Razer Blade 1060 overview (with temps)

[L0veless]

 

Surprisingly cooler than expected. What do you guys think?

[AlTech]

16 minutes ago, L0veless said:

 

Surprisingly cooler than expected. What do you guys think?

I feel like most Gaming Laptops are so overpriced or don't offer a wide enough range of price points.

 

It'd be nice if OEMs tried to target $1000 laptops with AMD Radeon RX 470 for notebooks with a Core i5-6300HQ

[Pendragon]

2 hours ago, L0veless said:

Surprisingly cooler than expected. What do you guys think?

useless. no clock speeds. it could be running at 900mhz for all we know. He also says it ran cooler than the 970m. So either his testing methodology is fucked, or Razer power throttles the 1060.

[L0veless]

32 minutes ago, Pendragon said:

useless. no clock speeds. it could be running at 900mhz for all we know. He also says it ran cooler than the 970m. So either his testing methodology is fucked, or Razer power throttles the 1060.

 

He did say he didn't notice throttling, doesn't that imply it's running at top 1060 speed?

 

I do think something's wrong there, it doesn't seem physically possible for the 1060 to run cooler than a 970m in the same chassis, but if data proves me wrong I won't dispute it.

[Pendragon]

6 minutes ago, L0veless said:

He did say he didn't notice throttling, doesn't that imply it's running at top 1060 speed?

Look at the graph. And make your own assessment. Then look at supporting evidence provided by other sources. That's what I think. If he does a Unigine Heaven endurance run and shows clock speed graph with temp graph I'll say otherwise of course. 

[more_fps]

Maybe he did a Throttlestop fix and then overclocked the gpu. Because by default razer has it underclocked. The strange thing is it doesn't increase temperatures, max it goes to is 82 c. It could be that razer cherry picked the blade for him. 

[Dark]

Looks exactly like it's throttling.

[bstjules15]

With a few after market fixes, the new blade seems to get the desired 1060 performance without thermal throttling and usually hits mid 80's for temps.  Pretty impressive for the form factor.  But again, a thicker laptop should have more headroom to out perform this, be cooler and quieter.  You're paying for the macbook like build quality and size.

[D2ultima]

He doesn't once show GPU clockspeeds... but his Overwatch gameplay (which he says is at 1080p) shows worse FPS than my 780M SLI got, which indicates that the 1060 wasn't performing as it should. It should be better than my machine's stock SLI setup, which means 120fps in matches or more is par for the course.

 

I don't like half-assed "reviews" like this, they don't tell nearly the whole story and are designed to sell a PC and not review it.

 

Also, there is ZERO way that a 970M is hotter than a 1060. It's physically impossible.