[Sebastian]

Ok, thank you. I will have a look at that bios setting. I might change it to 20 as well, so that it goes to thermal throttling at 80°C.

You have any ideas why my graphics are not getting up to speed while playing games, but work fine when doing benchmarks? Cause I could really do with a bit more performance for gaming, and it was not throttling in any way (getting around 60°C while gaming) ??

[Sebastian]

thanks for that tip,.

I also found some guide that is talking about the power saving settings especially for tablets.
For anyone else interested:
https://www.michaellinenberger.com/blog/four-windows-10-power-settings-you-should-probably-change-hibernation-and-sleep/

Comparing Sleep, Hibernation, and Hybrid Sleep on Windows

It seems I have another issue after reinstalling my tablet a few days ago…
What I noticed in Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is the fact that the thermal throttling now kicks in at 70°C, which I find a good thing… I image this is from the new bios that I flashed. Before that I never saw thermal throttling, even up to 90°C…

But now it seems that my Graphics unit is not running at its highest clock speed…
I was testing out two different games (LOL and WoW) and I never saw more than 299MHz as the Graphics Frequency…
I tried using the High Performance Power Plan (thinking it might have something to do with my tweaked power saving that I did earlier). But that did not change anything…
Running the Stess Test with Graphics in Intel Extreme Tuning it goes up to 800MHz Graphics Frequency (and then drops to about 650 MHz when it hits thermal throttling)

Any ideas?

[Sebastian]

@Suwat: how did you “cut” the copper to have the same form as the original heat spreader?
I was thinking about doing the thermal mod where you end up with just a square copper heat spreader… but yours looks like a lot more copper therefore even more heat spreading…

[Sebastian]

Hey BoORD_L,

thank you for your great post, it was perfect timing. I just finished my simple Thermal Mod ( didnt get the copper plate cut yet for replacing the aluminum).

Thanks to your post I was able to get the tablet up and running really quickly with all the drivers and a new bios (I love the intel logo at the start)!!

I have a general question about the tablet after using it for a few weeks and maybe the could be answered here so that other people can see it…
– How does the tablet decide about going in standby or hibernation?? I have seen different things now… When I put the type cover on the screen the screen goes to sleep, but when you take it back the tablet seems to wake up quickly…
But when I leave the tablet for a longer time it seems that I always have to restart it completely (long press the power button) and windows starts fresh!!

I guess I only missed the settings in windows, but I would love to have a decent standby for the tablet but not having to restart it after 1 hour…

 

 

[Sebastian]

Hi Chris,

Did anyone ever attempt to replace the aluminum stock heatsink with a copper one, like it can be seen here:
https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=66528200&postcount=109

I was trying to do this full copper heatsink mod, but I cant get the schematics to print out correctly, since the DPI number that Wootever gave seems to be wrong…

Anyone ever did that mod and can help me??

[Sebastian]

So, you are saying that if I do the thermal mod with the copper (like it is described on xda), I should install the 2.7 bios afterwards?

 

Is there anything thats not working with the new bios? Cause I read from a few people about problems after a bios upgrade (dont know which version the used). Problems like touchscreen not working or the HDMI over USB C not working…

 

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