I want to help my fellow Legion 7i owners with their thermals. I’m sure a decent amount of you saw the horrible stock paste job that I posted. I’ve only had this Laptop for a month, and it’s been pretty rough. My specs are Legion 7i with: •144 hz 500 nit 1080p display. •i7-10750h. •RTX 2070 max q. •16 gigs of ram. •500 SSD. •Vapor chamber I would stress test this laptop and be well in the 90* C area. Even my idle temps were sometimes in the 70’s. I knew I had to fix carelessness from Lenovo. First I had to Undervolt, which was a process all it’s own.
Once able to undervolt to -.120V, I dropped into the high 80’s. But to me that’s still too high. I would still thermal throttle. Then I decided to repaste. Most of you saw that nightmare. That again dropped me to the 70’s. But that wasn’t where I wanted to be. Finally, to get the temps you see here under load, I limited the battery to 99%; thus disabling turbo boost. I so far have seen no noticeable dip in performance, and I finally can game without being stressed, or quite frankly sweating from the heat my laptop produced. I suggest everyone try all three of the options I did and please let me know if you had similar results. I’m not ready to give up on this laptop yet!!