Lenovo IdeaPad Y410P Owners and Information thread

I just use msi afterburner. No drop in fps whatsoever.

 

in what resolution and frame rate ?

 

Could the issue be with the monitor. I am not having poor display quality and I am using an LG IPS237L monitor

 

Y40 out.

Lenovo Y40 Laptop | 14" High-Performance Gaming Notebook PC | Lenovo (US)

Comes with 4500u + only one HDD slot.

My reaction:



This and fixed my desktop. Though my laptop served as a perfect replacement for the month i went desktop-less.

 

well, it's got a better screen... hardly justifies the pricing though considering everything else is less powerful :\

 

Yeah. After I saw the pricing it made me want to stick to the y410p even more.

 

Realistically, if I game a lot on this laptop and it exhibit high temperatures, how long can this laptop last? I was playing some games and the GPU would reach as high as 83 Degrees C sometimes!

 

You know what's really ridiculous? In terms of overall performance and storage Lenovo's latest 14" Ideapads are following a downward trend.

y400>y410p>y40

If this keeps up the y40's successor will be a glorified Chromebook haha

 

720p, recording at 30fps. Dota 2 still at 50-70fps.

 

Anything under 90c for cpu & gpu will work fine. I'm not surprised, considering the Y410p is a single fan cooling design.

 

That's not demanding at all, no wonder you're not seeing any FPS hit from recording.

 

LOL duh. He's asking about dota 2. Am i suppose to answer in crysis 3?

 

I suppose haha. I didn't know DOTA 2 was the game in question.

 

That Y40 is really something, but how is the Y400 better than the Y410P? Also, if anyone knows, I'm hitting temps of 95C on Battlefield 3 at High with 50-65FPS.

Is there anyway to modify the fan speed and voltage control for this laptop? It's so friggen annoying knowing that it's running unnecessarily hot.

 

To answer your questions:

Gaming Performance:
1.) The y400 supports up to the 650M SLI and ships with an i7 3630QM
2.) The y410 supports up to the 755M and ships with an i7 4700QM
3.) The y40 supports up to the R9-M270 and ships with an i7 4500U

GPUs: y400 > y40 > y410p
CPUs: y410p > y400 >>>>>>> y40

Storage
1.) Both the y400 and y410 have the option of a DVD drive, Blu-Ray drive, or 2.5" HDD/SSD caddy.
2.) The y400 can support an mSATA SSD (currently up to 1TB)
3.) The y410p can support a 42mm M.2 SSD (currently up to 128GB)
4.) All three have an internal 2.5" HDD/SSD bay

y400: can support three, 1TB SSDs (or up to five 1TB mSATAs with adapters) for a total of 3000GB (or 5000GB) of storage.
y410p: can support two, 1TB SSDs and a 128GB M.2 SSD (or up to four 1TB mSATAs and a 128GB M.2 with adapters) for a total of 2128GB (or 4128GB) of storage.
y40: can support one, 1TB SSD (or two 1TB mSATAs with adapters) for a total of 1000GB (or 2000GB) of storage.

That's how the y400 wins overall.

 

Nice. Thank you for the comparison. Now I can appreciate my y410p more hehe

 

But ZOMG the Y40 is thin!!!

 

weighs almost the same. To me, the portability part is limited by weight, not size.

 

You forgot

Screen: Y40>Y410p>Y400
Battery Life: Y410p>Y40 (based on advertised)>.....Y400

Aside from that, i agree.

Oh crap! It's just as big but 0.35inch thinner! Such innovation!

Instead of making the laptop thinner i would have preferred a reduced bezel size.

Would have preferred a FHD Y400 with 850M SLI.

(Fyi 850M SLI = 770M SLI, which performs on par (ish) with the desktop 770!)

 

Oh I know the y400 doesn't win in every category, I was just answering someone's question regarding a specific statement I made a few pages back. That being said let's hope that the y40 has decent temperatures (it should with those components) as for the most part it seems that the y410p runs a lot hotter than the y400.

Might I say that this would have been an amazing machine. Due to the advancements made with Maxwell architecture, the y40 (or y420P) would have had a huge performance boost over its predecessors.

 

hello guys, i would like to ask you ( and sorry if allready answered ) about y410p with windows 8.1 lan card, i cant get it to work to 1000mbps, i ve upgraded to drivers 2.1.0.21 but still the max speed i get on advanced settings in device manager is 100mbps. any solution?


Lan adapter is Qualcomm Atheros AR8171/8175 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller ( NDIS 6.30 ).

on advanced settings - > speed - duplex i can only choose max 100mbps and my internal gigabit network speeds work fine except the y410p which is 100mbps.

thank you.

 

Hey guys,

I need some help. I bought a Lenovo y410p. I've been getting crashes with bsod. The problem seems to be with igdkmd64.sys, which seems to be Intel hd 4600 drivers. I've tried getting back to factory settings, rolling driver back, reinstalling drivers but nothing works. It doesn't happen immediately, I think recent Windows update might be causing it. It started happening again a few days after I factory reset it. The laptop came with Windows 8.1. Would I benefit from fresh installing windows 8?

I'm really lost on what to do. Also the game I've been playing is kingdoms of amalur and it happens 2 min or so into it, consistently as of today.

I've got gt 755m, i7 4700mq, and 7260 bgn wireless card.

Sorry if the post seems incoherent. I'm starting to get desperate.

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Try installing the latest intel and nvidia drivers, but first uninstall the old ones.

 

What router are you using? My old one had a limit of 100mbps so i had to upgrade. From a dlink DIR 615 changed to an asus rt n15u

 

thank you for the reply, as i said in my original post, my internal network is gigabit ( netgear dgnd3700 router ), the problem is i dont have an option in y410p advanced driver settings for 1000mbps like i have on my other pcs

 

What about the cable? Is it at least cat 5e?
And btw, mine says the same thing as yours in settings. But i still can get over 100mbps.

 

my cable is cat6, and everything else running on 1000mbps except the laptop, and is the only PC ( i have 3 more ) that doesnt have the 1000mbps option, which indicates me that the problem is there, as i said, everything else running 1 gigabit, tested. So you have 100mbps only option and you can transfer with like 100 megabytes/s ?

 

i dont transfer between PC. But if i can go 200Mbp/s, i should get up to 1Gb/s if i did do it. You should actually try a file transfer and see the speed.

 

i did and its 11mb/s which is the 100mbps, i tried the file transfer from an other pc and i had like 50-55mb/s average.

 

I haven't tried completely uninstalling and reinstalling the drivers but I also the noticed the problem also appeared after changing the game resolution. I don't seem to get the bsod so far, if the game is in windowed mode at a 800x600 resolution or if I'm at full screen native resolution at 1600x900.


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i'm not sure what the problem is then. I have the same network card and i used the default drivers that came with the laptop. I am getting up to 26MB/S internet download speeds. (ISP rated at 200Mbps so its quite good)

 

just to clarify, you get 26 mb/s with the LAN card right? not the wifi.

 

Yes lan. You are never going to get that speed with a centrino 2230. I get max 50Mbps up/down with it.

 

yes true, just wanted to be sure... i dont know what might be wrong, you have windows 8.1? and 2.1.0.21 driver?

 

Yes.
10char

 

You wouldn't happen to be using a cat5 cable instead of a cat5e or cat6 cable right?

I'm fairly certain it's not a laptop/driver problem.

 

Thank you for your reply, my cable is Cat6 ( all the cables i m using ) and the same cables works fine on my other PCs. i m Stuck.

 

Seems like it's not worth ocing the 4700mq. I did 200 mhz oc and it took 10w more while only performing about <10% better.

 

I recommend actually underclocking it to 3.2Ghz and undervolting it. It will run 5% weaker but 10W less and MUCH cooler.

 

did a 200mhz uc and now it can even remain turbo while on intel xtu's stress test.
At stock clocks and 80mv/50mv uv, it still would trottle to 2.4ghz, this is better.

 

Hey Guys,
Looks like Lenovo is releasing an upgrade to the Y410P other than the Y40..

The Y430p:
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It's coming out in 5 days in China and will be around $750 bucks, which I think is a steal for that price. What do you guys think? Will it be available in the U.S. later, or has Lenovo been known to have models only available to certain regions?

 

That GTX 850M GDDR5 looks awesome. If they SLI this, it's an insta-buy for me. :thumbsup:

Guess Lenovo listened to my brilliant idea after all. :laugh:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ideapad-essential/741832-y50-thread-98.html#post9627982

 

Honestly octiceps, the y430p with 850M SLI would have been the only logical choice. The y40 departs from the success of its predecessors, and I have no idea why they would go that route.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTszNDyuAhg
Downsampling, a simple method for making your pc-games look better. - NeoGAF
is there any way to make this work on laptops ?

 

Yeah, just follow the directions in the video. Basically involves creating a custom resolution (e.g. 2.5K, 4K) in Nvidia Control Panel. I'd only use downsampling as a last resort though. OGSSAA and SGSSAA through Nvidia Inspector flags will be more desirable from both an IQ and performance standpoint if game supports it, and depending on your level of downsampling, it could make text, HUD, and other in-game UI elements extremely small. Obviously any of this stuff will absolutely slaughter your frame rate, so it's only viable for old and non-demanding games.

For a nearly universal non-demanding AA solution I'd suggest FXAA through Nvidia Control Panel/Inspector. Or better yet SMAA 1x through the injectSMAA tool. Of course these PPAA methods come with their drawbacks, namely slight blurring and doing jack squat about subpixel aliasing, but IMO SMAA is the best there is, for now.

You can even combine PPAA with MSAA (if supported) which should provide similar IQ to SSAA/downsampling for much lower performance penalty. Any kind of supersampling or downsampling is just brutal on the GPU.

 

the settings in the NVIDIA control panel for PC's isn't available on laptops
that's the question.

 

I have it on my Y500 and I can downsample just fine. Perhaps you need to do it in the Intel control panel? Or Optimus is a cockblock once again?

 

I've been having a problem the past few days. When I close my laptop's lid and it goes into sleep mode, and then open it again it freezes anywhere from 1-10 seconds before I can move the mouse cursor again. This has been going on a couple days, and I can't figure out what caused it. I Googled it but there's nothing about computers freezing for only a few seconds. Most of the time it's like 3 seconds. I also noticed that now simply opening the lid brings the laptop out of sleep mode, while before I sometimes had to press on the touchpad or press a key. Any idea what's wrong, and how to fix it?

 

Have you tried using event viewer to try and diagnose the problem?

 

Event Viewer doesn't show anything that would appear to cause something like this...only very minor errors that have happened in the past.