Dafuqasaurus

Break down of specs: i7 4790K Overclocked to 408GHz at 1.3V G-skill Sniper 2x8GB -RAM Raijintek AIO Dual 120 Rad ASUS SABERTOOTH Z97 MARK1 (painted black) -Motherboard EVGA 220-G2 850w -PSU EGVA 980 ACX 2.0 SC MSI Twin Frozr 980 (painted black) NZXT LED controller and strip WD 1 and 2TB HDD Samsung evo 250GB SSd Kingston 120gb SSD Bunch of green LED cougar fans and two high static pressure corsair green LED fans on the rad Phanteks Enthoo Luxe -Case Rocking a Razer Blackwidow Chroma and Logitech G600 for mouse/Keyboard, and a 41inch LG TV for a 'monitor' These pictures where taken before I painted the SLI bridge black and as a PSA when you install your water cooler make sure you take the warning sticker off first! PS: Totally looking for some gaming buddies, I'm MikewazoskiV2 on steam and Mike Wazoski (Dafuqasarurs) on origin!

Fair point, I'll mark this as solved and post an update once I've tried replacing them. Thanks you guys~

This was me showing my buddy that it did indeed have a mounting bracket for 2.5inch drives, but as you can see it looks pretty clean

No the only thing that concerned me was how awkwardly the sata/power cable bends back on its self right by the connector to the motherboard. I'm probably going to end up just replacing the fans for giggles to see what happens

Mmhmm, was gonna give it a nice clean during the swap but it was already spotless. There is a lovely dust filter over the bottom so I barely needed my compressed air

Already did that in my truck, don't want to have to refill the LED fluid or anything in this now I thought that as well, but the fans seem to perform just fine being inaudible during idle and easily drowned out during gaming. I also looked at them during the HDD swap and they looked clean and free spinning. I haven't watched the GPU under stress but I've never seen the CPU get hotter than 70 under a stress test.. I suppose the worst thing that could happen after replacing the fans is that the noise will still be there and I'll have brand new fans huh?

I bought the y50 last fall (4K IPS 15inch panel, Quad Core i7-4710 2.50Ghz (3.5 turbo), 16gb RAM, 1TB HDD/SSD Hybrid, 860m with 2gb dedicated) and have been very happy with how beautiful the screen and laptop itself is, not to forget about the incredible sound from the speakers too. However there has always been a issue though, it was horridly slow. Way more than what a full on i7 and dedicated GPU should be performing, booting took anywhere from 1 minute to 5+, loading any web browser was about the same, I had to restart photoshop every two hours because it would get a 30 second delay on any action within it and shutting down took forever as it would kill everything but the Keyboard lights and lowest RPM on the fans and sit like that for 10+ minutes. also there is a horrible best I can describe as 'cranking' noises. I comes and goes, I cannot determine if one thing causes it specifically or not as it is very frequent but haphazard. I thought for sure this must be the HDD, could just be the disks arm cranking hard or incorrectly. I got the laptop refurbished and a previous review said he got one with a bad HDD and replaced it with a SSD so I decided to do the same with a 1TB munchkin SSD. It flies now, boots up almost as fast as my desktop and is finally responsive enough for me to use as a daily driver VS previously only ever touching it when I needed it for my photography. However.. the noise is still there and not only does it concern me because a computer shouldn't be making such a terrible noise but it is also simply quite annoying. I've racked my brain and cannot think of what would be making such a noise, and if its a serious cause for concern. Any thoughts, suggestions, or ideas on what it could possibly be would be greatly appreciated. I've attached a video with the noise audible, and previous google searches have only lead me to people complaining about the laptop in some silly way so I'm just hoping it does't completely die on me as other than that damn noise it i a fantastic laptop! IMG_0630.MOV

HaZard I7-4790KNvidia EVGA ACX 2.0 SC 980 + MSI Gaming GTX 9808X2 16GB Corssair RAM7.5