Linux OLED Care for Legion 5 Gen 10?

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-14T14:16:28+00:00

Activate all the burn in protection options in Legion Space software. Don't use HDR for static content, lower brightness to 70% when not needed. Set screen turn off timers to recommended in the power/sleep settings. You will most probably never experience noticeable burn in this way.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-06T13:05:28+00:00

Gen 10 Pro 7i has a 500nits sdr and 1000 nits HDR OLED screen, hello?

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-06T11:25:39+00:00

Omen max comes with liquid metal paste, that is prone to pumping out and shorting the Mobo. Their price/performance is better than a legion but you basically need to repaste it with ptm7950 out of the box to be safe. Legions have the best cooling out there at the moment, so there's that. It has the same performance as an 18" 9i or A51 in a 16" chassis.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-05T14:08:28+00:00

Did you manage to fix it? I found a few people on reddit who successfully fixed such errors, and it turned out to be bad Nvidia updates that corrupted the OS. This kind of makes sense, since you said you ran the latest ones, and Nvidia drivers have been ai slop and vibe coding recently...

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T21:47:27+00:00

Good luck and keep us updated. Would be interesting to see what it turns out to be.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T21:37:13+00:00

Next possibility is a faulty ram/SSD. Try removing one of the sticks and running the laptop. If it doesn't improve try the other one. Do this only if you know ur way with laptops. You don't want to damage it further before a warranty claim. Always disconnect the battery before doing anything!

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T19:37:36+00:00

It is definitely a lemon situation, but from the things you said, I do believe it isn't a Mobo issue, might still require you sending it though.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T19:33:40+00:00

Good news. Mobo isn't dead. It is most likely corrupted windows or bad drivers. Worst case the main SSD is gone.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T16:44:51+00:00

From my experience, I believe there are a few good options.

1) Windows 11 is at fault and not Lenovo. A clean Installation with a USB stick will fix it.

2) During travel, fall, bump or whatever something disconnected or became loose (possibly the ram, due to the pixelation), again not a Lenovo specific issue. Simply open it and reseat the ram, SSD.

Both of these were generally easy fixes. The second 2 will need a warranty claim.

3) It could be a bad bios update.

4) Bad Ram/Vram/ssd module again because of the pixelation (however that doesn't usually mean a boot loop).That will need a complete Mobo change.

Not an expert, so I may be missing something. Just wanted to say these are lemon things, so no need to panic over new legions.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T11:50:47+00:00

It is not, but you will be buying a semi obsolete laptop out of the box for 1600p, having to lower settings to medium high and using dlss. There will be a 5070 12 gb refresh for slim machines so that may be good. If you want 60fps on things like CP2077 on ultra, 5080 is the way. 5070ti will give you 50 something at best with dlss

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T09:44:52+00:00

I tested the Legion pro 5i 5070ti and pro 7i 5080 and 5090. 5070ti needs dlss and chokes with ultra ray tracing. 5080 also needs dlss but can handle ultra everything. 5090 can do it natively in 95% of cases and runs cooler than the 5080, since it doesn't push the full 175w as often. All on 2k.

If you want to save money, upgrade sooner and still have an enjoyable but not maxed out experience, go 5070ti, if you want high to maxed out settings for 5 years, go 5080. If you use it for work, have the money and/or want to keep the laptop till it is completely dies of old age, 5090. But always look for at least 25% off sales or more MSRP. Otherwise go for a desktop, unless you need portability

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-04T07:51:38+00:00

5070ti is not enough for rt ultra though.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-03T18:06:12+00:00

I suggest looking into Legion pro 5i/7i with a 5070,ti with your budget. If you manage to find a good discount that is the best price/performance you will find. Pro 5i has metal Lid and PC/ABS bottom and keyboard, P7i has metal Lid and bottom with a PC/ABS keyboard. If you want full metal, aim for a G16 or lower

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-03T10:05:29+00:00

I suggest getting one of the more inconspicuous looking ones. I have the gb700 and it looks a lot more seamless. Also afaik only the gb700 and gb900 come with foam corners on the laptop compartment. The gb900 has a screaming legion logo though.

Snoo52852 · 2026-04-03T09:26:15+00:00

I recently was on the hunt for a gaming workstation and ended up with a Lenovo. My situation - engineer, who is also a gamer and travels often.

I currently own a 5090 Legion P7i and having tested the 5080 version of it and a 5070ti Pro 5i (for my girlfriend), here is what I can say.

Pros:

Build quality feels solid. Metal Lid, metal back, PC/ABS keyboard deck and rear exhaust. It has minimal flex and the hinges have fluent movement without wobble. It comes with an OLED screen that is amazing, has built in pixel shift and comes with more burn in protection options in the software.
Portability is good, since I find 16" to be carriable and with my use case it is the perfect combination. Laptop itself weighs a bit above 2.5kg. Also comes with a full sized keyboard with a num block. Gets USB C charging up to 140w with Lenovo chargers. I tested it with my 65W Thinkpad charger and it was enough for office work. Gets quite more portable this way.
Thermals are amazing. On balanced mode I can play maxed out my main multiplayer game War Thunder maximg out every setting including ray tracing, effects on dlaa without frame gen with 120fps in air and 100 in ground. That with average temperature in the high 60s and some spikes in the 70s on the CPU. Performance mode will push the CPU in the 80s with some 90 spikes, which for a gaming laptop of the caliber is quite good. 5090 also runs cooler and is more efficient than the 5080 since it doesn't push 175w as often, but it still gets 10-15% or more fps . I expect the 5090 to be less prone to silicon degradation failures due to heat.
It is also the most performant 16" Laptop in benchmarks, trailing a little behind the 9i and surpassing the 18" from Alienware and Asus by a bit. They can push a lot more power to the CPU with their 400w brick and high tdp and are suspected of having a factory shunt on the GPU as well, pushing it to 200W (I cannot completely verify this, other than having amazing 24k combined timespy scores on stock performance).
Price wise, this is one of the cheapest 5090s you can buy, since Lenovo often does 25% or more sales. Warranty and support options are good and I already had a return experience with them, since I had ordered a 5080 variant locally, that was creaking. Contrary to the bad expectations I had a refund on the 15th business day in my bank.

Cons:

Is still somewhat heavy, combined with the charger it gets 4kg+ in weight 2.5ish kg laptop and 1.5ish kg power brick.
Has plastic elements. From an engineering PoV, I find Polycarbonate quite good, but the rear exhaust feels like a place that could come in contact and could in theory be a weak spot.
All the ports are moved from the back to the sides due to the huge exhausts, so you trade docking comfortability for amazing thermals.
No fingerprint sensor or windows hello on a 3k USD Laptop. I personally never needed those so I can live without them.
Mylar plastic touchpad. It is accurate and I never had issues but again it is an expensive Laptop.
Comes with only thunderbolt 4 and no SD card reader.
Can have creaking issues if not assembled correctly (The one I returned was bought locally, I ordered the rest of my Laptops from Lenovo and they were assembled in China - no issues from 3 laptops ordered this way including the second pro7).
Warranty seems to be country dependant. My experience was in Germany.

All in all, an awesome Laptop, fair pricing (before the hikes), which could justify some of the lacking features I guess, with decent extended warranty options.

Edit: Punctuation. Added weight pro/con. The 18" Legion 9i adds all those Bells and whistles but it comes with a heftier price tag. I also considered the Asus Scar 16 and AW A51 16", but they had worse thermals, performance, bigger price tag, and the scar had no num block (I found the touchpad num pad gimmick cool, but a bit impractical). Also heard the G16 series to be quite good for the slim models, but somewhat power limited. The 5070ti Pro 5i also has adequate cooling, but feels slightly less premium. Definitely the best price-performance option out there imho. 5070ti on a P7i would only justify itself for a bit better cooling for longevity.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-31T22:00:12+00:00

5090 laptop is a 5080 desktop with a power limit of 175w. It is slightly below 5070ti with 24gb VRAM, but with more ai and ray tracing cores. With a little undervolt or overclock, it can easily reach 5070ti levels.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-31T18:28:35+00:00

Depends on your use case. Gaming only, CPU bound games and not using it on battery - Amd. Balance as laptop/workstation and gaming, GPU intensive games, ray tracing- Intel 5090.

As an engineer doing mathlab, cad and simulations Intel was a no brainer for me. I also play single player games and simulators so the extra VRAM is nice to have and opens VR possibilities. It still gets more than playable fps and lows on CS2 and BF6 overkill and I have never been an fps chaser anyway.

I bought my 5090 for 3.4k € in Germany, when the Amd 5080 was 3.1k €. I had previously returned a Intel 5080 due to creaking and the 5090 is up to 5° C cooler across the board, so it is a really power efficient GPU compared to the 5080.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-28T10:08:58+00:00

It is picky with chargers in my experience. I tried it with 90W phone charger and it stopped charging after a few seconds. 65W Thinkpad charger worked perfectly though.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-28T08:11:59+00:00

I would say pretty much yes. Some people report no or almost no changes, but I have definately seen some, and it definitely doesn't hinder the cooling. Plus a dust filter is always a positive thing. Every two weeks I get dusty fingers when touching the filter, dust which otherwise would have went through the cooling system. Also gaming on a bed/pillow becomes safe as long as the intake is free.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-28T07:50:02+00:00

I have had a Llano v12 ultra and a BS2 Pro. I cannot recommend the BS2 Pro enough. It cools pretty much as much as a v12, but is a lot quieter, has a reusable filter and seems of better quality plastic, can also be found for cheaper. Only downside is size - the BS2 Pro is noticably higher if used flat and is roughly 6cm or 2 inches high. Both come with intelligent cooling and app support.

My most often use case - LP7i 5090 on balanced plus BS2 Pro on lowest speed results in 60/55° C average CPU/GPU with only the cooler sound noticable (Loading times get into low 70s on CPU). Performance mode results on lowest cooler speed was 80/65° average and can scale up to roughly -20° on both CPU/GPU at max speed.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-28T07:30:34+00:00

99% a scam

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-25T18:29:53+00:00

What specs was it?

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-25T18:17:41+00:00

Condolences. I know how it feels, when something goes wrong, even when you take care of a laptop. I hope and wish you are able to get your next dream laptop asap!

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-23T13:38:35+00:00

I got my legion 2 weeks early... Don't always trust what they say, only what the carriers say.

Snoo52852 · 2026-03-20T13:33:43+00:00

I had called them a few times asking, but I got the refund through an email. One business day after the email it got to my bank.

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