Always happens to me nowadays... but that's because i dont turn on my laptop that much so all sort of updates are being installed once I turn it on...

I'm still with my Y580 (rarely turn on though, only when travelling) and still rocking Battlefield 4 at 720p medium.... XD

Though somehow Windows 8 decides to be a jerk to me, leaking memory all over when playing not at desktop resolution

Used to run fine, but this time it decides to give me headache... But, disassembly process and applied new thermal paste really worth the effort as it managed to keep the CPU and GPU well below 90'C (IIRC around 78 - 80'C) at Malaysian room temperature without any additional cooler... Last time I run BF3 in US winter time (turn off heater, room well below 20'C) it runs 100'C

I ran The Sims 2 as well, 75'C for GPU but CPU is a little bit hot at 85 - 90'C...

So, whoever hasn't disassemble and replace the thermal paste yet you are recommended to do so... Once opened, you will be surprised at the quality of the paste Lenovo used... they really cut corners there... completely dried up for me... not to mention the thermal pads get thinned and didn't even touch the memories/vrms... after replaced, I've never touched 100'C even once on CPU and GPU...

at 720p, I don't think there's much problem... I played BF4 with medium settings on Y580...

This post has been edited by mrl: Aug 4 2014, 11:40 PM

If you can wait, wait for Y50/Y40... It would be much better...

but if you can't wait, Y410P is a good buy for gaming... just don't expect it to run any newer games at 1080p if you ever hook it up to external monitor...

This post has been edited by mrl: Aug 5 2014, 10:36 PM

you're right... but I was under assumption he knows someone who still has stock though...

thing is, I checked last few days Y50/Y40 still doesn't appear on Lenovo Malaysia's website... I wonder if it's officially available in Malaysia right now or not...

good to know that they actually have brochure for it... why in the world the web is so freaking slow to update....

Y50 4k review by Linus...

The difference is like heaven and earth... 650M scores double than 710M in PassMark benchmark. Not to mention they are both in 2 different categories fighting 2 different league.

Go for 650M. Sometimes I just wonder what the heck is 710M is doing there when the performance is pretty much IGP level.

If we are talking about framerate in gaming, 0% improvements

If we are talking about multitasking, video encoding then yes....

I would recommend uninstall McAfee. I do face this kind of issue as well with any system that I have McAfee installed. It has become my compulsory-things-to-do to uninstall McAfee. They will slow down your system but the scenario it happens might differ from system to system I guess (because of usage differences between individuals I would say).

You can also check which process is actually taking the resources. Go to Resources Monitor (accessible from your Task Manager) and check the process with high disk usage there. It should display every single process. Task Manager normally hides certain process (in Windows 7, McAfee processes are hidden. You need to click "Show Processes From All Users" to view it. I assume, Windows 8.1 will be the same)

single gpu should be 120w. as long as the output voltage is 20v (dont count me on voltage, please double confirm) and the plug can fit your laptop should be fine. but dont buy one too cheap if you plan to buy non oem one. too cheap means cheap components, one voltage spike and your laptop is gone...

Do you still use McAfee???

Sometimes I wonder why they still use 5400RPM harddrive... battery life? cost? or simply there's no 2.5" 7200RPM hard disk out there (which, I don't think so...)???

I dont know in case of Dota2, but since it's an online game it's possible that most of the loading time require online interaction, not local storage interaction...

it's just you....

JK

any hugely hyped title from Ubisoft sucks.... so, yeah...

it will not change even if you are using ssd.

Increasing your storage speed doesn't increase the FPS. It might speed up your loading time given your game is an offline games, online elements still tied up to internet speed.

Reduce the resolution or details if you want to speed up.

maybe you want to try WD Black2 Dual Drive then? I dont know the price, should be cheaper than SSD I guess but heard quite good review on it. Not as fast as SSD but definitely faster than 5400RPM HDD....

It's preference really. I prefer to do it the old way, fresh OS installation as it gives me more control on what I have in my laptop/desktop.

But, if you find yourself using the Lenovo utilities you probably will prefer the factory default restoration as all the utilities (some may refer them as bloatware) is installed.

does it come with Windows 8 or Windows 8.1?

If if comes with Windows 8, I guess OKR should revert back to Win8... All Win8 users won't have installation media to Win8.1 so cannot recover straight to Win8.1 and has to go back to Win8 and update to Win8.1 through Windows Store.

So, yeah... If it comes with Win8, just use OKR.

If your laptop doesn't come with Win8 and you do upgrade installation to Win8, I'd recommend you to re-format and do clean install the Win8/Win8.1. Upgrade installation does tend to have problem, and I haven't experience issue-free with upgrade installation since WinXP to be honest. Mind you that you might lose some Lenovo stuff like OKR.

If you have done that and problem persist, I'd recommend you to update all drivers from Lenovo website to the latest version. Like what gregyong said, Win8 does eff up big time but I blame both Microsoft and OEMs as well for not providing proper drivers leading to underwhelmed experience; still, personally I dont think this is as bad as Vista. I've had worse problem, bigger performance hit on Vista... but I can agree in some department, Win8 does worse than Vista (WiFi drivers if you need an example)

if none of that works, well... time to go back to Win7 I guess...

This post has been edited by mrl: Oct 31 2014, 10:51 PM

Oh, that's a surprise there....

have you tried to just uninstall and re-install all the utilities?

This depends on games really... some AAA games like recent ubisoft's title are shitty ports (Assassin's Creed 4 is one of them) that seriously unoptimized, to the point that even i7-4770K and GTX680 is having hard time to run at high settings 1080p 60fps. On my Y580 i would just play it 720p at minimum settings. It still looks gorgeous on the 15" screen though...

Others that fair better, I usually play at 900p or 720p still, but at medium or high settings.

Old titles, I just run it 1080p with highest settings.