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the power supply won't hold it, it should be 750w minimum. Also refer to the PSU tier list for at least tier B units

i.e. he sold you a prototype. This is most likely one of the older Gaming 7 design that was then deemed not good enough.
 
As for the boot loop, are you using a newer LGA2066 CPU? Since it's a prototype, it likely only supports the first bunch of X299 CPUs released like the i9-7900X.
 
Q2'17 ones are more likely to work than Q3'17 ones, pretty sure not newer X299 CPUs than these

the power supply won't hold it, it should be 750w minimum. Also refer to the PSU tier list for at least tier B units

Your direction feels wrong, when a CPU overheats hard it usually means the cooler is failing its job completely. Say the pump of an AIO died, or the thermal paste has dried out. Doubling fan speeds of already not-slow fans would not help enough to turn a "really freaking hot" CPU into a cool CPU, at best it will last a bit longer before crashing.
 
PWM controls fans based on %, regardless of the actual max RPM of the fans. 3pin fans on a 4pin connector will just run 100% all the time. If you don't care about noise, honestly I don't see that as a reason to not try max fan speeds all the time first and see if the problem goes away. 3000RPM fans are just as loud at similar RPMs to slower fans anyways.

Bought one for my brother's entry into university, so I might as well take the chance to review it (also my first experience on Windows 11).
 
Build
I'll give it an 8/10. The top and keyboard faces are metallic and smooth but the Lenovo badge on the keyboard face is somewhat unnecessary. The bottom and display faces are plastic with a frosted texture, I prefer this over having all metallic because it provides better grip imo. Bezel width is reasonable, thin enough but not on par with smartphones these days.
Camera is clear enough and it has a mechanical shutter that will block the lens off for security needs.
Chassis flex is minor, it can flex a bit but I'd put it closer to the "sturdy" side than the "flimsy" side.
It has backlit keyboard, but the light only goes around the keycap without showing the writings on them so it's imo rather useless.
 
Display and Sound
I'll give it a 7/10. The resolution (1080p) is totally fine for its 15.6" size while 60Hz refresh rate, unspectacular colours and no-HDR is standard for a paperwork device like this. The brightness is sufficient at max when it's super sunny outside and I'm in a room with the only window facing away from the sun, but I don't think it will be enough when extra sunlight comes in from the sides and especially not for outdoors in the shade.
The sound is clear but limited in "vocal range" to the point of distorting human speech, if that makes sense. Just like many cheaper Windows laptops, get yourself a good set of headphones if you're looking for quality.
Overall, no surprises.
 
Internals (no disassembly sry)
My model comes with an i5-1335U, 2x8GB LPDDR5-4800 and a 512GB SSD. The factory's SSD model is sadly unknown because I opt for a 1TB upgrade, which turns out to be a WD SN350 1TB QLC NVMe SSD. Not the SSD I would buy myself (endurance is low) but the price is alright and I wanted the extra space for my brother without taking the blame for opening up the laptop myself (yeah, family things). The RAM is running 52-44-44-104 primary timings, seems worse than DDR5-4800 but I don't know these new stuff well to make further comments. There is no dedicated graphics.
 
Connectivity
I'll give it a 6/10. WiFi card is an Intel AX203 (CNVi), Wifi 6 support should be standard these days so nothing to complain or brag about.
Only 3 USB 3.2 Gen 1 (Type A x2, Type C x1 that can also be used to charge the laptop) is a big reason why it loses so many points, the number is already not generous and 5Gbps per port means performance with a USB hub is still limited.
There's also an HDMI 1.4 port and SD card reader
 
Performance and limits
Windows 11 is updated to the latest version as of posting (2023-7-25), graphics driver is 31.0.101.4575.
 
CPU turbo bins:
P-core: 46x (1c), 43x (2c)
E-core: 34x (1~4c), 32x (5~8c)
 
Power limits:
PL1: 12W~27W (static), 14W~21W (dynamic)
PL2: 55W (static), 45W (dynamic)
These are reported by Hwinfo
 
Cinebench R23:
Single core: 1556pt (note Hwinfo64 shows it loading the first thread of each P-core rather than a single P-core's two threads, leading to them running at 4.3GHz during the run) @73C peak and 70C steady (room temperature is 26C)
Multi core 1st run: 5914pt @88C peak and 58C steady (a couple seconds of 45W peak, dropping to 21W and then 19W steady)
Multi core subsequent runs: 5724pt
 
CSGO FPS benchmark (just for fun, can't think of any games reasonable to try on basic laptops like this)
at 1080p and every video quality option turned way down, it can get around 200fps when nothing's going on but drops to 15fps after the smoke grenades explode and the camera enters it. Average reported is 112.88fps.
 
Noise and external temperature
A slight fan noise (louder than a hiss but not annoying) can be heard during Cinebench R23 single core test, but even running R23 multicore and CSGO can't get it to be loud. PL1 did its job very well.
 
Only the left side of the bottom vent gets hot, the right side stays cool during all tests. This means the single fan design did not fully utilize the cooling potential of the chassis.
 
Useless pre-installed garbage
Lenovo preinstalls Lenovo Vantage, Smart Appearance Components and Lenovo Now from the factory. Vantage lets you check for warranty and other maintenance stuff so it's good, the other two I don't seem to find a use for me yet.
 
Price
It's HKD 6000 before the SSD upgrade, HKD 6400 after.
 
Battery life
My brother won't let me take it for long enough for a battery life test, but it's a 47Wh BYD battery on a laptop that idles at 5~6W CPU package power and takes about 10W when watching Youtube videos. Therefore unfortunately he will have to take the charger with him every day which is not so convenient as it has a separate power brick.
 
Conclusion
My brother's not a computer geek, the only game he plays is Roblox. The laptop will be used to do paperwork and run geomatics software like ArcGIS so it should be good enough and isn't too bad of a deal. However Lenovo clearly didn't spend much effort on improving it over their older designs on a hardware level either, the power brick and USB ports being the giveaways.

Depends on the display you will use and games you will play. 

12th and 13th gen run quite a bit better with a good DDR5 kit compared to a DDR4 kit. If you're going to be repurposing most of the build I'd just get a DDR5 board and memory now.
 
Especially now that DDR5 pricing has come down quite a bit.

You can’t even fit stock W10 ISO to 4G disk let alone having an OTG install.

Here you go

Here you go

Stop using it then
At least stop it from using background data would reduce it to some degree

could be something like this?
https://www.anandtech.com/Show/Index/8191?cPage=2&all=False&sort=0&page=1&slug=nvidia-kepler-cards-get-hdmi-4k60hz-support-kind-of

Can we have some specs, like what drive it is, what CPU/motherboard, what benchmark, and what software setup? This isn't possible on its own, so I suspect either the benchmark is broken or there's some sort of caching going on. 

the i7 is better of course. X5570 is much older with no AVX support, pretty much ruling it out for any serious work these days.

the i7 is better of course. X5570 is much older with no AVX support, pretty much ruling it out for any serious work these days.

the i7 is better of course. X5570 is much older with no AVX support, pretty much ruling it out for any serious work these days.

Call it a prototype that's good enough to not be scrapped. It's still released way later than many other 8th gen mobile CPUs

for buying new, 6650XT or 3060 12GB or 3060Ti, whichever is the cheapest. All will be bottlenecked by the CPU pretty hard but slower GPUs are worse in value. For used the 6600 is also an option but it's also noticeably slower.
 
Also watch out for the power supply.

for buying new, 6650XT or 3060 12GB or 3060Ti, whichever is the cheapest. All will be bottlenecked by the CPU pretty hard but slower GPUs are worse in value. For used the 6600 is also an option but it's also noticeably slower.
 
Also watch out for the power supply.

I don't think so. Intel ME is more like a driver for the CPU, the motherboard has no say on this matter. The CPU asks for it, so your motherboard has to have it.

Asus X570-I should be the best out of the 3, without looking at the exact price available today. But thing with AM4 ITX boards is that B550 and X570 products are often 99% identical with a not so identical price, so maybe consider their B550 counterparts as well

depends on what computer you do have and your major

Normally they should be within 5 or 10 percent range of the names of those rails.

So, a game company that's losing its edge by rebooting old games are taking the cake of modding to themselves, why does this smell so much like Blizzard... 

They make the PCBs but usually follow layouts designed by the memory module makers (say A1 or B2). I think there are one-off custom designs for PCBs but those are super rare.