How to Unlock the NVMe Performance on the Lenovo Y700
Posted on 23rd Feb 2017 08:14:31 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops, cryptocurrency
In previous blog posts about the Lenovo Y700 where we added a high performance NVMe SSD in my case a Samsung 950 pro, others have since added Samsung 960 evo's and pro's. The draw back was that performance was capped at ~1600MB/s which leaves a fair amount of performance unavailable on these high performance SSD's. The issue was tracked down the DMI link speed being set to PCIe 2.0 speeds, this was what was causing the performance cap or around 1600MB.
After Lenovo refused to change the setting, their is finally a work around to set the DMI link to full speed (PCIe 3.0) this fully unlocks the performance for these SSD's. Thanks to our friends over at MDL.
The unleashed performance of the 950 Pro 256GB (rated at 2200MB read 900MB write)
Lenovo Y700 How to Enable BIOS Downgrade
Posted on 5th Nov 2016 10:06:30 in Laptops
After installing the most recent BIOS CDCN53WW from Lenovo's site I started having issues with the screen and sleep, Sound familiar? The first BIOS's for the Y700 had screen/sleep black screen issues. To see if it was being caused by the recent BIOS update I wanted to revert to the previous BIOS that was performing well.
High Performance NVMe SSD capped at PCIE 2.0 speeds Y700
Posted on 5th Sep 2016 11:24:42 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops
Performance of high speed NVMe PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD is capped at ~1600MB/s when installed in the Lenovo Y700 Laptop.
Lenovo Y700 + Samsung 950 Pro
Posted on 4th Dec 2015 09:23:32 in SSD, NVMe, Laptops
I just received my new Lenovo Y700, First thing was to open it up and install a new Samsung 950 Pro SSD in the available M.2 slot. The advantage of buying without the SSD is you don't end up with the PM951 with terrible write speeds or the CV1 M.2 Series again with not that great write speeds. The 1TB slim HDD is left in place for storage.
