7700hq overclocking or performacne improvements
7700hq overclocking or performacne improvements
laptops featuring HK CPUs offer the full experience you desire.
they come with a higher price tag and a larger size.
Yeah, I'm not too concerned about the bulk since I've used 17's all my life and this is the first 15.6 I've ever owned. But the price... having an i5 8200u can sell for around 400 offsets the new Dell enough to make it work. I began searching for a desktop with a 500.00 budget, which puts me right where I am now. The Dell really fits into that range.
just an update, i got the computer and after applying H1 n1 (or whatever it was), temperatures dropped by 17°C. it maintains a stable boost clock for 3 minutes under full load. the gpu keeps a 315MHz core clock and a 280MHz memory clock during full load. i wish i could adjust timings on the ram, but i haven’t found a way yet. only issue is encountering power throttling in the package, but after undervolting at 22V it helped. it runs 75fps vsynced on mankind divided without any problems.
i know its a bit of an old thread now...but my 2 cents regd
"to go out of your way as a mfg to lock things down and prevent changes is a malicious and perhaps unethical act in my eyes."
nowadays most of intel cpus come with what is called as "configurable tdp" (even if they dont come with that .. laptop manufacturer can still confgure it to some degree.... so they many times power down the power budget to control the heat within the chassis they are building the laptop in... they know best how much heat their laptop can handle in a typical use case. most of the users want thin and light laptop and expect battery to last longer...so laptop makers try to achieve that and laptop these days are quite thin which cant handle substantial amount of heat.
due to all these you can take same cpu from 2 different laptops and both of them can have substantially different performance based on laptop chassis (and mfg configuration for tdp due to chassis).
I just wish it was more like the old days when you could unlock/mod and get full performance based on the hardware, not just software limits. I remember flashing the BIOS on my Radeons and tracing a connection on the board to turn an X800 into an X850XTPE way back then. I miss those times.