Wednesday, April 15th 2020
Lenovo Rumored to Enter Motherboard Market under its Legion Gaming Brand
Lenovo may be planning to join the likes of ASUS, MSI, ASRock and many more in the gaming motherboard market under its Legion brand according to Guru3D. Images have leaked on Weibo of two Lenovo Legion branded motherboards in non-standard form factors with Intel's 300 and 400 series chipsets, for the current generation Coffee Lake and next generation Comet Lake-S chips respectively.
While these boards appear to bare the Legion branding it is likely they will only be used in OEMs due to their non-standard form factor and lack of features. The motherboards appear to sport 8+2 phase power delivery systems, VRM heatsinks, dual M.2 connectors, four DIMM modules, WiFi and dome audio capacitors. The motherboards feature only one 16x PCI-e slot and very minimal I/0, so it will be interesting to see if these motherboards get a consumer launch.
Source:
Weibo via Guru3D
While these boards appear to bare the Legion branding it is likely they will only be used in OEMs due to their non-standard form factor and lack of features. The motherboards appear to sport 8+2 phase power delivery systems, VRM heatsinks, dual M.2 connectors, four DIMM modules, WiFi and dome audio capacitors. The motherboards feature only one 16x PCI-e slot and very minimal I/0, so it will be interesting to see if these motherboards get a consumer launch.
14 Comments on Lenovo Rumored to Enter Motherboard Market under its Legion Gaming Brand
money.cnn.com/2015/02/19/technology/security/lenovo-superfish/index.html
never forget friends ;) side intentions... hehehe
That aside, and I realise these boards are for OEM machines, but I wish there were more enthusiast motherboard manufacturers to pick from. Maybe it's just a localised supply channel limitation for Australia, but we pretty much just get the choice of MSI, AsRock, ASUS and Gigabyte these days.
The only other option is Colorful, a chinese brand that has limited inroads to the western market.
www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenovo-busted-stealthily-installing-crapware-via-bios-fresh-windows-installs.shtml
it was built into the BIOS to even install during clean installs, as said in that article above.
nice thinking though. this is why I will never buy another Lenovo product ever again. it's shady as shady gets homie lol
Supermicro has also gotten back into the consumer motherboard space, have a look under desktop/gaming boards www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboards/
Soyo as we know it might be gone, but some Chinese company owns the brand now and sells motherboards under the Soyo brand.
Fujitsu has been making board up until last year, when Kontron took over, although they're apparently still designed by Fujitsu. Not what I'd call high-end though and they're super expensive www.kontron.com/products/boards-and-standard-form-factors/motherboards
Shuttle obviously still make their own boards, but that's for their barebones systems, so not sure that counts.
Same goes for Zotac.
A bunch of Lenovo products are high quality and generally a good deals, say monitors...
Looks like this all blew up around 2015:
grandstreamdreams.blogspot.com/2015/08/so-thats-how-it-works-windows-platform.html?m=1