create for what use? lol

hi all, would like to know from any owner of Y480:

1. Does your gear having any overheat problem? can you post temperature data showing temperatures at idle, and full load?
especially interested to know if Asus N56 runs cooler than lenovo or not.

2. I read from here and cari.com that some owners of Lenovo modify their gear by taking out the dvd drive and place the hdd there with a caddy, and put an ssd in the original hdd slot. reportedly this lowers temp by 10c. - would this violate the warranty?

3. can we do step 2, by just moving the hdd to the optical drive bay but not putting any ssd (leave the hdd slot empty)?

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actually i have asked this in another thread, but place here too hope to get more answers...
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?showtopi...&#entry53686897

seems to have a bit too many Y480 threads...
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Anybody seen video to disassemble y480/y580? I think ive seen it somewhere in youtube but cant seem to find it now. Thinking of changing the thermal compound. Anyone?

1. From the internal layout, i would say lenovo have the edge in cooling

2. No it wont void warranty if you change the hdd or ram.

3. Not sure, but technically shouldnt be a problem.

hmm i read from the china site

http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2241468-4-1.html

that Lenovo has taken out the HDD activity indicating light, just because of some western designer's taste, getting quite a lot of complaint from the Chinese users...

can owners of 480 and 580 confirm this?

They are take it out, wireless and bluetooth light also, but for me is nvm la...

youtube video i dont know, but saw this if you can read chinese (but with lots of pics):

http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2232884-1-1.html

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Added on August 9, 2012, 7:45 amfrom design maybe, but in actual world, lots of ppl complain abt this, iincluding the China users where Lenovo is based. that's why many owner modify them by moving their hdd to the dvd drive bay. so far haven't heard similar cases on the asus n56.

would like to hear more from owners...

This post has been edited by chopin: Aug 9 2012, 07:45 AM

Bro, now if my Y480 and my friend's N56Vz put together inside an air cond room, my Y480 is cooler than my friend's N56Vz....lol

haha, that's interesting... hope to see some comparison temperature tests between the two, if the results shows the same, it will clear Lenovo's name a lot :-)

But there's quite a lot of lowyat.net members move the HDD to candy bay just to put SSD inside the HDD placa, the HDD SATA port there is SATA 6Gb/s....lol

use SSD la it'll solve the HDD temp issue
it's not wise to put HDD in the middle
the temperature are just too high

Any tutorial on replacing HDD to SSD and ODD to HDD?? Thanks.

BTW, NVIDIA 304.79 vs 304.48, which one better?
Now I installed 304.79, but sometimes after such a long time(mostly is after gaming and after long time) the driver stop working and when I open NVIDIA control panel it say no GPU is detected, but after I restart it it come back normal...lol

This post has been edited by sss2sssss: Aug 9 2012, 11:12 AM

Oh thanks, maybe i have to use google translator haha.

The design is only flawed for the hdd but if talking about gpu and processor, its good enough i think. Unless you crave dual fan cooling

now install 304.48 see got that issue not not...:/

haha sorry for giving u a chinese page... but quite informative, those guys are crazy and brave...

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Added on August 9, 2012, 1:35 pmanother thing folks: when we buy from online sellers, or even from a shops, how do we know if they are AP set or not?

This post has been edited by chopin: Aug 9 2012, 01:35 PM

Haha, im not chinese educated.

Just ask them or take a look at the box. It will state MY.

replace hdd is simple la just unscrew
same ODD to hdd

I saw a seller have option to upgrade to 3 year onsite warranty... is it worth it?

how much extra to pay for it?