A Lenovo Legion 5 bought as a 64GB machine ran fine for eight months, then went in for warranty service and came back with one memory stick pulled. Lenovo’s spec sheet says 32GB. Intel’s says 192GB.
A Lenovo Legion 5 owner sent his laptop in for warranty repair with 64GB of DDR5 and got it back with 32GB installed.
Reddit user GRINZ_DOCTOR bought the machine through Best Buy’s site last December. Core i9-14900HX, RTX 5070, 2TB SSD, 64GB of memory. It ran eight months, then started blue-screening. Reinstalling Windows did not help.
So it went to Geek Squad.
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What the repair order actually says
The work order is public and it is unusually clear.
It identifies the machine as an upgraded Legion 5 with 64GB DDR5, records that it arrived with two 32GB modules, and carries the technician’s note that the laptop accepts 32GB maximum. One module was removed. The laptop then passed testing.
The removed stick was returned to the customer. Several outlets covering this reported otherwise, with headlines saying Geek Squad kept the RAM. The paperwork does not support that, and the customer has the module.
What the order does not establish is whether that module was faulty.
Does the Lenovo Legion 5 support 64GB of RAM
Both sides of this have a document backing them up, which is the actual problem.
Lenovo’s PSREF page for the Legion 5 15IRX10 does list a maximum memory configuration of 32GB. A technician looking that up did exactly what a technician is supposed to do.
But Lenovo attaches a caveat to that number. It reflects testing with current Lenovo memory offerings rather than an architectural ceiling. The laptop has two DDR5 SO-DIMM slots running dual channel, and Intel‘s own published specification for the Core i9-14900HX is 192GB.
The machine also ran on 64GB for eight months before anything went wrong.
The upgrade wasn’t Lenovo’s
The listing was sold by third-party vendor PC Heaven through Best Buy’s online marketplace.
PC Heaven states plainly that it opens new machines and installs upgraded components before sale, and that warranty service on those modifications runs through PC Heaven rather than the manufacturer.
So the customer bought a 64GB laptop from Best Buy, which was a 32GB laptop that a marketplace seller upgraded, serviced by a technician working from the manufacturer’s sheet. Three parties, three different ideas of what the machine is.
What the removed module is worth now
Roughly $349.99 at retail, which is the number that makes this land differently than it would have last year.
A 32GB DDR5 kit ran about $222 in August 2025. Memory prices have since gone somewhere ridiculous, and half the RAM in a gaming laptop is no longer a rounding error on a repair.
None of the companies involved has commented, and there is no public resolution showing the machine restored to 64GB.
The customer has two 32GB sticks. One of them is in a laptop.
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Hat Tips:
Tom’s Hardware (August 18, 2026), the original coverage and the work order details including the PC Heaven marketplace listing
ThePCEnthusiast (August 18, 2026), the confirmation that the removed module was returned and the note that the order does not establish whether it was defective
Notebookcheck (August 17, 2026), the purchase timeline and the eight months of stable operation