JarrodsTech

Of course, but at the same time, the 13980HX was reaching higher single core score here than a 13700K, which isn't bad at all.

Yeah depends on the games you plan on playing, but realistically Intel Xe is only really going to be alright at 720p lower settings for modern games, so depends on the game and settings you want to target. At the ~$600 price point the best I've seen is Acer Nitro 5, though that was about a year ago with GTX 1650 graphics, not sure how that price point has chanced since then, but as far as I know nothing has really come in to replace the GTX 1650 yet so that's probably the best you'll be able to get in terms of GPU performance.

Yeah it's winter here in Australia so quite cool at the moment! Hmm I didn't notice that, I'll have to check it out. Yeah makes sense that that could help given the overall power limit throttling the laptop appears to have.

Glad to hear I wasn't the only one having this issue, there aren't that many reported instances of it on the Internet it seems. Just wanted to note that I was testing a FX504 recently and had exactly the same issues noted in this thread with BIOS version 310, power limit throttling at 25W TDP that could not be modified in software. Out of the box I get ~949 in Cinebench, I was able to increase this to a ~1012 average with a -0.150v undervolt though. Temps were perfectly fine, never passing 74c in Aida64 stress test. I also noticed that while gaming for a few hours while plugged in, the battery charge level dropped from 100% to 85%, perhaps indicating that the 130w power brick isn't able to provide enough power to the machine, which may be why they've limited it to 25W in the first place. This makes me wonder if a future BIOS update would help, if adequate power can't be provided with the limit in place how will it go with a higher limit / limit removed? Maybe they could do something to only limit if the overall system power draw is past a certain point rather than just arbitrarily always limiting the CPU to 25W. I outlined this and the results/benchmarks in full details here if anyone is interested: