Lenovo Legion 5 Pro Heat
The Lenovo Legion 5 Pro never felt hot or even overly warm to the touch during our time with it, but it could get toasty under the hood during select tests. To examine both non-gaming and gaming performance, we took the laptop’s temperature both after 15 minutes of streaming video and during the sixth consecutive run of the Metro: Exodus extreme benchmark.
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In our streaming video test, the Legion 5 Pro registered 78.6 degrees Fahrenheit on the touchpad, 93.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the center of the keyboard (between the G/H keys) and 91.9 degrees Fahrenheit across most of its underside. The hottest part of the laptop was in the middle of the underside vents, where it reached 102.6 degrees Fahrenheit.
In our Metro test, the touchpad actually fell in temperature to 73.9 degrees Fahrenheit, but the laptop got hotter everywhere else. The center of the keyboard was now 102.4 degrees Fahrenheit, while the general underside was 100 degrees Fahrenheit. That hot point in the middle of the underside vents jumped all the way up to 132.1 degrees Fahrenheit, however.