MacBook Pro with i9 chip is throttled due to thermal issues, claims YouTuber

Post by prolikewh0a » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 2:53 PM UTC

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My old xps 13 with the i5 had great thermals on the other hand, but was still snappy enough for almost everything I threw at it. Didn't like it b/c the screen was just a tad too small for me and I had some problems getting good audio on the machine. Also, coil whine. It was awful.

Same here. 13 inch XPS, coil whine is insane. Had the motherboard replaced 3 times, no improvement. It was a replacement for my ageing Air 13", and I honestly wish I didn't swap. At first glance it's just as nice, the build quality and form factor are identical - and then you start using it, and see that Dell charges just as much if not more than Apple, but quality of several different elements is ages behind apple.

Post by blattimwind » Thu, Jul 19, 2018, 6:09 PM UTC

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No

The correct answer is "it depends on which paste you use". If you're using a "liquid metal" compound, you probably want to be very careful, as it is conductive.[1] [1] https://www.ekwb.com/blog/thermal-compound-guide/

Post by nickthemagicman » Sat, Jul 21, 2018, 3:01 AM UTC

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Yeah but that's like buying a race car and being upset that it's throttled at 300 mph. 99.9999% of people will never go 300mph..unless you're using it in a very specialized way.

No it's like buying a truck for your business and being upset when it can't tow its advertised load.

Post by alluro2 » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 12:10 AM UTC

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Seems like it's hard to cool GPUs in desktops too if you're Apple >their maximum FP32 compute performance is 11 TFLOPS (which points to around 1340 MHz clock-rate for the Vega 64) and their peak memory bandwidth is 400 GB/s (indicating about 1600 MT/s memory speed), which is slower when compared to the Radeon RX Vega cards for desktops. The main reasons why Apple downlocks its GPUs are of course power consumption and…

Downclocking, by itself, tends to increase component lifetime. It makes sense for a professional machine that's not supposed to break after a couple years. Of course, if the component still overheats, that completely beats the purpose of the downclocking.

Post by alluro2 » Sun, Jul 22, 2018, 12:37 AM UTC

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The thing is, the MBP is fulfilling Apple's design goals: they are optimizing for thinness, lightness, and battery life, not performance or thermal dissipation. As long as the thing doesn't break (in a way that can't be fixed trivially by the Geniuses at the Genius Bar) everything's fine as far as Apple's business is concerned.

But if you charge people for a CPU that has been modified or set up so it cannot achieve the advertised specs then it is misselling.