This is a chip found in many laptops that have an Intel CPU which links the CPU to other devices on the motherboards. It is referred to has a platform controller hub and as its always in use can generate a lot of heat but often gets neglected by laptop manufacturers with no active cooling….
Just out of interest I wanted to see if a cooling pad would have any significant improvement to the ASUS ROG STRIX G16 (2024) gaming laptop. I went for this one as it visually looked OK and for the price it featured an aluminum base plate and some RGB lights 🙂 Build quality is good,…
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…