

Personally I think they could've left the 110w at PL1 and 135w at PL2 but would need to have a better thermal compound or beef up the CPU cooling solution (seems like they got more heatpipes going to GPU and it runs cool). In summary, i like lower temps, you can't undervolt the 12th gen, i don't like to re-paste nor play with the WIN power plan settings (which was initially was doing), so i turned to lowering the aggressive TDP settings they set on this chassis. I ran some games (Star Citizen, and CyberPunk) and neglible loss of FPS on these games but my temperature with coolerboost on went down by 10C so now it never gets hotter than ~89C under Heavy load (before it would touch 98C with stock TDP settings). And guess what? slight hit on cinebench Multi score (15,300 -6%) and single was higher than before! at (1,798 +2%). I ran more tests, to solve the root cause which is (temps) i ended up lowering the PL1 TDP from 110watts to 65watts / and the 135watts to 70watts This lowered my idle temps by like 15-20C lol. Then the fan would slowly spool down, add it all up and your fan is on longer making noise longer than I'd like. This is still normal for heavy heavy CPU loading.Īt idle, the fan would spike sometimes for sure because the temp was spiking to 70-80 occaisionally. Despite the coolerboost my temps during the multi core were around 80-96C peaking at 98C sometimes lol. Definitely a beast of a CPU and my Cinebench scores multi (16,300) and Single (1773) all on balanced mode in the MSI center (Stock settings all around) but I had the coolerboost fan on. So I have the 12700H 3070TI and i noticed that the TDP values are PL1: 110watts and PL2: 135watts for the processor.
