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I have the XPS 15 9530 from 2014. Somewhat depressingly it's the most powerful intel laptop I own so I still use it when I need to be mobile with Windows. I h
by duffyjp 3y ago
I have the XPS 15 9530 from 2014. Somewhat depressingly it's the most powerful intel laptop I own so I still use it when I need to be mobile with Windows.
I had to disable turbo boost to keep it from going nuclear under even trivial load. Mine doesn't overheat exactly, but the squirrel fans go full blast and it's super loud. I think the XPS line is just too thin for the hardware they shove in there. Mine has a quad core i7 which was pretty rare for 2014 but if you can't realistically make use of it...
- cainxinth 3y agoI think a lot of the XPS laptops are sold to executives that want an expensive machine for the optics but won’t do much more than basic office work with it. Those ones probably never call to complain about thermal management. Meanwhile, I was trying to render video on mine and it was hitting 100C and blue screening constantly.