Schlagwort: Lenovo Yoga 720-13

I saw a video from LTT how to improve the performance of a M1 MacBook Air with some thermal pad. The aluminium body helps to dissipate the heat. I thought: “well, my Yoga has an aluminium body!”.

So, I put a piece on the heat pipes (and squished them a little bit between) and a bigger one on top of everything, both 1 mm thick.

Cinebench R23 was before around 3000 pts., now the 30 min test was 3366 pts.

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I replaced the grinding fans with a new cooling unit from China in 2023. Performance seems to be similiar and I tried some new thermal pad ideas.

The old thermal compount might be a bit dry now or I used too much. Cinebench R23 is around 2900 points.

So Lenovo doesn’t release new drivers for my 81C3, so I tried (and failed) to install something directly from Intel. After some adventures with two others, I reverted back to the 2018 driver (OpenCL apps crashed, like the ones from Affinity).

Now I’ve found something newer that runs. You need to download the driver for a ThinkPad, like that one: https://support.lenovo.com/de/en/downloads/ds502320/

It’s not supported to install, but you can extract it. Use the Device Manager to update. Works fine and you can use the Intel Control Center and the new one from the store.