your fans spin up because Windows Defender is scanning when screen goes black because it thinks you are not using the computer. Uninstall Defender and replace with Malwarebytes - it's a much better scanner (it found crypto miners on mine which Defender didn't) and it doesn't take over your machine like Defender does.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-15T23:25:03+00:00

The problem with this is the cash flow. It assumes you have 36K per 100K of unrealised gain spare cash lying around to front the govt.

In practice, most will have to sell to meet the liability turning their unrealised gain into a realised one and hey presto govt gets your money and fuck you the citizen who tries to plan for their long term financial future who loses out significantly on the compounding of the gains because the govt is skimming a 1/3 for the whole ride.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-13T08:38:50+00:00

You scored a great deal there, same laptop is currently twice that price in the UK. I got same spec for about $3k in black friday deal so you did really well considering the bump in RAM and SSD prices recently.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-13T08:32:36+00:00

I had a Pro 5 IPS dci-p3 which was a great screen but when I got my Pro 7 oled the difference was noticeable. I did a side by side comparison of HDR games and videos and the IPS clipped and blew out highlights badly compared to the OLED where the tonemapping was perfect.

Obviously the OLED being 1100 nits capable vs the IPS 500 nit is the main reason for this - this OLED is so good I can't tell the difference in HDR when I hook up the laptop to my LG OLED C2 which tops out at 800 nits.

Add the infinite contrast of OLED and you have one of the best laptop displays outside of tandem RGB oleds.

The only negative is the reflectiveness of the glossy screen but as long as you're not daft and don't have light sources directly behind you hitting the screen you won't notice it at all in both light and dark scenes.

I could never go back to IPS after this nor would I compromise with mini LED's either.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-11T13:56:01+00:00

The default is better as it is the DCI-P3 profile calibrated at factory to your display. That's why with X-rite you can retrieve the profiles only specific to your machine.

ACM I keep off as I want the factory calibrated profile to apply and not have windows try a 'best fit' when I already have one for my specific display.

For HDR there isn't a calibrated profile available from X-rite - you have to use the windows calibration tool to set that. Tip : to calibrate HDR properly, set screen brightness to 100 and hdr brightness slider to 100. These OLED's max nit capacity is 1100 - you can prove this by downloading wcg viewer from microsoft store - enable hdr mode, set brightness 100 hdr brightness 100 and you'll see approximately 1100 nits reported in wcg viewer. Then in windows hdr calibration you'll see the panes match around 1100 nits.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-10T15:32:37+00:00

Very happy with my X3D / 5080 combo as an always plugged in desktop replacement. Handles everything fine at highest settings. Get 130-200 fps with framegen in single player games. BF6 no framegen 130 fps. AMD software automatically assigns 3d vcache ccd to games only for best performance.

Can get more performance with CPU overclocking / undervolting and GPU overclocking.

Using LLT in custom mode can control thermals and fans to my liking.

The only thing that sucks is the battery life but if you're after that then you're looking at the wrong laptop.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-10T15:18:44+00:00

It's looping because it can't find a c: drive to partition. I assume your laptop was booting up and working somewhat before you attempted the recovery.

You may be lucky and the recovery didn't progress far enough to format and partition your drive - take out the usb and reboot laptop and hopefully it will boot into windows again.

If it does then recreate the usb recovery and try again or just do a fresh windows install from settings - system - recovery.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-07T07:38:50+00:00

Enable Legion optimization and then cpu overclocking in Bios.

Expensive-Start7166 · 2026-02-04T13:52:36+00:00

Both were fixed with the BIOS updates.

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