Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
According to the Notebookcheck.net review, the Y510p has more serious heat issues than the Y500. They noted that Turbo Boost on the 4700MQ was disabled as soon as more than one core was loaded. The i7-3630QM on the Y500 has a less severe throttling mechanism in which Turbo Boost would turn off under simultaneous CPU and GPU load, i.e. gaming, but would not if just the CPU was loaded, i.e. running Prime95 by itself. The way to ensure full Turbo Boost at all times on the Y500 is to use ThrottleStop, and I'm sure this is what you will need to do for the Y510p as well once the latest build of ThrottleStop, with Haswell support, is released.
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Alright, so I ran PS2 on fullest gfx possible for about 2.5 hrs. Logged some info but don't know what to view those .CSV logs with. Anyway, for the CPU temp I was getting around 70-80'C throughout, the average temp between cores was 77.7-79.6'C, and maximum temp was 86.0-90.0'C, although I never noticed it go anywhere near 90. None of the cores went through Thermal Throttling according to HWiNFO. Not sure if turbo was on at any point but it does say maximum core clock was 3396.9 MHz, avg 2440 MHz, min 899 MHz. I'm not sure if I'm understading these right though
As for the GPU, I got 79.3'C average with max at 89.0'C for the 1st card, and 86.8'C avg 98.0'C max for the other.
Overall, at no point was it too hot to be uncomfortable.
Hope that helps, if not then I can run it again. :thumbsup: -
The thermal throttling reading in HWiNFO64 doesn't mean anything and would not be able to determine if the CPU was in fact throttling itself by disabling Turbo Boost, since disabling Turbo Boost is technically not considered throttling. In order to find out whether or not your 4700MQ is actually Turbo Boosting to the highest multiplier in games you would need to add the appropriate HWiNFO64 sensor readings to the RTSS OSD included in MSI Afterburner and monitor them in real-time. I've included an example of that in my BF3 screenshot below.
I am almost certain Turbo Boost is being disabled in your case because your average core clock speeds are very close to the highest non-Turbo speed of 2.4 GHz. In my case, I'm using ThrottleStop to force Turbo Boost and my average clock across all cores in a round of BF3 is almost exactly 3.2 GHz. If this is indeed the case, your 4700MQ is running quite hot for having Turbo Boost disabled, but I'm not too surprised because it's a known fact that Haswell runs slightly hotter than Ivy Bridge.
Your Ultrabay GPU is overheating and throttling itself. When the 750M reaches 97C, it will automatically halve the core clock speed.
That's bull. Pics or it didn't happen. I played just one round of BF3 on my Y500 GT 650M SLI overclocked to 1120/2250 and ThrottleStop on. GPU temps went above 80C and CPU went above 90C. I wasn't using a cooling pad this time so everything is 5C hotter than it usually is but still, there's no way your machine runs cooler than mine. If anything, it should run hotter because Haswell is not as cool as Ivy Bridge and stock core voltage on the 750M is much higher than on the 650M. If you understand physics you'll know that voltage increases raise the temperature drastically compared to just increasing clock speeds.
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Best way is to have an overlay such as RTSS OSD, which is part of the MSI Afterburner package, running in-game which displays sensor information from the GPU and CPU. If only one GPU is seeing significant usage or there is a large disparity between the usage percentages of the GPU's then you know SLI is currently not being utilized in the game. See my screenshot for an example:
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Ideapad Y510P
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