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gamedevryan
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Razer Blade Stealth (2018) 1 Year later!

razobHey Ryan, thanks for the write-up. I just jumped into Razer myself last month, with pretty much the same strategy as you - 2018 15" Advanced. It's good to read about your positive experience a year later, my machine is a beast and beats most other laptops out of the water, even though it's "only" last-gen hardware. Since you're offering advice :) Do you bother getting the latest GeForce drivers from Nvidia, or do you just stick to the older drivers Razer provides? I couldn't find any opinion/experience on that anywhere so far, plus I'm not even sure which Nvidia drivers to get for the 1070 Max-Q - desktop or laptop. I'm still learning the ropes as you can see. Any insight you can provide is much appreciated. Thanks! My Razer Blade only has Intel graphics, but I installed updates from Intel instead of waiting for Razer supplied ones. I think you're probably okay to install the latest from NVIDIA, though it's important you get laptop ones since the cards work very differently.

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4 years ago
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gamedevryan
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Fresh Windows Install on Razer Blade Stealth (2017)

Instead of Balanced try Best Performance. Windows is annoying in that there are like 3 levels of power options. If you can get into the oldest power options (https://www.laptopmag.com/images/wp/purch-api/incontent/2010/07/poweroptions04.jpg) then you can set the power settings of the iGPU, which is likely the culprit here.

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kennethyha
5 years ago
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gamedevryan
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Fresh Windows Install on Razer Blade Stealth (2017)

Nope, haven't noticed any animation frameskips or lag, really. The HD 620 has exceeded my expectations of a iGPU, it's keeping up with more Autodesk Maya & Unity3d work than I thought it should. It even plays Fossil Hunters at a good framerate if I tweak settings a bit. I know the 7500U is a lot slower than the 8550U but it should be fine for regular Windows stuff. Maybe have a look at your battery + power option settings? Could be that your profile is underclocking too aggressively.

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kennethyha
5 years ago
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gamedevryan
posted in Systems

Fresh Windows Install on Razer Blade Stealth (2017)

Follow up post! I bought the Stealth, what a nice machine. Somewhat of a fingerprint magnet but nowhere near as much as my past XPS 15 was. Immediately swapped the 256gb SSD out for a 1TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIADGE8TX3960 which works like a charm. I went on to install a fresh copy of Windows and everything worked great. I didn't even need to get drivers from the Razer site - Windows was able to find them all automatically. My Razer Core X with a Radeon RX 580 works great, too.

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kennethyha
5 years ago
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gamedevryan
posted in Systems

Fresh Windows Install on Razer Blade Stealth (2017)

figrin1I know that folks have gone ahead and done it without too many issues. My question is why? Are you upgrading the SSD? Razer is pretty good at not loading bloatware on their systems. Yeah, upgrading to a faster 1TB SSD, since 256 is pretty unusable. I'm simply looking to avoid cloning the old one.

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kennethyha
5 years ago
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Cakedonut
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Razer Blade 15 2019 Windows Device Encryption

Pretty sure you need Windows 10 Pro in order to encrypt your drive. This page might help: https://decentsecurity.com/#/securing-your-computer/

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5 years ago

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