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Having some major noise issues now. Contacted Dell and awaiting a response, just appeared late yesterday evening. Seems to be a dull, consistent noise coming from the bottom of the laptop. Grrr.
I didn't bother with the thermal pads when repasting. My CPU and GPU temps dropped and I have not noticed any throttling whatsoever. I even took the laptop on holiday for some GTA fun whilst away and I left it on for hours with no issues. To this day I am yet to experience CPU or GPU throttling (whilst plugged in, there is always some performance loss when on battery) I would ultimately say its up to you but IMO probs not worth it.Evening all,
Just looking for some advice, in particular FAO @skaif
I've not long took delivery of my brand new XPS 15 9560, so far absolutely over the moon with it and no problems to report so far (touchwood). Originally a couple of weeks ago I did go down the route of purchasing a Manufacturer Refurbished version which cosmetically was as new but sadly sent it back a few days ago due to a reoccurring BSOD error which eventually was hardware linked.
Anyway to the matter in hand - I will be carrying out a repaste job on this brand new one shortly with some Thermal Grizzly Kyronaut but I was wandering if if it's really worth applying new & more durable thermal pads on the CPU / GPU VRM chips, as well as the factory supplied pads underneath the heatsink chips too? Some people have reported success with being able to lower overall temps even more but others report that there isn't really a great beneficial gain to it - and at the end of the day the only thing intensive I will be doing is a couple of hours of BF1 for a few hours a week. This is partly the reason I ask as it's been known for the 9560, as well as the older 9550 to throttle on some demanding games due to the VRM chips heating up & throttling the CPU in the process.
Many thanks - Liam.
I didn't bother with the thermal pads when repasting. My CPU and GPU temps dropped and I have not noticed any throttling whatsoever. I even took the laptop on holiday for some GTA fun whilst away and I left it on for hours with no issues. To this day I am yet to experience CPU or GPU throttling (whilst plugged in, there is always some performance loss when on battery) I would ultimately say its up to you but IMO probs not worth it.
The only thing slightly annoying about longer gaming sessions on the laptop is the fan noise which can be quite loud. Other than that it should be good to go with a repaste (and undervolt )
Thanks mate - that's good to know
In your opinion, where would be a good starting point with undervolting? Also do you undervolt both the CPU & GPU via Intel XTU or use another program?
Many thanks - Liam.
No worries.
I started at -.130 as thats what the general consensus was when I had a read through some forums/videos etc. Mine can handle -140 quite happily and at one point I pushed it to -.180 when I was stress testing but since then it sits at around -.150 (couldnt get it stable at anything more!).
I use XTU - bit annoying on first startup as it pops up and I manually disable the monitoring etc but once done its fine. I've not touched GPU undervolting on the intel side. I did try overclocking the 1050 with afterburner but decided against running an overclock as its fine standard for me.
Sounds good, I noticed a drop in my idle temps down to the same as yours as mine was idling around high 50's before hand.
I have an iFix it kit and the screws came out just fine with that, I was more worried about taking the back panel off as it required a bit of force on the ol fingernails (ended up using the pry tool instead)
I am still having issues with the WiFi and Dell are sending me the intel card (should be delivered today) and still having issues with the spiking of cpu/gpu when on battery. I am really hoping that it has something to do with the Killer card but not sure. kind of annoying as it eats into battery life. I don't think its software related either as I have re-installed windows on the new mobo and it seems to be the same...Have a look at the screenies below to see what I mean - random spikes affecting both cpu and gpu every second.
This all disappears when plugged in on power.
Might just do a fresh install again though depending on how it goes.
Yeah I am running a fresh install of win 10 pro after completely wiping it when I first got it.
Come to think of it, I do not think I reinstalled windows last time the engineer swapped out the mobo, (starting to doubt my own memory here) I think it may just be something I will end up doing.
Peak temps do not go above around 88c on the cpu and around 80 on the gpu with an ambient temp of around 24c thats with everything maxed out. I personally don't gpu bench on the laptop as I am not overclocking it so use games as my bench. It has handled everything I have thrown at it so far!
Out of interest, if you have afterburner installed, are you getting any random spikes?
Ok so update on my XPS issues
Its sorted!
Don't ask me how, I don't know for sure but heres a breakdown of what I did.
I reinstalled windows this morning, did not install anything other than intel drivers and nvidia drivers along with gpuz to monitor the gpu spikes.
For some reason on a fresh install it was exactly the bloody same!!
So I thought screw this, went back, fresh install but this time wipe all my partitions and completely start again. (had previously just wiped the 128gb windows partition I made)
This time I only installed the nvidia and intel graphics through the device manager have disk option and for some reason everything is fine. I did install the nvidia drivers first and the intel drivers second. Not sure if this has anything to do with it.
I have now installed all my usual apps, undervolted and running the usual monitoring it looks like a different machine. There are no spikes, the 1050 is completely dormant until a gpu intensive app kicks in (up till now only games)
So all in I finally feel like I have cured the spiking issue and the laptop is running as I want!
So I've had my 15" Dell XPS (i7-7700HQ, 1920 x 1080 /Infinity Edge - Model 9560) since mid March now. Got it with the 3 year antivirus support and 2 year premium support for about £1,500 thanks to work discount and promotions. Its a top spec machine with 512 SSD storage and 16gb ram, im very happy with whats inside!
It worked flawlessly out the box...until I tired to go onto google chrome and it stuttered every 10 seconds or so. Really frustrating trying to browse especially as it did not do it with MS or firefox; but im a chrome person and wanted it fixed. Anyway, several hours looking online and remembering how MS Windows worked (I came from a Mac), I pin pointed it to the chipset driver. Dell auto software kept finding a old chipset driver from 2013 or so. I manually forced it to find a driver from January 2017 and the issue fixed it. Works like a dream now.
Im annoyed with the auto Dell driver software for not picking it up by itself...and for Dell shipping with loads of old drivers in the first place.