Computer and Laptop Tech Thread

**StockEngine** · October 11th, 2020 07:09 PM

I forgot, baka naka power saving mode? Im on Max battery life mode coz im on the road all the time. It does lag on several office apps lol.

**jut703** · October 11th, 2020 07:18 PM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

I forgot, baka naka power saving mode? Im on Max battery life mode coz im on the road all the time. It does lag on several office apps lol.

Nope. Naka-balanced mode ako. Nagraramp up naman to 3.6 GHz pag full load but the i7-8550U is known to throttle early (down to 1.8 GHz).

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**Wh1stl3r** · October 12th, 2020 01:12 PM

Found a kindred spirit.

5 reasons I still use a big, heavy desktop that sits in one room while everyone else is going mobile | Business Insider

**jut703** · October 12th, 2020 01:42 PM

Originally Posted by Wh1stl3r

Found a kindred spirit.

5 reasons I still use a big, heavy desktop that sits in one room while everyone else is going mobile | Business Insider

In the gaming world, it's almost exclusively desktop. Very few laptop gamers.

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**StockEngine** · October 12th, 2020 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by jut703

Nope. Naka-balanced mode ako. Nagraramp up naman to 3.6 GHz pag full load but the i7-8550U is known to throttle early (down to 1.8 GHz).

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Which browser are you using? Clear some cache perhaps. Try another browser? Internet protection? Play with some settings.

**Wh1stl3r** · October 12th, 2020 01:55 PM

Originally Posted by jut703

In the gaming world, it's almost exclusively desktop. Very few laptop gamers.

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Maybe because of the price difference bro. They also tend to last longer (maybe due to better cooling?) and provide better performance at a lower price.

**jut703** · October 12th, 2020 09:37 PM

Originally Posted by Wh1stl3r

Maybe because of the price difference bro. They also tend to last longer (maybe due to better cooling?) and provide better performance at a lower price.

Definitely the price/performance ratio bro. Plus the upgradeability. Most gamers also prefer a bigger screen so that's another plus vs a smaller gaming laptop screen.

Was a PC gamer back in the day, but it's an expensive hobby. There's still a pretty big desktop PC following til today though, so desktops will be here to stay.

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**jut703** · October 12th, 2020 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by ray_noel

Have you check in task manager for GPU consumption?

Might be bottlenecking issue when you do video on and screen shared....

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I've checked, I only use up about 20-30% GPU when sharing screen:

Interestingly, Teams is quite the RAM hog - using even more RAM than Photoshop. [emoji28]

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**jut703** · October 12th, 2020 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by StockEngine

Which browser are you using? Clear some cache perhaps. Try another browser? Internet protection? Play with some settings.

Not a software issue. Have already checked everything you mentioned.

I seem to have found the issue though - I'm constantly hitting the 100 deg C limit of my processor at max load so it throttles down and thus hampers performance:

Solution: Undervolting via Throttlestop. 90mV undervolt on the processor and 30mV on the GPU. My temps dropped by an average of 10 degrees even at full load:

Laptop now keeps at higher Turbo Boost for longer, even maintaining peak clock speed of 4 GHz.

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