Laptop advice

Michela

hi,
I have a lenovo y530, which was perfect for my video editing needs. Sadly it overheated and the motherboard is dead.
Is it worth replacing the motherboard?

I can't find a similar spec under £700.
I was told by a tech guy it wasn't worth replacing the motherboard.
 
On other option I thought of, is it is possible to buy a cheaper laptop and use the lenovo y530 components to upgrade it?

Thanks 

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JJ_Egan

Laptop it may not be that easy to dismantle for parts .

What price is the motherboard .

neilmcl

Michela said:

hi,
I have a lenovo y530, which was perfect for my video editing needs. Sadly it overheated and the motherboard is dead.
Is it worth replacing the motherboard?

I can't find a similar spec under £700.
I was told by a tech guy it wasn't worth replacing the motherboard.
 
On other option I thought of, is it is possible to buy a cheaper laptop and use the lenovo y530 components to upgrade it?

Thanks 

I can't see you being able to replace the motherboard on that cheaply, if at all, also think the donating of parts to a cheaper laptop is probably non starter too.

What sort of video editing work are you doing that you need a gaming laptop, we may be able to offer a cheaper alternatives. I see you mentioned £700, is that your overall budget and would you consider refurbished laptops?

TheRightOne

Michela said:

hi,
I have a lenovo y530, which was perfect for my video editing needs. Sadly it overheated and the motherboard is dead.
Is it worth replacing the motherboard?

I can't find a similar spec under £700.
I was told by a tech guy it wasn't worth replacing the motherboard.
 
On other option I thought of, is it is possible to buy a cheaper laptop and use the lenovo y530 components to upgrade it?

Thanks 

No. Not possible. Tech guy wasn't lying. The Motherboard for your laptop is an expensive part. Hundreds of £s for that alone.

Buy a cheap PC if you cannot stretch to an expensive laptop.

Neil_Jones

Motherboard laptops are pretty much unique to that particular laptop, or at a most a very limited range of the same series.  If its toast, its toast.

You may be able to reuse the memory (if its the same type), the hard drive, CD unit (if it has one) and possibly the screen if they use the same connector/type and is the same size.  Behind that, nothing else is really that transferable.

Michela

neilmcl said:

Michela said:

hi,
I have a lenovo y530, which was perfect for my video editing needs. Sadly it overheated and the motherboard is dead.
Is it worth replacing the motherboard?

I can't find a similar spec under £700.
I was told by a tech guy it wasn't worth replacing the motherboard.
 
On other option I thought of, is it is possible to buy a cheaper laptop and use the lenovo y530 components to upgrade it?

Thanks 

I can't see you being able to replace the motherboard on that cheaply, if at all, also think the donating of parts to a cheaper laptop is probably non starter too.

What sort of video editing work are you doing that you need a gaming laptop, we may be able to offer a cheaper alternatives. I see you mentioned £700, is that your overall budget and would you consider refurbished laptops?

Thanks for all the replies.
I do video editing, quite hefty files and need the workflow to be as quick as possible on Adobe Premiere. The gaming laptop worked really well, it was recommended by the guy at John Lewis, it was only 18 months ago. 
Yes I would definitely go for a refurbished model. I'm trying to keep the costs down as the current work climate is rather uncertain. I have budgeted 700 for now.

neilmcl

Michela said:

neilmcl said:

Michela said:

hi,
I have a lenovo y530, which was perfect for my video editing needs. Sadly it overheated and the motherboard is dead.
Is it worth replacing the motherboard?

I can't find a similar spec under £700.
I was told by a tech guy it wasn't worth replacing the motherboard.
 
On other option I thought of, is it is possible to buy a cheaper laptop and use the lenovo y530 components to upgrade it?

Thanks 

I can't see you being able to replace the motherboard on that cheaply, if at all, also think the donating of parts to a cheaper laptop is probably non starter too.

What sort of video editing work are you doing that you need a gaming laptop, we may be able to offer a cheaper alternatives. I see you mentioned £700, is that your overall budget and would you consider refurbished laptops?

Thanks for all the replies.
I do video editing, quite hefty files and need the workflow to be as quick as possible on Adobe Premiere. The gaming laptop worked really well, it was recommended by the guy at John Lewis, it was only 18 months ago. 
Yes I would definitely go for a refurbished model. I'm trying to keep the costs down as the current work climate is rather uncertain. I have budgeted 700 for now.

You got it from John Lewis 18 months ago?

JL laptops usually come with a 2 year warranty, also you do have consumer rights to fall back on. It would be deemed to be unreasonable for a motherboard failure to occur on an 18 month old laptop, although the onus will be on you to prove that the fault is inherent to manufacture rather than something you've caused. I'd definitely be going back to the seller to exercise your statutory consumer rights, under the Consumer Rights Act. 

Elmer_BeFuddled

John Lewis usually give free extended warranties if that is where you bought it from. Have you tried going down that route?

MinuteNoodles

JJ_Egan said:

Laptop it may not be that easy to dismantle for parts .

It's a Lenovo. All the service manuals explaining how to dismantle it down to the last screw are available on their website. It's not hard.

a

for about £60-120 plus parts there are people who will fix the faulty components of your laptop.