New Dell G7 15 7500, is it worth it?

Going to jump in here: Actual 2020 G5 15 5500 owner here. Maybe guidance for you and maybe some for other G series owners.

It ran hot as hell ‘as is’ from the factory and god forbid you pressed the G button as it seems to go straight to meltdown mode. Really, this thing would go into sleep mode after about 20 min of gaming and I began to hate myself for getting it (my employer picked up a substantial portion of the cost but it had to be a Dell).

I scoured this sub and spent quite a bit of time googling and learning about what my options were. I found a fairly simple solution using throttlestop and power profiles with an aggressive fan curve for gaming in AWCC.

Speed step tweaking (set to 150) with throttlestop (and a helluva lot of wonderful information from UncleWebb!) and some other settings have this thing back to mid 80s (cpu) while gaming and all in all performing as I expected and benchmarking fine for its specs. No fans screaming while browsing or using office for me (this is in its non gaming state with no throttlestop or active fan profiles other than “balanced” in awcc)

So, would I buy it if I was paying full freight? Probably not. Can you tame it without killing performance, yes. Is it kinda a hassle, depends if clicking on two programs before you game meets that definition for you.

Shop around and maybe if it is on a serious discount then go for it.

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