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 DO NOT BUY Lenovo Laptops please.

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TSwilsonphua
post Jun 29 2015, 10:13 AM

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QUOTE(miong93 @ Jun 29 2015, 08:23 AM)
You can't expect to pay for something cheap and gain a premium quality user experience sweat.gif

Well did you perform dust cleaning + thermal repaste on a regualar basis ? If you did it each year or each 6 months, it will probably lower down the temperature. Using a good thermal paste do help. Also try to lower down your games settings to medium or low, the GPU can't support much intense 3D game.

Not much choice for you now, send in for warranty claiming lo.
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I own the laptop for 3 months now, send for cleaning and reapply thermal paste for 3 times, each time kena charged rm80, maybe kena scam or what...

And I don't play games on this machine, I only use it for AutoCAD and my assignments lol.....warranty over also liao

any other suggestion to fix? or no choice but to sell it cheap? hahaha
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post Jun 29 2015, 10:20 AM

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i've used a G50 for 2 years + and now my GPU showing artifact. i guess yours might be a lemon. do get additional warranty period to be safe.
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post Jun 29 2015, 10:23 AM

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QUOTE(wilsonphua @ Jun 28 2015, 05:32 PM)
Y400, as in my signature biggrin.gif
Probably mine is a 14 inch packed with a Core i7, it could be the cause of the overheats.
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My Y480 i7 has been serving me for almost 4 years steady.

You are right on the overheat part but using an external cooling pad should solve this issue.
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post Jun 29 2015, 10:30 AM

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QUOTE(wilsonphua @ Jun 29 2015, 10:13 AM)
I own the laptop for 3 months now, send for cleaning and reapply thermal paste for 3 times, each time kena charged rm80, maybe kena scam or what...

And I don't play games on this machine, I only use it for AutoCAD and my assignments lol.....warranty over also liao

any other suggestion to fix? or no choice but to sell it cheap? hahaha
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Did you tell them to use a different thermal paste ? Cause normally they will use the stock thermal paste which is not as effective as other brand.
For AutoCAD, I believe CPU is also a factor here. Well can't expect shared heat pipe model to perform very well in heat management.
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post Jun 29 2015, 03:06 PM

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QUOTE(miong93 @ Jun 29 2015, 10:30 AM)
Did you tell them to use a different thermal paste ? Cause normally they will use the stock thermal paste which is not as effective as other brand.
For AutoCAD, I believe CPU is also a factor here. Well can't expect shared heat pipe model to perform very well in heat management.
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they might also put too much thermal paste which will act as an insulator instead of helping metal to metal contact
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post Jun 29 2015, 03:14 PM

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Using Y50 and to me by far the best cooling laptop ive ever used so far. Beat the crap out of my previous laptops, 4830TG, V-Nitro, and also MSI GE-60 2PE aka codename OVEN. laugh.gif

And ive used Y500 before this and it got good cooling capabilities also for its range of hardware. Never exceed 90'C in my previous usage. Maybe thats why the larger the laptop the better the cooling capabilities.
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:06 PM

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Been using acer nitro so far not problem. Lenovo I hear their after service is poor.
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:11 PM

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Haha This issue remember me of my friend's lenovo laptop overheating after playing dota... it's so hot that it can really hurt ur hand in matter of just seconds when you touch it... in fact, you can rebus egg on it when it got super hot... so it's good to hear than current Y50 has overcome overheating issue...

And I agree with TS about acer... Previously my last Acer easily last 5 years (heavy usage)... if not the hard disk was faulty, it could last much longer (maybe 7 years+)... and at that time I had no idea what dust cleaning was...hehe
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:15 PM

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Owned a G485, motherboard died after 4 years due to flooding caused by mineral water bottle, even then it was only defective USB ports.

G40-45, Windows corrupt after 3 months, replaced Win8 Bing with Win 7, smooth sailing now.

Thinkpad T430, 100 celcius when playing GTA IV, though no BSOD or crashing yet, running with Crucial mSATA SSD that i've upgraded myself, so far so good. Keyboard died 3 times because i wanted to try the spill-resistant design and forgot to let it dry properly, though IBM was able to replace them within 3 days on all 3 occassion tongue.gif , though Thinkpad jangan compare with Ideapad aftersales la
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:29 PM

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QUOTE(wilsonphua @ Jun 28 2015, 05:21 PM)
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You may want to try playing with the "Power Options" If its currently on "High Performance", try changing it to balanced, and play the game to monitor the temp?

The other suggestion is under the "High Performance" go to Advance power settings and change the minimum processor state from 100% to 99%.

Good luck
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:40 PM

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QUOTE(VeeJay @ Jun 29 2015, 05:29 PM)
You may want to try playing with the "Power Options" If its currently on "High Performance", try changing it to balanced, and play the game to monitor the temp?

The other suggestion is under the "High Performance" go to Advance power settings and change the minimum processor state from 100% to 99%.

Good luck
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Minimum or maximum?
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post Jun 29 2015, 05:44 PM

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My entire dept using Lenovo.

My last laptop was IBM (kinda like Lenovo?), a 17"cher.

Never had any issues.
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post Jun 30 2015, 12:23 AM

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QUOTE(MeToo @ Jun 29 2015, 05:44 PM)
My entire dept using Lenovo.

My last laptop was IBM (kinda like Lenovo?), a 17"cher.

Never had any issues.
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theres a difference between business grade lenovo thinkpads
and consumer grade lenovo laptops
those business grade laptops are built like tanks thumbup.gif
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post Jun 30 2015, 07:23 AM

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Haha! Good luck to any future Lenovo owner. Either you take my advice or...you shall waste your hard earned RM3000 on a laptop that gets faulty after 1 year. RM3000 seems like a small amount to people who are working....but in my case, I'm still a university student. And i tried selling away the laptop, highest offer I got is only RM200. Stubborn people who don't want to learn from our mistakes, go ahead and buy and support your Lenovo laptops, good luck going through all these hassle in the near future.
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post Jun 30 2015, 07:47 AM

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QUOTE(wilsonphua @ Jun 30 2015, 07:23 AM)
Haha! Good luck to any future Lenovo owner. Either you take my advice or...you shall waste your hard earned RM3000 on a laptop that gets faulty after 1 year. RM3000 seems like a small amount to people who are working....but in my case, I'm still a university student. And i tried selling away the laptop, highest offer I got is only RM200. Stubborn people who don't want to learn from our mistakes, go ahead and buy and support your Lenovo laptops, good luck going through all these hassle in the near future.
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hi im just curious
when you replace the thermal paste.what themal paste did the shop use?
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post Jun 30 2015, 08:01 AM

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QUOTE(bigmac999 @ Jun 30 2015, 07:47 AM)
hi im just curious
when you replace the thermal paste.what themal paste did the shop use?
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I just found out that I was scammed actually. I sent this laptop to the computer shop to reapply thermal paste but got scammed.

Last night, my brother in law came over and helped to disassemble the whole laptop.

The moment he opened the back casing, he already told me the inside of the laptop looks "virgin". Like never open before, very new
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post Jun 30 2015, 12:43 PM

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yooo.. rarely see u here wilsonphua its been a while...
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post Jun 30 2015, 03:36 PM

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QUOTE(wilsonphua @ Jun 30 2015, 08:01 AM)
I just found out that I was scammed actually. I sent this laptop to the computer shop to reapply thermal paste but got scammed.

Last night, my brother in law came over and helped to disassemble the whole laptop.

The moment he opened the back casing, he already told me the inside of the laptop looks "virgin". Like never open before, very new
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hmm maybe you can ask your brother in law to help you repaste hmm.gif
should improve the temps
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post Jul 1 2015, 08:16 PM

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Oh hell. I just bought a lenovo laptop last week.
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post Jul 1 2015, 08:20 PM

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I've been abusing my ThinkPad T430s for more than 2 years. Knock here, knock there, still going strong biggrin.gif
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