williamrichier352
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help me pleaseCan you post the FULL specs from your PCS order please so that we all know exactly the build we're looking at?
help me pleaseCan you post the FULL specs from your PCS order please so that we all know exactly the build we're looking at?
As already advised, you need to contact PCS. It's not something we can help with.help me please
@williamrichier352 This is extremely important.When you've downloaded it, don't change any of the settings.
That changes a lot unfortunately. I'd typically ask them to perform a stress test to check for throttling and potentially change the PL limits to the CPU's actual PL (assuming something went wrong), but if altering anything with that CPU could cause bricks, then I'd personally avoid my previous suggestion and personally send it to PCSpecialist to check instead.@williamrichier352 This is extremely important.
If you are going to do this do not touch anything unless you know what you are doing.
the I7-11800H is not compatible with XTU and it is possible to brick your laptop if you change the wrong setting in there.
If you want to do something like that I would recommend doing it through ThrottleStop.That changes a lot unfortunately. I'd typically ask them to perform a stress test to check for throttling and potentially change the PL limits to the CPU's actual PL (assuming something went wrong), but if altering anything with that CPU could cause bricks, then I'd personally avoid my previous suggestion and personally send it to PCSpecialist to check instead.
I'm not an Intel expert, but always thought that any unstable overclock that was done on the bios could be recovered by doing a bios reset (removing the CMOS battery for a few seconds and putting it back). That should work either for desktops or laptops, if I'm not wrongIf you want to do something like that I would recommend doing it through ThrottleStop.
XTU writes directly to the BIOS which is why it can brick the laptop. Throttlestop works at the OS level so if something goes wrong and the system crashes you can just reboot.
That's only if you don't fry the CPU / Mobo in the process.I'm not an Intel expert, but always thought that any unstable overclock that was done on the bios could be recovered by doing a bios reset (removing the CMOS battery for a few seconds and putting it back). That should work either for desktops or laptops, if I'm not wrong
Of course . Just need to be safe with the voltages and all should be fine.That's only if you don't fry the CPU / Mobo in the process.
You can do other things through XTU not just overclock. If you under-volt It too much for instance you can get to a position where the laptop won't even boot to BIOS to make changes. There were problems with the 10th gen laptops where people could not recover through the CMOS I believe because XTU was literally overwriting values.I'm not an Intel expert, but always thought that any unstable overclock that was done on the bios could be recovered by doing a bios reset (removing the CMOS battery for a few seconds and putting it back). That should work either for desktops or laptops, if I'm not wrong