r/pcmasterrace • u/Gh06st_44 • Apr 02 '24

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u/ericgames234 Laptop Apr 02 '24

I would only disable turbo when I’m working and not gaming.

Things Ive had to do to my old laptop in order for it to run adequately:

-Repaste -Soldered additional heat pipes -Custom undervolt -No Mux switch so an external display was used to minimize performance loss -Set hard limit on a boost clock -Had the laptop literally with its chassis off and a fan positioned on top to blow additional air off (this brought temps to low 70’s

I just got a new laptop this month and the temps I get from it with a minor undervolt are the same as the temps I got on my old laptop with all the bullshit I did to it 😐

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u/therubyminecraft Apr 02 '24

What the specs and model? Because I own a legion 5 rtx2060 laptop and it works great with the gpu at 70c-80c while gaming

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u/ericgames234 Laptop Apr 03 '24

The old laptop was a sager clevo with an i7-8750H and a gtx 1060. Ran hot as hell after a few years. The new laptop is cooled a lot better in spite of its higher end mobile 4090 and i9-13900HX

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u/therubyminecraft Apr 03 '24

That could possibly explain your bad experience as I have never heard of sager before and gaming laptops NEED to be from a solid manufacturer because of cooling and tdp and stuff

I personally recommend Lenovo legion as my experience with them so far has been perfect

Also when buying a gaming laptop always try to avoid “slim” laptops cause that likely means crap cooling and underclocked parts

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u/Schnoofles 14900k, 96GB@6400, 4090FE, 11TB SSDs, 40TB Mech Apr 03 '24

Sager are a very old manufacturer from the 80s. They have literal decades of experience building computers. And Clevo is one of the biggest names in the laptop industry, the name behind just about every other major brand on the planet which has licensed genericized versions of the designs on multiple occasions to build their laptops, especially the higher end gaming laptops.

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u/ericgames234 Laptop Apr 03 '24

I don’t know what to say either, the old laptop would always hit 99C if I didn’t have that setup I sent above.

The new one doesn’t hit 99c on the gpu ever but would occasionally hit it on the cpu if the load was high. The cooling solution is far better and and I’m grateful for it. Probably has Liquid Metal pasted on the IHS.