These 2 Settings Could Be Overheating Your New Dell XPS Laptop

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Күн бұрын

My video editor and I found 2 settings in the BIOS of my New Dell XPS 17 laptop that were causing a couple of my CPU cores to overheat (reaching to 100° C). In this video I walk you through how to fix it.
TL;DR
Make these changes in BIOS Settings (BIOS settings button is F2 key on laptop startup):
1. Power - Battery Configuration
Change: Adaptive - Primarily AC Use (only if you use your laptop primarily plugged in most of the time, which I think is the best way to preserve your battery, but NOT IF ITS BEING DRAINED LIKE ON ADAPTIVE MODE)
2. Performance - Intel Turbo Boost Technology and/or Intel Turbo Boost Maximum Technology 3.0
Change: On - Off (I believe this is the primary one that was overheating my PC)
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@kasraakbari8291 Жыл бұрын

Thank you a million!!!! It was really helpful! I resolved my problem 🤩😍

@Davinci12007 10 ай бұрын

"THANK YOU!" Instantly better. I have been wondering "what on earth happened to my laptop?" Cleaned out everything, did all the updates and sure enough, it was Dell who stuck it to me. Again, THANK YOU!

@zackplauche 9 ай бұрын

Sure thing!!!

@TechEquations Жыл бұрын

I really so appreciate you recorded this video 😅. I recently got dell laptop not xps , but I had exactly same issues as they use same bios settings on all models. Thanks once again, it’s such a valuable recommendation!👍

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Hey Tech Equations! Glad I could help 🙂 People keep saying it's suboptimal but for me and others it seems to be the only thing that worked 😅

@TechEquations 8 ай бұрын

@@zackplauche I can only say "haha"😅 to those who saying it's suboptimal. As impact of those settings is so horrible that laptop nearly useless under good/high workload tasks, everything just lagging and stuttering, as well as it causing constant cpu heating even under moderate and low workloads which resulting to only fan noise.

@zackplauche 5 ай бұрын

That's what I'm saying! lol

@vincexw Жыл бұрын

Thank you, it's working for me. I did also change my nvidia video card settings and removed some apps from starting automatically.

@aveekdas6343 6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. My xps was overheating while playing games and shutting down , your video helped me fix it.

@zackplauche 6 ай бұрын

😎 glad it helped!

@vomeister 3 ай бұрын

You're the best! Your video solved my heating issue that have been bugging me for weeks!!

@zackplauche 2 ай бұрын

Glad I could help!

@Skeptical_Dante Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much. I've read through tons of forums, read solutions from users and employees of Dell about various nonsense that could possibly help. The issue is obviously(!) the Turbo Boost tech and shows that it wasn't tested properly. My laptop started overheating and draining during during my work tasks and once I've switchd Turbo Boost off in BIOS, the fans basically stopped being audible, temp went down and it's working perfectly fine now as it should. When I find the time, I'll destroy those forums and will spread this video as much as I can. Great job!

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

Haha, thanks! I appreciate it the support 🙂.

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

And again, if anyone can SHOW a better solution, I am open to trying it!

@ImTheKaiser Жыл бұрын

@@zackplauche I have a better solution, you're better off customizing your battery setting in Windows to Battery Saver, then change the monitor off and sleep times. Setting to Battery Saver also disables Turbo, but it gives you the ability to easily turn Turbo back on, without having to go into BIOS to turn it back on. Disabling Turbo reduces your performance by 1/2, so it would be better to have a way to re-enable it when needed, whiteout booting into BIOS.

@jasonuronis3410 2 ай бұрын

Amazing! Lowered my temps 30-40C. Thank you so much!

@zackplauche 2 ай бұрын

Sure thing!

@user-mv6ej4kp4x 8 ай бұрын

Holy crap my XPS went from 60-90 degrees C at idle to 45. its insanse that this issue hasn't been fixed a year after your video was uploaded. thank you for the help.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Happy to help! And yeah, I have no clue why they decide to keep is like an oven. Seems kind of dangerous to me.

@slowgojoe 3 ай бұрын

Thank you. Resolved the issues with my Dell XPS 9700

@AC-xh3mz 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for this video! This instantly helped keep my CPU from heating up so much when idle. It dropped the temps 30-40 C. For some reason this setting had my CPU hitting 80-100 C when not under heavy load.

@zackplauche 3 ай бұрын

That's what I'm saying! It makes no sense to do by default and doing nothing haha.

@zobie121 5 ай бұрын

This fixed the heating problem. Thank you mate.

@zackplauche 5 ай бұрын

Sure thing sir!

@vomeister 3 ай бұрын

Thank you for your video. Crossing my fingers that the recommended XPS 17 9720 to keep it running cooler and save my battery life.

@michelnthaler 8 ай бұрын

Thanks from Brazil for shared your experience. I have xps 13 plus

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Happy it helped! 😁

@dxgm8512 4 ай бұрын

thank you Zack, I followed the video and made the changes on the bios! Since last couple of days my xps 15 (which is not even 1.5 years old) became very hot for no obvious reason! Not sure why unless it's because I was not using the laptop for 2 weeks and so the "adaptive" option suddenly thought I was using a lot more than usual and tried to "adjust"! LOL and Dell posted record profits a couple of days ago! Thanks again, this saves my laptop as i was really worried it will catch fire it was so hot!!

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Glad you found it useful! 😁

@sharonsheridan5834 5 ай бұрын

Thanks so much for this info. It worked great. My laptop is no longer on fire.

@zackplauche 5 ай бұрын

Great to hear! 🥳

@Markfoster01 Ай бұрын

Very good! Top job.. no more insane fan noise

@zackplauche Ай бұрын

Thanks!

@chijoyphillip2784 Жыл бұрын

I'm using Dell XPS 12 9Q33, do the same settings apply? Because the boot menu looks way different. I think at some point I changed my Bios settings but I checked my battery health today and it's at 96% so I guess that still a good thing. I live in a region where there is constant power outage so having my battery run down in an hour or two is a headache for me. Plus the overheating is just too much.

@zackplauche 9 ай бұрын

Hmm, not sure :/

@yamashe8480 Ай бұрын

Thanks a lot. It solved my dell xps 15 9530 (2023) overheating. After inserting second SSD and upgrading RAM my laptop all of sudden started overheating. No idea why, but this instruction solved the issue 🙏🙏

@zackplauche Ай бұрын

Nice to hear!

@brianjamesdiesto6134 19 күн бұрын

Hi, Thanks for the tip! I am also experiencing a sudden sleep or black screen while using my XPS 13 plus. Do you have any idea how to solve the issue. Thanks a lot!

@zackplauche 10 күн бұрын

Hi, no I haven't had that issue

@HAHHAHAAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHA Жыл бұрын

I don't game just a lot of photoshop but also the thermal paste that dell uses well lets justvsay their frugal on the amount the apply on the cpu & gpu cause throttling

@Ariffin958 Ай бұрын

2:50 Thanks for the information!!!! No wonder my laptop's battery was draining faster than normal.

@zackplauche Ай бұрын

Sure thing! Happy to help 🙂

@vlogframenest3106 7 ай бұрын

You need to change your Thermal Paste, after some time it gets hardened or useless to absorb temperature. else these Bios Tips is great

@rennmaxbeta 5 ай бұрын

How long till it needs changing? My XPS 17 is from 2011... So it's 13 years old now 😅 thanks

@tttomtxhc 3 ай бұрын

@@rennmaxbetausually 3-4 years depending on the temps you’re seeing

@Amazon-qm2ru 9 ай бұрын

It helped me too, thanks from India !

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Happy to help! 😀

@TPRoach 9 ай бұрын

You legend! Thanks!

@zackplauche 9 ай бұрын

Aww thx (^-^)⚔🐉🔥

@willseth8180 Күн бұрын

Brilliant. I screwed around with this so much...finally, a solution. I like the HWinfo64 interface, too. many thanks.

@Mahmoud-jx3rx 8 ай бұрын

HI can i ask you somthing why this interface is not show with me the old one only show ! ? how i can fix that?

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Sorry, not sure about that one :/

@YaseinAbdi 5 ай бұрын

what version of xps 15 do you have. and is this doable with my xps 15 9520

@zackplauche 5 ай бұрын

I have 17 and yes I'm pretty sure it's all of them right now

@adhityaafwan7961 4 ай бұрын

got this overheating issue also on my xps 15 i9, couple days ago some components burned cause of this overheating. dell technician turning off these setting and sure it cooling the laptop down, but my max cpu clock is only 2,6ghz and it slows my work. i working in revit 3d modelling and i think turning off these settings are not good for performance. still searching for possible trick to avoid this overheating issue

@master-qn3bt 3 ай бұрын

Same here man

@whozzryan 2 ай бұрын

hey i have DELL PRECISION 5560, does it also work with this laptop because when its plugged in and i wanna play a game it starts making loud fan noise . thanks!

@zackplauche 2 ай бұрын

Hi! I'm not sure, I only tried this with my laptop. I would assume if you have the same settings it would potentially work. Let me know how it goes!

@whozzryan 2 ай бұрын

Hi , i tried your method and it actually reduced the loud fan noise , but will it decrease my CPU’s performance?

@johnny3sz 7 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Happy to help 🙂

@Bella_KG 8 ай бұрын

Is it okay if I use the same setting even if I use my laptop plugged in and not?? When I’m at the office it’s plugged in but otherwise it’s not as much.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

So I'm not a super big computer expert (I'm a developer that just happen to have this problem and resolve it). From my understanding, this setting just makes it to where when it is plugged in, the power isn't cycling through your battery, and your computer is receiving it's power ONLY through the charger. It still charges, and performs the same when it's not plugged in. I've had this for more than a year now and it works perfectly fine.

@Bella_KG 8 ай бұрын

@@zackplauche thank you so much!!!

@cindymccann3753 3 ай бұрын

I did what you said. How long will I have to wait to see the keyboard cool down. So far it is warm , not hot. Will it run warm always. I couldn't even touch my keyboard before this. Thanks sooo much

@zackplauche 3 ай бұрын

It will be warm and even pretty hot if your doing something intensive, just not 100c+ like before

@cindymccann3753 3 ай бұрын

@@zackplauche OMgosh, I spoke too soon. It's COOL NOW. Thank you.

@sangelmallo8581 Жыл бұрын

bro you just helped me i was having overheating problems now its gone👍👍👍👍

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

Awesome! Enjoy your much cooler PC 🙂

@KingGJT Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot, I'm gonna try it now. Btw it is called Hardware Info not H-Winfo ;)

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

Thanks! I'm not an expert at hardware at all 😂 I mostly make coding videos.

@Skeptical_Dante Жыл бұрын

Switch off turbo boost. Since I did that, the device is perfectly fine and works like a charm! Or don't put the laptop on your lap as they instruct in some forums (:

@rustler08 4 ай бұрын

@@zackplaucheHW is an acronym for Hardware. Don't feel bad, you didn't say anything wrong.

@SandalwoodTollywoodHungama 4 ай бұрын

How much Degree Celsius should be there for normal temperature?

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Hmm, I don't have any benchmarks for this. If close to 100c I would assume too high haha. Someone else may be more of an expert and have a better answer.

@chriss.758 Жыл бұрын

You just crippled a great Laptop to half its power, by turning off its Turbo Boost. This is not the right way to reduce heat. Instead, use the program "ThrottleStop" to limit the TPL-Wattage, giving your CPU still room to breathe. "Undervolting" would be even better, but your BIOS probably doesn´t support that. Just go down to 25W or 30W at PL1 and PL2 in ThrottleStop (XPS9710).

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

Do you have a video of setting this up?

@salehin85 Жыл бұрын

Guys, it's nice to see you guys having a chitchat but I am really confused. These technical talks are going right over my head. Should I turn off the Turbo Boost or not? My Dell XPS 13 (Evo CORE i7) is a heat generator.

@coolmemesbudd Жыл бұрын

@@salehin85 The answer is likely no. Turbo boost gives a boost when needed; visualize it as strong pushes in power to get over a bump. Turning it off means that it can no longer provide any explosive work. With it off the laptop would just settle with more consistent work over longer periods of time to do whatever it is doing rather than hitting heavy in shorter bursts. In either case, the laptop does the same amount of work, it would likely be warm regardless of choice. The turbo just happens to be more convenient for hiccups and time. The solution would be to say decrease the amount of work the laptop does in totality, or increase the efficiency at which it works.

@salehin85 Жыл бұрын

@@coolmemesbudd thank you so much. its all clear now you have explained so nicely thanks again

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

Actually I'm still a bit confused lmao. Anyone got a vid to showing how to do this for these laptops? I'd definitely prefer to see how it's done. I shared a solution. If someone has a better one and can show the process of setting it up, I'd love to see it 🙂 Please share a step-by-step vid / guide!

@mikehawk7307 Жыл бұрын

Well this worked for me. Before changing anything in the Bios it would shoot up to 100c instantly when using Cinebench. Turned of the Intel turbo and it made it to 75c. Night and day difference.

@zackplauche 9 ай бұрын

Glad it worked for you!

@Alex.Hilman 7 ай бұрын

But I think by turning off the Turbo Boost, you won't get that maximum expected performance from the CPU. Will you?

@rustler08 4 ай бұрын

That's how the computer is supposed to work. Unless you have an absolutely stunning cooling solution (spoiler alert, none of the XPS models do), the CPU is designed to go as fast and as hot as it can. It's not going to damage it, as it will reduce clocks as necessary to stay right at the threshold. This solution is fine if you don't want a hot computer, but you are in fact killing performance.

@rustler08 4 ай бұрын

@@Alex.HilmanThat is correct.

@hoangminhx007 Жыл бұрын

I have a same overheating problem on my XPS 17 too. but i think you don't need to touching the BIOS , just replace the old thermal paste with the new one is better. Dell's machine always have problem with overheating because thermal paste they apply on every machine is not good.When i buy a new machine i always change the old one and replace it with a new refresh thermal paste. So I think is will be easier than touching the BIOS

@zackplauche Жыл бұрын

To me replacing thermal paste would be a lot harder 😂 BIOS for me was the easier solution on this thing. Good to know tho 👀 Might checkout that solution too.

@curtisjackson3010 Жыл бұрын

@@zackplauchesure the hell is. Who wants to disassemble a new $2k laptop? They should use better paste

@ernestgty1442 11 ай бұрын

Although i would also recommend replacing the thermal paste (i did as well) I would think clicking around in bios is worlds easier than replacing thermal paste

@rennmaxbeta 5 ай бұрын

How old is your XPS 17? Mine is 13 years now (2011 model). I think the system is running too hot, like 60c after boot. Probably needs the thermal compound changed do you reckon?

@rennmaxbeta 5 ай бұрын

@@zackplauchebasically disassembly of the whole laptop to get to the CPU heatpipes and thermal paste, yes.

@webmario007 Ай бұрын

I have a "Dell Precision 7510" and it's not working with the "F2" button. Do you have a solution?

@zackplauche Ай бұрын

Hmm, I have only a Dell XPS so I couldn't say :/

@hans6304 26 күн бұрын

Have you tried to keep clicking on the F2 button repeatedly before the Dell logo comes on?

@hans6304 26 күн бұрын

Have you tried to keep clicking on the F2 button repeatedly before the Dell logo comes on?

@imakethesites3048 10 ай бұрын

I guess it’s a little cooler after changing those settings, but perhaps the 9510’s design is just crappy and/or it wasn’t made for games that are newer than it. It started heating up right after I opened Age of Empires 4.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

So for me it still heats up from gaming but I believe that has to do with GPU, and laptops pretty much normally get hot with gaming (from my understanding). It's still a thin laptop. It's just a high powered one haha. In my experience, it just shouldn't be AS hot as it would be without these settings.

@amm30002003 Жыл бұрын

Fist bump Bro🤜🏽

@zackplauche 9 ай бұрын

Bro fist 👊👊

@kristiannodi8218 5 ай бұрын

thankyou from indonesia!

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Sure thing!!

@ukaszjura4880 Жыл бұрын

Thanks ❤🎉😂

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Sure thing! 🥳

@pixelwarpstudios3352 11 ай бұрын

I've got to say, I'm genuinely frustrated with the latest BIOS update on the XPS 17. For a company that claims to be at the forefront, this kind of firmware is baffling. It almost feels like they're intentionally slowing down their machines to push us towards an upgrade. I am going to try Lenovo next.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, this is one of those things I wish I didn't have to think about when buying a $3000+ laptop 😑 on a list of things that should "just work", I thought this would've been one of them before they turn my laptop into a toaster lmao.

@TheOne_p 8 ай бұрын

Don’t buy a Lenovo they do not last and their batteries degrade very quick

@vardenispavardenis0111 8 ай бұрын

Does it have other problems or only those? Because I have Acer Spin 3 and it shows me BOD like 3-5 times a day. Also, it has some issues with connecting Bluetooth accessories and some major sound problems. Since I bought it in Poland and changed the language to English (from Polish which was set by default), there are still some stuff written in Polish.

@Alex.Hilman 7 ай бұрын

How can they slow down their machine? It's based on windows. So how?

@Alex.Hilman 7 ай бұрын

@@TheOne_pwhat should I buy? Asus?

@jetski275 4 ай бұрын

My xps is different. Has only one turbo setting instead of two. This helped by about 5 degrees while idle. (xps 17 9700) doing more tests...

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Did you also do ac power?

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Nice! Let me know how the tests go 🙂

@jetski275 4 ай бұрын

@@zackplauche dude it's like 10 to 15° cooler when gaming hard. This is an incredible discovery. You are a legend of our times

@jetski275 4 ай бұрын

@@zackplaucheYes sir I did! AC power setting

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

@@jetski275 hell yeah! Glad to hear! 😁 It's crazy for me to hear that just making this video helped so many people haha.

@teddynihon 8 ай бұрын

Does turning off the Turbo Boost my laptop down though ?

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Did you mean to ask does it slow your laptop down? Personally I haven't noticed a difference, but maybe.

@teddynihon 8 ай бұрын

@@zackplauche yeah that's what I mean't, but I'd rather keep the speed

@rustler08 4 ай бұрын

@@teddynihonYes, it slows it down

@ImTheKaiser Жыл бұрын

Has anyone tested Performance with Turbo disabled? Isn't the base clock for the i7-12700h 2.3 Ghz and the Turbo 4.7Ghz? Effectively locking you to 1/2 the CPU speed. That's a huge difference. Looking at your HWinfo, looks like your max CPU speed is hitting only 2.3Ghz. If you are going to do that, just change your power settings in Windows to disable Turbo, no need to go into the BIOS

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Good question! I'm not super techy on hardware / windows / bios etc. setup to know how to do that 😅 if you find someone who does the test or figures out how to keep performance without overheating randomly please let us know!

@egitastrauta4865 5 ай бұрын

I couldn't get the f2 to do anything 😢

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Hmm, not sure what's with yours :/

@chantunh1577 5 ай бұрын

i only have led in power settings

@zackplauche 4 ай бұрын

Hmm, not sure, only know for my setup

@GeeE92 Жыл бұрын

But you have just decreased the power of the laptop. You could of achieved the same thing by purchasing a laptop with a less powerful processor. Both of the settings can be left on enabled and the laptop will control the processors as per manufacturing spec, to make sure you get max speed without running dangerous temperatures. The CPU is designed to run at 100c. A better way to keep you laptop cool and quiet would be to leave the settings both enabled and in dell power monitor set the laptop to Cool and Quiet.

@joeyisawesome2567 Жыл бұрын

if you do this on the XPS 13 plus it still overheats and the fans are insanely loud

@malachibergman902 Жыл бұрын

I can’t use my laptop at all if it’s extremely hot to the touch, so… the additional “power” is useless

@ImTheKaiser Жыл бұрын

I don't understand why more people don't see this. There has to be a better solution than locking your CPU to 2.3Ghz, when it Turbos to 4.7Ghz. That's a huge performance loss.

@ImTheKaiser Жыл бұрын

@@malachibergman902 You're better off customizing your battery setting in Windows to Battery Saver, then change the monitor off and sleep times. Setting to Battery Saver also disables Turbo, but it gives you the ability to easily turn Turbo back on, without having to go into BIOS to turn it back on.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Would love to see someone try ImTheKaiser's solution to see if it works without making the laptop a toaster!

@ImTheKaiser Жыл бұрын

This is really bad advice, you're reducing your performance by 1/2. You're better off customizing your battery setting in Windows to Battery Saver, then change the monitor off and sleep times. Setting to Battery Saver also disables Turbo, but it gives you the ability to easily turn Turbo back on, without having to go into BIOS to turn it back on.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

So I actually tried that first before doing the BIOS thing and it didn't fix it. I don't think it's only Turbo, it was both of the settings for some reason. If you can find or make another simple tutorial on how to fix it please share!

@sleekspeed22 3 ай бұрын

Not sure this advice is good for everyone. And you are not making it clear to the user they are trading performance for lower temps. The other way to address this is to keep performance and find a way to improve cooling... or to setup modes that are difference when using as a workstation plugged in vs a mobile unit on battery. Not everyone will want to give up performance. One could use liquid metal for better heat transfer on the CPU and GPU... add additional thermal pads to the MOSFET so they touch the case and it is used as a head sink and can add a cooling pad to blow more cool air in the right places... or have the fan pull the hot air away.

@zackplauche 3 ай бұрын

I never said this advice is good for everyone. This is what worked for me.

@PAD32 8 ай бұрын

You can also disable cores, it will run even cooler 😂 If you don't care about performance, there are other laptops with less power hungry cpu that should be more appropriate for you

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Come up with a better & simple solution that doesn't overheat the laptop for no reason and keeps the performance and I'll pin it 🙂

@ango1007 9 ай бұрын

Will downgrading BIOS version 1.27.0 fix these fucking fans? On and off, on and off doing nothing but browsing on the internet. Its ridiculous.

@zackplauche 8 ай бұрын

Yeah, no clue here 😬 I just know these settings.

@AndyMac508 29 күн бұрын

Don't buy xps laptops for gaming. The cooling systems in them are piss poor snd the bios is even worse. Even with a cooling pad and dropping clocks significantly, its inevitably going to thermal throttle. Not trying to bash. Trying to save you money .

@zackplauche 29 күн бұрын

Yeah I'd say if you're buying a laptop exclusively for gaming there are better options, but I game on mine and it runs perfectly fine with those settings. I keep mine elevated so there's space for the vent to breathe.