Based on the CPU throttling issues, the value of the i7 is seriously diminished.
#NEVER THROTTLED WINDOWS#
This CPU has been locked out of undervolting via the Intel Extreme Tuning Utility and ThrottleStop, by the way, with recent bios or windows updates. Not even limiting the CPU to its base frequency, turning off boost, kept it from eventually throttling do under 900 MHz. I tried throttle stop to limit the frequencies and, hopefully, pace the CPU so it would not collapse so quickly. To keep the CPU from hitting 97 degrees Celsius, I had to limit my GPU to 30 FPS (the heat rails run over both the GPU and CPU, making their heat somewhat interdependent - though I never had the chance to heat-throttle the nVidia card). I even had throttling issues in fairly low impact games like Lego Star Wars 2.
#NEVER THROTTLED FULL#
It managed to bottleneck the GTX 1050 to where it never got very close to its full potential. The thermal throttling of the Yoga 730's 4-core i7 kept Marvel Avengers under 30 fps, and closer to 20 fps by the time the various loading gateways entered the main campaign. That is a sad state of affairs, my friends. The two-core mobile i5 was more consistent and better for gaming under high load because it never throttled. My last Yoga was a Yoga 15 with a two-core i5-5200u. In practice, even with new MX-4 thermal paste and elevating the laptop to breathe, the CPU would hit its thermal limit and downclock all four cores to under 900 MHz if it ran all four cores on boost for anything more than a few minutes. In theory, these specifications should do the job for gaming with lowered expectations. Lenovo Yoga 730 15ikb CPU Throttling Ruins Gaming
I was hoping it would run modern games like Marvel's Avengers (2020) at 720 or 900p, low settings, and the CPU's 4 cores would at least run the game at 30 fps plus. The GTX 1050 is not a beast by any means, but would handle many games at 1080p, like Rocket League and (in theory) the Lego games my daughter likes. The i7 is a 4-core model with a base speed of about 1.8 GHz and boos up to about 4 GHz on all four cores. It had the touch screen, tablet option, pen compatibility, 4k resolution, an Intel i7-8550u CPU, and an nVidia GTX 1050. On paper, the Lenovo Yoga 730-15ikb checked off a lot of boxes which made it look like the ideal all-around laptop for a student and gamer.
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