Rasmus Hermansen

You're gonna have to do all those things and even then it may not be enough to keep BF4 from overheating your CPU. You may actually have to disable Turbo Boost if you want to play this game since as far as I'm aware the laptop shuts down when the i7-4700MQ reaches 100C. Obviously, this will result in lower performance. Lenovo's decision to go with a single-fan cooling design for this notebook is inexcusable, as the previous i7-3630QM was already overheating and upgrading to a hotter chip like the i7-4700MQ without improving cooling only makes the situation worse. Couple this with the fact that 4700MQ has 5C lower thermal shutdown temperature and you have a recipe for disaster.

BF4 is the most CPU-intensive game I've ever seen. It heats up my CPU more than some synthetic benchmarks.

When playing BF4, my i7-3630QM reaches 90C, and close to 100C if it's a hot day. This is 10-15C hotter than any other game, including BF3. I've already done everything in my power to reduce temps including repasting both CPU and GPU and buying a decent cooling pad.

I have a Plextor 256GB SSD mSATA in my Y500. Boot times are around 8-9 seconds on win 8.1 (everything loaded and ready to go). I can only recommend slapping a SSD into your laptop. They really speed up... well... everything.

I really can't relate to your problems. I have no stuttering at all when playing with SLi.

I'd recommend that you get a hold of Nvidia Inspector and start messing around with custom SLi profiles.