You can't setup raid cause bios does not support it as you rightly said but you could use Lenovo's own express cache software. Discovered it works with the y500 even though its for another notebook model. Mine's been working fine with super fast boot times.

Very true, but its the next best thing since got no raid 0.

Ya I suppose so. When doing research before I bought my mSata, I found out that the mSata slot runs at 6gb/s and the hard drive maxes out at 3gb/s. That means that mSata ssd will perform better than your sata ssd. For me I installed a 60gb mSata then with the express cache installed I'm enjoying <10sec boot times. I cannot imagine the notebook with both mSata ssd and a sata ssd. Now you got me thinking..........

That is not normal I would suggest that you sent your unit to the service center for checking. The SC in Lowyat, the service is quite good.

From what I know thermal compound is not suppose to dry up. Either not enough is applied or its applied unevenly. Either way SC will be happy to look into it.

Seems to me maybe Lenovo has some QC issues because some units have no problem and while some has so many issues. May I ask for those of you facing heat (CPU/GPU) issues, are you guys covering the vents at the bottom of the notebook? Or maybe using the notebook on your bed? This could be the reason why your GPU/CPU heats up so much.

If you click "Dust Removal" in power options you can see how powerful the fans are in the Y500. Impressive if you ask me.

Seems ok to me unless you expecting liquid cooling results.

Yes run games easily but you expect the air vents to be cool too meh? Like mine y500, when playing games the air from the vents are hot but the keyboard totally normal. When GPU and CPU working hard sure it will get hot, hot air means the cooling system is working well and if the keyboard is not hot means its not over heating. Well I'm no expert but that is my reasoning when comparing y500 to my old notebook. Mine old one gets so hot that even when you place your hand on the palm rest it hurts!

Even my friend's Alienware gets very hot when playing games, the only difference is that the air vents all blow to the back so you may not notice it that much.

mine gets warm too during gaming.

mine Atheros so far no problem with wi-fi.

Based on this http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForc...0M.90245.0.html

The GT 750m is only slightly better than GT 650m. I do not think I nor your friend will be disappointed. In fact this will be a good excuse to press down the price with sellers cause new spec coming. Lets see if anyone can push the price down past RM3400.

Yep and this is what that website says about the GT 650m sli
http://www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForc...LI.84953.0.html

GT750m sli= GTX675mx
GT650m sli= GTX670mx

Both cards have the same amount of CUDA cores. Its just the clock speed that is different with the GT750m having a higher core speed.

Both are good GPUs, Not huge the difference. If Lenovo locks the clock speed like the current batch of Y500 with GT650m GPU, then the difference is not that much anyway.

That is why I would advise buyers to use the excuse to push prices down for the current batch due to new specs coming. Now that would be value for money. I kinda regretted buying mine end of last month else I would use this new specs to push down the prices then use the money saved to buy more upgrades like Corsair performance rams.

Click on my link to know the full spec of gt650m. Lenovo has disable all GPU boost so GPU boost 2.0 isn't a decisive factor.

Money saved can be reinvested on your mSata SSD, SSD and performance ram which will give you even more satisfaction using this great notebook.

I figured they disable GPU boost to protect the notebook from overheating. You know some people play games with the laptop on their bed etc.

I can confirm that the mSata is user-accessible. Mine is an Intel 60gb. 30gb has automatically been allocated for Lenovo express cache. Balance 30gb I set for windows turbo boost.

FYI: If you want to install windows into the mSata you will have to buy another windows copy cause Lenovo cannot install Windows 8 into the mSata. I tried in the SC in Lowyat this is what they told me after trying a few times. Bummer if you ask me but with my current setup I do get very fast boot times and basically a snappy laptop.

No probs. By the way, for your info, reading the manual and spec sheet, y500 2.5" SATA max speed is 3gb/s vs 6bg/s for the mSata. Either way its still blazing fast compared to normal hard drives.

Last I talk to SC guy, seems y500 internal GPU can be change. Anyone care to confirm?

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