expired Posted by mothra0 • May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 7:49 PM
expired Posted by mothra0 • May 17, 2022
May 17, 2022 7:49 PM
Refurbished Gateway GWTN141-10BK 14.1" FHD i5-1135G7 2.4GHz Intel Iris Xe Graphics 16GB RAM 512GB SSD Win 10 Home $329
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I noticed on mine that whenever the memory peaked at about 15GB, it would just freeze for 1-3 minutes. I haven't tried using just Firefox as my primary browser instead of Chrome (which is where I have all my tabs). My hunch is it may possibly have to do with memory assigned to the igpu.
The laptop has been fine outside that freezing which is getting annoying because I'm a very tabby person.
Knowing this has a day 90 return... Looks like I still have time to return it.
If folks missed the other 35 threads, the drive in this is a noname m.2 sata drive which seems to be the source of a lot of complaints. DOA's and high failure rates. And it isn't even fast as sata drives go. Appears the drive was made just for these gateway laptops.
The screen is a bit on the dark side and the keyboard is cramped.
The open slot in the bottom is for another m.2 sata drive (still not nvme).
Probably a good idea to put a 1tb drive in that, and transfer the system over to that one, and use the noname one that's harder to get to as a scratch drive for stuff you can replace?
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The minute it goes out of stock for a few hours, someone marks these as 'expired'.
What a waste to repost it every time someone sees it and the same sorts of questions and info get repeated ad nauseum.
Just got mine. Looks like new. No marks or scratches. Touchpad is below grade. A bit loose feeling and the fingerprint reader didn't like my fingerprint although I didn't mess with it long since I don't need that.
Updating to windows 11 right now.
More planned for today and tomorrow.
The touchpad is a piece of crap on mine. I knew the click was loud from youtube reviews. But mine 'crunches' in several spots, has trouble recognizing the two finger gesture for right click (jumps the mouse cursor away from what I was right clicking on), and seems to be better nearer the edges than in the middle.
I also didn't get the fingerprint reader to recognize my whole fingerprint. It kept wanting me to go higher up the finger until I got to the fingernail, and it still couldn't see everything that it wanted.
Its functional, but glitchy and loud, requiring variable amounts of pressure to get a 'click' depending on where I'm pressing on the pad.
If I wasn't going to be using this 95% of the time with an external mouse and keyboard, I'd send this one back.
In other news, mine came with the 1.2 motherboard that has four ram chips, which shows to windows as 8 sticks of 2GB, in quad channel memory mode. I see the 1.1 rev motherboard has 2 ram chips, and shows as dual channel.
Mine does not have wifi 6, it has AC with a 9461 intel chip that was released in 2017.
The new gateway laptop listing does not say wifi 6 either? So either they ran out of wifi ac motherboards and had to substitute something else that had wifi 6? Or the folks just thought they had wifi 6, and its really wifi 5?
I also went through looking at the bios in relation to ETAPRIME's video on this. He said he just changed two TDP settings, but in what I could see on his video, other options in the bios weren't the same between his and mine. Specifically the time to boost the pl1 pl2 numbers were zero on mine and 128 on his.
I made the same changes I saw on his that I could see to put the TDP at 30w/30w, and changed the time to 128.
Userbench reported no change in the cpu performance, and a raise of the gpu performance from 17% of a 2060 to 19.1%.
Per HWINFO, cpu was only maxing at 26W, was around 71c, and I did not see the boost clocks going over 4GHz for very long, with a turbo of 4.2GHz?
So the bios or default bios settings on this to raise performance seem to be different from one machine to another, or some of these youtube reviewers are changing other stuff in the bios and not mentioning it?
I would be extremely careful fiddling about in the bios. Some settings could easily turn this into a brick, where you have to open it up and disconnect the battery to reset the cmos bios saved data.
I also see a PCIE option in the bios for drives, and the bios has an nvme option visible in the boot drives. I have a 512GB lower end nvme drive, so I'll try sticking that in and fiddling with that pcie option for the drive (disabled by default) and see if I get anything.
Read a ton of reviews on this, and a bunch of the 1 & 2* reviews look to me to be a dead ssd or touchpad complaints.
What a nice laptop to have stuck a crap touchpad in!
I made the same changes I saw on his that I could see to put the TDP at 30w/30w, and changed the time to 128.
Userbench reported no change in the cpu performance, and a raise of the gpu performance from 17% of a 2060 to 19.1%.
Per HWINFO, cpu was only maxing at 26W, was around 71c, and I did not see the boost clocks going over 4GHz for very long, with a turbo of 4.2GHz?
So the bios or default bios settings on this to raise performance seem to be different from one machine to another, or some of these youtube reviewers are changing other stuff in the bios and not mentioning it?
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Note that locking of the MMIO register only for that power-on session, so you'll want to configure ThrottleStop to automatically run on every boot and to enable its last settings automatically when it runs.
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I noticed on mine that whenever the memory peaked at about 15GB, it would just freeze for 1-3 minutes. I haven't tried using just Firefox as my primary browser instead of Chrome (which is where I have all my tabs). My hunch is it may possibly have to do with memory assigned to the igpu.
The laptop has been fine outside that freezing which is getting annoying because I'm a very tabby person.
Knowing this has a day 90 return... Looks like I still have time to return it.