Recent content by NoNastyNick

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    PCSPECIALIST Nova 3700X - Benchmarking & Manual OC\UV

    Managed to get a pretty decent and undervolt - All cores @ 4.2Ghz with 1.25V netted me: 81PPT Max usage - 83c Cinebench R20 scores (5024) Decided to go against using it and just letting Ryzen handle the voltages. What people forget is that using set clocks affects the single-core boost clock...
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    PCSPECIALIST Nova 15.6 3700X

    Not too sure personally, I'll reach out and ask PCS and if they're not able to provide one I'll reach out to another manufacturer.
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    PCSPECIALIST Nova 15.6 3700X

    I've toyed with using a laptop cooling pad (which also raises the laptop,) and I can honestly say there's not that much of a difference with regards to temperatures - although I still use the pad for ergonomics. That said - I removed the laptop bottom panel and used the cooling pad and Jesus...
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    PCSPECIALIST Compacting C Drive

    If you're not too bothered about system restore points, you can delete them too. Open CMD as admin and type the following: VSSADMIN list shadows This will show you all the shadow copies / restore points for the drive. To delete all, you'd type vssadmin delete shadows /for=c To delete just...
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    PCSPECIALIST Nova 15.6 Overheating CPU

    ahh okay - I've not really used ZenStates if i'm honest although I probably should (I hear great reviews.)
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    PCSPECIALIST Nova 15.6 Overheating CPU

    Hi mate, I hope you're well. Copper discolours over time - nothing to be concerned about. With regards to your Idle temperatures, the Ryzen's do idle far hotter than others. I wouldn't be overly concerned in all fairness. What you can do, is use the "slider" under balanced power-plan setting...
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    PCSPECIALIST Nova Series: 15.6" Matte Full HD 144Hz 72% NTSC LED Widescreen (1920x1080)

    Hi mate, You don't buy these type of laptops for battery life. You're looking at 1-1.5 hours potentially (I get about 30-45 mins, lol.)
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    I've finally figured it out - It appears that my router's "static arp entry" is not really static, and is actually not ARP but a DHCP reservation (despite the naming of this.) As a result, the ARP table is refreshing when the laptop is powered off for longer than 5 minutes. I've got a...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Fast startup is indeed off - Never felt the need for it with SSD's. I've turned hibernation off - Never really felt a need for this either. When the missus gets home I'll ask her to power on so I can remote on and tinker around; so I should have further information. I believe it's in relation...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Hey Spyder, Hope you're well mate, I do have CCC installed, however I have the main service set to disabled (so as to not interfere with the power to the CPU etc.) I'll have my partner home from work in a couple of hours so I'll ask her to resume the laptop from standby, that way I can at least...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Oh it's most definitely easier that way - However what type of engineer would I be if I didn't spend hours trying to get this working? Haha. I just don't like things being left "on" if they're not made for it. I'm sure I'll figure it out tonight
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Mainly, just because, haha - I've got a fair amount of downtime at work at the moment due to COVID unfortunately, so a lot of the network migration projects are currently on hiatus whilst we sort service provider engineers out. Due to this, i'm sat twiddling my thumbs for about 75% of my work...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Sorry, WoL = Wake on Lan (ethernet), WoWLan = Wake on wireless Lan (which has never been made a standard.) I agree that there's something powering off the device; I can attest that all options within windows are set to not "allow device to turn off power," and all advanced driver configurations...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Hey man, Hope you're well. All options have been configured windows side and firewall side - it works for about 5 minutes when laptop's sleeping, but then it doesn't work at all. Using wireshark I can see the packets reaching my laptop both internally and externally - I'm using UDP 9 internally...
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    PCSPECIALIST Wake on Lan - Nova 15

    Hey guys, Hope you're all well. I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with Wake on Lan on the Nova 15 (or other reseller devices?) I seem to have intermittent success - I've added a static route in my DHCP for the laptop and subsequently set a static IP within Windows. I've tested...
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