Ideapad Y510P

Interesting, mine is UPS ground

 

It appears that no 410p variant has SLI.
-http://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/y-series/y410p/index.html

 

My Y510P just came in today.
So far, the only thing that's really been bothering me is my high temps. It's went up to 70 just on idle. It's probably going to go down as I use it over time though. My CD drive also won't close for some reason, but should be an easy fix.
My battery is at 96%, not technically fully charged, but it's reporting 7.5 hours... I've yet to test if it can actually last that long or if the battery notification icon in the task bar is even accurate, considering Lenovo's site estimates up to 5. I'm running off the Intel GPU, my screen isn't fully dimmed and my WiFi is also on. I'll report back to see what the actual battery life is.

Edit: Okay nevermind, it dropped to 4 hours and 40 minutes. That sounds more reasonable. I don't get how it was saying 7.5+ hours though...

 

Wow, thats a lot better than the 3 hours advertised everywhere

Must be optimus.

 

3 days shipping but im going to get it Scheduled Delivery:
Tuesday, 06/18/2013, By End of Day
if im not wrong it is 6 days shipping down Sunday 5

 

Hey guys, I was looking at the lenovo website with SLI and it says gt720m and i have talked to the support and i get a different answer every time. I have heard that it is a typo and it is really gt750m. Does anyone have any idea on what the ultrabay graphics card is currently? Thanks

 

Getting mine on Tuesday as well.

 

The 720m is a typo. It's been confirmed in past posts that it's 750m SLI. SLI can't work with two different cards.

 

Thank you for confirming. Looking forward to getting it!

 

The windows estimate is never accurate. You have to actually use the laptop and time it yourself or with a battery monitoring program.

 

Very impressive. Please report back on actual battery run times under normal use.

 

I know this question is probably obvious but can you plug in a Wired Xbox controller to play games?

 

Yes I have use both wireless and wired Xbox Controllers on my Y500 (basically same Y510p) and works perfectly.

 

Hello all, I'm new to the forum and quite sadly, new to the specifics of computers as well. I'm only 18 and I just now figured out that the reason my new samsung series five was running WoW so shi tily(really?) was because it had an intel 4000 hd card, which is apparently just trash. So for somebody who is relatively fresh to what actually makes a computer run and just ordered the y510p gt 750 sli 16gigs ram what exactly I am getting, and what the 3d score means etc etc. I'm looking to get into actual gaming, and am wondering what upgrades if any I could/should make to this computer when I get it. Thanks a lot I read this entire thread and was completely overwhelmed by most of it.

 

About how many FPS were you getting with Skyrim?

 

I've been playing Crysis 3 on high settings for about 20 minutes as well tonight and there was definitely some heat generation but it played beautifully. It was only warm to the touch; I definitely didn't burn myself. Here is the actual temp readings that I got after playing.

 

Can anyone with the y510p confirm if we can use the intel HD4600 like ppl are able to use it manually on the y410p; can that be done on a y500 too?

 

Well what you bought is gonna give you leaps and bounds in terms of performance, you will easliy be able to play wow at max settings and be the envy of your friends, providing that they have slow computers as well.
The y510p is the perfect machine to get into gaming, it will give you several years of top notch gaming performance.
Sadly, i 've been hunting the younger brother of this gem ,the y500, for several months now at a bargain price but to no avail.
In short your machine is one of the best right now youll be happy with it.

 

So, yesterday y500 and Y510P were listed as discontinued on newegg and missing from the Lenovo website. Fun stuff, yea?

 

The rep i tried talking to slashed only 50 $.....it sucks..


Please.. please .. email the reps contact u cut deal with... to me at .. [email protected] ..!

I want to buy it asap..depends on when you mail..
waiting and excited..

Thanx a ton..in advance...

 

Earlier in the forum , I think it was established that whatever deal sonu had found is now over or ended. So 50 or 100 is more than lots of people get off

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click next on the y510p page! Jeez lenovo really has to make the next button stand out

 

I'd rather they use the HQ chips with the iris pro 5200. That thing beats AMD igp by double!

The lack of optimus really sucks. I'm glad my y580 has it. I tried running on dgpu the whole time and battery life sucks hard

 

Yep. I have the single GT750M and it is working great so far.

 

Good question. How do I display that in skyrim? There's no command line for it. Its subjective at this point and I've been playing around with the settings and the temps are varying with it. I just don't like benchmarks. The game environment is quite varied when I think about it. I don't know, now, why the temps dropped but they went back up . Played on ultra again and second GPU will sit around mid-90s (overclocked or not), but at least the keys stopped burning my fingers despite a three hour playtime.

 

Personally, I use Fraps but there are several programs out there to show FPS. That would be sweet if you could tell us because I'm the same way, I don't really like benchmarks.

 

I tried to read through all the posts here.. could manage till page 18th...

I am trying to decide..
that if its a good lappy for A GRAD student....


I will play.. but on charger.. due to obvious reasons..

What i wanted to know is....

How much time does this baby runs for normal internet and word processing solely on battery...?

and.. lenovo mentions it to last upto 5hrs.. does it mean,...that full hard gaming will last 5 hrs?

I read that some one in this thread said..
battery lasts 3 hrs + ...


I dunno wat to expect..

Y510p owners.. please pitch in..!

 

Those ship dates are really overestimated. I bought mine on the 11th. Estimated ship date was the 25th. Shipped out on the 12th, and is on the UPS truck at this very moment.

 

nice for you i bought mine at the 4th. and it ship only yesterday (13th) and i will get it on the 18

 

As I am typing this right now, I'm actually testing out the battery life on normal use. Intensive gaming will not last 5 hours since the battery will drain much faster and the heat could potentially damage the battery too. I believe that 5 hours is achieved when the laptop is completely idle and running on the Intel GPU. I squeezed out just under that amount yesterday keeping my laptop idle. But now I'm running it under normal usage to see how long it lasts. Once I'm done, I'll report back with the results.

 

Hello TheSonu and notebookreview users.

I have been lurking this thread since page 10 or so but with all this awesome information posted I decided I need to join the forums.

Do you still have the info on that awesome rep or his he tired of all our requests .

My email is [email protected] if you could forward me that info. Thanks!

 

Has anyone tested out the y510p gaming yet? and if so how does it compare to the y500?

 

Sorry man! The rep stopped offering the deal last week or so. I'm afraid you're too late
I would still ask some sales representatives by phone for some good deals on this laptop. Good luck!

 

MSG FOR ALL
CHECK YOUR'S LENOVO SERVICES REGISTRATION INFORMATION

i order min laptop with 3YR In-Home + Accidental Damage Protect
and now i got confirmation email form lenono subject: "LENOVO SERVICES REGISTRATION CONFIRMATION no......."
and i went to there website to check with S/N of my laptop what warranty i have and it say
Status: Start date: Expiration date: Available days in warranty:
"In warranty 6/13/13 6/22/14 373 days remaining"

i have 1 year warranty and not 3
now im with them on the phone to fix it

 

good to know. i will check this when i get mine.

edit:

i just check lenovo's website. apparently, if you know the serial number of the laptop, you can find the warranty status. mine is correct. 2yr warranty.

 

Ok....so I received my Y510p today...however on the box it said it had a 4702MQ processor. So I opened it up and checked the system settings in the control panel, and sure enough, it has a 4702MQ in it instead of the 4700MQ as advertised on the website and confirmed in my order. Upon further research, I learned the 4702MQ is a lower voltage haswell, 37W instead of 47W, and is also a 2.2 Ghz instead of the 2.4Ghz. Needless to say I am pissed. Has this happened to anyone else?

 

better call lenovo?

 

Look on the bright side: You're getting a cooler-running CPU that is only a tiny bit slower. If most owners aren't aware of it yet, the standard voltage i7 in this laptop has serious overheating issues if you disable the built-in throttling with ThrottleStop so that it runs at its advertised Turbo Boost frequencies in games. Even with a decent laptop cooler, my 3630QM gets to almost 100C in a CPU-heavy game like BF3. TJMax is 105C, at which point Lenovo has programmed the machine to perform a premature thermal shutdown (Ivy Bridge is supposed to begin throttling at 105C and only shuts down around 130C). So there's almost no thermal headroom with this machine, and I can't imagine Haswell is any cooler. If anything, it should run hotter. Both my GPU's are more than 20C cooler than the CPU under load, even though they're running a massive overclock.

 

I also received a Y510 with the 4702MQ rather than the 4700MQ. I am not pleased.

Currently I have both the Y500 and Y510 in my possession. My preliminary testing has revealed this:
(1) The anti-glare screen on the Y510 looks better than the gloss screen on the Y500. The LCD/LED (whatever they are using) might have higher nits.
(2) The keyboard on the Y500 feels better than on the Y510. While neither is bad, the Y500's strokes feel fuller and more satisfying whereas the Y510's feel shallower. This might have something to do with how the internals are arranged to make the laptop slightly thinner.
(3) Battery: Surprisingly the Y500 is holding up BETTER than Y510p. As I type, i have an hour left of battery on the Y500 whereas the Y510 just gave me the low battery warning. Perhaps this is due to the difference in screen brightness? Both laptops were set to max brightness.
(4) The Windows Experience Rating: I know this is not the best comparison of CPU and GPU processing capability. Regardless, as the same method was used to compare both laptops, I feel it is a relatively fair method of comparison. Unsurprisingly, the Y510 received better scores for the Processor (7.8 vs 7.4) and RAM (8.1 vs 7.7) parameters. Everything else was identical.
(5) No discernible differences in heat production. Then again, I haven't pushed either machine too hard.

I'm still peeved about the CPU and will probably return the Y510. The main reason I wanted the Y510 over the Y500 was for the extra battery life. Unfortunately, it is not delivering in that regard. That being said, I've had the Y500 for a week longer, so it may be that I've broken in the battery whereas the Y510's still needs to run through a couple of cycles first.

 

So are you saying that its better that I have the 4702MQ? It just seems like I was ripped off in that I was supposed to have a 2.4 base clock and instead I am getting a 2.2 base clock, albeit with the lower voltage. You seem pretty knowledable with this....is this system worth keeping?

 

while i'm not sure if i would be pissed or not, i do know however, that this is totally wrong. i remember getting the asus transformer prime tablet. the original specs said that it had a GPS in it. then they changed A-GPS and they took it completely off their website - like it never existed.

while the tablet was fine, i felt that i was totally cheated in the whole ordeal. i even reported it to engadget and they didn't even recognize this as even an issue. needless to say, i returned that POS for a full refund.

i expect to get what i paid for. if i paid for a 4700MQ then that is what i expected to get. anything else is not acceptable in my terms and nor should it even be tolerated.

i would probably ask for a discount and or get it exchanged. seeing how the sales rep that work with me was super nice, i will probably not end up returning the laptop. but still, this type of things, i just HATE!

 

May I ask what model of the y510p you ordered in which you received the 4702MQ?

 

How do you check your warranty status. I got an email way back saying an account has been created with my email as the username but how do I know my password?

edit: nvm I figured it out. I had to hit forgot password and then just search the serial number of the warranty and it says 2 year depot

 

You have every right to be upset and I'd probably feel the same way. Unfortunately, this is just another in a long line of blunders and false advertisement by Lenovo with this laptop.

If you need every last ounce of CPU power for whatever reason then I'd return the system to get the correct CPU. Otherwise, I'd do some temperature tests on that 4702QM and see just how hot it gets. Use ThrottleStop to ensure that it is always running at the highest available Turbo bin and bench a CPU-demanding game (e.g. BF3 64-player multiplayer) or 3DMark 11. If the CPU doesn't get over 90C then that is very good. You should keep it if games are the most CPU-intensive thing you do. The loss of a few hundred MHz isn't going to be very noteiceable but the vast improvement in thermals will be. The 3632QM runs about 10-15C cooler on average than the 3630QM and I'd expect your case to be no different.

For comparison, my 3630QM goes past 90C in 3DMark 11 and shut down last week during BF3 because my room was like 90F and because some of the large maps with lots of players and destruction are murder on the CPU. I'd gladly trade a tiny loss in CPU performance for a lot less heat and not having to worry all the time about the laptop shutting down randomly.

 

Try to haggle a partial refund or warranty extend, it is not much but it is something. (Given that you have free time to pull up a chat or call). If this is just a entertainment PC(not full load straight for hours) , the little performance difference probably will not be noticeable.

 

After running my laptop under normal usage, my battery lasted just a little bit more than 3 hours.

 

Will do... on sunday. Out in Sacramento for the wknd. Was gonna check out the y510p at the frys here and the s just sold out

 

Just got mine today and was sent a 4702 as well, let me know if Lenovo does anything to compensate you.

 

These people that are getting 4702, maybe run a benchmark on them and compare scores to those that have already benchmarked the 4700 see if its worth keeping. Of course if anything you could complain to lenovo and get some money knocked off ur bill an then wait longer to receive the replacement.

I also looked at the comparison between the 3630 and 3632 and the former is much better when it comes to performance so I would definitely not keep the 4702's and just complain to lenovo to get some money back.

 

My shipping date just got pushed from the 15th to the 25th...
I think lenovo is having some trouble putting these things out