Temperature and Battery Life
We really don’t put too much stock on individual component temperatures as they will vary depending on usage and we do not benchmark using extreme loads anymore as they’re not reflective of real world applications. To stress the CPU and GPU, we use a looped 3DMark Fire Strike Test to simulate a typical modern gaming scenario. We recorded the peak CPU and GPU temps.
Using our thermal camera we can see the heat is heavily concentrated on the GPU area. Heating the CPU does substantially increase chassis temps but not to detrimental levels as we can see peak 54*C chassis temps in our stress test.
To give you an idea on how the internals are laid out, here’s a teardown image. The large block in the center-right is the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 CPU which is an actual desktop CPU on a AM4 socket. Next to it is a smaller Radeon RX 580 GPU. Both of which are cooled by blowers connected to heatpipes which lead heat away to the rear grills.
You can also see in the teardown image we have a relatively small battery which is a downside to this notebook. Under PowerMark standard drain test which mixes a variety of usage scenarios including browsing, gaming and productivity usages, we get around 1 hour and 15minutes of charge. On a personal gaming test, we only managed to get roughly 50 minutes of AAA gaming on the unit which is close to we expected in comparison to the its close rival the GTX 1060.
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Hi! Is there an additional ssd m.2 slot? And what is the read and write speeds of the included ssd?