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Firebat246
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Firebat246The One
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I present to you Firebat's Blade 15! (144hz/i7-8750H)

misterg36I think my final realisation was when the MSI was also getting high temps. With so much space and cooling, it can't just be the laptop design and more likely something chip side. It also means we may need to accept high temps in all new laptops - though i wish undervolting was something you could just set in the motherboard. Manufacturers could just ship their laptops undervolted through the BIOS, but they intentionally set chips to use more voltage than they need in order to avoid instability, so unfortunately it will probably always be left up to the user to determine the best stable undervolt for their individual machine. You can set it through the BIOS yourself though!

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Firebat246
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4 years ago
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Gebirgskuchen
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Razer Blade 14 7700 always idling in the 60s° C

smartMinionYellow691Ok, Guys: You won't believe me, but I found a solution for my Problem. And this solution is the weirdest I've ever encountered. First of all, the problem that my Blade gets high temperatures on IDLE is software-related: that's for sure. The "solution": When I start the programm Photoshop and start working on other stuff (Browsing the web, watching Videos), letting Photoshop still open, my Blade only needs 3 Watts of power! After letting it idle for a bit, my Blade stays at 47°C which is Pretty awesome for me and I can work with a silent System. I can also use 99% of the CPU power with no temp Problems. BUT: If I DON'T open Adobe Photoshop and let my System idle, the Blade needs at least 8 watts of power, idleing in the 60s. Well, the current Workaround is to deactivate the OnBoard graphics Card and to activate it again in the device manager. Problem solved. Interesting. What does Photoshop have to do with your solution? Was Photoshop disabling the dedicated grap

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Catastrophy349
Catastrophy349
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Razer Blade 15 Advanced

I would like to push back against anyone saying the 2060 is mid-range and therefore sub-par performance is "to be expected". It's a brand new card and OP is playing some old games. My 2017 Blade with a GTX 1060 gets better performance than this on an ultrawide monitor. So I know these might be silly questions but... a) have you updated your GPU drivers? b) are you trying to run these games with the laptop unplugged?

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Catastrophy349
5 years ago
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roboactive
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Razer Blade Stealth 18?

What do you want in a laptop?

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5 years ago
Catastrophy349
Catastrophy349
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Razer Blade 15 Advanced

What score do you get when you run a Firestrike benchmark? This could rule out a weird setting in your games throwing performance off. I would install MSI afterburner as well, and use the monitoring tools to see if your GPU is hitting its maximum clock speeds and/or thermal throttling.

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Catastrophy349
5 years ago
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FFDurankk
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Razer Blade 15 (2018) Gtx 1070 max q > Razer Core V2 w/Gtx 1080ti > Alienware AW2518H Monitor Error

What happens if you plug the peripherals straight into the laptop?

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5 years ago
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figrin1Insider
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New Stealth MX150 Unplugged Performance?

Anyone care to weigh in on this? Seems easy to test.

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figrin1Insider
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New Stealth MX150 Unplugged Performance?

Interesting, thanks so much for doing this work. I really hope that there is just something limiting your FPS. If the MX150 simply underperforms while unplugged I question its usefulness. The whole point of that GPU seems to be providing graphical power while not docked at an eGPU or at home where a more powerful gaming machine is present. So if the laptop can't fully utilize its dGPU while mobile, what's the point?

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5 years ago
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cruixx
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razer blade stealth 13 2019 - undervolting

Krym1593The fans really like to spin up and down out of the box. Throttlestop I undervolted -80mv and disabled the turbo for normal use. The fans haven't turned on that I have noticed. When I want to game a little, I turn the turbo back on but leave the undervolt. There are 4 profiles to choose from. Just adjust as needed. It is working really well so far. Sorry to resurrect this thread, but were you on a 2019 blade stealth using Throttlestop? I can't get it to work on mine.

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figrin1Insider
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Undervolting the Stealth 2019? (XTU and Throttlestop not working)

hiddensanctumThe XTU refusing to install is a known issue. There is a workaround to get it to install that seems to work. You can follow the directions in this article that worked for me. As for Throttlestop, haven't run into the mfc120u.dll. It worked without me having to do anything to it. Thanks for this response. Motivated me to dig a little deeper into Throttlestop and it turns out I just need to install a Visual C++ update. Cheers! Now to see if I can enable undervolting in the BIOS...

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figrin1Insider
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Blade Stealth Hobbled by Firmware

Skeith_0x5BBefore the shills get here... I personally owned one of these before refunding. I can confirm that under load the CPU *did* hit its claimed speed of 4.6GHz (single-threaded). I'd try not to stress too much till the thing is in your hands and you can test it for yourself. Curious why you returned it? I've had it for a couple days now and I'm noticing some really inconsistent performance from the CPU. Firestrike gave it an 11,450 physical score out of the box, but it had terrible coil whine coming from the chassis and the speakers, with the battery discharging during benchmarks. After running windows updates and updating the BIOS and EC, the coil whine went away but the physical scores plummeted to ~9000, sometimes lower. With some undervolting those scores have improved a little bit, but I haven't been able to get them back to what they were before all of the updates that eliminated the coil whine. I'm curious if the BIOS/EC updates solve the coil whine by further limitin

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figrin1Insider
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Blade Stealth Hobbled by Firmware

Skeith_0x5BYou've unknowingly answered your own question. :) The coil whine plus speaker crackling was enough for me to return mine. My left fan was also making a strange sound (different in pitch and it sounded as though it was clipping on something). It sounds like you're having some issues/second thoughts imho. If that's the case I'd advise you just refund yours, at this price point you should be no less than 100% satisfied with your purchase and don't let any shill tell you otherwise. I think it's an amazing computer and I'm grateful to have eliminated the coil whine issue. If I'm not able to solve the battery discharge with Razer Support and figure out why the CPU is being limited, then I'm going to very reluctantly return it. Here's an example of a stress test I ran today. CPU started at 25W, with temperatures at 68 (which is great, tons of thermal headroom), then inexplicably decided to throttle down to 20W and 2.7Ghz. This is in Creator Mode.

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Syai_Razer
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Help , need ec firmware & bios firmware for razerblade 14 2017 gtx 1060

Razer.FatKidWandererHi there, @Syai_Razer! Can you send me the serial number of your Razer Blade Stealth through PM? Also, can you tell us from what site did you got the updater for EC? I'll be waiting for your message. He said it was a Blade 14" with a GTX 1060, not the Stealth. Don't send him Stealth BIOS. ;)

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Syai_Razer
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Help , need ec firmware & bios firmware for razerblade 14 2017 gtx 1060

Syai_Razeri think my friend found link that provide dump EC & Bios Firmware for razer blade 14 2017 FHD : https://vinafix.com/threads/need-bios-dump-gaming-razer-rz09-0195-intel-7th-gen-pls-thx.28381/ but sadly i don't have paypal to pay it , only cash ( need to pay as vip member so i can download there ) :slightly_sad: any suggestion ? Was Razer Support unable to help you? You shouldn't have to pay for that at all.

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Syai_Razer
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Help , need ec firmware & bios firmware for razerblade 14 2017 gtx 1060

I'm not sure many of the support agents know what BIOS/EC are. I recently asked them about the BIOS / EC updates Razer released for the Stealth and they had no idea what I was talking about. I have a 2017 Blade, and I can send you a BIOS file but I don't know what utility to use to get the EC firmware. If you or someone else can help me figure that out, I can get it for you tomorrow.

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Syai_Razer
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Help , need ec firmware & bios firmware for razerblade 14 2017 gtx 1060

Here is a link to the original BIOS from my 2017 Blade 14 (7700HQ + GTX 1060). If anyone knows how to access EC firmware, please let us know and I can get that off of my Blade as well.

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SurfaceMinionInsider
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Core X or Core V2 with Stealth 4K verse 15" Advance?

Just get the best Blade 15 model you can. The performance from their internal GPU's will outperform a Stealth + eGPU for much less money. The only downside is that it's going to be less portable. The newer Blade Stealth suffers from driver incompatibility issues with eGPU's (even Razer's own eGPU's) so that you have to reinstall the laptop's graphics drivers every time you unplug from the eGPU. I would say you should just get the Stealth without the MX150, but then you only get 8GB of RAM, which isn't really enough for gaming. If you absolutely have to get something right away, I think the best option might be one of the 2018 Blade Stealths. They are less expensive, thinner, have 16GB of RAM, work very well with eGPU's, and have QHD screens, which make a lot more sense than 4K on something so small.

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SurfaceMinionInsider
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Core X or Core V2 with Stealth 4K verse 15" Advance?

The 2080 will still help you reach the 144hz refresh rate of the 1080p screen. Besides, it doesn't look like you can get a 4k screen with the 2080.

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pensara
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Razer Blade 14 late 2016 EC Downgrade (due to Weak Fans), possible?

pensaraThe thing is that I've upgraded my BIOS to v02.02 & EC 4.0 ...Because of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities, TPM thing etc. Now my Blade refuses to blow the hot air out of it. I can hear the Fans barely spinning, even if I set the synapse to "Cool mode" and trow some games or benchmarks on it. My temps are 100C on the CPU and 90C on the GPU... Things I've tried so far to resolve the issue: - Contact "Support" - absolutely ridiculous (they even doesn't keep the old BIOS-es in hand) - since it is out of warranty, they can't do anything... They stopped to reply to my emails.... - I've flashed the BIOS a couple of times, even unlocked the Overclocking Features (set to -170) and Thermal Features (the Critical Trip Point set to 119C, WTF). No use... - Tried to set NoteBookFanControl. Can't set it... - Repasted it with Kryonaut paste and Fujipoly pads. Even bought new heatsink. Same temps... Uff da. What are you using to monitor your temperatures? I had a similar issue

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johndavidson
5 years ago
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pensara
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Razer Blade 14 late 2016 EC Downgrade (due to Weak Fans), possible?

pensaraIt's not a hardware but software issue :) (EC firmware). I can hear the fans going on high speed when i start my Blade - just after synapse "syncing with the cloud" message, too. So the fans are running fine but the EC settings are not right - the temps are slowly rising up to 100C (cpu), but the fans are not spinning adequately... It sounds like as soon as Synapse syncs with your cloud settings it turns off the fans. So try closing Synapse and killing its process in the Task manager. Do your fans spin up then?

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johndavidson
5 years ago
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Syai_Razer
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Help , need ec firmware & bios firmware for razerblade 14 2017 gtx 1060

I don't know how they extracted the EC firmware... that thread is hard to follow, and the UEFI tool that they linked to looks like it's used for extracting the BIOS.

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ahfranco1
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Razer Blade Stealth (2019) Overheating and Blue screen

ahfranco1Hi, looking for guidance to fix these issues: BLUE SCREEN = DRIVER_POWER_STATE_FAILURE and DRIVER_VERIFIER_DETECTED_VIOLATION OVERHEATING What did you do?

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ahfranco1
posted in Systems

Razer Blade Stealth (2019) Overheating and Blue screen

If you can boot into Windows, I would open device manager and then uninstall any devices under 'Display Adapter' other than the Intel UHD Graphics 620. Then I would download Nvidia Geforce Experience and use that to install the proper drivers for the MX150. It's strange that your MX150 wasn't working out of the box--those drivers come installed automatically. Did you download the drivers from Nvidia's website or from Geforce Experience?

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figrin1Insider
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The 2019 Blade Stealth Bible

Skeith_0x5BVery grateful to you for making the effort OP. Have to say though Razer should be addressing these issues at the manufacturing level, not leaving it for a clearly talented and passionate user to come fix it for them. Regardless, good work and I look forward to reading the rest! :) Agreed, and thank you!

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4 years ago
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figrin1Insider
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The 2019 Blade Stealth Bible

Joikansaiyou don’t have actually reinstall the driver just restart the windows it’ll bring back the loosing driver (if that’s the problem). Unfortunately I think this is a different issue. For some reason after using the eGPU my MX150 will simply be listed as 'experiencing an error'. Restarting the laptop or disabling/enabling the device does nothing to get it working. It will be unusable until I reinstall drivers again. The laptop seems to have trouble holding on to display settings for the eGPU as well. I frequently have to readjust my resolution and turn off 'mirror displays' after shutting down, even if I never disconnected the eGPU. Neither of these problems existed with my Blade 14 with the GTX 1060. JoikansaiEdit: I forgot to ask HWinfo64 sensors screen on maximum load like running firestrike, right after that run would be great, the three rows one with cpu gpu etc details is the best. I'll get those results to you soon, with both the dGPU and eGPU.

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