The company Lenovo has started selling a new series of gaming desktop computers Legion 7000K based on Intel 14th generation HX series mobile processors. This concept, known as Mobile on Desktop (MoDT), has been used by some Chinese manufacturers for several years, but Lenovo has become the first major company to officially release a system that uses mobile processors to build desktop PCs.
At the core < strong>Legion 7000K are Intel Core i9-14900HX (nuclear formula 8P+16E) and Core i7-14650HX (8P+8E) Raptor Lake Refresh series. The former can be clocked up to 5.8GHz and has a TDP of 190W, while the latter can reach 5.2GHz with a TDP of 160W.
Both chips are soldered directly onto the desktop motherboard. According to Lenovo, the absence of a heat distribution cover (IHS) on mobile processors improves heat dissipation. The power allocated by the processor can reach 253 W at its peak.
Lenovo conducted Cinebench R23 performance tests, according to which the Core i7-14650HX is able to overtake the desktop Core i7-14700F and Core i5-14600K in multi-threaded tasks, and the Core i9 -14900HX is faster than the Core i9-1490 very high performance mobile chips used.
The Legion 7000K can be up to RTX 4070 Ti SUPER. Variants include the RTX 4070 Ti SUPER, RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 models. The more powerful RTX 4080 and RTX 4090 are so far only available for the exclusive version of the full desktop platform with up to the i9-1490 Intel processor.
The new line of PCs from Lenovo has quite high prices — from $1,303 to $2,356, which somewhat contradicts the original idea of offering a more affordable desktop platform based on mobile components.