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Surface Book 3 Throttling at 0.19 GHz
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Anonymous
Hello,
My 2 week old surface book 3 ( i7-1065G7) is now throttling at a very low speed of .19GHz.
I have a standard mouse plugged in, and a Microsoft USB-C Travel hub connected. To the travel hub, i have a 2nd monitor connected via VGA cable. This system worked well until i plugged in an Ethernet cable to the hub from my router.
I have unplugged the travel hub, and have restarted the computer 2 times now with no luck.
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Anonymous
2020-07-20T14:14:09+00:00 -
Anonymous
2020-07-21T07:59:40+00:00 My laptop managed to stay 14 hours at 400 MHz, not cooling down in the least...
Fascinating (in a bad way).
Nothing seems to solve this so I'll go for a refund and buy a Dell XPS 2-in-1 instead. Pity.
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Anonymous
2020-07-21T08:20:13+00:00 I'd also be curious to know what experiences you've had with the battery life...
Yesterday, I was doing a presentation for 3 hours (5 slides!) and my battery plummeted down to 23%...
This must be related but it's another nail in the coffin of the Surface Book 3...
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Anonymous
2020-07-21T11:17:40+00:00 My laptop managed to stay 14 hours at 400 MHz, not cooling down in the least...
Fascinating (in a bad way).
Nothing seems to solve this so I'll go for a refund and buy a Dell XPS 2-in-1 instead. Pity.
I am looking at the XPS 2-in-1 too. Any known issues that you have read about? How is battery life? Is there a real docking solution?
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Anonymous
2020-07-21T12:50:28+00:00 I don't care for the docking solution as I plan to plug everything with some USB-C (TB3 is a bonus with my home monitor).
This review looks very promising: https://www.anandtech.com/show/15092/the-dell-xps-13-7390-2in1-review-the-ice-lake-cometh/7
I'm already happy if I can run my Chrome and not get the laptop to freeze every second day or throttle every time there's a bit of load...