Re: Solution S-XPS 1645/1647 Throttling Issues
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Originally Posted by gpig
I'm just pointing out the fact that threads like these misguide people into thinking that the well-known throttling issues with the XPS 16 series are solved, and then they buy the laptop only to discover the truth for themselves. Yes, Dell did make the situation a little better, but there is no "solution" since the problem isn't fixed. Seems as though a majority agrees, seeing the thread's 2 star rating. |
Yes it's not fixed and what really gets my goat is that fact that this laptop is marketed as a high end performance laptop that can play games. I'm regularly getting email spam from Dell to tell me that fact....and yet my 1640 is pretty obviously throttling. I have applied the latest bios which seems to help a bit. I also run a Zalman 2000 cooler to help keep this laptop from overheating....yet another design feature. This is my first Dell and it'll probably be my last. It's not a great piece of engineering in my view. My old HP DV9000 is a better engineered laptop and doesn't suffer from any of these performance or heat issue. It also outperforms it when they are both hot...I'm surprised that Dell can even market this laptop as a performance laptop, what's the point in a high end processor and graphics card when the damb laptop throttles the hell out of it once it even gets remotely warm?
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Dell XPS 17 (L702X), Intel Core i7-2630QM 2.0GHz, 12gb DDR3 Ram, LED 1080p 3D, Vertex 3 240gb SSD, 640GB 7.2k HDD, NVIDIA GeForce GT 555M 3GB, Backlit Keyboard, 9-cell and 6-cell Lithium Ion Batteries, DVB-T card, Intel Centrino Adv-N 6230, Bluetooth, BluRay Combo Drive....it's a very nice machine, except it's a bit bulky, it gets a bit hot and the battery life utterly sucks!
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