duskw4lker
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Welcome to the wonderful world of laptops, where you try to squeeze the most of your lappy while giving the finger to the manufacturers that each year plan together to screw us in more innovative ways 😄 😄 😄
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Be careful about TIMs with diamond, they tend to scratch the heatsink and the die, there's plenty info about that around the interwebz. Regarding Kryonaut, I don't have concrete information about its reliability, only comments about suffering of the dreaded 'pump-out' effect on laptops, due to turning way too liquid under the temps that lappys operate (over 80°C), which are not even close to desktops whose users cry at 60°C. The performance of Kryonaut is great afaik, top of the line, but for me TFX Thermalright works great. Have to repaste this machine though, it started to show degradation after 2 years.
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well yeah, liquid metal, be them in liquid form or pad, performs better (I've seen something like -10°C or even -20°C depending on who's showcasing the product) compared to traditional TIMs based on silicone, but I don't know @ryan, I'm the kind of guy that goes for the safe approach, and knowing that liquid metal is conductive is a no-no for me, even taking precautionary measures like foam barriers, electrical tape and whatnot, it still wouldn't let me sleep easy knowing that for any strange or unfortunate circumstance the liquid may spill and fry my laptop. On the other hand I hope that in the future the graphite based pads get better, like the 'Carbonaut' or the 'IC graphite pad', for now they perform... hmm acceptable? but not better than a top of the line silicone TIM. Those graphite pads are conductive, yes, but at least they don't melt and potentially spill, and the best part is that you don't need to change them after 'X' amount of time, supposedly they don't degrade, and that translates into not having to go through the hassle of disassembling your laptop twice a year or once a year.
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In your place, if I had the budget and currently looking for new hardware, I would start asking the veterans around the forum about Clevo, Sager, Eluktronics, XMG, and others, as I understand those brands are focused about custom hardware, custom software and oriented to the tinkerer or demanding user. What I mean is, the big and common brands like HP, Lenovo, Dell, etc, tend to be 'use our hardware/software as we designed it or get lost', if that's what you mean with that the things have changed.
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@ryan Sorry, I don't play chess, I recognize its value but still, it never piqued my interest. Ask around, there's bound to be another fellow chess player in this small corner of the internets 🙂
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well from my experience, in the past HP listed explicitly a G-Sync panel when it's available at the 'customize and buy', also the MUX switch at least on my laptop is non existent, because the intel HD graphics are disabled and locked at the BIOS. But you can always send them an email asking for a particular model.
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Being humble is a virtue that needs more attention. Life tends to slap you in the face when you are inexperienced and think you know all the answers, and as personal experience, I still remember to this day, the day that I sat and smoke a cig with a homeless person, a couple of hours flew by and we parted ways with more than we had before we met. And of course not everything is sunshine and rainbows, as you say, one has to sort through some 'layers' to learn something new.
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Exceptionally intelligent people tend to run out of answers to their questions and questions to their answers, so they turn to the greatest question/answer of all time: does God exist? is this reality the design (pattern) of a superior intelligence? These kind of people as intelligent as they are, they tend to see patterns in this reality and take them to heart looking for their ultimate answer, eg: Tesla and the number 3, Fibonacci sequence, fractals, constellations, etc. As humans, we are wired neurologically (via evolution, natural selection) to recognize patterns for the sake of survival and stability. Maybe there's a method for this madness: A bored God has a drawing board with the designs of everything past, present, future. Or maybe not, this existence is pure random crap that stuck to the wall long enough to create a self aware organic entity that questions everything. In my opinion IQ values over a certain number that determines that a person is 'normal' and can survive and thrive in a society, are not that important, because there's so many people with a high IQ score (including unbeknownst to them), but you don't see ALL of them developing the breakthrough of the millennia in every field of science and or theology every day. Also, there's a massively underrated form of intelligence, which is the emotional intelligence, that in my opinion, sets boundaries for the logical brain so we as humans don't become sociopaths or psychopaths. in short and for me at least: people are free to do whatever they want with their gift of brain functionality, but their outputs, their findings, opinions, etc, are as valid as the next fellow can confirm them, and the next fellow to the last, and so on.
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Yup, that's quite impressive, now let's hope that the build quality is good enough to last for years, I don't mean to be negative, but you know chinesium quality is well known.
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If the laptop is under warranty I would RMA and ask for a refund. If a product is almost brand new it shouldn't be giving that underwhelming performance. My laptop, an older model was performing great out of the box, I remember throwing at it demanding games for several months after I decided to repaste it because Cyberbug 2069 was melting my CPU regardless of the aggressive undervolting applied. Those temps, clocks and load are not good. Still, if you like the laptop you can always repaste (be careful about voiding the warranty) but don't expect a miracle. This is the part where many users in this forum start to rant about the poor design of laptops in recent years, lets see: Thin and light stupid garbage = insufficient cooling (not enough heatsink/fans) = gets really hot Every year more powerful CPUs and GPUs = MOAR POWARRRR = gets really REALLY hot How they address this? = Liquid metal TIM from factory + limiting the power available (each manufacturer sets those values restricting the wattage after they notice that the 'engineers' behind the design failed spectacularly) just my 2 cents.
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Thank you @ryan that was great to watch. There are many sayings about genius and madness/insanity, they seem to go hand in hand, and that makes a really interesting but frightening characteristic of the human mind.
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Maybe you should wait @RyleyI impressions. @seanwee already warned about someone that got it and the performance was worse than without a cooling pad. I've got a feeling that is already too late for this message 🤣
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Review please 😄 😄 😄
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I. must. not. spend. more. money 😵. You make an interesting point, the mesh that is commonly placed at the intake should dissipate some of the pressure, and yes, the air is not being blown directly hmm... 🤔
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Even crazier is nano 3D printing according to the video. Nano scale "One nanometre can be expressed in scientific notation as 1×10⁻⁹ m, and as 1/1000000000 metres" that's smaller than cellular level, for reference organelles (mitochondria for example) in a cell are in order of micrometers - 1×10⁻⁶ metre; that is, one millionth of a metre. The next step would be angstrom and that's molecular level 😮 I mean there's actually humans crafting and shaping matter at that really really really small scale.
