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December 9th, 2019 06:00
XPS 15 heating problem solved ?
Good day,
I do a lot of video editing of 45min to 60 min.
My old XPS 15 is a 2016 and starting to slow down with all the updates over the years...
I'm thinking about buying a new XPS 15 (with specs shown below) or wait until 2020 for the new XPS 15.
I heard from many reviews the i9 is overheating a lot and not giving the real performance it should be.
Anyone else experiencing this problem ?
Was it fixed ?
- XPS 15 2019 - 9th Generation Intel® Core™ i9-9980HK (16MB Cache, up to 5.0 GHz, 8 cores)
- Windows 10 Home, 64-bit, English
- NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1650 4GB GDDR5
- 64GB DDR4-2666MHz, 2x32G
- 1TB M.2 PCIe NVMe SSD
Best regards.
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jedpause
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December 12th, 2019 05:00
In a word, no.
I have the 9550 (1TB/960M/i7-6700HQ/UHD Touch) and yes it is great, but is not that fast for renders on 4K over 15/20 minutes output - It's fine, but I just get impatient I put a 2TB 3,500/3,000 NVME drive in, makes is sing, but CPU/GPU is dated
So I got the 7590 on Black Friday (1TB/GTX1650/9980HK/OLED 4k).... I have undervolted to -125 mAh and it is stable.... even on fairly non taxing use the fans blow and I get 70/80 °C....
I put my 2TB NVME in as well (had to change to AHCI from RAID in BIOS as usual), and it screams, really fast and snappy - video renders are very fast in comparison, CINEBENCH is much much faster of course... but I can't keep it on my lap for too long when heavy work is being done...
I have bought a cooling pad with 2x large fans and it makes a big difference, but I can't help feeling that the chassis is just too small to dissipate the heat.
I'll see how it goes for another month now that it is setup fully and I can properly edit on it... but to be honest I am unimpressed overall, the overheating throttles so much that there is not as much benefit. My advice: go for the 6-Core/1650 and UHD Touch.....
Cheers