Lenovo to enter motherboard market under its gaming brand Legion
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Vananovion
I think the biggest news here is that Lenovo actually has a gaming brand. Who knew?
Stairmand
The rear IO looks pretty sparsely populated, only one full sized PCIe port means this is either going to be very cheep, terrible or possibly both.
Rainmaker91
Lenovo Legion laptops (and to those who still buys them prebuilt desktops) are among the most popular gaming brands out there along with Acer Predator and Asus ROG simply due to agressive pricing. Not saying they are the best brand, but they are hardly unknown.
The real shocker here is that Lenovo seems to use actual fins for their VRM cooling. I still don't get the blocks of alu that way to many manufacturers have been using for the past few years, finned heatsinks means that even crappy VRM designs can give decent power delivery for overclocking.
rl66
HP, Dell, Futjisu and Lenovo of course have their own "gaming" brand.
And as written in previous post, Legion laptop are very popular due to the price and the quality of the build (BTW Omen (the HP gaming brand) is nearly at the same level of sale than Asus... being quite doesn't mean inactive lol).
The DNA of lenovo is stability, last long and no over hyped thing.
If they keep it for Legion motherboard it might be around Asrock price and quality... clearly not bad.
I hope this rumor will concretise in something real.
Venix
Considering this is a b460 board it is most likely aimed to mid or low end market really so such cost cutting measures make sense , if they bring good motherboards ..they are very welcome in my books !
rl66
When you see "gaming" B450 from gigabyte with extra VRM and "gaming" cooler that can't deliver enough power for Ryzen 3950x when an MSI B450 PRO have no problem to do it with less VRM and no cooler on it (both without OC of course)... i think there is a part from the designer of the board that might make the diference.
Kaotik
TBH this looks more like Lenovo branding the motherboards they use as "Legion" rather than entering the motherboard market.
Rainmaker91
Board designs does indeed matter, but having heatsinks that actually disipate heat well makes it so that you can use cheaper chips to achieve the same results. So having actual fins on their heatsinks such as Lenovo has here does indeed make a difference. Gigabyte boards are a mixed bag when it comes to power delivery, they have some of the worst boards out there and some of the best boards out there, but the choice of not supporting the 3950x has more to do with Gigabyte not supporting it in the BIOS rather than the power delivery not being good enough in most cases.
schmidtbag
What part of the world are you from? The Legion series is sold in North America but I've never heard of it until now. I could see it being popular in Asia, since there aren't too many all-Asian pre-built gaming PCs that are actually worth getting. In China, brands like Alienware, Omen, MainGear, etc are likely more expensive than they used to be, so Legion is bound to be a much more appealing choice.
Tat3
This would be smart. Cant think of any reason why I would want a Lenovo motherboard if I was building a desktop PC.
H83
Well, more competition is always good for us but i wonder, what´s Lenovo plan to stick out from the rest of the crowd???
-Tj-
If its anything like by phones, show one thing release another, then i dont believe them much..
By phones they were called lienovo xD
Ahmad Bilal
BTW, they launched a peripheral range under the Legion brand. To my knowledge, it didn't work out pretty well.
sykozis
It's Lenovo.... They wouldn't stop at terrible..... They'll find a way to do worse....
Maybe for Intel.... When it comes to anything AMD, they're known for intentionally gimping performance.
Undying
The have some decent affordable gaming laptops but this desktop stuff is just bad.
Fox2232
I would be more afraid of support. Missing BIOS updates.
rl66
In here lenovo phone are called Motorola by Lenovo lol, my GF have one since many years it's a pure Android, no extra interface or app, but after all these years it is still elligible to OS's update, and about how strong is the phone we have a little boy that is very strong and tall and enjoy to throw things (or phone lol)
Alessio1989
Vare, redde mihi legiones meas!
Those MBs looks like a joke..
