Undervolting Razer Blade 2016

Has anyone tried this yet?

I'm looking to purchase one of these, but the only thing holding me back is the fan noise. I tend to play on the couch (with a cooler) next to my S.O. while she watches TV.
The Razer Blade looks like the perfect machine on paper, but the last thing I want is a machine that's going to make a nuisance of itself.

From other skylake laptops, it seems an undervolt (and limiting CPU to 99%) can reduce temps quite significantly. On the RB2016, this would surely drop the fan noise down a few levels?

Surprised no-one seems to have tried it yet.

 

People undervolt their Razer Blade laptops all the time. I've personally done it on my 2015 model (uses Haswell i7-4xxx generation CPUs), and made a post on it.

Use Intel Extreme Tuning Utility to do it. Most people get around -60mV to -80mV range of undervolting, and get temperature drops around 3C-5C under load.

People have also tried re-pasting the heatsink with some high-quality thermal paste. But this is a giant pain-in-the-rear to do; and doesn't yield any noticeable benefits. This is either due to the unusual design of the Razer cooling system (where the heat pipes don't have a flat surface to make contact with the CPU and GPU); or due to Razer using some decent thermal paste from the factory; or both.

In any case, you're not going to get a Razer Blade to NOT spin it's fan during heavy gaming. If this is a problem, I'd recommend either getting a different laptop that has a much beefier cooling system (like an Asus ROG laptop, which is much larger and has room for a much higher performance cooling system); or using something like Steam in-house streaming to connect to any laptop, so that the major processing load is put on a desktop computer located in another room.

The Razer Blade is really designed for portable gaming, and/or materials design. It isn't really well suited for quiet laptop gaming.


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I get that.. I just have bad memories from my old Clevo P157SM (780m).

Great machine - but ridiculously loud. Sold it and bought an MSi GT72 (980m) which was really quiet - but too big.

Currently using a Dell 7559 (960m) to tide me over... But really keen to pick up another premium laptop.

I don't mind the fans making sound... It's just that jet engine sound that some laptops make. Really want to avoid that and was just wondering whether an undervolt might prevent the RB2016 from hitting that final epic fan profile.

 

If I were you, I'd wait and not buy a Razer Blade 2016.

I totally get that you have the "itch" to buy more and better gear. But honestly, a Razer Blade will run you $2000+, and get you insignificant increases in performance.

The GTX 970m in the Razer Blade performs about 30% faster than a 780m, and about 80% faster than a 960m. Those numbers look good on paper. But both the 780m and 960m are perfectly capable performers for 1080p gaming.

My advice is to wait until the nVidia Pascal GPUs (10*0) start hitting laptops. On the desktop sidr, they offer a significant performance boost over the 900-series GPUs, without consuming more power. When laptop GPU parts start coming out, you're likely to either see laptops with significant jumps in GPU performance, or laptops with significant lower power draw for their GPUs. That is when I would buy a new laptop.

You always COULD buy a Razer Blade. But they drop in value very quickly. If you really have the itch, you might want to consider getting a used 2015 model Razer Blade on eBay to tide you over, if you don't mind spending the money.

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I'm currently undervolting my Razer Blade 2016, it's doing a stress test at -75mV right now. Temps at ~60 were peaking at 92C, when I last checked the peak was 86. I'll report back on the final undervolt I achieve and temps

 

Yeah agreed for sure. I'm going to sit with my 870M for one more year. 135 hrs into Witcher 3 and I'm not wishing it performed better, so, I wait for 2017.

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I rock my gaming on my 2016 Blade 14 at 1600x900 and the fans barely kick on and it stays nice and cool. On that small of a screen, you can't really see that you are running at a 4:1 pixel reduction. Some games have UI sizing issues, but for all the ones I play there are mods for scaling the UI to any res...