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Let us know if you get an answer from PCS. I'd be curious to know if it's possible to turn the lights on the body off. Also I think I may have gotten length and width the wrong way around in my original reply, so have edited it!

I'm actually not sure if the lights on the body can be turned off or not. The keyboard and touchpad definitely, but looking at the control centre I can't see any options for turning off the lights on the body. Might be worth contacing PCS to ask about that! As for the charger, it's pretty...

The laptop doesn't need to be undervolted for normal use, but for heavy stuff it reaches 90c and above without undervolting. Obviously if you're comfortable with those temperatures then you can leave it, if not then undervolting to -0.130 reduces temps on average by about 10c in my experience...

You can get a 15.6" Recoil for £824 (minus operating system) which is pretty close! The only way I could get it under £800 was to go down to 8GB RAM which isn't a sacrifice I'd personally be willing to make.

I haven't seen too many reviews on this laptop, so I thought I'd add one for anybody interested in picking it up. Relevant specs below: Processor (CPU) Intel® Core™ i7 Six Core Processor 8750H (2.2GHz, 4.1GHz Turbo) Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair 2133MHz SODIMM DDR4 (1 x 16GB) Graphics...

If you take out the operating system then you should be able to get a decent spec on a Cosmos, Vyper or Recoil III GTX for under £800. I think you'd be looking at a GTX 1050 (or 1050 Ti with a Recoil III) - you'd be able to get an 8th/9th gen i7 with the Cosmos or Recoil, I think an 8th gen i5...

Whilst the average temps are nothing to be worried about, I assume the laptop is maintaining them through thermal throttling which is going to impact your clock speed. I wouldn't consider that an acceptable performance considering the cost of the laptop.

You definitely shouldn't be happy with that, I was responding more to your thoughts on manufacturers being more realistic about voltages. From their perspective even though extra voltage may make the laptop run hotter, it will also reduce the chances of any instability issues with the CPU...

Have to agree that it's hard to understand how the laptop passed the testing/QC phase if the pasting job was poor - high temps should have been highlighted during the stress testing and the laptop looked over again before being sent out. Especially as you paid extra for the better thermal paste...

Keep in mind modern processors are designed to deal with high temps and still go through a normal lifespan. Even gaming for hours at a time at 80-85c isn't likely to cause any major issues in terms of your processor's lifespan. I would be a little worried about going over 90c, but even then the...

I'd agree to only undervolting after you've tried to identify the actual issue first. With that said you could undervolt to see if it makes a difference, then reset to normal voltage for further investigation. Either way my first suspicion would be the thermal paste. If you're still struggling...

No, all undervolting does is give the CPU the minimum voltage necessary to perform as normal. Typically the CPU is given more voltage than is required to ensure there is no chance of it becoming unstable, but you can normally undervolt a decent amount whilst the system remains stable. I...

Those are very high temps. It's possible the thermal paste hasn't been applied properly and needs to be redone. Unfortunately you'd have to RMA it for that (if you aren't comfortable doing it yourself) with no guarantee it would solve the problem. You've got a very powerful processor and...

This is essentially how my UltraNote's usefulness came to an end. I had the screen flicker for about a year before the screen finally died, although I can just about see the PCS logo when it starts up so it's probably the backlight that has gone. I got the laptop in 2014 so I figured I might as...

Hi all, I got an Ultrabook II from PCSpecialist a couple of months ago. For the most part it's been fine, but recently I've had some issues that I'm struggling to identify. A few weeks ago the laptop, out of nowhere, started beeping really loudly. I mean smoke-alarm loud. I turned it off...