Recent content by jimbotymbo

Happy to defer to your knowledge. I agree with you about performance; afraid I've not seen the evidence on heat that you refer to but will take your word (and perhaps do a Google later for my own education). I would be interested to know how many of those showing improvements are running a 2060...

I accept that you would expect that if you were purely comparing CPUs, and perhaps even ceteris paribus in those cases where there was nothing else bottlenecking performance. But that doesn't change the fact that you can only go off real-world performance - and there are a number of bottlenecks...

And sorry for hijacking the thread, SuperPC!

I accept that you would expect that if you were purely comparing CPUs, and perhaps even ceteris paribus in those cases where there was nothing else bottlenecking performance. But that doesn't change the fact that you can only go off real-world performance - and there are a number of bottlenecks...

I agree they are better and cheaper - but there are plenty of other considerations than CPU, especially since the Ryzen options are relatively limited! And the point about heat isn't quite accurate - almost every Ryzen laptop tested in the real world that I've seen runs at similar heat levels to...

Oh fantastic, thank you - the information I found seemed to indicate it wouldn't but will defer to your experience!

It depends what VR you're using - Vyper has no Displayport (and the T3 seems to run through integrated graphics, rather than the NVidia) so it limits you to the older HDMI VR models or the Oculus Quest (as it runs through a USB 3 port). I have the 15.6" and that's where my research got me to -...

The Vyper and Recoil definitely are Tong Fang.

Haha I know what you mean - but it's not like every manufacturer's laptop is spot on right out of the box anyway. Everyone's been raving about the Asus G14 but there's loads of people out there who have issues with heat and the battery not living up to promises, etc. I am sure the Asus forums...

You're welcome. I did quite a detailed post on battery in this thread: https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/praise-for-my-new-vyper-iii-and-open-questions.69673/ On screen refresh rates, I used an app called Custom Resolution Utility which allows you to create new refresh rates. Just...

I have had the Vyper 3 15.6 for approaching a month now. I might do a full-on review at some point - but main points are these: - It's a very powerful laptop that does everything I want at a significant cost reduction to almost anything else out there; I'm now happy with the battery life and...

That's not a problem, it's just the different modes: 100W is gaming; 120W is turbo (and I think office is something like 40W, with Office-ECO even lower). Cycle between them and restart HWInfo and see what happens! I'm also surprised to see people are having issues with undervolting - I can do...

Yes exactly - so long as by iGPU mode you mean the global setting in NVidia control panel; if you mean in the BIOS, the dGPU will not activate at all (even if it is indeed drawing power). It should be very clear when the separate GPU is running just from performance but there are plenty of ways...

Good stuff! Really glad I could help. There are two ways to get your dGPU to kick in - either go into BIOS and restart in dGPU mode (when you know you'll be plugged in throughout, for example); or when you're in the default hybrid mode, just pick the programmes you want to turn it on for under...

- Hmmmm... One more suggestion to see if you can isolate the GPU as the issue, as even with 0% GPU usage it might still be drawing power, just not registered - particularly in iGPU mode (known issue: a respected Youtube reviewer posted this under a recent Max-17 review "iGPU Mode Talk. The...