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I have a Y580 and its really great! A real beast. But.. it heats up a ton and especially the harddrive reaches dangerous level temps (53C+) so you might want to keep that in mind, other than that its just everything you could ask from a laptop.

I highly recommend the Lenovo Y580, best bang for buck you can get. But keep in mind while gaming that the laptop can get dangerously hot. Make sure to monitor your GPU/CPU and HDD temps all the time and don't do heavy gaming without a cooling pad. Last thing, the HDD is placed in a really...

Thanks for the heads up brett i'll keep in mind not to do that in the future. And whyso, as far as I know there isn't a way to monitor SSD temps but seeing as how it doesnt generate heat then i wouldnt reckon that it'd get to dangerously high temperatures.. The Y580 really is a great laptop...

Shameless bump. :-S

By msata drive you mean an ssd? I'm not sure im familiar with what an msata drive is.. :-S I was thinking of getting an ssd to put where the hdd was after I've moved it to the optical drive bay but to be honest, even though I know that ssd's deal better with heat i'm kind of convinced that the...

Bumpy :@

I see.. thanks for your advice whyso, maybe I'll be less paranoid in the future with the HDD temps. I just have one last question, would you think that by moving the HDD to the optical drive bay I'd see a definite drop in temperatures? And would the lower transfer rate be noticeable?

If the Y580 doesn't have an ultrabay does this mean I also cant move the HDD to the optical drive bay? And as for operating temperatures i'm sure the HDD (Seagate) which is equipped with the Y580 can operate at those temperatures but the question is for how long.. I value my data greatly and if...

The Y500 and Y580 look exactly the same to me as far as i know and i'd be willing to bet the Y580 also has an ultra bay. But what does this cooling unit do? Is it like an internal fan? The HDD would still be sandwiched next to the CPU/GPU.. would this cooling unit really be able to lower it's...

Hello everyone, I recently got myself a Lenovo Y580, a really fine laptop, I enjoy using it very much, it boots up fast it and it fulfills basically everything I'd want from a laptop, from programming to gaming. But... it runs sooooo hot! Usually on idle (with power saving config) it'll run at...