razer blade pro 17 ( 2017 ) GTX1080 still kicks ass | Razer Insider
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My summarizing my 3 month usage of the year 2017 model of Razer blade pro 17 with 4k screen , 32gb ram and 1tb SSD , fitted with Nvidia gtx 1080 .



Out of the box , it was hot like hell and throttles badly. It has excellent and top end components all badly fitted into a poorly cooling design razer chassis. The heavens 4 score was only 2600+.



after a series of tweaks as follows

1. repasting with LM

2. thermal pads added at Ram , PCH , NVME

3. Disabling raid 0 and running it as normal NVME ( much improved write / read than raid0 as raid0 will heating up the nvme really fast)

3. undervolting CPU and GPU

4. fans leaks seal

5. additional copper pipes mods



The best results i got from heavens 4 benchmark is 4232 !

this performance is probably higher than most rtx 2080 Max q laptop.



To summarize, in order for any gaming laptop to reach the maximum performance of it's hardware, cooling is of utmost importance. Its useless to have the highest specs cpu & gpu in a badly designed chassis with inadequate cooling.
Just look at the dual nvme running raid 0 . Lousy performance out of the box. This was the diskmark benchmark by a reviewer in year 2017

https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/Notebooks/Razer/Blade_Pro_2017/ssd2.jpg

Razer must have hired a bunch of marketers as laptop designers who know nothing about hardware and marketing that RAID0 has amazing speed and throwing whatever technology they have for marketing purposes



Truth is raid0 is probably faster in enterprise server hardware (SSD large size hdd). Running raid0 simultaneously on dual NVME in a slim chassis with poor cooling (like this razer blade pro 17) is just asking for trouble.



here's the same samsung NVME on my laptop after getting rid of the silly raid0 and having proper thermal pads for cooling. This was a samsung NVME produced in year 2016/2017 !



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