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It's totally worth it. There's a huge difference. The new bios and vbios offer improvements as well. Do it! It's not hard.

The first thing that you'll need to do is mod your bios. I believe that this is still required. It's easy to replace the wireless card. Just remove the bottom cover as you would to access the hard drive and ram. You can find a pretty helpful dis-assembly video here on YouTube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmVYvJhlhL8 You only need to take off the bottom cover to expose the replaceable components so don't go taking the whole thing apart. The wireless card is in there. You can look at your new card to figure out what it looks like (more or less). Touch the chassis to discharge any static electricity before you touch electronic parts. You need to remove the screw that holds the mini pci express card in. Pay attention to which cable goes where on the existing wireless card. One is black and one is white. Then remove the old card. Put the new wireless card (the Intel 7260) into the slot, screw it in and connect the old wires to the new card the same way they were connected to the old card. Button things back up and you should be good to go!

+1 Anyone? Anyone? I'd like to switch over to Optimus without having a huge hole in the side of my lalptop :-/

May want to correct the title. This is a GT 750M not a GTX 750M (which is why I came here). They are very different cards. Thank you for keeping the forum posted on the news.

hahaha - That's pretty much how I feel every time this pops up now!

Oh, I just meant that you could solder one on if you really wanted to haha!

What's the latest on the sleep issue anyways? I've been had the issue start for me as well...

I have an Asus RT-AC66U that I'm trying out. It's pretty good so far. Just giving it a whirl. There's supposed to be some new one, but I haven't tried it. I'm still testing this router out to see if it's a keeper.

Oh god. I was up WAY too late. Didn't mean the bezel. Meant the screen /facepalm

You take out the ultrabay card and switch to the onboard graphics which saves power. It's supposed to add another hour or two or something like that.

Strange. My bezel is matte, not glossy. It's one of the reasons that I bought it. Love me some matte screens.

Well... it's not impossible

The EVO's pretty much the ~best SSD on the market now. Some kits come with an adapter. You can find one here on Amazon I don't know why you want to use one as an external HDD. Well, I have in the past for various reasons... so I shouldn't say that. But, if possible I'd highly recommend using one as your internal drive as it's significantly faster and using a HDD as your external drive. The SSD will be limited a lot by USB 3. The HDD won't as much if at all.

Make sure the vents can suck up air (don't rest the laptop on sheets / your lap). Clean the fans and heatsink fins and keep them clean​. Get a laptop cooler. Repaste the CPU and GPU(s). Undervolt.

Nice work Lion!

Just a bit of an update... I picked up an AC Router... It's flippin' sweet

I bough this cooler master laptop cooler. It works great. It has a big fan so it's pretty quiet. Though on high speed it does make a little fan wobble noise. This particular one is powered by USB and has two USB ports on the back. It also has an adjustable fan speed knob on the side and a power on / off button on the back. One thing that I don't like about it is the blue LED's. But, to be honest the laptop covers them up (even still, I'll probably open this thing up and snip them at some point). This particular laptop cooler just barely fits my Lenovo Y510P. It should fit Y400's and Y410's great! This laptop cooler seems to work well. It cools things down a bit, but not by a major amount. No laptop cooler will. As mentioned above, so long as the laptop can get air and isn't sucked onto the sheets things should keep pretty cool. The best thing to do is keep the fans and heatsink fins clean. The next best thing to do is repaste the the CPU and GPU(s) with better thermal paste compound (which is something that I do myself). Try to find a cooler with a larger fan. Larger fans tend to be quieter and move the ~same amount of air. Best of luck!

Maybe the Y500's just that kinda girl. She likes you to leave marks ;-)

It's definitely an improvement. I'm probably going to pick up an AC router tomorrow morning to play around with over the weekend. I'm curious how much better (if at all) it will be. Right now I'm running an older Asus RT-N56U and love it. It was wicked fast for its time and now with AC out I'd like to give that a whirl. Especially since the router's being taxed quite a bit more these days. I'll likely pick up the RT-A66U. They just came out with a new one a couple of days ago called the RT-A68U. But I doubt they've got that on the shelf yet. I don't know if the range difference is much either.

Not the OP, but for me the biggest reason is compatibility. I work from home and there are some legacy programs that don't support Windows 8. Computer issues aren't something that I can bill a client for. It just needs to work. Secondly, I'm just not a fan. I hate the tablet'esque interface. I know more than enough about computers to get by and my impression is that Windows 8 is the layman's OS.

The smiley that that dump made by chance is quite ironic.

I'd imagine that you'd need to change the name / Device ID. I don't think that changing it is necessary. From my understanding it's the same hardware, they just changed the clocks. Keep in mind that even though the hardware is the same, the manufacturing may have improved over time allowing for the higher clocks.

Before I bought my Y510P I had 16 gigs of DDR3 1.5v laptop memory sitting around and became very concerned about the whole DDR3 1.5v vs DDR3L 1.35v thing. I did tons of research and couldn't find squat. I decided to go ahead and buy the system and stick the standard DDR3 laptop memory in there and see what happens and guess what... it works. This might just be the ram that I have, or it could not. Who knows. As someone else in some thread that I can't even remember said (because I read, no joke, something like 100 pages on this) if there was an issue ram manufactures and everyone and such would have huge warnings about this. I'd honestly call Lenovo and see what's up. The ram that I'm running is 1.5v memory (this memory) and it works just fine. Maybe it's my particular model number. Maybe it's my processor (my Y510P has a 4700MQ). I have no idea. But it works. The ram that came out of my Y510p system was RAMAXEL RMT3170EB68F9W-1600. Here is the data sheet The ram that came out of the system (the RAMAXEL RMT3170EB68F9W-1600) is spec'd at 1.35v, but backwards compatible to 1.5v. I'm not sure if the Corsair ram that I have in there now is backwards compatible to 1.35v. Or... maybe it's just capable of being undervolted and the ram that you got is not /shrug

Very nice work! I'm particularly bothered by the gloss bezel of this Y510p. So much so that I've considered painting it haha! This is probably a better idea though. As others have requested - where did you get your vinyl? Is it of good quality and do you recommend getting it there?