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‎03-10-2019 03:43 PM

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Product: Spectre x360
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I have a refurbished Spectre x360 i7-8705G w/ Vega M GL coming. Plan is to put in 32GB RAM, 2TB NVMe SSD, repaste the CPU and GPU, close it backup and then undervolt the CPU and GPU. Undervolt the CPU in the BIOS as opposed to XTU or Throttlestop. Just the way I have always done it as opposed to OS side software that doesn't load properly from time to time, requires yet another application to run on startup and in the background. Just find it better to do it from the BIOS. Sometimes requires unlocking the BIOS which is pretty easy to do using AfuWin64 and AMIBCP. GPU undervolt with MSI Afterburner.

 

Anyway, reading now that this model has some pretty notorious issues with throttling.

 

Have these been resolved by HP?

If not, what is the current work around (I guess willing to use something like XTU or Throttlestop if needed)?

Does anyone have any experience with unlocking the BIOS on these machines either for undervolting or working on this throttling issue?

If so, what menus need to be unlocked (saves me the time of having to fish around)?

 

Would loved to have gotten the "Gem Cut" model, but HP absolutely blew it by soldering the RAM and capping it at 16GB. Went from an instant buy, to a hard pass. What a shame.

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