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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by semi-extrinsic on Saturday March 12, 2016 @03:48AM (#11271973)
Anyone know how thermal management is on high-end laptop-version Skylakes? I have a three-year-old Dell Precision 15" with a quad core i7 (Sandy Bridge) at work. If I throw work at all the cores simultaneously, it takes about 60 seconds before it starts throttling the CPU to avoid thermal overload... Which makes it a bit useless IMO. Has this improved recently?
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by JetSetWilly on Saturday March 12, 2016 @04:57AM (#11272187)
I have the 6700HQ in an XPS-15, it never seems to throttle - for example earlier today when I built firefox with -j8 it just pegged all cores and never let up.

I can be a tad noisy in this situation as you would expect, but from what I have seen - and reviews back me up - it doesn't throttle.

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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by MichaelGG on Saturday March 12, 2016 @05:47AM (#11272298)
You mean that in addition to showing all cores fully used, the frequency didn't drop below base?
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by JetSetWilly on Saturday March 12, 2016 @05:57AM (#11272319)
Yes exactly.
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by semi-extrinsic on Saturday March 12, 2016 @02:56PM (#11274247)
Thanks! Exactly what I was wondering.
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by Ruud-v-A on Saturday March 12, 2016 @05:13AM (#11272229)
Same here. Even the fan noise is quite acceptable in comparison with my old HP pavilion. The XPS sounds like a light breeze, whereas the HP sounded like a vacuum cleaner.
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by alexbel on Saturday March 12, 2016 @07:17PM (#11275450)
According to this review http://www.notebookcheck.net/Dell-XPS-15-2016-9550-InfinityE... it has a serious heat problem.
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by semi-extrinsic on Sunday March 13, 2016 @03:59PM (#11279100)
Wow, that is one thorough review. But it looks like it confirms that throttling only occurs on battery power, never on AC power.
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by alexbel on Monday March 14, 2016 @02:17PM (#11284462)
It does throttle on AC power. Look at the "temperature" paragraph
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Re:Dell’s Skylake XPS 13, Precision workstations now come wi... by tavert on Saturday March 12, 2016 @04:19AM (#11272075)
My i7-6700HQ (Lenovo Ideapad Y700) has been behaving much better under high load than the old Sandy Bridge i7-2630QM (Samsung RC512) I had been using. Though it being a "gaming" design with extra vents and heat exchangers may be helping there.
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