Lenovo Y470 and Y570 Official Owners Thread

[lenovo460]

I posted my Y470 review. So, for those who want to get one more review in before the Y480 comes out be my guest :P:

Lenovo Y470 Review by PixelSmashers.com - YouTube

[kobby2k6]

This: Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus XT 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 32 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Solid State Hybrid Drive ST750LX003: Computers & Accessories or this: Amazon.com: Seagate Momentus 7200 750 GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gb/s 16 MB Cache 2.5 Inch Internal Notebook Hard Drive -Bare Drive ST9750420AS: Computers & Accessories.

Plus this: Amazon.com: Acomdata 2.5" Tango USB/eSATA Hard Drive Enclosure Kit, Obsidian Black (TNGXXXUSE-BLK): Electronics.

Plus this: Amazon.com: StarTech 3-Feet Shielded External eSATA Cable M/M (ESATA3): Electronics.

I recommend putting a seagate momentus hdd in an acomdata enclosure. The acomdata enclosure above has an eSata port. Hook that up to the y470 and you'll get great speeds. I found the eSata to be faster than the USB 3.0 when testing both on my y470p. Still, you can find lots of USB 3.0 portable hdds, such as this: Amazon.com: Western Digital My Passport Essential SE 1 TB USB 3.0 Portable External Hard Drive (Black): Electronics. Personally though I would stay away from the western digital products and just build my own external using the acomdata enclosure. Having used both, I've been more satisfied with the latter.

sorry to sound noobish (which I am when it comes to hard drivers) but can you make a tutorial or link to me to a video on how to completely replace my internal hard drive (my slow 5400rpm 750gb) with the momentus hard drive (32mb momentus 750gb)...thank you and have a great day

p.s. I also need a suggestion on a good hard drive cloning software

[Syberia]

Picked up a 470 (refurbished) from the outlet with i3 and 550m for $469 today. Basically free when you consider that's about the going rate of an i7 y560 on eBay these days. I plan to swap the CPU to an i7 myself, do these new models still have an easy access panel on the bottom to get to it?

Also, I've never dealt with nVidia graphics before, is there anything like RadeonPro that will automatically force different settings based on what game I am currently playing?

[Karneey]

I just cleaned out the thermal paste on my CPU. I was getting above 90 Celcius with 100% load. They sure did a crappy job of applying the original thermal paste, it was like someone dropped a glob of paste on the CPU then dropped the heatsink on it. I reapplied some Phobya Hegrease and my 100% load temperatures immediately dropped 20+ Degrees. It should be even better after a few days burn in.

[lockecole]

I just cleaned out the thermal paste on my CPU. I was getting above 90 Celcius with 100% load. They sure did a crappy job of applying the original thermal paste, it was like someone dropped a glob of paste on the CPU then dropped the heatsink on it. I reapplied some Phobya Hegrease and my 100% load temperatures immediately dropped 20+ Degrees. It should be even better after a few days burn in.

Good to know , i had problems with heat on my Y470 too but i blamed it on the dust blocking the heatsink fins...next time i will reapply a good thermal past also then !

[kobby2k6]

I just cleaned out the thermal paste on my CPU. I was getting above 90 Celcius with 100% load. They sure did a crappy job of applying the original thermal paste, it was like someone dropped a glob of paste on the CPU then dropped the heatsink on it. I reapplied some Phobya Hegrease and my 100% load temperatures immediately dropped 20+ Degrees. It should be even better after a few days burn in.

can you show a video or tutorial on how you applied the paste for out y470 because I might try in the future...

p.s. I game a lot so I might need it soon

[KraZy_SkitZy]

Only gripe so far with this laptop is the built in sdcard reader is very slow. I average 1 MB/s on a class 10 card which is too slow to play my hd camera videos because of severe stuttering. I average 15MB/s using the camera with a usb cable.

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I found for the longest time my gateway an asus notebooks card readers were brutal slow, till I did my annual windows reinstall and allowed windows to instal its' own generic card reader drivers, and the found data transfer times to be closer +/- to rated sd speeds. Try uninstalling the proprietary driver and rescan for hardware an instal the windows generic and give that a Try.

[ravicus]

Hey guys. I have the original Y470 and I am having problems with the laptop locking up in Windows at various times during the day. I had Lenovo replace the hard drive and the problem persisted.

Do any of you know what might be causing this problem?
Possibly Software?
Lenovo is currently replacing the motherboard in my laptop, I'm hoping that fixes the problem.

[Karneey]

can you show a video or tutorial on how you applied the paste for out y470 because I might try in the future...

p.s. I game a lot so I might need it soon

Ehh, you probably don't want to do it the way I did, I couldn't actually take out the whole heatsink, I worked with a Centimeter gap in between the CPU and the Heatsink. Also drilled a small hole in my Laptop to access a screw. Didn't want to take apart the whole laptop just to access the heatsink.

[impaulsible]

I'm also getting heat temps in the upper 80s C and above 90 C when playing games. Cause for concern? I talked to Lenovo and they offered to check it out for me.