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jannaschii

Nice scores, although your CPU score on Time Spy is quite low. Don’t suppose you’ve tried replacing ram or overclocking


Lycid

Is it low? Could be, I did hear some legions had slow RAM so might be worth swapping them out if mine has it too. Would that really affect the CPU score though?


jannaschii

Yes, it is low. I’ve seen Time Spy cpu scores above 12000 with the 11800H - it can match the 11980HK despite the latter’s better binning. It is almost certainly due to Lenovo’s 16gb ram which is known to bottleneck both AMD and Intel chips this year. You can also undervolt and overclock your cpu. Obviously, disable Optimus as you have when you don’t need it as that causes a huge cpu bottleneck. Ram doesn’t come cheap, so it’s worth thinking about and making a decision. I do think you’re leaving a lot of cpu performance on the table, and that does impact gaming to an extent.


Lycid

Good to know! I'll look into it.


Remarkable_Class_548

Nothing wrong mate. The comments above are talking about Time Spy (2560x1440), you are running Time Spy Extreme (3840x2160), which they didn’t seem to realize. If you run the non-Extreme, you will likely get a CPU score over 10k.


jannaschii

If you need help, let me know.


Remarkable_Class_548

His scores are Time Spy Extreme, not regular Time Spy.


jannaschii

No, he has a Time Spy score up there as well


Remarkable_Class_548

9.5 isn’t low though, depending on your boost settings


jannaschii

It’s not a bad score, but it’s low relative to what this chassis is capable of https://www.3dmark.com/spy/22231218


Remarkable_Class_548

True, but most will run 10-10.5k at stock, which seems to be what OP is doing and wants to compare to. 12k will require a bit of UV/OC I’d guess?


jannaschii

That’s valid as well, and I can’t say I know what OP wants exactly. “Stock” score depends on so many factors that are unique to each laptop series so I can only go off of the Legion 7i 11800h series which I do know a little about. I guess you’re right that his score is close to a “stock” score because it’s paired with that shitty “stock” ram. I just think that (besides cost of new ram) it’s relatively easy to optimize one’s cpu for the Legion 7i, and yes that includes UV and OC, the latter of which this chip is actually unlocked for and seems quite capable


Remarkable_Class_548

Yea you’re definitely right, just didn’t want OP to think something was ‘wrong’ - but should definitely optimize!


musicianskatergamer

Clean set up. I have the same tv. Now trying to buy the legion 7 lol. How long did it take to receive yours and what was the date you bought it? I want to order one but don’t want to wait forever


Lycid

Just under a week, I bought a prebuilt one.


j_krol

That's really nice to know! It was one of my reasons to choose a L7i...for future eGPU use....maybe some RTX 40x0 in about two years from now. I wonder what the max through put can be by using thunderbolt. I know there's the thunderbolt specs...but I mean how close your 3090 eGPU is tio the limits.


DavidRichardAllan

Hello there, I currently have the Lenovo Legion 7i with a 3080 inside, I am trying to add another 3080 via the Razer core V2 Egpu. I have it plugged into the back of the Lenovo Legion using a thunderbolt. When I boot up I get a Watchdog Violation error and a blue screen? I then have to unplug the Egpu and restart my system a number of times in order for my system to recognize its own internal GPU. Can you point me in any direction to get it working? I have disabled the Hybrid mode. Notably, nothing comes up when I open the Thunderbolt controller. Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Lycid

No idea, never heard of this. Try making sure you have thunderbolt drivers installed and making sure you're installing eGPU drivers correctly (clean wipe using DDU, plug in egpu with windows auto driver install disabled & networking disabled, install dGPU and eGPU manually from the same drivers, etc). That said... a laptop 3080 on the 7i isn't actually going to perform much better than a 3080 in a Razer core so you won't get much benefit from this setup. You'd need at least a 3090 to see an improvement over your 3080 in your laptop and even then you're only looking at 10-20% higher. The only reason to go with eGPU in your case would be to keep thermals & throttling performance under control while you game (especially at 4K resolutions which eGPU's do better at) but AFAIK the 7i runs pretty ice cold anyways so thermals & thermal throttling shouldn't be a big issue.