Intel Core i7 8550U
Hands-On With The 2018 Model Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13
Some pleasant surprises with the revised 2018 model of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air 13.3. I thought it was a simple case of a new CPU and paint job, seems there are a few other tweaks to this latest edition and more refinement. So we now have the much more powerful Kaby Lake R CPU’s in the 13-inch model. Intel’s 8th Gen Core i5 8250U and i7 8550U, these CPU’s have doubled their cor...[Read More]
Mi Notebook Pro i7 8550U 16GB Version Reviewed
I’ve already reviewed the i5 8250U 8GB model of the Mi Notebook Pro, the RAM limit of 8GB (nonupgradeable) made me sell it and buy this model. The i5 model came out a good month before the most powerful version which is now out powered by an Intel Core i7 8550U quad-core CPU, the Nvidia MX150 GPU remains & 16GB of RAM. The only change to the model is the faster CPU and double the RAM whi...[Read More]
Next Week: Mi Notebook Pro i7 8550U 16GB & Colorful Nvidia 1080 TI Review
I have the most powerful version of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro on the way, the 8th gen Intel Core i7 8550U model with 16GB of RAM. It should be here next week, so look for some videos on how to undervolt and tweak this model like I did with the i5 8550U model next week. Some benchmarks and further tests plus I’ll also revisit some of those games I tested and see how they run on this i7 mode...[Read More]
How To Boost 8th Gen Core i5 & i7’s To Preform Like An i7 7700HQ (Mi Notebook Pro)
Intel’s Xtreme Tuning Utility is a great tool for overclocking CPU’s, while we can’t overclock the U series of CPU’s what we can do using this application of Intel’s is increase the power limits. Doing this on the 8th Gen Intel Core i5 8250U gives us huge gains up to 29% when testing with Cinebench R15 and encoding 4k video using Adobe Premiere Pro.so much so we can g...[Read More]
Xiaomi Mi Notebook Air Core i7 8550U Ultimate Model With 16GB RAM
Update: Well, it turns out it is a new 15.6″ model. I guessed it, but that wasn’t hard. More info here: Mi Notebook Pro 15.6″ Notebook. We know that Xiaomi has the Core i7 U CPU’s in latest years 2016 model, but we haven’t seen this year’s i7 7500U release yet. Well, these Geekbench 4 benchmarks popped up showing that this year’s refreshed i7 model (Timi T...[Read More]
