Lenovo Y500 and heat

[zvmanning]

Didn't find too many reports about over heating, but one main thing i'd like a solid answer on before buying it over the new asus. It's 300$ cheaper with the same specs pretty much. Paying for a slightly bigger asus screen and asus cooling. Newegg sells the i7 2.4ghz 3rd gen processor, dual 650, 8gb, 1080p, for 1000 with the visa discount. Asus is about 1300 at bestbuy with tax. The SLI runs better than the new asus 670mx from what i've read, but the heat.. one would imagine dual 650m's would generate a lot more dangerous heat than a 670mx. How much heat though, do they over heat? Anyone know / have experience with the lenovo y500

 

[Pyree]

The 2nd GT650m comes in a discrete card slotted into the hotswap bay where it usually has a DVD drive and has it's own heatpipe, heat sink and cooling fan. I think that should be enough for cooling.

 

[zvmanning]

Cool, i figured the cooling would have to be up to par on a device like this. So each card has its own fan and cooling pipe? Didn't know that : ). Think i'd have a pad to bring it down a notch too so i guess i'm not worried, just kinda spazzin out cause i want it so bad haha

 

[patdx]

Cool, i figured the cooling would have to be up to par on a device like this. So each card has its own fan and cooling pipe? Didn't know that : ). Think i'd have a pad to bring it down a notch too so i guess i'm not worried, just kinda spazzin out cause i want it so bad haha

Great! I hope the y500 will do a bit better than the y580 for the heat issues. Thank you!

 

[yillbs]

My buddy just picked up a Y500. It's a beast, it gets hot.. real hot. however, thats only during some serious gaming. Playing something that doesn't require much gets just as hot as any normal computer. He got the i5 version for 899 from newegg.. and the extra GPU doesn't have it's own fan from what i saw, maybe it's different than this one -.-

 

[JD88]

The Y500 is a great machine. The second graphics card replaces the optical drive and has it's own fan. Both GPUs stay very cool. Only the CPU heats up and that's well within normal limits (i7 version).

If you decide to get it, make you you get the updated version with the GT750M cards as opposed to the older 650M version.

http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/LenovoPortal/en_US/catalog.workflow:item.detail?GroupID=457&Code=59371963&category_id=5B0116E237099FA0FCA012D9B20ED2FB

 

[patdx]

THanks for the help guys..