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Still my father's laptop gives 2hr battery life now
The Lenovo Ideapad Y500 Thread
Still my father's laptop gives 2hr battery life now
entrana
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The battery at min brightness and wifi off movie powe saver mode crosses 4 hours 20 minutes for me using headphones
The 750m is exactly a overclocked gimmick of a 650m. 3dmark around p2700. I overclocked my 650 to over p3200 and game on 1100 regularly without throttling though I find 1000mhz to be the sweet spot which is still higher than the max 750m boost. Point being both the chips are the same. You can choose to set it at whatever clocks you want and get the corresponding performance. The 750m has a max boost to 960 MHz as shown online… not to mention I read that the new 750m models are more prone to overheating due to higher clocks and poorer thermal paste
although afaik it would enable an option between sli and Optimus
The 510p has changed to 768p screen or an upgrade to 900p which I doubt will be in India if the 510p does make it here!! i'm tempted to buy ! bt i also want haswelldesperate for Y510p to launch in india
The 750m is exactly a overclocked gimmick of a 650m. 3dmark around p2700. I overclocked my 650 to over p3200 and game on 1100 regularly without throttling though I find 1000mhz to be the sweet spot which is still higher than the max 750m boost. Point being both the chips are the same. You can choose to set it at whatever clocks you want and get the corresponding performance. The 750m has a max boost to 960 MHz as shown online… not to mention I read that the new 750m models are more prone to overheating due to higher clocks and poorer thermal paste
Can anyone try the bios mod and report it here lol I don't feel like experimenting
although afaik it would enable an option between sli and Optimus
Aerrow
Journeyman
The battery at min brightness and wifi off movie powe saver mode crosses 4 hours 20 minutes for me using headphones
The 510p has changed to 768p screen or an upgrade to 900p which I doubt will be in India if the 510p does make it here
The 750m is exactly a overclocked gimmick of a 650m. 3dmark around p2700. I overclocked my 650 to over p3200 and game on 1100 regularly without throttling though I find 1000mhz to be the sweet spot which is still higher than the max 750m boost. Point being both the chips are the same. You can choose to set it at whatever clocks you want and get the corresponding performance. The 750m has a max boost to 960 MHz as shown online… not to mention I read that the new 750m models are more prone to overheating due to higher clocks and poorer thermal paste
Can anyone try the bios mod and report it here lol I don't feel like experimenting
Thanks for clarifying on the 750m....
Abt the bios, it still can't enable optimus. I've read through the thread. There is a hardware limitation according to the OP.
Aerrow
Journeyman
Yup... unless u want to wait like a few... I would say... go get it....
Post here when u get one.. Congrats in advance.
Aerrow
Journeyman
Guess he's really careful with it... plus im pretty sure he doesn't game 6 to 8 hours in a stretch.
Akash Nandi
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The battery at min brightness and wifi off movie powe saver mode crosses 4 hours 20 minutes for me using headphones
The 510p has changed to 768p screen or an upgrade to 900p which I doubt will be in India if the 510p does make it here
The 750m is exactly a overclocked gimmick of a 650m. 3dmark around p2700. I overclocked my 650 to over p3200 and game on 1100 regularly without throttling though I find 1000mhz to be the sweet spot which is still higher than the max 750m boost. Point being both the chips are the same. You can choose to set it at whatever clocks you want and get the corresponding performance. The 750m has a max boost to 960 MHz as shown online… not to mention I read that the new 750m models are more prone to overheating due to higher clocks and poorer thermal paste
Can anyone try the bios mod and report it here lol I don't feel like experimenting
Thanks for the info man!
Go to the lenovo webpage/Y500/features
download the Y500 datasheet
towards the end of the pdf, its written that it supports optimus
its a different issue that no has been able to make it work yet =|
Aerrow
Journeyman
I'm not sure of this but the OP on that thread was pretty sure it can't be done.there were numerous posts asking for the feature.
Can you tell me where its available as I would also like to buy one.
pratyush997
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40k??
ariftwister
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It is indeed hardware issue.. Intel HD 4000 is not present and so optimus won't work. This has been confirmed by Admin on Lenovo official forum.
mohit9206
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Oh i see its 65k. Whats the best one under 40k ?
entrana
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Kindly create another thread asking this question this is not the place to ask laptop recommendations
Can't be a hardware issue intel hd 4000 is like built inside the CPU unless Intel sells CPU without the intel hd 4000 which doesn't seem so considering the model number is specified with an availability of 4000. The hardware is definitely there we just need to find a way of detecting it. If only we could access the intel vbios
ariftwister
Truth Seeker
(some of) My Windows 8 apps are not working. When I click them, They open for a second and then return to start screen.
Apps like powerdvd for ideapad, skype, jetpack joyride although some apps work fine..
Any Idea what might be the problem?
Apps like powerdvd for ideapad, skype, jetpack joyride although some apps work fine..
Any Idea what might be the problem?
ariftwister
Truth Seeker
Yeah I know that...
But AFAIK Lenovo 'physicaly' disabled Intel hd 4000 in y500 because sli and optimus won't work together.
ariftwister
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Aerrow
Journeyman
Hardware issue doesn't mean the igpu is not present... it is present but cannot be enabled or switched to... in the words of the OP, the motherboard architecture has to be complex to allow to enable optimus on the sli config... complex = expensive. And I think everyone knows about the cost cutting part of y500.. ahem... touchpad... ahem..