(gentle upbeat music) (gentle upbeat music continues) (upbeat music continues) - This video sponsored by Lenovo Legion. (upbeat music continues) I can get pretty weird with
how I like to enjoy my games. For me, it's less about the game itself and more about how I can
best enjoy that game. Normal consoles and controllers bore me. I like to spice things up a little bit. I did a review a few weeks
ago on the Lenovo Legion Go and in it I said that right now it's in my top three
favorite PC handhelds. But since that video, I've been playing it a lot more than the other
two for a few reasons. One of those reasons is that I could play the new "Call of Duty" on it. I've been playing that a
lot and I can't do that on a non-Windows handheld,
so it wins there. The second reason is the
big beautiful screen. It's 1600p. It's got a high refresh
rate too, up to 144 hertz. That's amazing for
competitive multiplayer games where every frame counts. But admittedly, we're not getting those numbers all of the time. It's just a little guy. Cutting the resolution
in half does maintain some decently high frame rates. And since it's half scale, the
resolution still looks good. The pixels aren't being
weirdly distributed. They're cut in half. This is how I've been playing. There's also these detachable controllers. Now, at first I thought
these were a gimmick. It's not like I'm gonna be
bowling with these or anything, but I've started legitimately
playing games like this. See, a lot of the times I play in bed right before I go to sleep. This 8.8 inch screen can
be a bit heavy sometimes. So, I play like this for as long as I can before my arms get tired. Then, I play like this with the screen all the way up against my
face and my arms and my sides. And then, I get made fun of
by my girlfriend and my dog. - What's he doing? - When I saw these
controllers were detachable, it got my gears turning a little bit. It opens up the door for a lot of options. Sometimes I don't wanna play
with regular old controllers. I like playing games with fight pads and all button arcade
sticks like this one. It gives you a little more precision when every input is a button that's mapped to each of your fingers. Left, down, right, and up. I played a decent amount
of "Street Fighter 6" on a Steam deck with the Snack Box Micro
controller attached. It was not the best setup to lug around, so I didn't really take it anywhere. But what if we can just
remove the controller? Get all of the buttons outta there? We're not gonna be needing those if we're gonna be bringing our own. What if the console had
a kickstand built in? Now, we essentially have a super powerful Windows gaming tablet. And you could just leave it like this. This is super portable. Get yourself a tablet sleeve and you could take this
with you no problem. But I couldn't just leave it like this. I 3D printed a little holder. It's these little brackets
that go onto a Snack Box Micro. You can store the tablet
face down like this while you're traveling. And when you're ready to game, you simply slide the tablet out and slide it onto this back piece. I was worried it would
be a little top heavy. But look, it actually
balances extremely well. I made a couple of iterations of this. I've since cut out a little
more room to see the screen and the cutout for me to
glue a USB-C connector so it acts like a dock. That way the controller can be permanently plugged into the setup. And when I wanna use the Lenovo like this, I can just slide it right in, no problem. I also added some felt
so my precious device doesn't get all scratched
out from the hard plastic. I really like this. Using a controller like this is my preferred way to play platformers and I play a lotta platformers. When I travel, I miss
having this controller, so I can see this being my preferred travel
console going forward. I couldn't do this with any
other PC handheld out right now. But even just the fact that it could stand on
its own is enough for me. Recently I went to my friend
Wood's house for the weekend. He had a big old
Friendsgiving get together with a bunch of people
and I decided to bring the Lenovo Legion Go
with me of all consoles because we've been playing a lot of "Call of Duty" and "Valorant". And this can play both of those things. I like to travel extremely light, so I brought the whole unit
with controllers attached. The Legion Go comes with
a case so that was easy. And I brought this little
Scotto34 keyboard that I have. It's the smallest keyboard
I have with full sized keys. It's not the greatest, but it's more than enough for "Valorant". I have since ordered a few
more half width keyboards to try and find the perfect
mobile keyboard/mouse setup. This screen might be small, but 8.8 inches is pretty damn big for a device that is primarily a handheld. And don't forget, this
screen is a full 144 hertz, so it's ready for competitive. But the Lenovo has another wild feature. The right controller
can be used as a mouse. I mean it has a track pad on
it, but that's not what I mean. The bottom has a little optical sensor. So you detach the controller,
flip the switch on the bottom, and put the controller in
this little disc thing. And this is great for general
mouse and keyboard games. I played some "Neon White" like this. If you like mouse and
keyboard for FPS games and don't wanna lug around a mouse, this is a great option. It's even better if you
can remap keyboard buttons to work with the left controller. Then, you don't need a keyboard at all. But for something competitive
like Val, I need my own mouse. The precision a mouse provides is necessary, which is also fine. You could just connect that
like you would any old computer. I went a little overboard on this part. So overboard, I forgot
how simple this could be. These USB ports are USB4. They're capable of some
pretty high quality video just on their own. Right now I have it running through an adapter HDMI into this monitor and we're all good to go, baby. So, it's that simple to
turn your Lenovo Legion Go into a desktop computer. But this isn't the first
thing that I tried. For some reason, the
first thing that I tried was connecting a whole graphics card. USB4 means that the Lenovo
Legion Go has support for eGPUs which is something that I've always wanted to mess around with but
never had the chance to 'cause they're kind of a lot of money. Thank you Lenovo for
sponsoring this video. I went to the mall on
Black Friday of all days just to pick this one up. It's essentially an enclosure for a GPU. It has its own power
supply and everything. It's Thunderbolt 3, but it
works just fine on USB4. I took the NVIDIA 3060 Ti
out of my desktop computer that I play most of my games on and popped it right in here. This one cable goes out of the eGPU and plugs right into the Lenovo in either port, top or bottom. This will charge the
Lenovo and output video. It can do more than that. But this GPU that I got only
has one Thunderbolt 3 port. There's a more expensive
one that has more USB ports and ethernet and stuff, but I cheaped out. I had to install the NVIDIA
drivers, and then after that, it took me a while to figure
out how to get it all working. Believe it or not, there's not a lot of
documentation online about this. Not many people are trying
to plug a whole graphics card into their Lenovo Legion Go. But once I figured it out,
it was actually stupid easy. I'll tell you what my problem was. For whatever reason, display
port just wouldn't work. So I just had to use HDMI. This graphics card has HDMI 2.1, so that's not really a problem. I got full 4K at 138 hertz, which is close enough to the
144 this monitor can handle. I don't think 6 out of 144
hertz is gonna kill me. Because this eGPU doesn't
have any USB ports, I decided to just use a
Bluetooth mouse and keyboard, which all connected just fine. And for audio, I just
used the headphone jack right on top of the
Lenovo, and that was fine. If you plan on using your Lenovo Legion Go as a desktop computer in that way, I would recommend springing for the eGPU that has the extra ports. That way you can plug a bunch of stuff in like you would a computer. I think Lenovo even
makes one of their own. The Lenovo Legion Go is a handheld beast, but even this beast is gonna be limited by its small mobile chipset. I've heard that using an
eGPU with something like this will cause a bottleneck with
that small weaker processor. So when I was doing all this, I was already expecting like, better than handheld performance, but less than the desktop performance I'm already used to on
my desktop computer. Somewhere in the middle. I experienced none of that. I'm not hyperbolizing or anything. This performed exactly as
good as my desktop computer. I mean it makes sense. I'm using the exact same
GPU that was in my desktop, but you'd think that
the rest of the hardware would bottleneck it or
weigh it down in some way. It really didn't at all. I got full 4K 138 hertz in "Valorant" just like I do on my desktop minus that six frame
discrepancy from the HDMI 2.1. "Call of Duty" is a bit
heavier on the system, but I matched the settings to exactly how I have them on my desktop and it performed exactly as
good as it does on the desktop. Not hitting the full refresh rate, but still getting a
decently high frame rate. And all the other stats were impressive. I also played all this on
WiFi with no issue whatsoever. This little guy really surprised me. Yeah, I know what you're thinking already, and I agree this is a little bit overkill. A lot of people want a handheld like this as an extension of the PC
that they already have. And with cloud saves
across services like Steam, this is awesome for that. But there's plenty of people out there who can't spend thousands of dollars on both a gaming PC and a gaming handheld. So if you really wanted to, this can do both of those things. Some people don't have a gaming PC and they're considering
something like this for the games because it is kind of
a cheaper alternative. This can eventually become
your desktop computer if you want a little more power and if you wanna just keep it at a desk. The other added benefit to that is that all of your stuff
is just on one device. This can become your
desktop and mobile platform. All of your files, all of your games. You don't have to move stuff
around between devices. The Lenovo Legion Go
might just be the cheapest Windows gaming option that can turn into a super powerful
gaming rig eventually. But you're dangerously close
to just get a laptop territory. This is a gaming first device. Everything else it can do
is just icing on the cake. Personally, I think a lot
of what I did in this video is like way overkill. But I do see myself using this thing mostly as a Windows gaming tablet. I like how it is just like this. This little fight pad laptop that I built will actually get a lot of use outta me. I'm excited about this. I've wanted something
like this for a while. I'll link the 3D files for
this in the description below. I've been been constantly tweaking it, so it might look a little different. And let me know how you would use this extremely versatile Lenovo Legion Go. Leave it in the comments
below, @ me on Twitter and any and all those
other social media garbage. And of course, thank you Lenovo for helping sponsor this video. Don't forget to grab one for yourself at the link in the description below.
