Sfairat Sfairat 802.11n
Feb 4
So, like many of you, I also had the problem with y510p SLI overheating both CPU and ultrabay GPU and I'd like to describe how I had fixed these problems.
1. Both CPU and GPU, make air flow better. There was a guide somewhere here which advised to cut off some plastic.. I won't advise you that. I just advise to remove some "cloth" cover which is glued to plastic on the inner side of the back cover. That cover has such a small openings, that it gets clogged with dust easily and so the air flow reduces greatly. You just have to cut that "cloth cover" with something like utility knife on the perimeter(you don't have to cut through plastic!) and accurately remove it. It'll greatly improve the air flow. See the attachments for photos. You can see that I did the procedure on the left and right openings (you can see the fans through the openings easily).
2. CPU. In my case, the factory CPU thermal paste application was poor. EXTREMELY POOR. So poor that CPU overheated in a couple of minutes. There was a lot of thermal paste on the CPU when I opened it (it's a pity I was too nervous when I disassembled it and I completely forgot to take the photos of it). After repasting, my CPU only reaches 82-85 degrees after several hours of operating under heavy CPU load. You should only try this method if your CPU goes up to 98 degrees really fast. If your thermal paste is good, your temps should almost never be hotter then 90 on this laptop. be warned, if you try this method you must know what you do and make sure that you're capable to disassemble the laptop. It may void your warranty. You can kill your laptop. No one but you will be responsible for that.
3. CPU again. You can undervolt your CPU in the intel eXtreme tuning utility. Undervolting is quite safe operation which can't (at least, shouldn't) damage your laptop.Undervolting by something like 77-85 mV should be safe and will provide you quite good results. You can try higher values, it may work, but the laptop may be unstable (in worst case, it will hang/reboot and load the default settings on next boot, so it's quite safe to experiment with higher values). The maximum undervolting values are individual for each CPU. Note that undervolting IS NOT overvolting.
4. Ultrabay GPU. This is the real hit, thanks to svl7 from TI forums. Flash the ultrabay GPU with the unlocked VBios from the topic you can easily find on techInferno forums (you can flash only vbios, you can leave your main bios intact). After you do it, you should be able to play with the GPU voltage settings in a program like nvidia inspector (just make sure you select GPU 1). I've undervolted the ultrabay GPU by 125 mV and everything was stable after it. It gave a really outstanding results, reducing my gpu temps by something like 15 degrees. It heated up to 97 and started throttling after something like 40 min of D3 gaming, and now it tops at 82 after several hours of it. Maybe even greater values are stable, I just didn't try it. This step should not reduce the performance or have any other adverse side effects. You can also save the nvidia inspector shortcut for instant voltage reduce applying and you can even put it to task scheduler.
Of course, 3 out of 4 methods are well-known, I'm just putting it here together to make it easier for others.
Hope it helps some of you.
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