Discussion continued from here.
1.2Ghz does bring with it an extra 4-5c which is not really worth it IMO.
Most games on med and high look same to my eye unless running on two machines side by side, so I am cool with running on native res and avg eye candy but fluid gameplay.
The laptop has no cooler but I plan on designing one in my free time. I had it on a table with nothing obstructing the airflow and my laptop still has all the rubber foots underneath so there is some ground clearance as well. Room temp would be somewhere near 20-22c, Delhi is quite chilly again after these recent rains. I regularly do the "Dust Removal" thing in the Lenovo battery manager or whatever its called & sometimes I open the bottom cover and blow any dust I find.
The fan wasnt loud at all, the loudest is when I do the dust removal and even then the HP g6(AMD a-series with AMD GPU) beats it on the loudness scale while it just plays youtube vids.
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USB 3.0 vs USB 2.0
Seagate USB 3.0 1 TB HDD & y500:
USB 3.0 (blue ones on the left side) 100MB/s
USB 2.0 (yellow on on the right side) 36MB/s
You are safe till 85 degrees centigrade as the max temps for this Kepler chip is 98 degrees.
I just tested again, stays at 26-28 90% of the time, goes as low as 20 is extremely heavy scenes, ie , lots of big trees(alpines) +lotta smoke + debris from vehicle damage. I get 30 when inside tunnels or very low outdoor scenes.
After 10 mins of driving around listening to songs I was like fk that I got a second GPU for a reason. Activating SLI mode makes the gameplay twice smoother. It was like 20 and 60 FPS difference over a single card. FPS stays at 30 ofc. Both GPUs are only utilized 70% and max temps are 65 degrees for the slave GPU.
BTW if you imported from US then why not the SLI version?
