hi all, been a while since i'm online. just curious, for anyone that is using i7-4720HQ, especially the Illegear S5, what are you idle temp, and max load temp under prime 95? Just applied liquid metal thermal paste, but seems like the thermal especially idle isn't as good as i expected, hovering around high 50~low60, and prime 95 benchmark gives me ~92C on default setting, but the odd thing is, the fan on CPU is not even spinning at max speed :S
Anyone facing similar stuff? Trying to get good thermal but seems like even applying liquid metal didn't perform as good as expected

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Apr 22 2018, 12:21 AM

yes, i guess should be turbo boost enabled, i set max processor state to 99% already, but clockspeed still go more than the default 2.6Ghz for dunno what reason. I used intel XTU to monitor the clock speed and notice that it is going up to 3.1Ghz and hit current limit throttle with 4 cores active. Non turbo boost would probably stayed at 2.6Ghz i guess? And yeah, liquid metal application. Coollaboratory liquid pro is used in my case after some researching

anyway the main reason is the fan setting i believe, and maybe a bug in the hotkey software. I notice the fan is turning around perhaps just 50% speed. i manually press Fn+1 to boost it to max fan speed, the temperature dropped to ~85C or so. After that when i turn off max fan speed, it seems like it was not even detecting the temperature correctly anymore and only spin at 20% fan speed. temperature spiked like crazy, fortunately i am able to stop the torture test at around 98C, so there should be no permanent dmg. After that I installed command centre from clevo again and set custom fan setting, and seems like the fan will go ~80% speed when temperature is nearing 90C, but still not full speed and thus the temperature after 10 minutes of torture test is 93C peak, despite already undervolted by -0.04v on core voltage and cache voltage.

edit: I believe temperature did improve quite a lot during gaming. Prime 95 was the tool that i used for the above test and that was an extreme case example anyways. FF XIII was running at h~70C previously, and now it's maintaining at 61~62C mostly. Just kinda odd about the fan control during extreme temperature. I'll test on some other games that previously could hit >90C and see if it's the same temp again.

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Apr 23 2018, 12:29 AM

what are the discount that you're getting during the sales? normally I'd recommend people to get it on their own website cos there's a rushed service option that u can get your laptop faster

what processor are you using? I suspect that's Intel Turbo Boost kicking in. Sometimes your normal stuff, like webpage will take up some heavy resource due to ads and other 'feature' on the site, and intel turbo boost will boost your CPU to higher clockspeed to gain more performance, but at the cost of higher heat and higher power consumption. When you see your CPU temp going high, check your task manager and see if there are any processes taking up core utilization

Like I mentioned earlier surfing net does sometimes have heavy cpu load. Some sites have cpu intensive ads or elements that would consume cpu constantly and cause high cpu temp. Tech inferno forum for instance constantly eat up 1 cpu max load for me. Check if browser u are using and see if the cpu utilisation is 13% or 25% on task manager or not, if yes u need to check which exact site is taking up the cpu load

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Apr 23 2018, 02:55 PM

sorry to disappoint u but prema mod site is now down, the new one doesnt have modded bios. I am also looking for my S5 one to unlock overclock settings. From my research it seems like someone taking his stuff for granted, he got fed up and took down everything


btw PrinceJ is there any bios update for illegear S5? bought right before GST happens. I recall a friend of mine has a 17" illegear, same batch as mine, and his bios cannot recognize Samsung 960Evo. Do PM me if there is a new Bios that I can update for better SSD support.

This post has been edited by BBXiong: Apr 30 2018, 01:59 PM

Hi all, using Illegear S5, the i7-4720hq model with GTX 970M. Was thinking to get a m.2 Sata Sandisk X600 SSD to replace my original 120GB one since i'm running out of space. Just curious if anyone ran into problem with m.2 Sata based SSD. I know there are some bios support problem with m.2 NVME SSD, just curious if SATA based would run into the same problem.

thanks for the advice, I would probably grab some thermal pads and apply it. I dont recall having much headroom for a SSD heatsink, unless u meant those flat ones.

As for ram, Intel typically isn't that reliant on ram speed as AMD( especially Ryzen ), so given that you already are using 2133Mhz rams, upgrading to 2400Mhz would most likely not bring you any improvement, at least nothing you would notice from day to day usage. The second thing is that since we are using mobile CPU, the fsb speed from CPU will not be bottlenecked by the ram frequency, so in short there's really very little reason to upgrade it, unless your reason to upgrade is to also improve the ram capacity along with having slightly higher frequency

thanks for the reply. so if I understand you correctly, m.2 SATA should have no problem being used as boot drive and bios should have no problem detecting it, even if it's the latest model, correct?