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 37-40C for CPU which is ok, 34-37C for GPU which is also ok and the big problem: the HDD (which is apparently sandwiched between the CPU and GPU) usually idles at around 37-40C which isn't great.
And what's worse is under load the when CPU/GPU get up to around 70C which is again reasonable, the HDD reaches around the 48C area.. and this is after I bought a cooling pad!
Before that the CPU/GPU would be at around 75-80C and the HDD would reach up to 55C, definitely temps which are far from reasonable for any HDD.
Which brings me to my point: I'm interested in moving my HDD to where the optical drive is sitting and to ditch the optical drive so I can get lower overall temps for the HDD (hopefully).
I was wondering if anyone here has any knowledge on how to do something like this? What do I need to get? Might the HDD possibly run at a lower transfer rate? Would it be noticeable if so? And most importantly if it will yield any results on the temperature side of things.
Thanks to everyone who read this and decided to chip in!
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 37-40C for CPU which is ok, 34-37C for GPU which is also ok and the big problem: the HDD (which is apparently sandwiched between the CPU and GPU) usually idles at around 37-40C which isn't great.
And what's worse is under load the when CPU/GPU get up to around 70C which is again reasonable, the HDD reaches around the 48C area.. and this is after I bought a cooling pad!
Before that the CPU/GPU would be at around 75-80C and the HDD would reach up to 55C, definitely temps which are far from reasonable for any HDD.
Which brings me to my point: I'm interested in moving my HDD to where the optical drive is sitting and to ditch the optical drive so I can get lower overall temps for the HDD (hopefully).
I was wondering if anyone here has any knowledge on how to do something like this? What do I need to get? Might the HDD possibly run at a lower transfer rate? Would it be noticeable if so? And most importantly if it will yield any results on the temperature side of things.
Thanks to everyone who read this and decided to chip in!