I love the Y500 design. But you are spending RM800 more.
Suppose you get the Y580. What you can do with RM800:
buy a SSD and swap with HDD, buy a caddy for the HDD and swap with ODD, buy more RAM, upgrade warranty to 3 year on site, buy a cooling pad.
You get a machine that lose out in raw GPU power, less vow factor.
You get a machine that boot faster, run apps much snappier, with better warranty support, and never need to deal with SLI.
Not a bad trade-off. My hands is getting itchy, but Y500 is not a blow out winner over Y580.

And no, to get the SLI working, both GPU must be same model. This is as good as it get. You will not be able to get a "better" ultrabay GPU next time.

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Nov 30 2012, 11:28 PM

is anyone know where to find and dowload the latest driver for y500 grahic card, so far i had already dowload the 310.54 through 驱动精灵，is that the latest driver i can have? or if gt650m sli driver dft from single gt650m?

only SLI driver from Lenovo so far. Don't use the current stock driver (beta 310.64) from Nvidia (it does not support GT650M SLI).

Until you see anything here to confirm otherwise:
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/technology.../supported-gpus

This post has been edited by nexus2238: Nov 30 2012, 11:55 PM

For those in penang..unit is available at pikom pc fair in pisa

This post has been edited by upmost systems: Nov 30 2012, 11:39 PM

Latest one should be 310.64

http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8...eta-driver.html

yeah, mean that i did installed the 310.54, so i supposed to reinstall the driver from lenovo again? because i thought 310.54,310.64 is for single gt650m ,but driver from lenovo is only let the system recognise the gt650m sli ,they should be work together ==maybe i m wrong

You should only use 1 version of driver.
To avoid any problem, I strongly suggest you wipe clean all GT650M driver. Then install the driver from Lenovo.
Refer to my earlier post, until Nvidia announce their driver support SLI for GT650M (look for the link or Lenovo will definite annouce as well ), you should not update your driver with that from Nvidia.

True.

how to wipe clean the gt650m?ha, i did a wrong big mistake

Don't worry. It's no big deal

Read this: Official from Nvidia
http://www.nvidia.com/object/IO_13955.html

But, better is this. The above is not "clean enough" some times. This method use a software. The example is in Vista, but you get the message.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/46...lled-properly-/

The best is this. This involve manually changing the regedit. DO NOT attempt unless you are absolutely sure what you are doing. The example is in Win7, but you get the message.
http://forum.notebookreview.com/alienware-...an-install.html

Try the 1st method first. If you don't encounter further issue after you re-install the driver from Lenovo, good

i still be able to see the sli enabled, dual gt650m in nvdia control panel,

but dun know it will affect my gaming or not,so far dun have any game, cant tested on it ...but if something bad really happened, i will follow ur detail, thanks

You can still upgrade(SSD, RAM, etc) the Y500 in the future.
But you can't do anything to improve the gaming performance on the Y580. Except by overclocking.

Just have to wait for more review on the gaming performance and gaming stability of the GT650M SLI.
Whether the improvement over the GTX660M is worth it or not.

Sure Btw, that screenshot is after you install driver from Nvidia? or after you re-install driver from Lenovo? Did you restart, after installing any of the drivers? Sometime weird things happen after we restart laptop
Good luck

yeah, i installed 310.54 and restart this afternoon , the photo was taken 10 minut ago, i didn't re install the lenovo driver yet ,seem like nothing happened, hopefully!

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Added on December 1, 2012, 1:08 ameasy way to say ,the photo was taken after i installed the nvdia 310.54 and after restart

This post has been edited by minzisme: Dec 1 2012, 01:08 AM

so actually what is the latest driver version for lenovo y500?
currently i use v306.00..erm i checked for an update and it said i have the latest update version
is it driver version affect fps value

now i m doing my 3d mark 11 test, for those people having problem like cant open or install any exe in win8(wermgr, exe)problem , i found the problem here, this happened because i open and using 搜狗拼音，since i closed and hide it , everything is going fine ,google got more detail about this, i spent 2 hour in google to check how to fix this problem, but i still failed to do so, at last , i typed in chinese in 为什么出现wermgr. exe win8,i found that a lot people which using 搜狗拼音having the some problem with me ,搜狗拼音 is the major problem which causing this ~

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Added on December 1, 2012, 1:20 amwait for my 3dmark result, i installed 310.54 and lets see how ,testing now

This post has been edited by minzisme: Dec 1 2012, 01:20 AM

yah sure..i'm done tested fps on nfsmw and assasin creed 3 on v306.00..and the result is
now i gladly hear that fps can be increasing by updating driver version

will test again
please reconfirm what is the current version, so i can make a test

Ok, finger cross. If the beta driver from Nvidia work, good news

Yeah, most of the time the problem is not with Win8, but program we install that crash it

The SLI scalling is very much depend on how well the drivers optimization. If SLI for GT650M is supported by Nvidia site, always use the latest drivers ie 310.64.
http://www.nvidia.com/object/notebook-win8...eta-driver.html

Pls wait for 3DMark11 from minzisme to verify the 310.54 drivers compatibility.

Do keep your results with default 306 drivers for comparision.

+1
IMO, its quite worth it for Y500 with
- swappable ultrabay with different options to suit user needs, ie. ODD, HDD, fans, bluray, even additional battery in future if there are demand.
- swap it with additional battery and bring 120W psu(optional) when you needs mobility. swap with GT650M and use 170W psu when you needs extra horse power at home.
- better design/build & bling-bling Red backlit keyboard
- better cooling system & easy maintenance

This post has been edited by ytlay: Dec 1 2012, 02:00 AM

hmn the result is p3569 after installed 310.54
and this is my driver detail check from dxdiag-display

i dun know why although i haf ardy installed latest driver yesterday ,but the driver version date is still on 21 august? ??or any way to check graphic driver detail again?
http://driverdl.lenovo.com.cn/lenovo/Drive..._NV_VGA_x64.exe

this is the latest lenovo driver for gt650m sli, i had done installed, but dun have any game for testing, so i need someone try i

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Added on December 1, 2012, 2:27 amand also according to Chinese forum, nvdia official driver also can be use in y500,but just currently no have any latest driver for sli win8 ,but there is latest driver for y500 win7 released 29 November
http://ideapad.it168.com/forum.php?mod=vie...9053&mobile=yes

This post has been edited by minzisme: Dec 1 2012, 02:44 AM