Gaming with my INTEL i7 10th GEN 1.80 GHz

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Arkaign

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thank you uncleweb this i good to know! but do you know how to use ThrottleStop? i have discord we can talk there...

Do not try to do this to that poor 5594. It is in no way designed to cool additional heat load. Notice the pic shows well over triple the normal heat production when using TS.


The 5584 and 5594 both have absolutely minimal cooling.
 

Thunder 57

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If possible, return the Laptop and buy another with an AMD iGPU or a model with a dedicated GPU .
But be careful to check that the dedicated GPU is faster than the iGPU, many many many Laptop models have dedicated GPUs that in fact are slower than the iGPU of the same Laptop.

That's really the only option. Even Vega 8 is much better than UHD 620, let alone a dedicated GPU.

 

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This so much. I've been able to intercept a few family members trying to buy machines with Radeon 530's (yes leaving out RX is intentional) that also have a Ryzen U series processor. It's happened with Nvidia as well but since those are paired with Intel UHD it's less likely that the iGPU is faster ;P


People really need to do their homework.

I don't get why they so this. It adds cost, complexity, power consumption, and decreases performance. I guess the marketing of having a "dedicated GPU" overruled all of that?
 
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Arkaign

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holy redacted lol!

Yep. Absolute legend.

Pay attention to his words though. "If you have the chassis for it" Eg; the right HSF and ventilation and airflow to be able to cool what normally runs at 15W or less dissipation will triple or more when manually overridden to max OC.

Perhaps a modest boost is possible, but of course that will be of limited usefulness. And going very far above stock thermals will have all kinds of negative risks.
 
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Inspiron 5594
10th Generation Intel® Core™ i7-10510U Processor (8MB Cache, up to 4.9 GHz)
Intel® UHD Graphics with shared graphics memory
8GB, 8GBx1, DDR4, 2666MHz
512GB M.2 PCIe NVMe Solid State Drive
For $5 a month, you can play anything in the Geforce now catalog for starters - https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce-now/system-reqs/

BTW, even the internet speed can be worked under, as I have seen it reviewed on something terrible like a 1.5MBs/12Mbs connection, and game play was good.

Review of the service. Many more reviews of it on youtube, but this will give you the need to know -


Next, hit up low spec gamer on youtube. The guy tests many of the most demanding modern titles on potato hardware. He will walk you through tweaks, show you which files and settings need to be edited, etc. He will also show you which ones are worth the time, and which are going to be unplayable due to graphical issues and such.

Here is what he was able to do with a potato at LTX last year

 

nessark

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Hey i just bought a Lenovo with that same processor. It has been reaching very high temperatures at random times, the temps spike to over 90 C degrees and even sometimes to 100 when the frequency goes to max 4.9Ghz. I tried to disable turbo so that it doesnt reach those temps, but even with all kinds of settings, it turns on the turbo when there is a great load on the laptop. Check your temps, use a temp monitor to see what your temps are because i think this processor may be made to go very high temps because of this high Ghz performance and may not be a very good processor, or i may have a defective one.
 

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Hey i just bought a Lenovo with that same processor. It has been reaching very high temperatures at random times, the temps spike to over 90 C degrees and even sometimes to 100 when the frequency goes to max 4.9Ghz. I tried to disable turbo so that it doesnt reach those temps, but even with all kinds of settings, it turns on the turbo when there is a great load on the laptop. Check your temps, use a temp monitor to see what your temps are because i think this processor may be made to go very high temps because of this high Ghz performance and may not be a very good processor, or i may have a defective one.
Did you try the advice in post #4?

It can boost up to 4.9 GHz on 1 core. I recommend monitoring your temps if your FPS is stuttering. You can manually lower the max boost until you are happy with the thermals with Intel XTU or Throttlestop. I cap my i7 laptop to just 3.0 GHz when my GPU is at 100% usage just to get better temps.
 

nessark

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Did you try the advice in post #4?

i have not tried that, but it should work normally and not overheat, i shouldnt have to alter anything to the processor for it to work in normal temps not exceeding 80-85 C degrees at the most so suddenly like that.

Below are pictures of Temps and Ghz WITH and WITHOUT intel turbo boost, the turbo boost raises temps even to 100C often just out of nowhere instantly:

CPu temps with Intel Turbo Boost and Best Performance power plan.pngCPU temps without Intel Turbo Boost.png

So what do you think? Bad processor design or defect maybe? Could this be normal?