The all-new Razer Blade Stealth 13

Razer.WolfPack · 2018-12-04T15:58:27+00:00

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Looks awesome!

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Looks very cool~~~

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Joikansai
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20 December 2018

TK-1987
Yes I have the electrical noise. Its something that has been on my old razer blade 14 also. It's one of the fans. The machine is quiet and has no fan spin during normal use. I am debating returning it unfortunately. It actually seems like it's getting louder.

I don’t get about electrical noise, do you mean high pitch sound? Some people get it wrong with coil whine. My old Blade 14 and current Blade 15 has it too sometimes on max fans RPM, old Blade 14 i figured it by undervolting and limiting Turbo boost to keep cool cpu that effect Fans behavior (no users option on Synapse 2 adjusting Fans speed), and Blade 15 by not using max 5000rpm. This is due thin cassis that make the sound and happen as well in other thin light gaming laptops brands. Using core and let the cpu not bound with dgpu even made it gone.

Joikansai
I don’t get about electrical noise, do you mean high pitch sound? Some people get it wrong with coil whine. My old Blade 14 and current Blade 15 has it too sometimes on max fans RPM, old Blade 14 i figured it by undervolting and limiting Turbo boost to keep cool cpu that effect Fans behavior (no users option on Synapse 2 adjusting Fans speed), and Blade 15 by not using max 5000rpm. This is due thin cassis that make the sound and happen as well in other thin light gaming laptops brands. Using core and let the cpu not bound with dgpu even made it gone.

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No it's not high pitched. Have you ever heard a buzzing noise coming from a power outlet or something? It might be coil whine. But, I've never been able to watch a video and hear it as there is too much background noise.

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TK-1987
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No it's not high pitched. Have you ever heard a buzzing noise coming from a power outlet or something? It might be coil whine. But, I've never been able to watch a video and hear it as there is too much background noise.

I see that’s probably similar coil whine, the buzzing sound on Blade 15 ac adapter on early batch, can’t confirm that though since fortunately mine comes with none that issue, but heard some users cat or dog, forgot which one, is pretty frightened of it;)

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I ordered mine this morning for France.
I hope I do not have that kind of problem.

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20 December 2018

Diel87
I ordered mine this morning for France.
I hope I do not have that kind of problem.

Hope EU costumers first batch will be fine, like my Blade 15, Finger crossed! I usually order from Razer directly but nowadays there’s already local big store here in Germany offers the Blade laptops even new stealth, though it comes with a year guarantee according staff there when I asked at my local store, but they offer €250 hardware protection for extra 3 years, means 4 years guarantee which is great, Razer needs to bring Razer Care here soon imo like extended guarantee that retailers offer.

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rb6freak
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5 years ago
20 December 2018

Joikansai
I don’t get about electrical noise, do you mean high pitch sound?

Mine sounded like pop rocks when CPU would reach about 20-40% utilization with or without the power plugged in, that's the best way I could describe my sound. I confirmed it was not the fans. It was unbearable as I could hear it over 30% volume watching movies. It was my first Blade that I've ever had a problem with that warranted a return, and I've owned ~10 or so going back to Intel 3rd gen.

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Joikansai
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20 December 2018

rb6freak
Mine sounded like pop rocks when CPU would reach about 20-40% utilization with or without the power plugged in, that's the best way I could describe my sound. I confirmed it was not the fans. It was unbearable as I could hear it over 30% volume watching movies. It was my first Blade that I've ever had a problem with that warranted a return, and I've owned ~10 or so going back to Intel 3rd gen.

Yeah I saw you mentioned that here or on notebookreview, me too never heard that pop rocks sound from any Blade I had, not so many as yours though, that’s why I was curious, didn’t have buzzing ac adapter issue as well on Blade 15. Yeah it’s definitely annoying, it’ll bother me even if Fans kicking randomly on idle, which is sometimes but rarely happens on Blade 15.

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I have had issues with with thermal throttling at 50C. I talked to support and they said it was perfectly normal. Can that really be true..?

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Droglez
I have had issues with with thermal throttling at 50C. I talked to support and they said it was perfectly normal. Can that really be true..?

Can you provide pictures with what's going on? I would like to monitor your thermals....power limit etc. XTU would be helpful for this.

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Droglez
I have had issues with with thermal throttling at 50C. I talked to support and they said it was perfectly normal. Can that really be true..?

How is cpu usage? If it’s like 80 above, maybe demand too high than the supply can deliver. It may also the culprit from battery draining on charge, just my theory, I like talking theories:wink_:

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Firebat246
Can you provide pictures with what's going on? I would like to monitor your thermals....power limit etc. XTU would be helpful for this.

Running a stress test in XTU now, and it's power limit throttling and max core frequency is hovering between 2,3 GHz to 2,9 GHz. It's so low that the fans are almost off..

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Joikansai
How is cpu usage? If it’s like 80 above, maybe demand too high than the supply can deliver. It may also the culprit from battery draining on charge, just my theory, I like talking theories:wink_:

CPU usage is around 100%, so no worries there, but the frequency is a bit low imo. I was playing around with turbo boot max and short power max and at one specific setting I got it to run really good at those settings over and over and then all of a sudden it just stopped again. TDP was at 15 and then with those settings it went to 25 and ran like a dream. Over and over. No problem. Closed down XTU tried again and then I'm back to a TDP of 15. Any thoughts.

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Firebat246
Can you provide pictures with what's going on? I would like to monitor your thermals....power limit etc. XTU would be helpful for this.

Sorry to post again, but the thermal limitations are applied, when I'm not plugged in. Starts to throttle as soon as it hits 50C

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Kenserky
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20 December 2018

FrozenFireVR
MX150?

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Yeah, i ticked too.

Joikansai
I see that’s probably similar coil whine, the buzzing sound on Blade 15 ac adapter on early batch, can’t confirm that though since fortunately mine comes with none that issue, but heard some users cat or dog, forgot which one, is pretty frightened of it;)

Well atleast I know what coil whine is now. Lol. So I'll be returning my unit. I'll sleep on if I'll exchange it or wait awhile and see if they sort this out before getting another.

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21 December 2018

Droglez
CPU usage is around 100%, so no worries there, but the frequency is a bit low imo. I was playing around with turbo boot max and short power max and at one specific setting I got it to run really good at those settings over and over and then all of a sudden it just stopped again. TDP was at 15 and then with those settings it went to 25 and ran like a dream. Over and over. No problem. Closed down XTU tried again and then I'm back to a TDP of 15. Any thoughts.

Droglez

Running a stress test in XTU now, and it's power limit throttling and max core frequency is hovering between 2,3 GHz to 2,9 GHz. It's so low that the fans are almost off..

That power limit throttling is normal I would say, nothing to worry about, it happens as well on my Blade 15 even low temperature, the purpose is to keep cpu thermal on heavy usage actually. I was also curious at first but after playing games half year on Blade 15, that tdp limitation is worth keeping the Blade run cooler, idk about power limit throttling on other brands, but they’re also limiting tdp like for example on 8750H to 25 watt (especially thin light gaming laptops with minimal cooling room) which is usually 45 Watt or more, some users (not Blade) tweaking the bios to unlock it, but it’s risky imo, i saw some of them has already hardware issues most probably because of that tweak.
If you run cpu intensive titles, and it cap 100% it means cpu bottleneck. I never see my games, cpu intensive one, like gta V, AC franchises, Tomb Raider franchises reaching above 70 or 80% cpu usage, gpu usage is other story. Ultrabook cpu tdp base is 15 Watt, i think your cpu is set boost to 25 watt, so after intensive usage it’ll down to 15 and on idle under 10 watt or maybe 5 watt for battery life purposes.

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Joikansai
That power limit throttling is normal I would say, nothing to worry about, it happens as well on my Blade 15 even low temperature, the purpose is to keep cpu thermal on heavy usage actually. I was also curious at first but after playing games half year on Blade 15, that tdp limitation is worth keeping the Blade run cooler, idk about power limit throttling on other brands, but they’re also limiting tdp like for example on 8750H to 25 watt (especially thin light gaming laptops with minimal cooling room) which is usually 45 Watt or more, some users (not Blade) tweaking the bios to unlock it, but it’s risky imo, i saw some of them has already hardware issues most probably because of that tweak.
If you run cpu intensive titles, and it cap 100% it means cpu bottleneck. I never see my games, cpu intensive one, like gta V, AC franchises, Tomb Raider franchises reaching above 70 or 80% cpu usage, gpu usage is other story. Ultrabook cpu tdp base is 15 Watt, i think your cpu is set boost to 25 watt, so after intensive usage it’ll down to 15 and on idle under 10 watt or maybe 5 watt for battery life purposes.

The thing is that it was plugged in the whole time and it seemed like it had the capabilities of running "harder", but didn't do it for some reason. On another note, I see the MX150 struggling with the wattage aswell. Thermals are ROCK solid at around 59C, but I honestly thing it's the wall charger setting the limit at this point. Which is fairly sad I'd say..

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Droglez
The thing is that it was plugged in the whole time and it seemed like it had the capabilities of running "harder", but didn't do it for some reason. On another note, I see the MX150 struggling with the wattage aswell. Thermals are ROCK solid at around 59C, but I honestly thing it's the wall charger setting the limit at this point. Which is fairly sad I'd say..

59 degrees on gaming or xtu stress? Xtu stress doesn’t stress cpu anymore nowadays, try running some intensive apps like gaming, try gta V, AC franchise, tomb raider or pubg, you’ll see higher cpu temperatures. It may have that power limit since the gpu is 25 watt if cpu boost to 25 watt it’ll be only 15 watt left to supply the system, so throttle cpu to 15 watt may let the system run more stable...I’m not quite sure what I’m talking about though only doing some idiot math:big_grin_:, but my concern is that on gaming video above, running AC Odyssey, BFV and battlefront all cpu hitting 100% usage may boost wattage as well, by limiting FPS to 30% he could manage to lower cpu usage. It may avoid bigger power demand, how about trying that.

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Does anyone with the 4k screen seem to think the refresh seems sluggish? Just moving the mouse around and switching between windows It is quite bothersome and I want to make sure that its just me and not an issue with the laptop itself

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osirus35
Does anyone with the 4k screen seem to think the refresh seems sluggish? Just moving the mouse around and switching between windows It is quite bothersome and I want to make sure that its just me and not an issue with the laptop itself

In the Synapse software you can toggle between 40 and 60Hz for the screen. Check and see that you haven't set it to 40. My screen is fine but I am getting buzzing from the speakers.

Well sadly I'll be returning my unit. After hearing the buzzing noise coming from the laptop I can't unhear it. So it kind ruins using it. I'll probably get another at a later time.

BTW I contacted technical support first and I had a facepalm moment. I won't reveal his name. But, after explaining the issue the Tech suggested the issue was that Windows needed to be updated. I paused in disbelief. I wanted to ask him if he knows how windows 10 works? It updates all the time you turn it off. Lol. So he had no idea what he was talking about as he was just going through a list of old do this to fix your problem.
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Don't get me wrong my laptop was basically perfect besides the buzzing noise. ((Coil Whine?)) So if anyone sees this and thinks this isn't a good laptop please don't think that. I'm gonna wait a bit and get another one down the road.

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Joikansai
59 degrees on gaming or xtu stress? Xtu stress doesn’t stress cpu anymore nowadays, try running some intensive apps like gaming, try gta V, AC franchise, tomb raider or pubg, you’ll see higher cpu temperatures. It may have that power limit since the gpu is 25 watt if cpu boost to 25 watt it’ll be only 15 watt left to supply the system, so throttle cpu to 15 watt may let the system run more stable...I’m not quite sure what I’m talking about though only doing some idiot math:big_grin_:, but my concern is that on gaming video above, running AC Odyssey, BFV and battlefront all cpu hitting 100% usage may boost wattage as well, by limiting FPS to 30% he could manage to lower cpu usage. It may avoid bigger power demand, how about trying that.

I have done some further investigation, and XTU does not stress CPU very much, no. I tried Cinebench and it ran like a dream. Hitting all cores at around 3,5 GHz and thermals are still amazing. They really did a good job on that. But in conclusion, it's the power adapter limiting the power at this point, which is a little sad, honestly. But I guess one can buy a bigger one. Or..?

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TK-1987
Well sadly I'll be returning my unit. After hearing the buzzing noise coming from the laptop I can't unhear it. So it kind ruins using it. I'll probably get another at a later time.

BTW I contacted technical support first and I had a facepalm moment. I won't reveal his name. But, after explaining the issue the Tech suggested the issue was that Windows needed to be updated. I paused in disbelief. I wanted to ask him if he knows how windows 10 works? It updates all the time you turn it off. Lol. So he had no idea what he was talking about as he was just going through a list of old do this to fix your problem.
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Don't get me wrong my laptop was basically perfect besides the buzzing noise. ((Coil Whine?)) So if anyone sees this and thinks this isn't a good laptop please don't think that. I'm gonna wait a bit and get another one down the road.

Mine does the same thing, but I don't think it's that bad at all. I once in a while hear a very silent "crackling" noise from it. But it's so low that I can barely hear it. Not an issue at all. Your story about the support made laugh. Install windows... Good one!

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