Surface Pro 3 Throttle

Recently got a sweet deal for Surface Pro 3 for 220euros
The i7 / 8GB RAM / 256GB SSD one.

Microsoft engineers really fucked t>his over with such a small cooler which is entirely located in the upper right corner.

Throttle? Oh yes!
I can get max turbo speeds around 3.3Ghz and in a few seconds it hits 70c and throttles to 1Ghz CPU and sub 200mhz iGPU

Any other hardcore users who have dealt with this. Having a fan is a solution to keep it around 65c and over 2.3Ghz
Limiting the cpu at max 60% power is tried too. Kinda sucks but at least its a bit stable.

Haven't tried undervolting. Any suggestions to fix it? Even thinking about a huge copper heat sink on the back. >>>

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A man shouldn't buy a bike and expect it to act like a boat, even if he adds floats to it.

How will you replace the old battery?

You buy m$ surface for the display, and not for the performance. Sounds fucked up, but you can't sustain turbo without throttling in that form factor, and battery.

Try replacing the thermal paste with liquid metal.
Imagine putting an i7 in a fucking tablet. My friend has the same surface with an i5 and you can't even hold the thing while under load. Microsoft fucked up by dumping ARM.

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>Try replacing the thermal paste with liquid metal.
I'm not an expert, but I believe that it's more of a power draw issue, and not necessarily a temperature problem.

>I'm not an expert
If any of us were, we wouldn't be here.

maybe that's why you got such a sweet deal
cos it's fucking shit and they wanted to get rid of it for whatever they could

i bought a bag of oven French fries today. it was on offer. they were horrible, tasted of plastic. that must have been why they were on special offer.

don't fall for (((special offers))) and (((deals))) any more, bros.

fpbp
you're legit stupid

>Surface Pro 3
>June 20, 2014
garbage

Should've got the i3 model, it sustains frequencies better even under load. Download XTU and undervolt it though, it helps a ton.

>throttling at 70C
Something's wrong, these shits are supposed to reach 90+C
Try
>thoroughly cleaning the insides
>using liquid metal
>undervolting
>modding the air intake

Don't worry, SP4s do the same thing

I don't see you offering any answers, Mr. Big Brain.
Fuck off, consumerist.

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The screen must be broken just to open it up. That's a big nono!


Will definitely try undervolting.

>The screen must be broken just to open it up. That's a big nono!
Only if you're a fixlet.

>Jow Forums complains constantly about Macbooks/Mac Pro throttling
>defends it for the Surface Pro

Wow bunch a hypocritical cunts aren't you

Macshit uses a more traditional form factor. It has no excuses.

Hey, he's the one who bought ancient hardware and is bitching about shit it was never designed to do. Macfags and their $1000 laptops don't have any reason for their throttling and overheating issues.

iPad Pro is thinner and more powerful

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>Jow Forums is one user
I doubt buy apple products, but I personally don't have a problem with them, or the people who purchases/uses them.
Buy what's best for your use case baka.

>don't buy

Who cares about power when all you can use is mobile incel apps. This is a fully fledged win10 machine.

But yeah - I did consider the ipad pro.
I would need to pay around 60euros for it for 24months, but I bought the surface for 220euros so it's a done deal.

It's so fragile when prying open even the ifixit guy and other pros cracked the screen

I've used one of these at work (the 4 version).
Be careful with overheating, mine went to the trash since it's battery started swelling after a couple of years.

tablet =/= laptop

That sounds like an unusual problem. Sucks m8.

Is there a worse product line than Surface? I don't think so.

That's why you buy the HP elite x2 which is designed to be repairable and uses a fan.

>220€
>Surface pro 3, 3!!!
This one is from 2014 dude
Even than the critics were bad by the time
3 was their first acceptable device but still not a good one. 4 had some issues, the 5th and newers are great
>Sweet deal
No user, it wasn't
Plus, you don't know what the previous owners did with it. It's so easy to fuck up a li-ion battery by doing shit

I'm pretty fucking satisfied with everything except the throttling on heavy workloads without additional cooling.
It's a steal and theres nothing comparable. You know it.

How's the autodesk inventor performance?
How's the Solidworks performance?

Turn off boost and underclock.

>computers and french fries are the same thing, just trust me bro

My dad has one he bought close to its launch date. Good god it's horrible. Aside from how slow it is and how much it throttles, it gets hot as hell and it didn't take too long until the flimsy USB port broke (sorta). I thought of making my dad a little happier with this piece of shit (since I'm poor as shit and can't buy him anything better) and install LTSC on it so that it's a little bit smoother but I'm not even sure if it will lack anything he uses.

> hits 70c and throttles to 1Ghz
sounds like a power throttle rather than a thermal one. Intel chips usually can reach 100ºC without throttling.
Even so, there's a few things you can do to make it better:
> disable turbo boost
> stop gaming/heavy lifting on it
If you're really brave and have the tools, try repasting it with a high end paste like Thermal Grizzly, that should help a lot.

Otherwise you just got BTFO by thermodynamics, there's no way to take out the most of that chip without a much better airflow, it's just physics.

Sadly Microsoft has limited various things in BIOS. It always thermal throttles in the 70-80c range.
Probably it jumps to 100c in a few seconds after that.
Gladly I can keep it around 60c when having additional air flow, but it still doesn't go to the max boost 2.7Ghz was the max average I could sustain.
I had a pretty big USB fan pointed at the back from 4cm away. The battery is capable of 17watts out of the total 25w if I recall correctly. Or 25w out of ~40w. I'm sick and at the moment I can't recall correctly or check.


No way of changing paste without fucking breaking the screen. I'd rather live with a very well capable drawing tablet.

no one uses x86 apps anymore. when have you legitimately used your windows machine for anything other than gaming, browsing or porn?

wew... get a real laptop next time.

Undervolt can improve it a little, but still it's an old tablet with haswell CPU so don't expect too much.

Older Pros were prone to overheating. They didn't start fixing the issue until the Pro 4. Back in the day there were some funny solutions to the overheating from pointing a fan at the back to strapping on a CPU cooler.

Note it's not the CPU itself that's starting the throttling, it's the motherboard throttling based on the temperature of the back case. Pointing a fan at it results in both higher CPU temps and higher performance.

I'll won't stick exactly to topic.
How is the (recent) surface pro?
I recently got somewhat of a crush on the idea of a tablet/2in1/whatever you call it laptop, and since my current flimsy laptop is showing signs of failure, I figured it might be a good time to look into it.
Is it any good? any other brands with a similar design (either a powerful tablet or one of those laptops where you pull the screen out and it's a tablet)?
And most importantly, does it Linux?

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>How is the (recent) surface pro?
Basically Surface Pro 3 with small improvements and better cooling
>any other brands with a similar design
literally every laptop brand have 1 or 2 surface clones.

SP6s seem to have fixed it. They even have quadcores with hyperthreading. Pitty that my work bought a mountain of SP4's just before the SP6 came out.