Lenovo Legion 5(2020): SSD and RAM upgrade

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Hi everyone. Hope you guys are doing alright.

This is a video of me upgrading the RAM and SSD of my Lenovo Legion 5.
As you may well be aware, the Legion 5 series runs AMD Ryzen 4000 CPUs, specifically the 4800H in mine.

I bought this laptop from the official Malaysian Lenovo website. In the website you can customize the laptop according to your required specification and budget. I'll post the link whenever I come around to making a video on my experience buying from Lenovo website.

I placed the order at the end of July 2020 and received the laptop about a month later. The laptop actually shipped from China and the current pandemic doesn't help making things go faster.

Anyway, the thing that I found most strange when I was customizing the laptop was that the RAM configuration maxed out at 16GB DDR4 3200 in dual channel (There was also no way to configure it to 16GB single channel).

As I did more reading around the laptop on Lenovo website, its manual and just generally searching the net, there was no mention of the maximum capacity of RAM supported. The only thing that can be confirmed is that this laptop got 2 user replaceable memory slots.

At the time of placing an order(end of July 2020), DDR4 3200 SODIMM is a bit of a rarity in Malaysia, to the point where there's only a few sellers selling them online and the price was a bit too expensive. So I decided to chose the 16GB config in dual channel as my old laptop was already rocking 16GB of RAM(albeit slower ones) and going for less is just a downgrade. Also thinking should I want to upgrade later once prices are a bit more reasonable I can just sell the 16GB RAM kits.

As I mentioned, I received the laptop about a month from when I place the order. By that time, DDR4 3200 SODIMM became more common and prices were reasonable. Especially with online promos from vendors. So, I was able to get a couple of 16GB DDR4 3200 SODIMMs for about RM 500 (A touch more than USD 100).

However, still felt a bit anxious as there's no confirmation as to whether more than 16GB of RAM is supported by the laptop or not. The only thing is when I go to AMD website, the Ryzen 4000 series (Renoir) does support up to 64GB of RAM. Whether Lenovo supports it or not, that remained to be seen. Not sure why Lenovo don't offer higher than 16GB config, may just be due to limitation of parts supply.

Anyway, follow along to see whether my upgrade was successful or not.

SPOILER: My laptop works just fine up till now after the upgrade
(video was recorded in September, but since I'm a major procrastinator, only now managed to finish editing)

oh, do check with your local warranty policies before attempting anything shown in this video. I will not be held responsible in case any damage occurs to your laptop etc etc. Try at your own risks.