My goal is get every ounce of performance out of this chip, I don't care about noise or temps.
I thought my issues were thermals - so far I have:
I'm unable to undervolt - as I understand it this is due to the EC lock on the Dell BIOS - I've tried turning this off with no success (apparently I'm not the only one).
So from my reading my only options are to adjust the power limits - PL2 is respected for a while but then PL1 kicks in about 15 secs after full load - so my Turbo Time Limit of 28 secs also seems to be ignored. Once PL1 is hit power drops down lower than the even the package TDP that intel lists - 28W for the i7-1185G7.
In the screenshot you can see running Cinebench Multi Threaded test I am hitting this power limit which is dropping my CPU utilisation down to 81% & throttling to 2.4 GHz with power down to 16 W - all at a mild 56 C!!!! Why is this happening when the temps are so low?
My Cinebench R23 score is 3685 - lower than the 4501 Tweak Town got with the same machine. Do I have a dud?
Setting & TPL attached - Disable and Lock Turbo Power Limits is enabled.
I should also mention I have the Dell Power Management set to 'Ultimate Performance', Windows Power settings to High Performance & I have uninstalled Intel's Thermal Management/Dynamic Tuning thingy.
Please help me @unclewebb
Thanks,
N
I thought my issues were thermals - so far I have:
- Repasted with liquid metal
- Removed the reflective tape from the inside of the case
- Put thermal pads on the heat pipes to transfer heat to the metal case
- Bought a fan stand for my laptop
I'm unable to undervolt - as I understand it this is due to the EC lock on the Dell BIOS - I've tried turning this off with no success (apparently I'm not the only one).
So from my reading my only options are to adjust the power limits - PL2 is respected for a while but then PL1 kicks in about 15 secs after full load - so my Turbo Time Limit of 28 secs also seems to be ignored. Once PL1 is hit power drops down lower than the even the package TDP that intel lists - 28W for the i7-1185G7.
In the screenshot you can see running Cinebench Multi Threaded test I am hitting this power limit which is dropping my CPU utilisation down to 81% & throttling to 2.4 GHz with power down to 16 W - all at a mild 56 C!!!! Why is this happening when the temps are so low?
My Cinebench R23 score is 3685 - lower than the 4501 Tweak Town got with the same machine. Do I have a dud?
Setting & TPL attached - Disable and Lock Turbo Power Limits is enabled.
I should also mention I have the Dell Power Management set to 'Ultimate Performance', Windows Power settings to High Performance & I have uninstalled Intel's Thermal Management/Dynamic Tuning thingy.
Please help me @unclewebb
Thanks,
N
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