Lenovo LOQ 15i (Gen 9) Review: The New Budget Champion for Gamers

Disassembly, Upgrade options, and Maintenance

If you want to have a look at the internals, you must undo 10 Phillips-head screws. Then, pry the panel with a thin plastic tool starting from one of the top two corners.

The plastic there feels a bit bendable so don’t push too hard. After that, pop the back, then the sides – the front should be last.

There are two thermal pads on the inside of the bottom panel for cooling the NVMe drives.

Here, we have a 60Wh battery. To remove it, detach the connector from the motherboard and undo the 4 Phillips-head screws that keep the unit in place. The capacity is enough for 3 hours and 8 minutes of Web browsing or 2 hours and 47 minutes of video playback.

The RAM zone is covered by a metal plate that has thermal pads on the inside for cooling the memory sticks. The two SODIMMs can handle up to 32GB of DDR5-4800MHz or 5600MHz RAM in dual-channel mode. Our notebook has just one 16GB memory module that works in single-channel mode.

For storage, you can rely on two M.2 slots for 2242 or 2280 Gen 4 SSDs.

The cooling looks good for such a laptop. It has two big fans, one thick heat pipe shared between the CPU and the GPU, and one more for each chip. There are also two heat sinks and two large metal plates.

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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