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Everywhere I've found it for sale online has a 500w. UK, Germany, USA.

Open your computer and look to see what PSU you have.

 

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Last year i bought a Lenovo Legion T530-28ICB(from france if that helps) on a pretty good deal, with an i5-8400 and rtx 2060. Now i want to upgrade my cpu since it seems to bottleneck in games like warzone or fps games in general. Upon inquiring about my PSU (I dont have the guts to open case and check), a Lenovo community forum expert said i have a 350watt PSU.

How is that even possible? Forget about upgrading, now im worried about my PC blowing up. 

Can anyone help me? Hopefully the tech dude was wrong, since I've seen some people saying mine should have a 500watt PSU.

Thanks

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9 minutes ago, Onoykazi said:

Last year i bought a Lenovo Legion T530-28ICB(from france if that helps) on a pretty good deal, with an i5-8400 and rtx 2060. Now i want to upgrade my cpu since it seems to bottleneck in games like warzone or fps games in general. Upon inquiring about my PSU (I dont have the guts to open case and check), a Lenovo community forum expert said i have a 350watt PSU.

How is that even possible? Forget about upgrading, now im worried about my PC blowing up. 

Can anyone help me? Hopefully the tech dude was wrong, since I've seen some people saying mine should have a 500watt PSU.

Thanks

thttps://www.lenovo.com/us/en/desktops-and-all-in-ones/legion-desktops/legion-t-series-towers/Lenovo-Legion-T530-Intel/p/99LE9500311

The product page in english shows a 500W PSU. open the case and check the side of the PSU. remove it if you have to. it MUST be labeled. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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The PSU should have a label on it.  Open it and check.  That's the only way to be sure.

Take a picture and post it here if you have further questions.

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Everywhere I've found it for sale online has a 500w. UK, Germany, USA.

Open your computer and look to see what PSU you have.

 

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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3 minutes ago, VioDuskar said:

the power brick for the laptop is probably a 350W charger/PSU
the GPU probably isn't using more than 100W. laptop GPUs have much smaller power targets. 

I have a new Legion SLIM 7, and my power brick is only like 230/260W.  my GPU will only suck down 100W at a time and it's an RTX 3060. 
Mobile GPUs are never the same as full size GPUs. you can't compare the two the same way. 

HOLY CHRIST THIS IS A TOWER! hold on brb.

Issa tower😺

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8 minutes ago, Onoykazi said:

Last year i bought a Lenovo Legion T530-28ICB(from france if that helps) on a pretty good deal, with an i5-8400 and rtx 2060. Now i want to upgrade my cpu since it seems to bottleneck in games like warzone or fps games in general. Upon inquiring about my PSU (I dont have the guts to open case and check), a Lenovo community forum expert said i have a 350watt PSU.

How is that even possible? Forget about upgrading, now im worried about my PC blowing up. 

Can anyone help me? Hopefully the tech dude was wrong, since I've seen some people saying mine should have a 500watt PSU.

Thanks

They use a 350W PSU because that's all the hardware that the T530 needs.  Unfortunately, it doesn't leave you any kind of upgrade path.

 

Problem is, it's a proprietary PSU.

 

They do make a 500W version, however.  That should be a bolt in replacement.  Might be able to find one on eBay or something.

 

 

1 minute ago, VioDuskar said:

the power brick for the laptop is probably a 350W charger/PSU

It's not a laptop.  It's a desktop and it has an internal PSU.

 

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4 minutes ago, TheGlenlivet said:

The PSU should have a label on it.  Open it and check.  That's the only way to be sure.

Take a picture and post it here if you have further questions.

Sadly im on vacation right now(not home) 😞

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Just now, jonnyGURU said:

It's not a laptop.  It's a desktop and it has an internal PSU.

 

1 minute ago, Onoykazi said:

Issa tower😺


yeah, I went and did some more reading. sorry. 

We can't Benchmark like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to shove more GPUs in your computer. Like the time I needed to NV-Link, because I needed a higher HeavenBench score, so I did an SLI, which is what they called NV-Link back in the day. So, I decided to put two GPUs in my computer, which was the style at the time. Now, to add another GPU to your computer, costs a new PSU. Now in those days PSUs said OCZ on them, "Gimme 750W OCZs for an SLI" you'd say. Now where were we? Oh yeah, the important thing was that I had two GPUs in my rig, which was the style at the time! They didn't have RGB PSUs at the time, because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big green ones. 

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1 minute ago, jonnyGURU said:

They use a 350W PSU because that's all the hardware that the T530 needs.  Unfortunately, it doesn't leave you any kind of upgrade path.

 

Problem is, it's a proprietary PSU.

 

They do make a 500W version, however.  That should be a bolt in replacement.  Might be able to find one on eBay or something.

 

 

It's not a laptop.  It's a desktop and it has an internal PSU.

 

Damn thats tough. The PSU alone would take half my upgrade budget(im hoping for an i7-9700)

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8 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:

Problem is, it's a proprietary PSU.

Seems like a regular ATX psu https://blog.notebooksbilliger.de/lenovo-legion-t530-gaming-pc-im-test-lenovo-ueberarbeitet-das-gehaeuse-der-legion-serie/

6 minutes ago, Onoykazi said:

Damn thats tough. The PSU alone would take half my upgrade budget(im hoping for an i7-9700)

Can you post some pics from the internals of the case and the psu label?

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Btw guys, would a 500watt be enough for an i7-9700? How much more power would it draw??

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1 minute ago, Onoykazi said:

Even the 1060 version has 450 watt😮

Why would a <200W PC need more?

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2 minutes ago, Onoykazi said:

Even the 1060 version has 450 watt😮

That's why I asked to post pictures of the internals.

 

And 324w at 12v is not a 450w psu!

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5 minutes ago, jonnyGURU said:

Problem is, it's a proprietary PSU.

It looks like it might not be. OP might be able to help out with pictures when they get back from vacation. it looks like they use an ATX psu that screws into a bracket and then into the case, Phanteks style.

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Supposedly non proprietary motherboard as well.

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https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/legion-series/legion-t530-28icb/90jl/parts/display/compatible

For anyone else that's curious.

I'm not actually trying to be as grumpy as it seems.

I will find your mentions of Ikea or Gnome and I will /s post. 

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Why is the 5800x so hot?

 

 

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7 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

It looks like it might not be. OP might be able to help out with pictures when they get back from vacation. it looks like they use an ATX psu that screws into a bracket and then into the case, Phanteks style.

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Supposedly non proprietary motherboard as well.

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https://pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/desktops-and-all-in-ones/legion-series/legion-t530-28icb/90jl/parts/display/compatible

For anyone else that's curious.

Ok I'll do prolly in a week☝️

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6 minutes ago, IkeaGnome said:

It looks like it might not be.

Yeah.  Looks like a standard 24-pin + 4-pin.

 

Good lord... Lenovo doesn't believe in cable management, it seems.

 

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9 minutes ago, seon123 said:

Why would a <200W PC need more?

True

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