With the laptop reassembled and all new thermal paste applied I have run a few games and benchmarks to show performance with default settings and with my own adjusted settings. Default Settings Out of the box nothing has been adjusted, not using anything from the Armoury Crate software so Windows is managing the Power profile…
This is a recent purchase as I wanted to get a laptop that can handle some games and upon looking at the specs and design it looked good especially the mention of liquid metal thermal paste for the CPU. Being a gaming laptop I knew this would probably run hot so did look at some…
Things didn’t work out with the Razer Chroma ARGB controller. It kept cutting out and unless the software was running the light effects would run on a default setting. So I decided to upgrade the motherboard, CPU and water block. I have also taken out all the water cooling components to give them a clean…
It’s been a while since my PC has had any significant upgrades, the i7-6700K CPU is still working well with the water cooling setup but the Arctic case fans have become noisy and now rattle so I have decided it’s time for an upgrade. One thing which has picked up since the original build is…