The newer bios on Xiaomi’s Mi Notebook Pro blocked us out of the Intel XTU voltage setting. Meaning you couldn’t undervolt the CPU in – 0.080 or 0.090 volts to lower temps and increase performance. Well, some Russians have come up with the solution to patch the bios to allow access. This is for bios 0502 and 0603. Mi Notebook Pro only, I would not risk it on the 13″ 8th Gen...[Read More]
I took a risk with this one, ordered this unit 3 weeks ago and struck it lucky, this is one of the newer models of the Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro and it comes with bios 0401. Why is this important? Well if you caught my review of the Mi Notebook Pro the SSD slot was only running at x2 speed on both SSD slots, so it never let the Samsung PM961 256GB NVMe run at full x4 speed. Limiting reads to around 1...[Read More]
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]