Hello,
So I recently purchased this 2nd-hand Lenovo Y550 IdeaPad which has (as the seller advertised), had some stuff updated.
I know this seller well, very friendly and he's very legit, really knows his stuff and has his own hardware/computer repair biz so I highly doubt he tinkered with anything he didn't know he was doing.
That possibility now aside, here are my specifics
Windows 7,
Intel Core i7 CPU Q720 @ 1.60GHz (I think its a Quad)
RAM 4.00GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
My hard drive is basically spotless, and i've done a defrag and everything.
NOW HERE'S MY PROBLEM in detail:
As of recently, I've been using Starcraft II as a test as far as being a "gaming computer" goes, and when I tested this Lenovo out with Starcraft II on its highest settings, it played flawlessly.
I continued playing and building stuff everywhere and it seemed like it could do no wrong.
So, satisfied, I moved on to Heroes of Newerth, a game that definitely has lower graphic requirements than Starcraft II.
Around the ending time, as our teams clash (it's a 5v5 game), my frame rates start to decrease ever so slightly, gradually, then in mini-chunks, then it returns to somewhat normal.
Not enough for me to get bummed out, but enough for me to make a move that gets me killed in the game, in other words have a noticeable impact on the gameplay.
Somehow it feels like after the first few dips in frame rate, the rates don't return back to optimum as they were at the start of the game.
This is how a typical clash would look like:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0NC2cuGD5jA/hqdefault.jpg
Lowering the graphic settings doesn't seem to help, and sites such as "Can I Run It?" say my system meets the requirements to play the game comfortably and even at high settings, yet from game to game, as activity spikes such as in a team-clash, the frame rates slow down as I just described.
I've tried running GameBooster to end any background programs that might be lagging it but there's maybe only a marginal difference, and it's scanners are reading my CPU and graphic card temperatures at 70/71 degrees Celsius.
I also don't have a cooling fan, my laptop is merely propped up on a stand with holes in the middle, and since buying it last week, I have sometimes run a torrent file or two overnight without shutting the laptop down, at most 2 days in a row, only putting it on standby at certain intervals in between.
I recall this minor issue having been there since before the torrenting so it might not be that though i'll still look into it if it strikes any of you as a likely possibility.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!
So I recently purchased this 2nd-hand Lenovo Y550 IdeaPad which has (as the seller advertised), had some stuff updated.
I know this seller well, very friendly and he's very legit, really knows his stuff and has his own hardware/computer repair biz so I highly doubt he tinkered with anything he didn't know he was doing.
That possibility now aside, here are my specifics
Windows 7,
Intel Core i7 CPU Q720 @ 1.60GHz (I think its a Quad)
RAM 4.00GB
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240M
My hard drive is basically spotless, and i've done a defrag and everything.
NOW HERE'S MY PROBLEM in detail:
As of recently, I've been using Starcraft II as a test as far as being a "gaming computer" goes, and when I tested this Lenovo out with Starcraft II on its highest settings, it played flawlessly.
I continued playing and building stuff everywhere and it seemed like it could do no wrong.
So, satisfied, I moved on to Heroes of Newerth, a game that definitely has lower graphic requirements than Starcraft II.
Around the ending time, as our teams clash (it's a 5v5 game), my frame rates start to decrease ever so slightly, gradually, then in mini-chunks, then it returns to somewhat normal.
Not enough for me to get bummed out, but enough for me to make a move that gets me killed in the game, in other words have a noticeable impact on the gameplay.
Somehow it feels like after the first few dips in frame rate, the rates don't return back to optimum as they were at the start of the game.
This is how a typical clash would look like:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/0NC2cuGD5jA/hqdefault.jpg
Lowering the graphic settings doesn't seem to help, and sites such as "Can I Run It?" say my system meets the requirements to play the game comfortably and even at high settings, yet from game to game, as activity spikes such as in a team-clash, the frame rates slow down as I just described.
I've tried running GameBooster to end any background programs that might be lagging it but there's maybe only a marginal difference, and it's scanners are reading my CPU and graphic card temperatures at 70/71 degrees Celsius.
I also don't have a cooling fan, my laptop is merely propped up on a stand with holes in the middle, and since buying it last week, I have sometimes run a torrent file or two overnight without shutting the laptop down, at most 2 days in a row, only putting it on standby at certain intervals in between.
I recall this minor issue having been there since before the torrenting so it might not be that though i'll still look into it if it strikes any of you as a likely possibility.
Thoughts?
Thanks in advance!