Razer Blade 15 Advanced (2018) running hot?

[spadz93]

Just got this thing off ebay a few weeks ago. Finally sat down and tried to play GTA V on it. Noticed the CPU swung into the mid-upper 90c range pretty easily. Tried running an undervolt and also limiting the boost clock to 3.0ghz, same thing. Opened it up and repasted the chips, no real change. Bought a cooling pad for the laptop, still no real change. My idle is around 60c on this chip. Is this normal? Or is my vapor chamber possibly screwed? I used noctua nt-h1 thermal compound. I have some conductonaut lying around I could try, but I'd prefer not to on a laptop that gets moved around a lot if I can help it. 

[Slottr]

Laptops are hot, that's honestly what I'd expect out of a laptop

 

Not to mention a razer one

[spadz93]

Just now, Slottr said:

Laptops are hot, that's honestly what I'd expect out of a laptop

 

Not to mention a razer one

I had an asus rog strix with the same i7 and it idled in the high 40s low 50s. Not terribly off, but still a bit better. Maybe the heatsink was a better implementation for that laptop than the vapor chamber is for this one. Still, unless I disable turbo entirely, I guess I shouldn't expect to get any decent gaming temps out of this thing if this is really the case.

[Firewrath9]

17 minutes ago, spadz93 said:

I had an asus rog strix with the same i7 and it idled in the high 40s low 50s. Not terribly off, but still a bit better. Maybe the heatsink was a better implementation for that laptop than the vapor chamber is for this one. Still, unless I disable turbo entirely, I guess I shouldn't expect to get any decent gaming temps out of this thing if this is really the case.

Undervolt, I dropped 5-10c on my XPS 15. The Razer Blade is thin for a gaming laptop, so thats to be expected.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-XTU-Undervolting-Guide.272120.0.html

I got -0.185v on my XPS 15, and better performance. Follow the guide above, not all chips are the same.

[Jurrunio]

25 minutes ago, spadz93 said:

asus rog strix

Which one, out of hundreds Asus made over the years?

[kirashi]

1 hour ago, spadz93 said:

... tried to play GTA V on it. Noticed the CPU swung into the mid-upper 90c range pretty easily. --SNIP--

My idle is around 60c on this chip. Is this normal? Or is my vapor chamber possibly screwed?

1 hour ago, Slottr said:

Laptops are hot, that's honestly what I'd expect out of a laptop. Not to mention a razer one

I concur with @Slottr - unless you are using a thicker gaming or workstation laptop, expect temps to be much higher, especially more so in Razer Blade laptops or Dell XPS systems. Don't get me wrong; Dell's XPS laptops are amazing machines, but you're dealing with a super thin chassis so re-pasting & undervolting as @Firewrath9 noted below is your best bet. I repasted my XPS 15 9560 and saw a 6-12 C reduction in idle temperatures.

 

59 minutes ago, Firewrath9 said:

Undervolt, I dropped 5-10c on my XPS 15. The Razer Blade is thin for a gaming laptop, so thats to be expected.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Intel-Extreme-Tuning-Utility-XTU-Undervolting-Guide.272120.0.html

I got -0.185v on my XPS 15, and better performance. Follow the guide above, not all chips are the same.

 

[spadz93]

33 minutes ago, kirashi said:

I concur with @Slottr - unless you are using a thicker gaming or workstation laptop, expect temps to be much higher, especially more so in Razer Blade laptops or Dell XPS systems. Don't get me wrong; Dell's XPS laptops are amazing machines, but you're dealing with a super thin chassis so re-pasting & undervolting as @Firewrath9 noted below is your best bet. I repasted my XPS 15 9560 and saw a 6-12 C reduction in idle temperatures.

 

 

I repasted again a little after I made this thread and noticed no difference. I'll try undervolting with intel xtu instead, maybe i'll get better results compared to throttlestop (not sure why, but at this point i'll try anything).

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

Which one, out of hundreds Asus made over the years?

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[spadz93]

Update, i undervolted the cpu core to -.140 and limited the boost to 3.0ghz, and I locked the gpu at around 1275mhz at .7v. Going to add a step to the gpu undervolt to let it up to around 1350ish at .8-.9v and see how the voltage behaves. Temps were in the mid 80s the entire time while playing GTA V at very high settings all around, getting i'd say an average of 80fps. Had to sacrifice some performance but I'd rather extend the longevity of the laptop than have the thing burn out at the sake of some performance (not really much performance running full voltage since it used to power throttle the cpu like a bastard anyway, let alone thermal throttle). I'll keep tweaking to see if I can squeeze some more out