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I'm buying a Lenovo Y530

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Hello, 

So... I'm buying a Lenovo y530 and after looking at some reviews, I saw people saying that the laptop tends to overheats a lot.

And I'm thinking about Repaste the GPU, CPU and possibly also undervolting it, is this a good idea?

My knowledge of tech is purely theoretical I've never taken apart a laptop or desktop, and while researching possible solutions I couldn't find a Repaste guide or full teardown of the y530, does anyone here own this laptop and/or has an idea of how to Repaste it?

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Check first if they are soldered on, you may not even be able to repaste anything =/

 

You could undervolt it in the BIOS but you will lose some CPU speed if you're ok with that. 

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Why buy a laptop that overheats?  I mean, they all get hot but overheating is an actual negative impact thing.  

 

Buy a better laptop.

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Huh? I didn't know that laptop heatsinks can be soldered on. interesting..

But, I found one person who Repaste their y530 on Lenovo forum, so I at least know that it's possible.

 

 

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6 minutes ago, jstudrawa said:

Why buy a laptop that overheats?  I mean, they all get hot but overheating is an actual negative impact thing.  

 

Buy a better laptop.

Pretty much anything in my budget will overheat some more than others, this and the nitro 5 were the only ones that I found decent. 

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Y530 has a good cooling solution. Only thing is the bad stock paste (I mean, really bad). Models with bad cooling will still have throttling (minor throttling also counts) after undervolt+repaste

 

I'll do a repaste soon in my Y530 so stay tuned

 

Even the CPU is soldered, you still can do repaste. Please know what you're saying before commenting

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35 minutes ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Y530 has a good cooling solution. Only thing is the bad stock paste (I mean, really bad). Models with bad cooling will still have throttling (minor throttling also counts) after undervolt+repaste

 

I'll do a repaste soon in my Y530 so stay tuned

 

Even the CPU is soldered, you still can do repaste. Please know what you're saying before commenting

Thanks I'll definitely be waiting for that.

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