Recoil V 17" Chassiz?

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DarkPaladin

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Hey everyone!

My brother is interested in buying a high-end PCSpecialist laptop since my experience with the Octane series has been great since purchasing it back in 2019. He immediately set his sights on the Recoil V due to the non-Max Q GPU's, G-Sync, , high refresh rates, thicker chassiz (usually results in better cooling).

I posted here to ask if anyone knew what the official brand/chassiz of the Recoil V is so I can send him a few links from the manufacturer into the thermal capabilities etc. I know PCSpecialist tend to use Clevo + Tongfang but I'm not too familiar about their laptop chassiz numbers.

Thanks in advance.

https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/recoil-V-17/
 
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Chimp

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Hi mate, I've just had delivery of one of these with an i7-11700k and a 3080. The cooling in it is pretty hefty (plenty of youtube videos if you search the chassis you found!).

The GPU runs extremely cool, usually around 50 under load, so I'm sure there's plenty more performance that can come from it. The CPU however runs quite hot (ceiling's of 90 under load at new stock config, which seems is normal for these new 11 series intel cards!) however the performance is quite good - trade off is high fan noise though.

I have tried tuning using the Clevo command centre, however tuning for the CPU is disabled, and so far I've been unable to unlock it to undervolt it and try and improve, and I'm waiting to hear back from PCS about a solution. The nvidia card has been easy to start to modify though.
 
SpyderTracks

SpyderTracks

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Chimp said:
Hi mate, I've just had delivery of one of these with an i7-11700k and a 3080. The cooling in it is pretty hefty (plenty of youtube videos if you search the chassis you found!).

The GPU runs extremely cool, usually around 50 under load, so I'm sure there's plenty more performance that can come from it. The CPU however runs quite hot (ceiling's of 90 under load at new stock config, which seems is normal for these new 11 series intel cards!) however the performance is quite good - trade off is high fan noise though.

I have tried tuning using the Clevo command centre, however tuning for the CPU is disabled, and so far I've been unable to unlock it to undervolt it and try and improve, and I'm waiting to hear back from PCS about a solution. The nvidia card has been easy to start to modify though.
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You'd need to use Throttlestop to undervolt.
 
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Chimp

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SpyderTracks said:
You'd need to use Throttlestop to undervolt.
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It's also locked in Throttlestop, and in Intel XTU. The standard Clevo Command Centre should at least have access for overclocking, but it doesn't provide any access for the CPU at all. Having a browse online it seems it's a Clevo BIOS package potentially?
 
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SpyderTracks

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Chimp said:
It's also locked in Throttlestop, and in Intel XTU. The standard Clevo Command Centre should at least have access for overclocking, but it doesn't provide any access for the CPU at all. Having a browse online it seems it's a Clevo BIOS package potentially?
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Are you using the latest one from Clevo, not your PCS downloads?
 
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Chimp

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SpyderTracks said:
Are you using the latest one from Clevo, not your PCS downloads
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I'm using the standard PCS BIOS - everything I'd read is don't touch the BIOS as it can mess with the warranty. Also, on the Clevo site, there is no obvious BIOS download for the X170KM-G, there's only one for the X170KS-G.
 
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Chimp

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I can't exactly recall, but once in the BIOS go through the sub menus until you find CPU editing or similar, and there's a tick box within that menu to "allow overclocking". It's not clear on the front page, but checking through the menus you should then find the tick box. Once that is ticked, you can actually do all the over/under clocking and change the voltage settings within the CLEVO Control Centre which is quite helpful to have it all in one place, alongside GPU overclocking too. It provides all the same options in a far less daunting package than Throttlestop, for example, which can look quite chaotic for a newcomer. The other programmes work also, and the edits will just show in the Control Centre on a reboot.

I've undervolted the CPU by 0.1 mv and it's now running far cooler, rather than near 90 deg on stress tests, it doesn't go over 80 deg, and there's not any noticeable drop in performance so I'd highly recommend that to anyone considering the laptop. Was very easy to do once I ticked the option in BIOS to allow it.
 
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