William Shadowruby

Bigfoot Killer Wireless-n 1202 installed and functioning.

@WireMesh Cause Lenovo has an evil production section

Hey @svl7 I have the V1.09 bios any chance of a mod? BIOS is dumped in attachment.

@svl7 One Y510p GPU-Z Screenshot coming up.

@svl7 Another one from a 510p FLASHCHK.zip

I would be willing to be a test dummy, but as Stardeluxe mentioned FPT_BAK3264_4.zip seems to be corrupted. I cannot open it with 7zip and it gives the error message "Cannot be opened as archive".

I would, however my Y500 is lost somewhere on England's rail system and I have purchased a Y510p as a replacement.

That's awesome Sh3l0q, I would be willing to risk a brick if you need testing.

Hey people to assist with the effort I tried to also create a BIOS dump but like crazybian I am getting error 201.

~50 USD, so not exorbitant, but not bottom of the barrel either. My Bluetooth issue is event 17 which also effects the stock card and is a windows 8 issue.

Awesome remember to check the box for AC support. We can compare results and get a data set going.

I like windows 8 speed, greater posix compliance, and expanded powershell. BUT F****ING EVENT 17 on bluetooth is back and there is no fix for Windows 8 like there was on 7

No trouble so far, just needed to install the Bigfoot drivers. And to get the Bluetooth to work I needed to uninstall the Intel Bluetooth drivers My at first glance benchmarks are here : http://forum.techinferno.com/lenovo-ibm/3983-bigfoot-killer-wireless-n-1202-y500-first-glance.html

Definitely, even just for the 5-ghz band and greater consistency.

Nope, but I have speed test the Intel, it only got around 324 kbps at max. Kinda pathetic so I upgraded.

I purchased a Killer Wireless-N to replaced the Intel 2230 that my Y500 came with. So I ran some quick tests, on the 5-ghz and 2.4-ghz bands using speed test and my NAS. 5-ghz Speed Test Ping 25 ms Download 26.16 mbps Upload 5.37 mbps NAS Download 12 mbps Upload 6 mbps 2.4-ghz Speed Test Ping 25 ms Download 15.97 mbps Upload 5.22 mbps NAS Download 3 mbps Upload 1 mbps Ethernet Speed Test Ping 15 ms Download 27.35 mbps Upload 5.41 mbps NAS Download 9.1 mbps Upload 15.2 mbps All in all the Killer so far seems like a very good card, adding only 10 ms of ping when compared to Ethernet. I will probably update this post as I collect real world observations.

Got it in today, will post review with speed test.net and ftp to nas comparisons vs desktop on ethernet

Unlocked Bios And also impulse bought the wireless N

Any particular reason why? I wanted to go with the Killer because it has very good throughput for games.

See if you can manage it in disk manager. If that doesn't work try GParted -- Live CD/USB/PXE/HD and see if it can be managed in linux.

My Google FU is weak, could you link me to a wiki page?

So I've been considering getting a upgrade for my Laptop's wireless card. I would like to have 2.4 ghz 5 ghz and bluetooth. The one that I have been considering is the Killer Wireless-N 1202. So any recommendations? [h=2][/h]

Mobo's are probably all made to run at 45 and the crappy ones are down volted to 35 to save on costs, you see simmilar things with AMD tri cores and or they want to prevent people from upgrading themselves.