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What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Are you on Windows or Linux? On windows 11 go to settings > power and battery > power mode and if you set it to high performance it almost doubles the TDP of the CPU. On windows 10 click the battery and drag the slider to high performance. If what I read online is correct the T14 and the T15 are the exact same heatsink and motherboard so unless the 1" gap from the end of the heatsink to the vent is that much of a problem they should perform exactly the same, just like the later T14 and T16 models. But 4 years is more than enough time for the thermal paste to be toast. My P1 ruined it's paste in less than 6 months, but that's also an i9.

    But that's the world of modern Intel CPUs. Turbo boost as far as you possibly can until you can't turbo anymore. Then in 6 months when the thermal paste is ruined you're searching for a new machine.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Change your thermal paste. These machines (as do all modern machines) run hot, and their paste doesn’t last long if you’re a heavy user. Find a thermal paste that’s thick in particular.

    The pump out effect is really drastic on these modern CPUs if you’re constantly hitting 100% load.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • The only thing I'm really curious about is how far back the CPU gets throttled with the dGPU active and busy.

    On both of my machines when I render a video using my GPU the CPU is still the limiting factor because of the codec I chose. On my 11th gen machine it took like 5 minutes before it was power throttled down to 25 watts. My gen 6 takes longer to power throttle and only goes down to 35 watts, but either power level that sucks. I already know the gen 7 dials back the clock speeds, but I'm mostly curious how far it goes and how quickly?

    The easiest way to test this is just open a video game that's taxing on the CPU and GPU, I don't think the CPU throttles with light loads like if you opened furmark. Maybe benchmarking software would cause it to throttle.

  • Tesla is recalling 2,431 Cybertrucks, and this time there’s no software fix
  • Anything other than Ford and Tesla? Somewhere between 1 and 0 per year. With the entire lifetime of the car typically being less than 5

    Ford hands out recalls like candy which I'm actually OK with because it means they want to fix their stuff. Mopar also has a lot, but that's because their cars are shit.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Let me know how the thermals are on that machine. I ended up paying out the ass for a refurbished gen 6 because it comes with the 4090 and a MUCH bigger heatsink. From what I saw initially in the reviews the performance is worse not just because the 100 series has worse IPC, but the machine doesn't actually boost as much since it's more thermally limited.

    HOWEVER the machine gets a LOT better battery.

    My gen 4 would get anywhere between 30 minutes and 2 hours of battery life unless I'm doing literally nothing on it. This gen 6 gets like 4 hours unless I'm heavily taxing it. But from people online I saw them say 7 hours is easily doable. And having a GPU that doesn't use 20 watts sitting idle sure helps.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • Which series? T/P or one of the economy options? The T, X, W, and later on P series have been the only models people really like.

    We have a few T series at work and they’re not bad. My T14 Gen. 1 doesn’t thermal throttle at all as long as its thermal paste isn’t toast. It will run at basically its full all core boost speeds all day long. The newer 12th Gen. machines dial their clocks back a smidge under full load, but that’s because they have 2x the cores of my measly 10th Gen. machine.

    Also I have a T14s AMD and that thing is a BEAST for such a small machine. 35 watts out of an AMD 6 core is no slouch for something that small. And I easily get 7+ hours of battery life out of my abusive use.

  • What are the "AK-47" of items? (cheap, durable, just works)
  • They didn’t. They did kinda change the goalpost though.

    Which model did you get? The i7 or the i9? The i7 models have a minimum guaranteed TDP of 28 watts, while the i9 is at least 35. But 35 watts on such a high end CPU is dire. The Gen. 7 also killed their high end GPU options, but maybe that leaves more power headroom for the CPU.

    That’s still better than my P1 Gen. 4 which throttles down to 25 watts. 25 watts on an 11th Gen. i9 is AWFUL performance.

  • Upscaling really is black magic
  • I actually really dislike DLSS and FSR. At least to me the upscaling is pretty noticeable (but not the end of the world), but the artifacts that it causes drive me insane. I haven't tested Onion Ring with it. But for example FH5 I get all sorts of ghost images on my screen and they go away as soon as I turn off DLSS.

    Also weirdly on my laptop I got worse performance. I'm assuming that's because I'm 100% CPU limited and there is a bit of CPU overhead to running DLSS.

  • Florida's school cellphone ban stokes controversy in Parkland
  • I assume this is like the cell phone "ban" we had in our school when I was a kid. Which is the phones should never be seen during normal day to day. If there's an emergency then nobody is gonna tell you no.

    Obviously kids are going to bring phones in anyways regardless of the ban.

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    Thinkpad X61 Tablet Windows XP recovery media

    I have an X61 Tablet and I'd like to get the original Lenovo recovery media for XP tablet edition (I think version 2005) mostly so I can get all of the drivers and functionality working.

    I currently have an XP Pro install but that doesn't have any of the special tablet features. And my xp tablet edition install decided it doesn't want to work anymore and BSODs on start, and I don't feel like dealing with the hunt for old drivers.

    Does anyone know where or how I can acquire isos or even the actual recovery CDs for this machine?

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