It has certainly been a slow burn in terms of incrementally extracting more performance from the laptop. If you have been with me, then you might have read the previous three installments dealing with various changes made through software in pursuit […]
Update (June 1): The curve I ended with in the original article ended up being unstable in scenarios where the frequency dropped down to the 1600s on account of the thermal limit being breached. Hence, I tweaked the curve further to […]
My previous post about the A15 was about plucking the low hanging fruit of performance. However, there is always the scope of optimising the settings further to gain the greatest benefit for the lowest cost. That is what I was up to […]
Previously, in my review of the laptop, the only tweaking I had undertaken was an auto-overclock of the GPU which, as per expectation, yielded a performance improvement of around 6% overall with only a slight loss in CPU performance, purely on the […]
Team Red + Team Green – A killer combination! Introduction: Ever since Y2K, when AMD stole the limelight for a bit with breaking the 1 GHz barrier and releasing AMD64, AMD as a company failed to impress on me the need to […]
One of the significant purchases I made over the past 6 months is the Dell XPS 7590 with Intel’s Coffee Lake Core i9-9980HK, Samsung’s 32 GB DDR4-2667 RAM, Toshiba’s 1 TB SSD, Nvidia’s GTX 1650 and the crĂšme de la crĂšme that […]
The pursuit of (not) back breaking speed! I can’t imagine this cable being useful to anyone else other than the poor souls whose only option to experience USB 3.0 speeds is through the ports on the motherboard at the back of the […]
For all the cruft that had built up since the Anniversary Update, I decided to do a fresh installation of the Creators Update released earlier this month on my tablet (Dell Venue 11 Pro 7140). Re-installations are much easier now than a […]
Blizzard caught everyone by surprise earlier this week with the free (as in beer) release of the original StarCraft along with its Brood War expansion. Although it last received an update within the past decade, a 2-decade old game is always treading […]
The first generation Core M was an engineering marvel in terms of the power it managed to fit within the 4.5W TDP envelope. In terms of performance, it sat somewhere in between the 5th generation U-series Core i3 and i5 which bear […]