I found myself sticking with the High-Performance mode because it kept laptop temperatures under acceptable limits when under load. The fans tend to get extremely loud at 100%, and there's no way to avoid it if you want the best performance. The CPU temperatures stayed at a high 90 degre...
On to more demanding tasks, we start by testing the CPU’s performance by running the Cinebench R15 benchmark for 15+ times in a loop, with 2-3 seconds delay between each run. On the Ultra Performance mode, the Core i7 processor peaks at around 75W for a second, then gradually drops...