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I have undervolt my i5-8250U with CPU core voltage offset -0.100V and Turbo Boost Short Power Max to 15W, should enough for my daily programming usage and the temperature is keeping min. 41c and max. 74c after normal running and idle around 30 mins. I see, my laptop hit top 96c then it started with Power Limit Throttling down to 2.2~2.3GHz. I owned a company laptop last time with i5 5th or 4th gen, CPU temperature never go up to 80c, is it because of the CPU designed TDP limit is to 15W max? I have read your aspire review and know that you have undervolt the CPU, may I know how do you apply to the setting that keep you max 3.1GHz only?

I ran cinebench and monitoring the Package TDP maxed out to 25W @ 90c+ @ 3.4GHz for few seconds, then it continues at max TDP 15W around 80c+ @ 2.3~2.4GHz. Anyone know how to set the optimal undervolt setting for this CPU? by using Intel XTU

Yeah but too bad my table is too small for that

Thanks for the explanation. I think I will consider an undervolt when using the laptop without an external keyboard when plugged. Yeah it sure makes a different one in turbo and one isn't.

Noted I will download and try it out. What do you mean by design? The CPU is running 3.2~3.3x GHz all the time which mean in Turbo mode and I don't feel any extra performance and the cooling is awful in 90c. And do you know how to do throttling as you said ? "so you'll have to accept throttling (which isn't actually throttling until it runs below 1.6)"

Hi, I own a Acer laptop for work but it keeps overheating sometimes, staying at 90c+ degree for few seconds during when I started to build a program in Visual Studio (btw, I am a programmer). When the program is compling, the mouse cursor started to lag for few seconds during the CPU hit the highest temp, then back to smooth. I did something to the CPU maximum processor state which set to both 99% and 100% to test and below screenshots are the result. 99% ran at 1.7GHz peak and 100% ran at 3.4GHz peak, one has turbo and one has not. This happens since the day 1 I got my laptop in January. The laptop is fine and awesome because most of the time I am using it with a monitor and a external keyboard so I do not feel the heat and the heated part is from the speaker which is hardly to get touch when using the onboard keyboard. I did reset the whole OS twice but still the same result. I have talked to Acer local distributor and they gave me a brand new same model laptop to test and end up the same. They even offer me to exchange with another laptop but I rejected as I needed a laptop model like Acer Spin 5. Later they also updated me that the Acer HQ from Taiwan had run some test and they claimed the result is normal and acceptable. Below is my laptop model & specs, Model : Acer Spin 5 SP513-52N-58QD OS : Windows 10 Home CPU : Intel i5-8250U RAM : 8GB Storage : 256GB SSD GPU : Intel UHD Graphics 620 Reference : https://www.acer.com/ac/en/MY/content/model/NX.GR7SM.003 I wonder is there anyone experiencing a similiar case as mine and is there any solution to this problem. I am curious is it a windows 10 problem? CPU problem? a combination of windows 10 + CPU problem? or is it because my laptop does not has a dedicated GPU chip so the CPU stress out itself.

I have failed 2 WD blue due to mechanical failure, but still I think blue is better for normal PC usage, and red better for NAS (which I never own but I do believe what WD advertised) In my opinion every HDD has their own mechanical lifespan, its better to change when the time comes, before S.M.A.R.T tell you that they are failing to prevent data losses. Correct me if I am wrong.

Hi, I have recently subscribed to a 4G broadband services which using a SIM CARD. I understand that we aren't able to do hosting with the 4G broadband service as the ISP has given us the private IP instead of public IP. From my research I come to understand that this can be overcome by setup of 1. 4G Modem Router that able to do VPN & Multiple Port Forwarding (For VPN) 2. VPN with dedicated/static IP c/w Port Forwarding Can anyone suggest to me a recommendation of 4G modem router and VPN service that able to provide the functionalities as above? Correct me if I am wrong about my assumption. Thanks.