I have 502 BIOS on my i5.
I read from different sources and can confirm that fans are way more than good. with light using fans don’t turn on even on slow, it just cool or little warm, when gaming or video editing they do turn on gradually depending on temperatures.
On maximum, when gpu and cpu are very hot to touch in games (pubg or smth) they work on 100%, they can be heard, but sound level is very nice, level is the same as regular laptop at average using. And after exiting game it cools down in ~2 minutes and fans go on mid or low speeds, laptop becomes again a bit warm, and few minutes more it is cool as always.
Initially I wanted to downgrade BIOS but didn’t do so because of fan problems, on lower BIOSes many report random fan on low speeds and even not controlling fans speed gradations. So I stick with BIOS 502 + overclock and more than happy with this laptop.
P.S. I overclocked TDP of CPU and overclocked GPU to the numbers as in article, undervolting is locked in bios 502.
P.P.S. more than happy with this laptop, great battery on non-gaming usage with brilliant performance.
Also, thank you Chris for your crisp reviews!
