I don't have the laptop anymore but it's a shame that all of these workaround that could potentially brick the laptop are needed. There clearly are issues with the thermal design or CPU/GPU selection.

I think this laptop only support 32gb ram but i want to put 64gb will it going to work?

​@@Markimullaler In short: i think the chances are great! But I can't guarantee that it would work for all RAM brands and microchip types. I can assure that it works for Patriot 32Gb DDR4 CL15. In details: I also thought so (that it won't work), but as I can say - it's already a year since I've installed additional 32Gb and it works excellent! An important point: both the current chipset and the processor support 64gb of RAM. That is why I decided to have an experiment. I've been using it as a ram disk for virtual machines and an additional space for services inside Windows Subsytem for Linux. And I have to say: since 15 hours of work Win OS doesn't even fill to full available RAM extent.

That's a good idea. Don't have the laptop anymore and I do believe it could make a difference but I don't think it will completely resolve the issues to my idea.

@@jensdbe Well there is a third party fan control software also. If I remember right, it’s called Dell Fan Control. My Dell Inspiron Gaming 5000 (5577) did not have thermal issues, but it also has a third side vent which the 7000 does not have… which means better cooling. I still ran the fan control, undervolted the CPU (another suggestion you could try on a future laptop), and removed Intel Dynamic Platform & Thermal Framework (since it actually does a bad job of managing fans and CPU performance). With those tweaks, I was able to run Prime95 and Heaven Benchmark all at once for over 2 hours without thermal throttling.

Sounds like a different issue. You can monitor the RAM usage if you suspect that. Also you might check the logs of OBS (don't know that tool very well). Maybe a stresstest with a benchmarking toold could rule-out the software part as well.

Thanks for your reply. I will try to review the OBS log (I thing I’ve never done before), but I like this laptop, so I might proceed with the ram upgrade. Thanks again for your prompt response. V

If everything else works fine, it would be a shame to get rid of the device. You can buy a fairly proper SSD of 256GB for under €50. That would be my option.

The RAM is just standard DDR4 sodimm, so should work. I'm not happy with the performance though as the laptop is only performing as expected for 5-10 min and then throttles everything doen due to heat issues

Haven't really tried that. You could try to clean under the caps with a compressor. That might be enough to fix the issue.

@@jensdbe unfortunately I tried using a compressor, it doesn't work i think I need to do a manual cleaning under the key cap.

As far as I see (only did a quick look) that laptop has an M.2 slot but it only supports SATA, not NVMe. I think the easiest option would be to use a 2.5" SATA SSD as performance won't be much better and M.2 SATA SSDs are harder to find. As for data migration. Personally I would go for backup + fresh install on the new drive.

@@jensdbe That's very helpful. Thank you.

Important note: at least core i7 7700hq has direct separate 16 lanes for graphical system (pci-e 3.0 x16), chipset (PCH) has sharable pci-express lanes (nvme ssd / wi-fi / ethernet). Which interface does Samsung pm961 use? You will see the actual improvement if a real read/write speed of (nvme pcie 3.0 x4) ssd is better. Real data you can get from CrystalDiskMark tests on the same platform (the same cpu / chipset) which are being published quite often by the bloggers on yt. UPDATE: I've edited the message because the first one was actually wrong: CPU i7 7700hq has NO separate pci-e lanes for M2 as compared with modern ryzen cpus. M2 is Pci-e 3.0 x4, connected to chipset (PCH). There are more user-friendly details on linustechtips. It's a shame that Dell hasn't provided a useful diagram with all interconnected components on its motherboard.

@Marlan Ivanovich Thank you for your input. According to CPUID CPU-Z the motherboard is Dell 0VPTXG A01 PCI-Express 3.0 (8.0 GT/s) with Intel HM175 chipset, but there is no x4 before or after. According to Intel site and HWiNFO64 Intel HM 175 (Skylake PCH-H) with motherboard slots of 1xPCI, 3xPCI Express x1, 2xPCI Express x4, 1xPCI Express x16, so I'm wondering if it actually supports m.2 2280 NVME ssd x4 full performance or if the PM961 is just reverse compatible, meaning if one of the 2 pcie x4s is for the m.2, because if it is then I'm going to replace the PM961 with something better. Long story short, I know it is there are various types of PCIe/NVMe, like 3.0 x2 and 3.0 x4, so I am not sure which one of them will be the right fit for my laptop. Thanks again!

@@ABetterMeee E.g. I use WD SN550 512 Gb PCI-e 3.0 x4.0 on this laptop, the real performance is not so brilliant as someone could think: 2GB/s for a few gigabytes in the beginning of transfer, then the speed is approx. 400 MB/s. But I knew about that and agreed with it for that price (approx. 6500 rubles). Right now I've successfully installed 48 Gb of RAM and have plans to use even 64Gb. All of that to use RAM disk which has astonishing read/write speeds (32kb sequentional as Crystal Disk Mark states): 5900 MB/s reading, 10 000 MB/s writing. All the data can be synchronized with storage (written back to, be it SSD or HDD) just before switching the laptop off manually or with some utilities like Imdisk tools. But I'm surprised with 60-70 (C) temperatures under active workload with active dual channel memory )

Same experience. Overall, the display is really not a match with the highend specs of the rest of the system to my idea.

You will need to work around the hardware check but it should run perfectly fine. If you want more info about that, did some videos on that as well: - For an upgrade: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbd9paVlsd7VgWw.html - For a fresh install: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7aTZ7eezdyRYaM.html

I upgraded it with Kingston HyperX

Repasting the CPU/GPU would probably help. Don't have the laptop anymore though.

That's a good point and it would have helped but I don't think it would take the problem completely away. Unfortunately I don't have the laptop anymore to give it a try.

Not sure as I'm not familiar with it. I do see the following in the notes about what you're asking: "The game is also quite RSX intensive and even a RTX 3090 loses a bit of performance at 4k (300% scaling)" A RTX3090 outperforms this laptop's 1050Ti by a lot...

@@jensdbe you can, but it's very hard to play god of war 3 on rpcs3. because the graphics are heavy and the fps framedrop is down... and the graphics can't be exchanged to rx 560... i really regret buying it 😟

It does support NVMe and SATA M.2 SSDs

As far as I know, yes

Nothing special. The limit is mainly the SATA interface rather than the SSD speed itself. So most of the known-brand SSDs will do well.

Kingston HyperX DDR4 Sodimm

@@jensdbe how many mhz is it should to be 2400 or we can install higher mhz