Sorry guys I'm at work right now, I'll do a Furmark Test when I get home, finger cross it won't fry my GPU

Oh btw I ran GW2 last night at full graphic setting (with SLI), FPS appears to be around 30+

Based on your gpu-z, seems that Lenovo capped the gt650m graphic card in y500 compared to the one in y480.

Y480 GPU-Z


Y500 GT650M-GPU clock 790MHz, boost up to 835MHz
Y480 GT650M-GPU clock 745MHz, boost up to 885MHz.

But you can always overclocked it to higher clock speed btw.

This post has been edited by tennytyy: Nov 26 2012, 04:55 PM

Pls help to run & post screen for stress test below. Thanks in advance.
Pls monitor temp. closely with cpuz & gpuz.

Setup:
Pls state at room temp or with air cond, using any cooler.
1) Open cpuz , gpuz for on-board & gpuz for external gpu to monitor temp/gpus throttling.
2) Open Furmark & Prime95.
3) Post screen in step 1 & 2 before stress
4) run prime95 & Furmark at 1920x1080, 4X MSAA till the cpu & gpu max temp. stabilize. (take around 30 min)
5) post screen in step 1 & 2 after stress

Refer sample pic below for GTX680M SLI stress test


This post has been edited by ytlay: Nov 26 2012, 07:35 PM

IMO, better not to run both Prime95 and Furmark simultaneously. You're killing the machine.
Just run Furmark, it will utilize 1 CPU core to resemble real world gaming.

The latest stress test for Y500 from China.
http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-2741978-1-1.html

Y500 i5/GT650M single card
Stress with Furmark & AIDA64 at room temp 20C, quite cool in China.
cpu 71C, gpu 65C, HDD 42C.


Very nice temp reading proven the good thermal design.

Waiting our pro bro the stress results.
Temp. will be higher as ours with higher specs and room temp.

This post has been edited by ytlay: Nov 26 2012, 08:43 PM

Ok I've done a Furmark test with 1920x1080, 4X MSAA for 20 mins.

The CPU/GPU temperature starts to stables at 6 min mark and I let it run until 20 min before I took the screenshot.

Here is it.



Don't boom me if I done it wrong, first timer here

Edit:
- No laptop cooler/fan was used when the test is running, except the ceiling fan in my room running at 2x.
- GPU-Z is showing the primary GPU 650M profile while CPUID is showing both.

This post has been edited by Jabberwocky: Nov 26 2012, 09:52 PM

Thank you!!!

Edit: It seems that one of the GPU card hasn't been utilized...


This post has been edited by CidBunansa: Nov 26 2012, 10:59 PM

i bought y500 too...
y500 seem feel more slimmer body look than y580(old design and bulky body)

btw,
i used cooler master notepal u2, any idea where to put those fans?anyone?

Many thanks.

Y500 stress temp is very promising.
External gpu temp before and after stress around the same at 38C.
Look like it only stress the on-board gpu. weird!

Can post display adapter in device manager as in pic.
Wish to confirm any Nvidia optimus support for Intel HD. Wonder how is the battery life?


Place it under the wire mesh ventilation area.
U3 is more suitable for Y500. u can add additional fans for u2.
This post has been edited by ytlay: Nov 26 2012, 10:48 PM

I was wondering about the external GPU too but 1 thing fur sure more heat flows from the left (primary GPU).

Display adapters as requested.


Never really tested out the battery life since it was on power all the time. I'll unplug it and do some gaming tomorrow and update you guys k

This post has been edited by Jabberwocky: Nov 26 2012, 11:10 PM

Regarding the issue of Furmark not using both of the GPU, I think you should read this. Link

And, I fixed the image link for ya. http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8745/78824844.jpg

is 4 gig ram is enough for gaming? and also if you're doing daily use like opening multiple tabs in windows 8? or better upgrade it to 8? or 16?

Thanks Jabberwocky.
71c.. Nice Temp for a single GPU stress test!

Waiting for SLI temp..

This post has been edited by Amal: Nov 27 2012, 12:33 AM

thanks for the test

nfsw test with frap fps runnig on 1920x1080
sli gt 650M

2012-11-27 09:37:08 - NFS13
Frames: 108 - Time: 5766ms - Avg: 18.730 - Min: 14 - Max: 21
i can't upload the the image bcoz too large 3.07mb

u2 enough ma ,ok thanks, but where the wire ventilation area on it?

8gb i think minimum if u want to play game
i have 12gb ram

guys!!i need ur opinion
on idle test with speedfan
gpu : 39-41c
hd0 : 39-42c
core 0 : 49-54c
core 1 : 40-50c
core 2 : 40-50c
core 3 : 40-50c
gpu : 39-42c
is it ok o not?

This post has been edited by myotgo: Nov 27 2012, 10:07 AM

U3 should be better for the Y500, just place the fans under vents

You don't really need 8GB for games

Try using OpenHardwareMonitor or HWMonitor to monitor the temps, these programs are more accurate than SpeedFan

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Added on November 27, 2012, 10:25 am4GB is more than enough. If you really have a lot of money to spare, then upgrade to 8GB

This post has been edited by [PF] T.J.: Nov 27 2012, 10:25 AM

agreed. 4gb is suffient. but if you have extra cash, 8gb/16gb why not?

8GB is enough haha, if you have the money to upgrade to 16GB, try saving it and upgrade to SSD instead, the performance boost will be much more significant

aha.. so games doesn't take much ram right? especially if you have 2gig gpu already (plus sli). ram mostly used when you open 30++ video tabs xD

The fps is 14 to 21 in the game?

This post has been edited by tennytyy: Nov 27 2012, 11:08 AM