Y410p [full review]

Hello, ive seen lots of questions being asked about the Lenovo Y410p/510p laptops, around, and, since im an owner of a Y410P, ill try and give a little review of this laptop that i got a little while ago:

Pictures (Courtesy of Lenovo)







Specs:
-Intel Core i7 4700MQ @2.4ghz Quad-Core
-8-16GB DDR3L Non-ECC ram depending on configuration (user upgradeable to 32GB, i might be wrong)
-Single/SLI Nvidia 750M + Intel 4600 HD, SLI via Ultrabay. Optional 755M models availible.
-1-2TB HDD SATA II, but has a SATA III connector for upgrades + Extra Sata III drive via Ultrabay
-Optional 24GB M.2 SSD via NGFF 42mm port
-DVD/Bluray Drive via Ultrabay
-768p or 900p TN panel
-Windows 8 (Non-Pro) + UEFI/Secureboot BIOS
-Intel Centrino 2230 Wireless-N
-6Cell Lenovo Battery, 48W/h, 62W/h or 72W/h
-Backlit keyboard mine came in Bilingual English/French for Canada, US English and Chinese models availible
-Price range: $749 to $1299 USD
-Price of my model: $749 USD (800$ CAD)

Shipping

I ordered my Y410p on the 10th and got it on the 28th. Lenovo is not the fastest shipper out there, but the shipping was free to compensate. My suggestion is to be patient, and to call Lenovo if you have any problems. They can also charge for overnight shipping from the phone, i heard.

Prices

The prices on the Y410P range from 799$ to 1100$ (USD), and are found to be on sale 24/7, i guess its a promo to get users into buying the laptops. Even if the sales are probably fake, the savings are real. This laptop is well worth its price, and currently has one of the best bang-for-buck ratings out there.

Looks

Honestly, if i could describe this laptop, id put it this way:

Z400 + Alienware 14

The exterior is rather unassuming, kind of like a business laptop/Lenovo G series, and is covered with a carbon-fibery finish, and is fingerprint-proof (unlike the Y510p). However, the inside has a glossier aluminium finish, and looks much more like a gaming laptop than the exterior, but doesnt go over-the-top like Alienware/Razer. The inside is fingerprint-prone, but its easily cleaned. The bottom is made of the same material as the top.

Screen

Comes in two flavors, 768p and 900p. FHD is not availible, however, you can grab a Y510p for that. The screen is glossy, and i wont really list this as a con, but i wont list it as a pro either. Consequently, the laptop has excellent side viewing angles, but only average vertical viewing angles, because it's a TN panel, like many other Lenovo Ideapads and some Thinkpads. However, it feels like the screen seems borrowed from a 13 incher, as the bezel is quite thick, thus, you have lots of pixels in a small area. This can be a pro or a con, and display scaling can be used. Personally, my 900p screen makes some websites a little hard to read by default, so i used display scaling. Brightness is average to above-average, better than Alienware 14/MSI GE40. I will be getting the gamut soon.

Viewing angles (Glossy):



NOTE: I used the Y500 as a reference since it has the same *glossy* screen as the Y410P. However, the Y510P uses a matte screen.


Audio

Twin 1.1W speakers give a good, crisp sound, which is one of the best laptop speakers ive seen so far. For a laptop in this price range, it's above-average, and the laptop comes with your standard headphone/microphone jacks, they are quite grippy, and will hold well to your headphones. Bass is low, but audible, no subwoofer.

Heat and noise

This laptop is QUIET. Moreso than my friend's Macbook. Even under a full load, its fan doesnt spin that hard. The only audible part would be the hard drive, and when this laptop is on a low load, it makes no noise. If you replace the HDD with an SSD, you will not hear anything when idle/low load.

The laptop gets hot. However, this isnt new, almost every laptop ive used over the years gets hot at full load. The Y410p can get warm, but never hot enough to be overly disturbing. However, when using the Nvidia GPU, it will blow hot air towards the side vent, which can annoy you if you are using a mouse. However, i own the single-gpu model, and im a rightie, so this doesnt really bother me. Also, if you do not use dual graphics, the side of the laptop not using dual graphics will be extremely cool at all times.

No "hot trackpad" on this laptop. Can get a bit warm, but not overly hot, unlike those laptops you see at Future Shop/Best Buy.

CPU temp is average for a 14 incher, 95F Degrees Surface max.


Battery

You have your standard, user-replaceable lenovo 6 cell, which can get up to 5 hours of battery life when using optimus and light applications. While this is only mediocre for some, it's decent for a gaming laptop. Optimus really helps over the previous-generation, and in the end, you are using a quad core, so your battery will be munched off anyways. If you want lots of battery life, you should have bought a laptop with a dual core i5. But Haswell does a decent job at increasing battery life.

My only pet peeve is no optional 9cell, but oh well, i dont think a 9 cell could have fit into the slim design of the battery anyways.

Weight

4.85 pounds without SLI, but feels lighter. Even with SLI, only weighs roughly 5 pounds, a bit heavy for a 14 incher but not the end of the world. I forgot to mention: Lenovo advertises 5.5 pounds on their website, however this includes the weight of the power adapter.

The power brick is big (even bigger if you have SLI), but isnt heavier than your average power adapter. It weighs roughly half a pound.

Storage

1TB HDD SATA II @ 5400 RPM is quite mediocre, but is low-powered and can store all of your games/software/work/pr0n. The hard drive can be replaced with the 2.5inch SATA drive of choice, and i believe the connector is SATA3, so you can upgrade it a bit more.

Also, you can get the optional 24GB NGFF SSD. NGFF drives use PCiE instead of Sata, making them faster than Thunderbolt. This mini caching drive can give you boot times of up to 4 seconds (yes, folks), and cache your most used applications thanks to ExpressCache from Sandisk (contrary to popular belief, it does not use Intel's caching solution).

By default, the Y410p comes with a DVD burner, but you can swap it (ultrabay) for a Blu-Ray drive, a HDD caddy, a fan, or another 750m card. Software Raid 0 using a caddy would give a nice performance boost if the SSD isnt roomy enough.

The con is, no Msata, and NGFF drives are so scarce these days. You will have to wait a year for these to be more publicly availible.

EDIT: If you don't buy a laptop that comes with a SSD, Lenovo REMOVES the port, preventing future upgrades. This was probably done to cut costs.

Performance

Ram is 8GB or 16GB. I believe you can upgrade it manually to 32, but i could be wrong. Anyways, 16gb is plenty, and 8 will do for most users.

CPU is the Intel i7-4700MQ @ 2.4 GHZ, 4 cores, 8 threads. One of the best mobile CPU's on the market, but since its a quad, it can be a little battery-eater. However, its performance is great, especially for this laptop's price.

Also newly included is the Intel 4600HD graphics card. Dont get me wrong, the IGP can run plenty of older/low performance games, and will generate way less heat than the (dual) 750m's. League of Legends is fully playable on the 4600.

The 750m's, like the haswell's, are fairly new, and you can always upgrade to a second GPU in SLI, which will significantly increase graphics performance, at the cost of money/weight/heat.

This card is also very overclockable, and can easily be overclocked to match a 755M. Do this at your own risk, however.

Overall, performance is above-average for this price range, as most laptops in the 800 range have i5's with 720/620m GPUs.

Build Quality

Average. Thats all i can say. It is by far no Thinkpad X/T/W, but it isnt overly cheap. Its equal to other Ideapads and non X/T/W Thinkpads. Overall a sturdy feel. If yours comes with a defect, send it to Lenovo, they have a good return policy.

Wireless

Some users, have reported issues with the card, but i found out that rolling back the driver (14.8 > 15.8) solved most problems. Otherwise it is your standard N-card, and can be used with opensource drivers in Linux, no need to hunt for those firmwares. It is highly recommended for all users to uninstall Intel PROset and use the 14.8 Microsoft drivers for the best experience with this Wifi card!

Keyboard

Just like all Lenovo's, it gets an A+. Very well designed, good tactile feedback, not overly hot. No annoying numpad on the Y410p. The backlit comes in 2 brightness settings. The only con would be no option to choose backlight colors, but we can let this pass since the speakers are red anyways. Also, no mute button.

Trackpad

Average-to below-average. By default, the multi touch is horrible and wonky, but once it is disabled you get an average click pad (no external buttons). Even though the laptop feels overall very solid, the trackpad is flimsy, but gets the job done and has decent pointing accuracy + no pointer jumping. Can't say the same for HP's and Dell's.

EDIT: After fiddling with the touchpad settings, i managed to make it a bit more enjoyable.

Software

EDIT: You can access the BIOS via the Novo button on the side, and you can disable secure boot/uefi and whatnot. No more locked bios! Yay.

Comes with Windows 8, the non-pro version. This laptop contains no media discs, and the drivers are stored on the D:/Lenovo drive. Make sure to back those up. I wont be reviewing Windows 8 here, but you can always do a clean-install and downgrade to Windows 7.

Sadly, Lenovo does not offer Windows 7 preinstall, so you will have to do it manually.

The laptop has a fairly large amount of bloatware, but unlike most common PC's, the nagware is at an all-time low. Only McAfee will give pop-ups, the rest is just "software that comes with that you will probably never use, but wont annoy you".

CCleaner and PC decrapifier will blaze through that junk, and give you some extra performance, storage and battery life for the cleaning. Hooray.

Ports
1x USB 3.0
1x USB 2.0
1x USB 2.0 (powered, but the always-on is disabled by default in the Bios)
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x Kensington Lock
1x Power connector
1x Gigabit Ethernet
1x SD/MMC/MsPro Card slot
1x SimCard slot (hidden)

Nothing special here, No eSata, but personally i have no need for that. Only has one USB 3.0 compared to two for the 15 inchers.

Misc
-No HDD light, for some its a pro, for some it's a con
-F Keys work as F keys by default, and the FN key allows access to special shortcuts and functions like Airplane Mode
-Ive gotten more compliments on this laptop than a Mac, it's a very unique machine in it's own way
-I havent used Lenovo Customer Support so far, so i can't tell if it is good or not, but i ASUS' support is terrible based on past experiences.
EDIT: From my experiences, customer support is better than HP/Dell/Asus, but worse than Acer/Apple/Boutique Brands.


Verdict

Overall a good buy, and for the price, you can't really complain. Has some shortcomings, but then again, it can measure up to the big boys, who also have shortcomings of their own. Bottom line its the most performant laptop you will find in the 800$ range, and build quality is better than what you would expect. Im happy with it, and id give it a 9/10 overall. Replaced my 5 year old Celeron-equipped Dell Insipiron.


Pros
- Value
- Performance
- One of the better TN panels
- Keyboard
- New Technologies
- Ultrabay
- Great Audio for a laptop
- Whisper Quiet

Cons
- Wifi
- Trackpad
- Still a TN panel
- Screen Glare
- Vent Placement
- Windows 7 must be manually installed
- Only one USB 3.0 port
- Locked BIOS that prevents Wifi card replacement (EDIT: Theres a whitelist of supported Wifi Cards)
Feel free to post a reply or PM me for any questions or benchmarks. Likes are appreciated too


Video Reviews: (not me)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgXSuFrMvpQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQSreIfQvqE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RgXSuFrMvpQ

Also, pardon my English, i am French-Canadian :/

 

Outstanding review! Thanks for taking the time for the write-up, I think you've convinced me to pull the trigger. Excellent English too, no need to apologize for that!

 

>> Some users, have reported issues with the card, but i found out that rolling back the driver (15.6 > 15.8) solved most problems. Otherwise it is your standard N-card, and can be used with opensource drivers in Linux, no need to hunt for those firmwares. >>

Thanks for the review. I'm waiting for a y510p.

Can you clarify your comments on wireless. I read that upgrading drivers would resolve potential problems.

Cheers

 

Nice review. Few things I want to ask:

-Does the screen color got washed out? I feel lenovo has degraded their screen quality compared to 4 years ago (it's astonishing that my old G450 has better color accuracy and contrast than Z480).

-For a Y410p with single GPU (non SLI), does it mean it will never be able to use 2nd GPU ultrabay card?

-Is the win7 drivers fully exist and compatible in Y410p?


A little suggestion:
better put the spec summary on top of the review.

 

- The colors are nice and bright on mine, no washed out colors/bad pixels
- All the drivers support windows 7, except the GPU drivers but you can get those off intel/Nvidia, however be sure to install the intel ones first for Optimus to work
- and i will add the spec, thanks

 

Was that a mistype? I was literally a click away from purchasing the Y410p a few weeks ago but I couldn't get past the weight. I was looking for a laptop under 5 lbs and the website said "Starting at 5.5 lbs", so I decided to not get it. If it was actually 4.5 pounds like you said, that would be perfect and I might end up getting it after all.

 

I just wanted to comment and say that this is a very well written review and sums up how I feel about my y410p quite well. I have seen almost no struggle running games I throw at it unless its something like Crysis at 1920 x 1080 through the laptops HDMI output to my TV. And even then it still runs beautifully if I bring the settings down to medium. I bought this thing to be able to game in college and have a portable desktop, and that is just what I bought. Keyboard is wonderful, trackpad is meh. I don't really mind it since I don't have much to compare it to, but pressing it for a click does seem to go a bit deep into the chassis. It does get warm under heavy gaming, and you can feel a little bit of heat through the WASD keys, but it is not bad at all and you forget about it after a little bit. All in all wonderful laptop and I'm very pleased with the purchase.

 

Hi,

I still don't understand, yours is single GPU with optimus enabled but you can also add 2nd GPU via ultrabay?

I thought there are two types of GPU in Y400/Y500/Y410p/Y510p:
1. Single Nvidia GPU + integrated Intel GPU (optimus is enabled). You can't add 2nd Nvidia GPU because the controllers are only two and the 2nd one has been used for integrated GPU.
2. Dual Nvidia GPU (1st one is the nvidia GPU inside, the 2nd Nvidia GPU can be added via ultrabay, thus integrated GPU is disabled).


Please enlighten me.

 

The actual exact weight of the laptop is 4.85 pounds, and you add 6 ounces if you go SLI. But IMHO it feels like 4.5, maybe 4, because of the weight distributon.

 

If you own a Y400/Y500:
- The intel GPU is disabled, and there is no optimus, SLI or not.

If you own a Y410P/Y510P
- The Intel GPU is enabled and Optimus works, but only if you have a single 750m present.
- If you have SLI, the intel GPU disables itself.

 

All in all, it's an ~800$ price range laptop, and it pretty much destroys anything inside that price range, everything ive seen in there has i5's with 620/630/720/730M's, and even less if it's an ultrabook. The added ultrabay is a plus, because you can do SLI/Raid0/Bluray, how many ~800$ laptops can do that?

Best part is, the single-GPU Y410p with the 900p sceen has the exact same specs as the Alienware 14 (Haswell), except Dell will charge you 1199$ for that. Despite not being an Ultrabook, it is still thinner than Lenovo G series and much thinner than any gaming laptop you can find (except the Razer Blade, which has more overheating problems and costs 1799$ and up).

 

^Thanks, it's clear now.

 

Im also adding here a comparison of THREE dell Laptops that compete against the Y410P:

(i was actually considering buying one of these three before i stumbled upon the Lenovo Y series)

Dell Inspiron 14z Non-Touch (high end config)
Price as configured: 899$
Intel Core i7-3517U (1.9ghz Dual-Core)
1366x768 Screen
AMD Radeon HD7570M (for the record this card is basically a Nvidia 710M) with 1GB VRAM
8GB Ram
500GB 5400rpm HDD + 32GB Msata
6Cell Battery
Intel Wireless 2230
Weighs 5.1 lbs

Dell XPS 14 Non-Touch (Base Config)
Price as configured: 999$
Intel Core i5-3337U (1.8ghz Dual Core)
1600x900 Screen
Intel HD 4000 (Insert joke here)
4 GB RAM
500GB 5400 RPM HDD + 32GB Msata
8Cell Battery
Killer Wireless-N, 1202
Weighs 4.6 lbs

Alienware 14 (Base Config)
Price as configured: 1199$
Intel Core i7-4700MQ (2.4ghz Quad Core)
1366x768 Screen
Nvidia GeForce 750M with 1GB VRAM
8GB RAM
750GB 7200RPM HDD (no micro-SSD)
6Cell Battery
Killer Wireless-N, 1202
Weighs 6.116 lbs
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As you can see, these 3 Dell laptops, which are all more expensive than the Y410P, all have equal or lower specs for a higher price (minus the 8Cell from the XPS).

Heres the Y410P in comparison (Second Config):
Price as Configured: 849$
Intel Core i7-4700MQ (2.4ghz Quad-Core)
1600x900 Screen
Nvidia Geforce 750M with 2GB VRAM
8GB RAM
1TB 5400RPM HDD + 24GB NGFF SSD
6Cell Battery
Intel Wireless 2230
Weighs 4.85 lbs

 

yeah, only lenovo who can sell the cheapest gaming laptop with high features. In my place, Z480 (with GT 640M) used to be a best price gaming laptop at 2012 until Asus A46CB (with GT 740M) came out this year. I don't understand why lenovo doesn't release Z410p/Z510p in same time of Y410p/Y510p.

 

Z series laptops run on integrated GPUs, so Lenovo is waiting for the Iris GPUs to come out before they put any haswells on mid-to-low end PCs.

 

run on integrated GPU? I believe you're talking about U.S. or north america market. In my country, Z series are only available with dGPU.

I thought they can at least release Z410p core i7 haswell with GT 740M (or 750M that would be nice).

 

Lenovo Z400:

https://shop.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/ideapad/z-series/z400-touch/

All the models on this page (US) run on the HD4000.

 

Been worried about this issue. Can u explain in details what u did for the wireless card problem? If i could fix this then this laptop is firm on my budget. And for some update, the 2nd graphics card for Y410p will be available at the end of August 2013 as far as the Lenovo Rep told me in the chat.

 

Sorry double post

 

Well, i downgraded the driver (Roll it Back from the Properties Menu in the device manager) back to 15.6 and it fixed *most* of my connection errors (rest are due to bad router), and since i used the computer for like a good 5 hours yesterday i havent had any disconnections on it, and yes, bluetooth was on.

As for the 2nd GPU, i currently have no need for it at the moment, in fact, im using the 4600HD for *Everything* i do on this laptop except Battlefield 3, which i can play on ultra 1366x768.

But i might consider buying one later on, in case i need to run intensive apps or games.

 

You mentioned it gets hot in SLI. You have an SLI Y410p????

 

Wait, so did you mean:
-the Y410p with non-SLI GPU can be turned into SLI GPU just by adding 2nd bay GPU? I thought it's impossible because non-SLI GPU will be always non-SLI. Please clarify.

OR

-you consider want to buy new Y410p with SLI GPU?

 

Ive used a y500 and it gets hot in SLI. Since y410ps are just smaller y500s, id assume they get just as hot, if not hottter.

 

You can turn a non-SLI version into a SLI version by adding an extra card.
Im considering maybe buying the Y410P 750m ultrabay later on.

 

so I was wrong all this time? So that's mean all of GT 650M and GT 750M are SLI supported by nature? So for example like Asus N46VZ which use GT 650M is actually SLI too? (despite can't add 2nd GPU because lack of bay support)

Can we do same thing with Y400/Y500?

 

I was talking about Lenovos. But if you add in a GPU in the ultrabay, and enable SLI in the nvidia settings, you then have SLI in your laptop (get a 170w power brick tho).

 

Thanks for the review! What parts of the y410p are aluminum, exactly? Is it just the top? And do you know if this differs from the y510p? Thanks!

 

The interior of both the y410p and y510p (around the keyboard) has an aluminum finish, which is prone to fingerprints.
The exterior of the y510p has an aluminum finish too.
The exterior of the y410p has a carbon finish, which isn't fingerprinty.

If you dont believe me, look up the lids of both laptops on Lenovo's site:
(click to enlarge)

Y410P:


Y510P:

 

jobine702,

Thank you for that review, I purchased the Y410P as well. Can you tell me what version of Windows 8 is on the system, I need to reinstall windows 8 onto the system, I downgraded to Windows 7 and would like to go back to Windows 8 and see if I can get use to it. I did not make a recovery DVD before installing Windows 7. I know that was dumb

 

1. The Win8 serial is not marked physically on the system. I recommend extracting it using an auditing tool such as Belarc Advisor before you uninstall windows 8. Otherwise, you might have lost your serial.

2. The windows 8 version used is Windows 8, the NON-PRO version.

3. And yes, that was quite dumb :c

 

Thank you for your reply. Now I have to search for Windows 8 - Non-Pro version and hopefully the license in the bios will activate it. Yeah I know it was quite dumb to erase it before doing anything with it.

Any ideas where I can g et Windows 8 Non-Pro to put back on this notebook.

 

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ideapad-essential/698469-y500-owners-questions-thread-9.html#post9010443

Did you get rid of the onekey recovery partitions? If not, you could probably use it to restore the windows 8 factory image.

 

Unfortunately I did get rid of the onekey recovery partitions. So I have to reload it completely. Now I am trying to locate a copy of Windows 8 Non-Pro to download so I can reload it.

 

Did some edits.

Bump.

 

hello just wanted to ask you as you have the 24 gb ssd lenovo cache cres y410p worth paying 50 dollars more for this. and if you really notes differences compared to only have 1 tb hdd 5400rpm. they actually have advantages other than speed of porsi boot in win8 and is fast. increases the reading and writing ability in general?? sorry if there is any fault in the text and translated with google since I only write in Spanish

 

hello just wanted to ask you as you have the 24 gb ssd lenovo cache cres y410p worth paying 50 dollars more for this. and if you really notes differences compared to only have 1 tb hdd 5400rpm. they actually have advantages other than speed of porsi boot in win8 and is fast. increases the reading and writing ability in general?? sorry if there is any fault in the text and translated with google since I only write in Spanish

 

It will make your boot time go from 30 seconds to 6 seconds, and will speed up the loading of your most used programs and files (like your browser, your word processor,your favorite games) but wont affect write speeds.

Yes it is worth 50$ simply because the technology (M.2 NGFF) used is very hard to find, and others will charge you 70$ for such a rare SSD. But NGFF is actually faster than Msata, since it relies on PCIe instead of Sata 3.

No hablo espanol muy bien porque estoy de Canada. Mi idiomas principales son Ingles y Frances

 

thank you very much for the reply. contemplate buying ssd version 24. . would be nice to make a video of the boot time and some comments on his experience with the laptop. and upload it to youtube for access so people looking for opinions on the lenovo y410p.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3MXcwWFStw

^This is not me.

 

I learned that such late August that the lenovo y410p change the gpu gt 750m by gt 755m cres that would be worth postponing the purchase until that change happens ... and if cres that prices will be kept the same.

 

1. 755m models are already on the Chinese website.
2. Prices got hiked this monday. The model i paid 800$ (after 2 discounts) now costs 1079$ (after 1 discount). Because of this, i dont recommend buying Y410p's until they either lower the price or release the new GPUs.

 

Good review Jobine,

Got a couple of question for you btw and y410p current owners, Does it have keyboard ghosting, can you tell me if these 3 key combo works when you get a chance? All three combo should light up green when all pressed simultaneously. Thanks very much


Q+W+D or Q+W+Spacebar and W+E+Spacebar

Microsoft Applied Sciences Group


Second question, does the touchpad have a two finger tap right click??

 

No ghosting (tested myself) and you can enable that manually.

QQQQQQQQQQWWWWWWWWWWWWDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
QQQQQQQQQWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEE

 

Thanks Jobine, so those 3 key combinations all lighted up green when pressed simultaneously with the link I provided for testing?

Some other questions, can you get 4 or 5 hours of battery when only web surfing while on balanced mode?

Is the screen glossy or matte?? Are the colors good for viewing photos and watching videos? Would you say the color temps are cooler or warmer??

Have you notice any throttling when gaming/benchmarking while monitoring using hwinfo and msi afterburner?? What was the max cpu temps after running 3dmark11 or several minutes of a demanding game??

Is the gt 750m on y410p ddr3 or ddr5?


Thanks

 

1. Yeah, they all lighted green.
2. Glossy, matte screens are only found on the Y510P, and are dimmer and have more dull colors, Y410P glossy screen is one of the brighter gaming laptops
3. I dont use MSI afterburner, havent checked temps for a while but they are the same as the ones you can find in Y510P reviews. Also, Turbo Boost in the i7-4700MQ rarely activates, probably due to heat restrictions but overall the laptop is average, doesnt get hotter than your average box at best buy, and is cooler than the GE60. Also, it's hella quiet.
4. DDR5 2GB :thumbsup:

 

Jobine, when you said dimmer and more dull colors, are you talking about the y410p or the y510p???


Also when you said the turbo boost rarely activates on the 4700mq, are you saying that the games you are running doesnt need it so it does not activate??? Or is it because it is throttling??? See thats why i need you to do a favor for me if you can which only takes 10-15 minutes, pls run 3dmark11 and run hwinfo32 and tell me what your max cpu core temp after 3dmark11 benchmark.

 

The matte screen (only availible on select editions of the Y510P) has more dull colors and is dimmer than the glossy screen offered on Y410P and Y510P, but comes with no glare.

Brb benchmarking

 

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4700MQ,LENOVO 20216

3dmark 11 results here (720p)

Using Stock drivers that came with the laptop. Could have scored better if i used the latest ones.




The computer stayed cool during the whole thing.

 

Here are the updated scores using the latest drivers from NVidia:

NVIDIA GeForce GT 750M video card benchmark result - Intel Core i7-4700MQ,LENOVO 20216

Score was upped by 61 points.

Also, here is the GPUBoss info for the 750M:

http://gpuboss.com/graphics-card/GeForce-GT-750M

 

hmmm isnt that a bit low? ( compared to the "gaming laptop" section )...