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It's honestly so frustrating. I bought an XPS 13 two and a half years ago and it's been a nightmare getting it to perform. I had to do the following things to m
by rowanG077 4y ago
It's honestly so frustrating. I bought an XPS 13 two and a half years ago and it's been a nightmare getting it to perform. I had to do the following things to make it run on non-turbo boosted clockspeeds without throttling:
- Liquid metal TIM
- Thermal pads + heat pipes connected to chassis to dissipate heat (Yes this means the bottom chassis heats up a lot)
- Disable the intel_rapl_msr linux driver + disable BD_RPOCHOT via MSR
Laptop has worked like a charm since. I really don't want a super thin laptop. I want a small laptop. I wouldn't mind 2 cm thick 13 inch laptop. But I can't handle a 15 inch laptop. I just find it way to large to be seriously portable.
- quesomaster9000 4y ago14 inch laptops are the sweet spot for me, easily fit in a backpack with a protective travel case and support larger memory & more performant CPUs. e.g. ThinkPad T14 Gen 3 AMD, Ryzen 7 pro 6850U, 32 gb LPDDR5-6400MHz for around 1000 EUR Having used an XPS 13 and XPS 15 I was underwhelmed and none of Dell's laptops hit the sweet spot for me.