I could of course be mistaken, but to me "throttling" means limiting CPU power to avoid spiking the temperature. Which is not really the case here since I get the spikes even with arond 20% CPU load in Office mode. I get no sign of throttling in CPU speed or voltage.
Moreover, a bad or...
Hey Spyder
I cleaned the sinks and fans, but did not repaste it.
It was not really clear (will need to ask more more details) but I think that they replaced the whole motherboard during the first RMA (at least, the motherboard was in the list of components they sent me they need to order...
Dear PCS Community,
I am the mildly happy owner of a Recoil 15' laptop (bought in June '21). I have no complaints about performance, but I am beginning to question the overall quality and stability of the system.
Around 2 months ago I opened an RMA because the CPU fan was always stuck at 100%...
So, in office mode, full battery saving and very light web browsing for about half the time, it took 4 hours and 20 minutes to go from 100% to 5% auto-hibernate.
I guess the battery is fine and that was just an issue of poorly reported charge by the windows level indicator. :)
Many thanks once...
Hello there!
I am the happy owner of a quite new Recoil laptop (relevant specs at the bottom. Sorry if it's in German but should be mostly self-explanatory).
Happy... with the exception of battery life, which I find sometimes a little poor.
Example: I start up the laptop and when startup...
