Yup, getting to know more about this little beast as I have more time to spend with it today.

I also chatted with illegear tech support and learnt on few more things.

1) The turbo boost power max is 70w (PL1) and 90W (PL2), and it was tuned by manufacturer.
2) Not recommended to use 3rd party software to undervolt (e.g. Intel XTU), use bios setting instead.
3) The fan button apparently is to switch between game and office mode, game mode will set the 70w/90w tdp limit, office mode will set to 35w/35w tdp limit, disable turbo clock.
4) Office mode also seems to force intel built in GPU even in gaming.
Overall a quick review for me:
1) Size - it is huge ! However, I believe it is one of the smallest in terms of footprint for a 17 inch gaming laptop in the market.
2) Cooling - Very good cooling performance indeed, with some undervolt (I able to get it stable at -155mW it seems, maybe still can go lower), sustainable 3.9Ghz full load, about 85C average. Still need to test more on the GPU thermal performance.
3) Screen - It's gorgeous ! Love the slim bezel.
4) Speaker - Volume is better than I have anticipated
5) Mechanical keyboard is a tad bit noisy, still need to get used to it.

Overall quite satisfied with my selenite. 

Next up:
1) Find out if possible to lower down the turbo multiplier to reduce fan noise.
2) Try GPU undervolt
3)  Laptop cooler in on the way, will see if it helps to further reduce the temp.

I found that if sound blaster work it sound a lot better before that my sound blaster show offline in game the volume super low.

I have the same issue with crackling sound it came out randomly, if you turn down the sub woofer it will be fine, i guess something to do with sub woofer.

Here you go but not recommended


volt mentioned less than 90% volume work but I havent test that.

Wondering how you disable the power management for audio? Don't seem to have this one in the power plan.

Was googling this issue and found the following. It seems like it is not selenite problem, but some other users have experienced same thing.

https://www.drivereasy.com/knowledge/audio-...ows-107-solved/

The original news shared 3 solutions: 1) minimum processor state to 100% (not desirable for heat and battery life) 2) Disable ATI HDMI (not applicable to us) 3) DPC latency (interesting one)

However, what caught my eye is one of the user in the comment section actually solved his popping issue with "fast boot disable".
SOLUTION: Disable Fast Boot
STEPS: Control Panel - Power Options - (Left) Choose What The Power Buttons Do - Change Settings That Are Currently Unavailable - Now Uncheck or Deselect 'Turn On Fast Startup' - Click Save Changes and then fully Shut Down Computer (not restart) - Power Computer Back On - PROBLEM SOLVED.

Will try it after work and report here.

Yea that's roughly the same battery time I'm getting right now. Maybe just a little longer than 1.5 hours. Doing a Windows battery report shows that my current full charge capacity is only 28,500 mWh when the design capacity is at 46,740 mWh. Quite a steep drop for a 5 month old laptop.

have u fix ur soundblaster problem？

just a quick survey here, who is having crackling sound issue right now?

Sent. How about the BIOS undervolt? is there a reason mine is only maxed out at -50mV? can i go lower?