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The tests were performed in an air conditioned room, holding temperatures at a constant 23c. This is a comfortable environment for most people reading.
Idle temperatures were measured after 30 minutes from initial boot up with the system inactive.
Load temperatures were measured when playing Tomb Raider – a Direct X 11 game that taxes both CPU and GPU extensively. All fan settings were left on BIOS defaults.
The i7 4710MQ peaks at around 90c, which is a little hotter than we would like to see generally. That said, we didn't document any throttling at all.
We attached five diodes to the back of the chassis and measured the temperature (Celcius) after one hour of intensive work and gaming.
The underside of the chassis gets warm after some time, although most of the heat is centralised at the side close to the main exhaust venting. This is on the left side of the laptop (right in the image above as we are looking at the chassis from underneath). It is important you leave some space on the left side for the hot air to be expelled, otherwise overheating could occur.
well, had a look at it, and it seems that price is a load of crap.. thats the price for the base unit with the dual core pentium CPU, nnd the basic ram/HDD setup. -_- was about to put in an order.
Click the reviews tag at the top of the pcspecialist page and you will find this exact spec for £749. I’ve used this company several times and have always been very happy with the service and the product. Hope this helps
I’ve had this laptop (but a higher end config) since 2014 now. The chassis is garbage. PC specialist have been nice enough to change it for me twice now but, basically, you get a lot of cracks from the very sharp corners around the screen and keyboard as they are stress concentrators. The internal hardware is real good, however and PC Specialists have been quite good with customer care.
I’ve also got this laptop. Yep I had the chassis changed too, funnily enough I also bought in 2014. I am having continuing problems with overheating, have swapped the thermal paste no end of times, think the heat pipes might be busted or something.