Lenovo Legion 9i Gen 8 (16, Intel) review – hands down, so much power inside a thin chassis

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to have a sneak peek at the powerful internals, you have to undo 8 Phillips-head screws. After that, you can pop the bottom panel with a thin prying tool starting from the back. You don’t have to pry the front side, raise the plate carefully until you hear a slight click sound and you can lift it away from the chassis.

Here’s how the bottom plate looks on the inside.

The battery is a big 99.99Wh unit. To remove it, pull out the connector before undoing the six Phillips-head screws that are keeping the model in place. The capacity is enough for 4 hours and 21 minutes either Web browsing or video playback.

The SSD section is protected by a metal plate. There are three thermal pads on the inside of the shroud – two for the NVMes and one for the Wi-Fi card. The two M.2 slots are compatible with Gen 4 SSDs. RAID 0 is also supported. Because the motherboard is inverted, the two RAM slots are placed on the other side of the board. They fit up to 32GB of DDR5-6400 MHz RAM or 64GB of DDR5-5600 MHz RAM.

Part of the hybrid Legion Coldfront thermal system is visible. It comprises liquid and air cooling. We can see three fans and five heat sinks, there rest is hidden on the other side of the mainboard. Interestingly, the liquid cooling isn’t always active. It runs over the GPU VRAM and it kicks in when the video card reaches 84°C. In our case, this didn’t happen because the maximum reached temperature during testing is 78°C.

Author: Nikolay Palaozov

Author: eng. Kroum NikolovHead of Engineering at LaptopMedia.com, inventor and innovator with 40+ years of experience in electronics and high technology.

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