Hello, I just did two Hitman 2 benchmarks on ultra at 1080p with max fans. CPU got up to around 75°C, and GPU 70°C. I have stock thermal paste and no undervolt, and the temperature in my room is between 20 and 25 °C. However the benchmark results today were quite lower than what I got when I did it two weeks ago, I’ll have to look into that, maybe I did something wrong so be careful with the temps I reported.
Oh and while typing this, with fans off, CPU is at 55-60°C, and GPU at 50, but it’s slowly going up.
As for your question about vapor chambers, when I bought mine the guy at Dell told me that all models come with the same cooling on the R2.
I’m sorry I don’t have much time right now to do more extensive testing with undervolting and all that, maybe someone else has the 10700/2080S, otherwise I’ll do it as soon as I can.
PS : the fans kicked in for a bit at 35% (barely audible), CPU was at 50 and GPU at 40
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Binned means possible higher overclock/or lower temp at same clock speed. Not lower bench scores if both run at same clock speed.
And for the records. Haven’t seen Spartan run his 10900K overclocked. Only with default/TVB.Last edited: Aug 20, 2020 -
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What we don't know from the submission is what kind of environment (temperature) or how skilled at performance tuning that person is. I would assume they have a fairly good idea of what they are doing since they had the top score, but maybe a lot of people are only taking screenshots and not uploading results. Hard to know these things. -
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I haven't identified a benefit to the GPU hardware scheduling so far. It hasn't done anything to enhance benchmark scores as far as I can tell. It might do something useful running software designed to take advantage of it, but I am not aware of a benchmark that does. There could be something I am not aware of.jc_denton, normand668, Papusan and 2 others like this. -
Just looking at the average GPU temps, it seems that with the x170 it's easier to tame those hot running cores. even with a shared (but probably highly efficient/tuned) HS
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The part of the heatsink that comes in contact with the CPU just needs a vapor chamber instead of a copper coldplate to allow us to go crazy with clock speeds.
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Something that I have noticed as well is that dell hasn't raised enough the computer to let enough air in the intake fans and if you put your hand on the side and slightly raise the computer you can feel much more air going out through the sides exhausts .
So what I did on top of delid and repad/repaste is raised the computer with two feet of 1,5 cm each with allowed me for example to bring the GPU down to 73-74 max after two hours of gaming instead of 78 .
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Regarding the cpu I have the same as @Spartan@HIDevolution binned 5.1
I just did cinebenchr20 stable with 5.1 GHz on every core it reached 99 degrees on the very last 2 seconds of the benchmark
I did the test a second time and it reached maximum 97 degrees so mine can handle 5.1 GHz on every core without an issueAttached Files:
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https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00Y0M32IG/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_gzVpFb4VCXFYALast edited: Aug 20, 2020 -
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How does this cooling tray with a laptop as big as the area 51m ?
I mean dell could have easily improved the thermals just by raising the feet a bit higher wonder why they haven't done it -
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I've been through the whole 137 pages and I'm almost sold with this laptop. Seems to fix a lot of R1 flaws, temps looks great, solid performance and AW quality is always at the top. I was just wondering what's the price reference for my laptop (the one from my signature). I can't find my laptop anywhere (eBay, marketplace, etc)
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I sold my AW 17 R5 for £1800 on eBay which had a relatively comparable spec? (not SLI ofc, but 32GB 3200MHz HyperX and i9 8950HK). If you are selling i suggest £2000 would be a good ball park figure, amending as you see fit based on offers. Though different country markets and current demand will ofc change prices i appreciate. -
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There is a category for “Price Check” down in the marketplace category.
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Fair point, @Tyranus07 as @etern4l has previously highlighted if may be worth waiting out for the next gen GPUs, though if like me your worried about your old systems resell price and needing/wanting an upgrade immediately then thats justified, your decision ofc.
I'm likely going to see about selling mine and getting the next gen, the cost incurred mitigated by the savings I've made on tax (buisness purchase) and as a dell partner reseller, on top of defence discount I could compound.
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Here is a picture will all the measurements to replace the thermal pads .
I used fujipoly extreme pads .
Watch out if you are using more compressible pads you might want to increase the thickness.
I didn't have a picture for the heatsink of the GPU but it was 1 mm for the vrm and 1,5 mm for the two MOSFETsAttached Files:
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No I also have the same heatsink as you .
The one in the attached file is the one I got from eBay to try to mod it for my area 51m r1
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just to let you know, I just installed the latest driver from Nvidia and now I have no more artifact with HZD.
No more error message regarding the driver at startup.
By the way, i launched the benchmark of HZD ang got a nice boost from 72fps to 88!
I'll let u know if I have any problems with these drivers but for the moment I'll stick to the latest from NVidia
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Real talk, THE ONLY REASON I got the 10700K was due to thermal fears. Would you have gotten the 10900K (without doing thermal mods)?
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Even Intel's BGA chips can show up with 5.3GHz for single core TVB
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AUO has finally made a 17.3", 4K 144Hz panel : https://www.panelook.com/B173ZAN03.3_AUO_17.3_LCM_overview_45254.html
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For what it's worth, Nvidia's integer scaling is fantastic if you have a 4k display but want to scale to 1080p without NN interpolation. It's my preferred way to use a 4k notebook display.
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Does anyone know how I would go about unlocking GPU power limit?
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Does anyone know how I would go about unlocking GPU power limit?
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My bad I was looking at the max temperatures for that run. 4.9GHZ on all cores at those temperatures is still very good. I have my 9900K running at 4.9GHZ on all cores but i have a -125uv with Phobya nanogrease repaste. If I had not all ready had the R1 and all ready experienced several Dell/Alienwares the R2 would be an exciting notebook to own. We will see how the run goes but this is a cash grab until Ampere mobile comes......Last edited: Aug 23, 2020 -
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What do you guys use the undervolt & overclock the CPU by the way? Throttlestop doesn't seem to support 10-core processors, I've tried XTU before but people keep telling me to use TS.
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Try it out yourself if you have a 4k display--even on the Windows desktop and task bar, switching between IS makes a significant difference in the softening of icons and text.
Edit: To be clear, for this feature to work system wide, there must be a direct connection from the Turing GPU to the display, as is the case in the 51m.Last edited: Aug 22, 2020raz8020 likes this. -
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