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November 19th, 2020 23:00
Presicion 3541 over heating
I ordered a mobile workstation with an i7 9750H and a Quadro p620, it started over heating like crazy and would shut itself off after booting up sometimes. The dell repair at the boot screen couldn't even finish a scan before shutting itself off due to overheating, and even when it could nothing would be wrong according to the scan. I had the thermal paste replaced and it worked fine the first hours and the next morning it gave me the blue screen of death. So I reinstalled windows and deleted everything hoping it would stop. It still shuts off and it still gets hot, is there anything else I can do to fix this?
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DELL-Cares
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November 20th, 2020 13:00
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hmbw
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December 29th, 2021 00:00
Presicion 3541, gives more issue.over heating and fan is very noisy.
much helpful if you could share any fix.
DELL-Jesse L
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January 10th, 2022 08:00
Click the link Identifying High Temperature/Heat/Thermal Concerns/Fan Noise on Dell Notebook Systems for resolving the heat and fan noise issue.
CapinWinky2
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April 16th, 2024 19:44
You can google how to undervolt the system using ThrottleStop. You'll need to unlock overclocking in the BIOS (if this option is absent from the BIOS menu and is set to locked, unlocking it is its own adventure), even though undervolting is arguably a different class of modification. Most Dell laptops are perfectly happy at a 100mV underclock.
I have a Precision 3541 that was essentially unusable in the state it was given to me (to be fair, it was in 2024 as a second hand unit). It was throttling on thermal just sitting there. After the undervolt, it does not throttle under light load, but does still throttle under normal use cases. I can put the CPU under steady loads of different amounts and at about 38W CPU draw is when the throttling becomes constant. The processor (i9-9880H) is rated for 45W, so it should not be hitting thermals with an undervolt unless it was sustaining 45W+.
I think this model simply has a heat management issue in the design; the fan is putting out a decent amount of air and that air is hot, so heat is coming out, just not enough for this processor. Thermal paste replacement did help a smidge, but not enough.