Dell xps 13 9370 - i7 8550U

with chrome open and 10 tabs it sits at ~50 degrees and 1.6-1.8 GHz
when doing real work it shoots up to ~85 degrees at 3.6-3.77 GHz
i'm impressed that it does this but wouldn't it be better to just buy a nice notebook that can cool itself properly without throttling the CPU? i've got 30 days to return it so i can still take it back. got it for $1500 CAD

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full specs:
Processor Intel Core i7-8550U (Intel Core i7)
Graphics adapter Intel UHD Graphics 620, 22.20.16.4815
Memory 16384 MB
, LPDDR3 1866MHz, Dual-Channel
Display 13.3 inch 16:9, 3840 x 2160 pixel 331 PPI, 10-finger, ID: Sharp SHP148B, Name: LQ133D1, Dell P/N: 8XDHY, IPS, glossy: yes
Mainboard Intel Kaby Lake-U iHDCP 2.2 Premium PCH
StorageToshiba 256 GB PCIe SSD
Weight 1.216 kg ( = 42.89 oz / 2.68 pounds), Power Supply: 227 g ( = 8.01 oz / 0.5 pounds)

errr Memory: 8 GB***

OP, 8th gen u cpus can boost up to 45w, look at your tiny ultrabook and ask yourself if it can disspate that much, probably not, the best you can do is repaste your cpu and undervolt it using intel xtu or throttlestop, you can never make this cpu not throttle in an ultrabook enclosure, it's simply not possible.

i get that, but my confusion centers more around is it a BAD thing that this happens? to be honest i think its technically impressive - i like the thing i just don't know if i can do better or not

For this cpu it's normal behavior, like I said best you can do is replace thermal paste with something better even if laptop is fresh new and undervolt, look it up online and you can improve performance by even like 15-20% and reduces the throttling but doesn't eliminate it.

ah i didn't realize there was a performance gain for doing that. thanks

CPU temp is 32 degree, not 55...

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I just noticed it says 4GB GPU RAM
wtf...it has 8 GB of RAM

thats a speccy bug with the 10XX series nvidias. i have the same problem with my 1070

Gimp your processor.

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alright then, still no update?

its been like this for so long i'm pretty sure its a nvidia-specific problem, not so much a speccy problem
then again dxdiag gives the correct amount of GPU memory so its odd that speccy can't just read the memory the same way dxdiag does

weird because HWinfo and GPU-z both show the correct RAM size.

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yeah i bought my 1070 over a year ago and speccy was showing incorrect GPU RAM even back then too. maybe the devs are just lazy or somethin

okay so i undervolted the 8550U -60mV but my passmark cpu test went down not up, what gives i thought there were gains to be made

i think its staying a bit cooler though

It should be able to do more than -60mv, mine does -115mv on T480s, for reference my cpu scores 10100 on passmark, undervolting definitely helped me, maybe dell has some internal limits idk.

nevermind it did improve actually, the benchmark i was using before was stupid. in cinebench there is an improvement
-90mV

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Highest I've scored in cinebench was around 800, so there's plenty of potential left.

poor boy

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... thats a desktop processor

I know boy.