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Hello, I have this laptop, however I believe it may need some tuning as pretty much is saying. I want to do two things, Change my wifi card (I'm in the process of change my BIOS ) and repaste my GPU. So I come to you if you can recommend good wifi cards that may work with this laptop and if anybody has some experience/guide/youtube links to repaste this gpu. Thanks in advance.
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I have a Y510p I live in Mexico and it is quite some warm down here. I was having troubles to play a few intensive games as my GPU would reach up to 95 and then just shut down. I tried a few coolpads, many of them would even cool down 2 degrees. I just got from amazon the Cooler Master NotePal U3 and it actually works quite well. It stills reaching about some times 85-90 degress, but at least it won't shutdown. I think the trick is to get a coolpad that can actually send air flow direcly to the fans to help them. Another trick that I believe may give you a hand is to repaste your CPU and GPU. There are a few topics around here that say that the paste work is very bad and a very bad quality.
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BTW, don't clone disks (old HD to new SSD/HD) I have tried from different angles and it always breaks the one touch function. You will need to use fdisk to fix the volumes and the OEM entries.
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As said by everybody else, 16GB is a little bit of overkill. I don't remember to ever been over 6 or 7 while playing. I myself only use the 16GB while rendering or using virtual boxes. Besides that I don't think that you will find having 16GB of ram usefull.
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I tested by myself. If you disable SLI my battery lifes is about 3 hours. If I physically remove the card it goes up to 3:20. So based on this I believe it actually uses some little amount of energy while inserted however not really much.
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Well, mine has 16GB of RAM and SLI. Main problem is heat. IT really gets HOT. not even on max settings it may reach 90+ If you plan to use it for intense gaming I would recommend to get a good cool pad. One of those where you can arrange the fans in a setup where you get the best of them.