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svabra
posted in Systems

USB-C Charging on Razer Blade 15 Base (2020)

@Brastic you can 'charge' the blade 15 2020 advanced with usb-c it works, but it's temperamental and as you say the powerdraw isn't there; it trickle charges under light-medium workloads. However I really can't recommend using it, if you fire up the discrete gpu you exceed the 100w limit of usb c and atleast on my set up that overloads the dock, all peripherals connected to the dock lose power, the dock has to be rebooted at that point. So it kind of makes sense for situations where you're travelling and doing light work etc... But I really wish there were protections in place, and it didn't require the stars to aline in order to get it to work i.e. device is powered on connected to the usb-c charger.

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3 years ago
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SaraiL
posted in Systems

Help upgrading my son's gaming pc for xmas...

I'm in the UK - it appears to be cheaper here than it is in the us. But this seems like the best us price: https://www.newegg.com/amd-ryzen-5-3500x/p/274-000M-001B6

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3 years ago
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SaraiL
posted in Systems

Help upgrading my son's gaming pc for xmas...

The gpu might be alright at medium settings - given that it supports nvenc for video encoding; make sure that's being used by whatever he's using to stream. CPU is going to be a bottleneck to the gpu - it's 8 years old, single thread perf is not good and multi thread perf on that model is pretty bad; back then amd would do well on multi-threaded performance and lose out on single threaded, but this chip is bad all round. 8gb memory - not enough to be doing streaming competently, I would imagine it's a single stick as well so you'd take a hit for single channel. Hard drive instead of an SSD, is going to be bad for loading times and sequential read whilst streaming will be terrible. Here's a budget reccomendation: - AMD Ryzen 5 3500X - ASRock B550 Phantom Gaming (or Any B550 chipset mobo) - 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair DDR4 Vengeance (or Any cheap 3000mhz+ ddr4 - must be a min of 2 sticks for dual channel) - 250GB WD Blue SN550, M.2 (2280) PCIe 3.0 (or any SSD that has a dram cache) - Keep th

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3 years ago
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Falkomat
posted in Systems

Spare screws for buttom cover, Blade 17 Pro 2020

Their screws are awful - as you say you would expect more from a machine that costs 3-4k. I had the same thing with my 15 - managed to source some screws that fit perfectly; see my thread here: /razer-blade-2020-screws.65153/#post-651114 . Maybe the vendor does them for the 17 (not sure if they are the same screws) .

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3 years ago
Dirpubsaf
DirpubsafInsider Mini
posted in Systems

My battery blew up on my Razer Blade 15 - Advanced Model RTX

Gotta admit, this was something that concerned me when buying my 15 this year. Just out of curiosity - does the chassis return to normal, after the replacement, or is it permanently damaged?

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gstsdw
2 years ago
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svabra
posted in Systems

USB-C Charging on Razer Blade 15 Base (2020)

I got the Caldigit TS3 Plus dock today and it kinda works, but it's not great. It'll charge to 100% then start to discharge, go down by about 4% and then start to charge again. I think this is largely because I can only push 87w and I'm exceeding that draw frequently with my workflow. Good news is that it never really gets the opportunity to significantly drain. I am concerned about the longevity of the battery in doing this, due to increased charge cycles. What plain does not work though, is simply plugging the dock in and having it charge; I have to boot the machine with the dock plugged in for the charging to kick in and it doesn't appear to charge when the machine is turned off which is annoying. It seems that a lot of people are having difficulties with usb-c charging, so I hope razer is able to rectify this with a firmware update. I'm using the advanced model, not the base model btw.

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3 years ago
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dcrdev
posted in Systems

Razer Blade 2020 Screws

I wasn't happy with the phillips head screws because they weren't flush - went ahead and bought these t5 screws: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12x-Razer-15-Black-T5-Torx-Base-Replacement-Screws-Laptop-New-M2x3-NEW/303018916049?hash=item468d55b8d1:g:f6sAAOSwFHpfQ68e . They fit flush with the base and are extremely strong, the stock screws are like butter in comparison; hope that helps other people.

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3 years ago
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COSMICFILMS
posted in Systems

G.Skill RipJaws Series 64GB? Will this work on my Razer Blade Pro 2020

It will work if it's rated at 1.2v, anything over you'll have problems.

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3 years ago

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