Laptops with high end Intel CPUs will run hot by design due to all the boost technology Intel has crammed into the chip so if you are not sure how well your laptop cooling is performing this might help. Testing baseline cooling performance In a very short summary, the default design of the Intel mobile…
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…