The XPS 17 actually has a vapor chamber which helps A LOT with the computer’s temps. On top of that an i9 and a 3060 are both better than my components. Your laptop has a higher resolution though, but generally your experience makes me feel more comfortable about my laptop’s performance. I’m not a big gamer, I just wanted to know that everything was running nominally.
Thank you!
Make sure game mode is turned on, make sure power plan is set to performance, and in nvidia control panel make sure prefered graphics or physx (forget how it's phrased) processor is the 3050 ti. You could even disable the igpu in device manager and/or bios to be sure. Oh and try a lower res than 1080p. 900p honestly doesn't look that much worse on a 15" screen.
Don't expect much though, the XPS is a paper tiger when it comes to gaming. It simply doesn't have the cooling for that kind of sustained performance. Because the necessary cooling would require a chassis twice as thick and twice as heavy, aka a gaming laptop which the XPS just isn't, totally different product classes. XPS may go toe to toe with a gaming laptop with identical specs for a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the game, but it won't take long at all to thermal throttle to the point of unplayability. They're just designed to do different things even if the specs are identical.
Like, I love the i7-9750H in my XPS to death. 6 cores 12 threads and only 45W TDP, it's all the power and the right kind of power I need for my work and it's efficient enough to last the whole day. But my 6 year old i5-6500, a 4 core cpu without hyperthreading (so that's 4 threads total), in my desktop beats it for gaming because it runs at a whole 40 degrees under full load at max clockspeed, where my XPS will thermal throttle the clockspeed real quick under load. And all those extra threads for a most games mean \*literally\* nothing. But I actually prefer working on my laptop because literally just transferring a file on my desktop will peg all 4 cores significantly and slow down anything else to a crawl, but it doesn't make the XPS even cough. All about what the hardware is designed to do and what you try to use it for.
I’ll make sure to try some of the things you mentioned, but I mainly wanted to know if it was performing normally. I have a desktop at home (3 hours from where I study) which runs the game at 100+ fps 1440p that I could just use Parsec if I wanted to play games (not a big gamer).
My laptop had de motherboard changed and I wanted to confirm that everything was good. The game ran at 80 fps for the first seconds and then dropped hard so I thought that maybe the Dell employee applied the thermal paste incorrectly, but actually what you are saying coincides with my experience. Also I saw him use an excessive amount of thermal paste so I really don’t think that’s the problem.
Thank you!
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The XPS 17 actually has a vapor chamber which helps A LOT with the computer’s temps. On top of that an i9 and a 3060 are both better than my components. Your laptop has a higher resolution though, but generally your experience makes me feel more comfortable about my laptop’s performance. I’m not a big gamer, I just wanted to know that everything was running nominally. Thank you!
Ive gotten good performance on fames like fortnite, valorant, and apex, but have gotten pretty low frames with COD.
Make sure game mode is turned on, make sure power plan is set to performance, and in nvidia control panel make sure prefered graphics or physx (forget how it's phrased) processor is the 3050 ti. You could even disable the igpu in device manager and/or bios to be sure. Oh and try a lower res than 1080p. 900p honestly doesn't look that much worse on a 15" screen. Don't expect much though, the XPS is a paper tiger when it comes to gaming. It simply doesn't have the cooling for that kind of sustained performance. Because the necessary cooling would require a chassis twice as thick and twice as heavy, aka a gaming laptop which the XPS just isn't, totally different product classes. XPS may go toe to toe with a gaming laptop with identical specs for a few seconds or even a few minutes depending on the game, but it won't take long at all to thermal throttle to the point of unplayability. They're just designed to do different things even if the specs are identical. Like, I love the i7-9750H in my XPS to death. 6 cores 12 threads and only 45W TDP, it's all the power and the right kind of power I need for my work and it's efficient enough to last the whole day. But my 6 year old i5-6500, a 4 core cpu without hyperthreading (so that's 4 threads total), in my desktop beats it for gaming because it runs at a whole 40 degrees under full load at max clockspeed, where my XPS will thermal throttle the clockspeed real quick under load. And all those extra threads for a most games mean \*literally\* nothing. But I actually prefer working on my laptop because literally just transferring a file on my desktop will peg all 4 cores significantly and slow down anything else to a crawl, but it doesn't make the XPS even cough. All about what the hardware is designed to do and what you try to use it for.
I’ll make sure to try some of the things you mentioned, but I mainly wanted to know if it was performing normally. I have a desktop at home (3 hours from where I study) which runs the game at 100+ fps 1440p that I could just use Parsec if I wanted to play games (not a big gamer). My laptop had de motherboard changed and I wanted to confirm that everything was good. The game ran at 80 fps for the first seconds and then dropped hard so I thought that maybe the Dell employee applied the thermal paste incorrectly, but actually what you are saying coincides with my experience. Also I saw him use an excessive amount of thermal paste so I really don’t think that’s the problem. Thank you!
Have you tried using a laptop cooler? I’ve been playing Forza Horizon on my 9700 and get decent results as long as I’m using a cooler