Dell G15 5330

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ssal

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Got myself a Dell G15 for X'mas. This laptop packs a lot of power for $1,199.
i9-13900HX, RTX4060, 32gb Dram, 1TB nvme SSD.
My video editing is sailing like a breeze. I no longer have to envy those youTube tutorials when they scrub the footage left and right.
The machine runs hot. Even in playback video from the drive cause some throttle (core #5). And it throttles intermittently when I export video.
I put a cooling pad under the machine when I export, and it reduces the incidence of throttle a bit.
I don't see how other laptop in similar price range and power would be able to handle the heat issue differently.
Do you think the throttling is OK as far as the durability of this machine?
 
Eh just let it do whatever when using the pad.

Mine usually lets the GPU float up to 95C or so. Pretty toasty, but it dynamically throttles a little bit to keep the performance target, so like you said a cooling pad extends your pre-throttling capacity a little bit. Otherwise as long as you're dusted out then that's per design really.
 
I don't do games. My most taxing task is when I export video from Premiere Pro. My video is usually 4-6 minutes and the export time on this machine is amazingly about 60% of video length. So, for 3-4 minutes the GPU and CPU are working hard, the throttlings are intermittent. The cooling pad makes me a lot more comfortable about the heat issue.
 
For some reason, the cable connecting the cooling pad and the charger is not working. If I giggle it, the fans come on and off. Is the cable the weakest point? I have two of this unit with the same problem.

Because of that, do you think just putting the G15 on the cooling pad, which allows plenty of empty space in the bottom. Would that allow more air to flow through with the G15's own fan. Would that be good enough?
 
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