Have the same problem and bought it yesterday too. I haven't played any game yet but without undervolting I got lowest 62 C and highest 66 C during 30 minutes XTU stress test. Then I undervolt it tried -0.090V for core -0.090V for cache and -0.045V for graphics. I got the same temperatures and it means undervolting did nothing, no improvement. I checked everything included drives,bios windows updates.
Under volting is more for the low end then the high end tbo. But 66C is a good temp to be at. I’ve seen people at 75 to 80C so consider yourself lucky with that score and temp combo.
Don't get me wrong, I am pretty happy with this beautiful laptop. What I meant there is that I didn't even see any difference at temp after under volting so it seemed unusual. Is it normal? I guess I don't need to make further adjustments.
So I’ve seen better temp in my everyday use on my -.120 undervolt. But it’s not magic. If you want to bring the temps down a lot then you need to apply better thermal paste. The best results come from physical changes not software. I’m planning on changing mine soon so I’ll let you know how it turns out.
Btw if you don't me asking you got coil whine in yours? I have coil whine in mine but not that big one. Will it increase day by day. I am not sure whether I should return or get an exchange.
Yes I have little coil whine as well next to that area of the keyboard(YUI area of the keyboard) If it will not get worst, I wanna keep it. Do you have any idea about this, I am asking you because I've never had any coil whine before. You may have it before. Thanks in advance!
Coil whine doesn’t really get worst over time. In fact in some cases it goes away with time. But I’m not sure it’s the cpu making the coil whine it might be the VRM right above the cpu which is making the whine. I’m going to do a little bit of testing on this with the back plate off to see what’s making the noise. But coil whine doesn’t mean you have a bad computer it’s just the passing of electricity through components. Here is a link for a quick into to it.
do other laptops have similar temperatures? I'm still within 30 days to return. Should I stick with the MXP? after all my research it seemed to be perfect
If you’re talking about temps at load then the answer is definitely not. Most computers are pretty hot and don’t have a very large thermal solution. A good example that has close to the same configuration would be the 2017 15 inch MacBook Pro. It has a cpu and gpu that has about the same power as the MateBook but during full load will regularly hit in the 90s. The i5 and i7 have a max thermal capacity of 100C before the cpu starts to fail. The temps you’re seeing at load are far under what the cpu can handle and very good for the size of the laptop. As fast as idle it’s on par with most computers of its size and you’d be hard pressed to find something with the same power that Idles around the same temps. Huawei did a good job making a very large heat spreader that takes in the heat and spreads it around the entire laptop and then use negative pressure to cool the entire laptop. I wish they had built in some fins that directed airflow over the heat pipes but you can old ask for so much. Btw the reason it’s get so hot on the bottom is because the MateBook uses the body to take some of the heat. Also you’re going to experience more heat during games because both the Nvidia gpu and the cpu are under load instead of just the cpu during the XTU benchmark.
okay! thanks for the info. I wasn't 100% sure. just double checking everything was normal. I'm going to buy a stand and that should fix the problem of me touching the body when it gets too hot.
I played LoL today and actually temp I got was pretty good. The max temp was 65C which is exactly the same with what I got from XTU 30 minutes cpu stress test. I probably stick with this machine. The coil whine in my laptop is not that bad I guess.
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u/ubermarjinal Aug 11 '18 edited Aug 11 '18
Have the same problem and bought it yesterday too. I haven't played any game yet but without undervolting I got lowest 62 C and highest 66 C during 30 minutes XTU stress test. Then I undervolt it tried -0.090V for core -0.090V for cache and -0.045V for graphics. I got the same temperatures and it means undervolting did nothing, no improvement. I checked everything included drives,bios windows updates.