1. sure... you have 2 options... one is using UltraBay caddy so that you can put you one of your drive inside it... another option is using mSata...
2. I didn't recall anybody saying Y400 has heat problem... if anything it's much much better compare to Y480/Y580...

question 3 & 4 has to wait somebody else to answer...


there are service centers in Aussie as well... though I'm not 100% sure how the warranty going to work out... you'll get better answer by calling Lenovo Customer Support, i think... as I'm pretty sure you won't have to go through IBM... they are different company providing different service already... probably he confused Lenovo vs IBM as most of Lenovo's line up are acquired from IBM...

brand shouldn't affect the performance as long as the timing and frequency is the same...

I just bought U3 and it works fine with me... no slip...

I think U2 is smaller coz from the description, U3 is targeted at 17" to 19" laptops...

and last time I check, U2 has less fan because of the size can't accommodate 3 fans as well...

can you describe what you're doing when it happen? any similarities? or it just happens randomly?

silly me... I should've mention it in my previous post

I meant the BSOD... describe what you're doing when BSOD occured...

this is pretty much down to how you use your system and nobody can say it's good or bad... if 500GB is not enough just go and upgrade... plenty of options for disk imaging... acronis is one, i think Lenovo's One Key Recovery do provide the facility as well...

truthfully, 500GB is actually very small nowadays... if your only means of storing data is your laptop HDD, it will never be enough...

any recent driver updates? it seems to be pretty hard to nail down that BSOD message... looks like can be caused by various things... looks like I got to study again how to solve BSoD in Win8...

it does seems to be memory or storage issue to me... I would suggest do S.M.A.R.T test and chkdsk to check the disk condition... maybe use MemTest86 to test the RAM... if these comes out clean, must've been drivers...

can you describe the step you take?

I won't depend on Windows Update for drivers... I did once (in Vista I think) and it goes haywire afterwards... I'd rather download them manually, update them manually... I only trust Windows Update for it's only purpose, updating windows...

You can easily google those tests... for memtest86, you can grab it from www.memtest.org... but for S.M.A.R.T test, i dont have any to give you... you can google any smart reader... I rarely use it (really rare, last I used is like 2 or 3 years ago?)

I dont even want to try... on full beauty, I heard even GTX680 is struggling...

but I think, can run on 720p with medium settings...

I heard there's a lot of problem on the new nVidia driver? Is it related to SLi? coz I haven't faced any problems yet but I haven't run any games on latest driver yet...

Y400 is not optimus enabled. I dont know if you can enabled it somehow but I would say it won't be easy, at least on the BIOS level.

So, you can consider Y400 only has nVIdia card, no integrated graphics at all...

I dont know about the one that's packaged with the laptop, but I have bad experiences with McAfee on my work laptop (and IT don't give us the permission to terminate them for security issues). McAfee does mess with network config multiple times with me and it's common problem faced by everyone all around the world (imagine you cannot ping to localhost/127.0.0.1)

so, even if they give McAfee to me lifetime service with McAfee for free, I won't care much about it... I'll live without antivirus...

same with me

if people do comments for the reduced wifi speed, I think it's either the McAfee trying to scan the data that comes in for malicious codes or the CPU resource is being used so much that it starts to cap everything. I know for certain that McAfee is resource hogger... I dont think wifi signal reception is affected.

yup, that's what I suspected too... but I didn't notice any slowdown on my working laptop so I can't say for certain...

to be safe or a bit slow? "I like to live dangerously"

I can say try to disable SLI... and update your nVidia driver...

then, try to disable SLi... I heard that it's usually the main culprit.. another thing, maybe you want to try driver one version older... I heard the latest driver got random issue on Y500 as well...

should not be a problem if you have your serial number... even if windows reject the activation in case you change hardware, you can call microsoft support to activate it via phone.

otherwise, should not have any problem...

does BT means BitTorrent? that might be the culprit if you're using HDD... you might want to limit the download speed.

try to check your task manager and check which process is hogging memory/HDD bandwidth.

1. Relocating HDD to ODD does not solve overall heat problem, just to prevent the HDD getting overheated... If you think it's too hot and you're uncomfortable, I tend to say "get an external keyboard"... otherwise, get a proper cooler... though I dont know how much a cooler will help coz I use external keypad...
2. HWMonitor is what's commonly used...
3. Both has advantage and disadvantage... I won't say one is better... Win8 does boot up and shutdown quicker but it takes quite a learning curve on the interface... Win7 is easier and more familiar to use... that's all...

may I know what kind of cooler are you talking about? if it's beside the exhaust, it's supposed to pull the air out of the exhaust. if you blow it in, you'll only get problems... that's why most use cooling pad where it blows cool air from below (though having more cool air doesn't always mean it'll cool better, but most of the time it'll works by ~5'C if it the cooler design is good and the laptop's airflow design is good). other than that, the cooler pad is also to help cool down heated parts that is in contact with the cover surface, though not much help in most cases due to material used for both cover and cooling pad but some does reports improvements.

most of us used Notepal U3/U2. I used U3 as well and so far I can see improvements but as expected there's so much thing a cooler can do...

Since you're using an external keyboard, I dont think you have issue with the heat on your palm then...

I dont know about latest rendition of ultrabook, but earlier versions does have heat issue as well... it's not like the heat is too much for the components, but some user feels uncomfortable with the heat.

Yeah, the need to setup the interface for every game is tiring... I have a bunch of profile right now... I wish it has Synapse 2.0 support. Not too say Synapse 2.0 is a good software, in fact it's crappy software but the cloud storage is really useful for me...

I dont know how this will work, but you can try... at least it helps if you put your laptop on lap often... though I wonder, will it block the air intake of the laptop then?

Before U3
CPU: idling = 53'C max = 104'C
GPU: idling = 42'C max = 83'C
HDD: idling ~40'C max ~50'C

After U3
CPU: Min = 40'C Max = 95'C Idling = 50'C
GPU: Min = 36'C Max = 79'C Idling = 40'C
HDD: Min = 37'C Max = 51'C Idling = 42'C

That's my figure. before U3, some numbers are just rough estimation from my memory... I can't really recall and lazy to test again...

Min means minimum recorded (it's basically the real idle, only startup processes and apps), Max means maximum recorded (gaming), Idling means current temperature recorded basically idling with Chrome with multiple tabs, video paused on MPC.

My number looks pretty high from others, I think I have problem with the thermal conductivity...

This post has been edited by mrl: Feb 27 2013, 11:34 AM

nope... my HDD is still at original position... my HDD temp is either because I placed one of the U3 fans directly into the opening vent for HDD (or is it just me thought that the opening is located around the HDD?) or my room temperature is just rather low here...

nevertheless, I'm pretty sure going to get the CPU temp fix once I'm back in msia...

Also, make sure it runs on nVidia... force it if you need to...