Post by ForRealTho on Mar 25, 2023 9:15:44 GMT -5
So I am laptop only these days. My main gaming rig is a 2020 Eluktronics MAX17. i7-10875h 2070 Super 16 gigs of RAM(upgraded later to 32)
It came with liquid metal on the CPU and regular compound on the GPU from Eluktronics. I started getting awful temps and throttling October 2022. I finally redid the thermal paste. This time I put liquid metal on the CPU/GPU. Temps were amazing. Then in January I got the Dead Space remake. I noticed I was getting weird temp spikes, plus Dead Space had other issues so I waited for them to patch it.
Took a 2 month break from games till the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo dropped last week. Temps were OK for the most part but I swear I saw my CPU hit 97c once, never saw it that high. I just redid the liquid metal in October and its March.
I decided to repaste it again. This time only liquid metal on the CPU. I ordered Prolimatech Pk-3 Nano Aluminum for the GPU because supposedly its the best non-liquid metal paste you can get:
www.amazon.com/dp/B008M5157W?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Played through RE4R last night and temps were better but still not as good as I thought they could have been.
I started googling "unexplained high temps" and such. Finally someone mentioned "CPU voltage"
....Fuck.
I completely forgot that my laptop allows voltage control, most laptops don't. So my laptop has a voltage offset control. I think from the factory its at -7, I checked and mine was -6. The closer to zero the hotter the CPU runs. I was testing last October if setting it to -6 increased performance then forgot about it. I set it to -8 and relaunched RER4 and ah ha. That was it.
So yeah, CPU voltage is a thing.
I decided I am going to skip the upgrade cycle this year. So 2024 will be 4 years since I last upgraded. I figure that will be a nice performance boost.
It came with liquid metal on the CPU and regular compound on the GPU from Eluktronics. I started getting awful temps and throttling October 2022. I finally redid the thermal paste. This time I put liquid metal on the CPU/GPU. Temps were amazing. Then in January I got the Dead Space remake. I noticed I was getting weird temp spikes, plus Dead Space had other issues so I waited for them to patch it.
Took a 2 month break from games till the Resident Evil 4 Remake demo dropped last week. Temps were OK for the most part but I swear I saw my CPU hit 97c once, never saw it that high. I just redid the liquid metal in October and its March.
I decided to repaste it again. This time only liquid metal on the CPU. I ordered Prolimatech Pk-3 Nano Aluminum for the GPU because supposedly its the best non-liquid metal paste you can get:
www.amazon.com/dp/B008M5157W?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Played through RE4R last night and temps were better but still not as good as I thought they could have been.
I started googling "unexplained high temps" and such. Finally someone mentioned "CPU voltage"
....Fuck.
I completely forgot that my laptop allows voltage control, most laptops don't. So my laptop has a voltage offset control. I think from the factory its at -7, I checked and mine was -6. The closer to zero the hotter the CPU runs. I was testing last October if setting it to -6 increased performance then forgot about it. I set it to -8 and relaunched RER4 and ah ha. That was it.
So yeah, CPU voltage is a thing.
I decided I am going to skip the upgrade cycle this year. So 2024 will be 4 years since I last upgraded. I figure that will be a nice performance boost.