(07-18-2018, 01:46 PM)Helios Wrote: [ -> ]For $1200 that sucks. My XPS 15 was around that and has about 3x the GPU power at around the same form factor. Cools fine too.
Check Dell's website for it. Amazon over prices it.
I've always heard that the XPS 15 also has its own throttling issue as well. It also seems that if I want similar specs for an XPS 15 I'm going to be paying $1500 on Dell's website. You got one with less RAM and a smaller SSD I'm assuming?
oh, maybe it was $1500, I forget.
Though to be fair an xps15 is ~40% heavier and significantly larger. Not surprising you could fit better cooling in that.
Really, if you don't *need* super thin and light, you're paying more for less.
You can have performance, price, or size\weight.... pick 2. That is the general laptop market in very simple terms.
Yeah at this point I'm thinking I'll probably go with an XPS 15. I'm a little hesitant to go for the bigger laptop given that I prefer having a more portable package overall, but if it's going to hurt performance that much maybe I just need to bite the bullet...
If you still posess your laptop, try with undervolting. Its merely for CPU, but you should have it working on gpu too. What it does? by undervolting you lower cpu/gpu voltage it operates, making processors cooler. You can lower as much until you get instability, but short stress test would be enough. You gain no throotling because cpu lovered temperature. So better performance at long run. Overall, by lowering voltage, cpu might automatically lower max clock, but really not so much, so there is some chance you get little decrease performance overall. So, this is really worth a try for throttling laptops. And done right and depending on laptop model, gives income.
Firtstly look on Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility and some tutorials. Try other software for gpu.
(07-20-2018, 03:23 PM)sirdaniel Wrote: [ -> ]If you still posess your laptop, try with undervolting. Its merely for CPU, but you should have it working on gpu too. What it does? by undervolting you lower cpu/gpu voltage it operates, making processors cooler. You can lower as much until you get instability, but short stress test would be enough. You gain no throotling because cpu lovered temperature. So better performance at long run. Overall, by lowering voltage, cpu might automatically lower max clock, but really not so much, so there is some chance you get little decrease performance overall. So, this is really worth a try for throttling laptops. And done right and depending on laptop model, gives income.
Firtstly look on Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility and some tutorials. Try other software for gpu.
Intel´s XTU does
not support his CPU.
https://downloadmirror.intel.com/24075/e...eNotes.pdf
https://en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/cores/kaby_lake_r
https://ark.intel.com/products/122589/In...o-4_00-GHz
His CPU is Kaby Lake R-based, the tool supports Kaby Lake X-based processors instead.
While your data is valid per specification, explain me that this tool operates on my laptop cpu which is not listed. It's no harm to try.
(07-21-2018, 04:11 AM)sirdaniel Wrote: [ -> ]While your data is valid per specification, explain me that this tool operates on my laptop cpu which is not listed. It's no harm to try.
Your CPU is Kaby Lake-based (the first revision released). If you really read carefully the .PDF file you would have noticed that it is indeed listed.*
https://ark.intel.com/es/products/95443/...o-3_10-GHz
*While now classified as Kaby Lake-U (en.wikichip.org/wiki/intel/core_i5/i5-7200u), if you read the Intel´s specs page you will find something that reads "Formerly known as (simply) Kaby Lake", which would explain why it works for you.