Are intels HQ and BGA CPU’s any good?

[Alienware 15 R2]

Hello Everyone!

 

if anyone could help explain to me if Intels HQ series of CPUs bad?

 

my Alienware 15 when playing games thermal AND Power Throttles both the CPU and GPU.

 

anything is Helpful.

[TrigrH]

undervolt the cpu using intel extreme tuning utility

 

raise the back of the laptop or use a cooling pad

 

replace the thermal paste

[Crunchy Dragon]

3 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Alienware 15 when playing games thermal AND Power Throttles both the CPU and GPU.

I'm vastly more inclined to put the blame on the laptop itself, not so much the hardware in it.

 

What are your specs? Have you cleaned out dust and repasted it? Are you running the High Performance power mode in Windows?

[Alienware 15 R2]

Yes I’ve literally repasted the CPU and GPU in the Laptop and I think that me cranking up the fan speeds and undervolting the cpu are just giving me BSOD’s and power failure.

 

i just got this laptop from my dad when he got his Area51m with a core i9 9900k and RTX 2080ti.

[Letgomyleghoe]

11 minutes ago, Alienware 15 R2 said:

Yes I’ve literally repasted the CPU and GPU in the Laptop and I think that me cranking up the fan speeds and undervolting the cpu are just giving me BSOD’s and power failure.

 

i just got this laptop from my dad when he got his Area51m with a core i9 9900k and RTX 2080ti.

The max speck is a 2080 not a 2080 ti

[Alienware 15 R2]

I’m really sorry about that it’s just that Linus said that it is compatible with a rtx 2080ti and my dad has an rtx 2080 so i thought it was a ti model.

 

sorry about the stupid info I posted I’m literally getting my Comptia + course certificate and just got into computers.

[Mister Woof]

It's the nature of laptop components. It's ALWAYS a compromise. You simply cannot supply them with enough power, nor cool them as well as you can a desktop, and laptops with the same specs from different manufacturers/models will perform vastly different than one another based on implementation.

 

Most of them are always teetering on the edge of thermal throttling no matter what you do.

 

As stated, you can try to undervolt, throttlestop, and repaste/liquid metal cooling parts but you're ultimately limited by thermal constraints as well as power limits by the manufacturer that you really can't change.

 

Part of buying into laptops is accepting their limitations they impose due to the portability tax.