Making the Lenovo ThinkPad T480 even Better 

Yea saw a video on that

What's the FRU part number for that?

Agreed, dual heat-pipe cooler with PTM7950 brings the temps down by around 25C, leaving room for raising the PL2 limit to 35W and PL1 to 30W, all while staying below 84C to prevent silicon degradation. And also undervolting is important for getting more performance per watt - but it can only be done on BIOS version 1.26 or lower, so you should download that and enable BIOS downgrades in the BIOS settings

That's a good suggestion, maybe in the future

Wow that's impressive

@@one_step_sideways my ninja

​@one_step_sideways can the bios downgrade able to do any damage to the ssd??

Ptm7950 is supposed to be very good and last a very long time

@@TechThusiast Ok got it, how are the thermals now?

Thanks

Don't think they can be upgraded

External battery?

Maybe some old game and basis editing

I would also like to know why they chose a thermal pad over thermal paste here

It's supposed to have better heat transfer

From a bootable usb

no, only K and HK intel mobile cpus are able to be overclocked

@@JacobD. Thank you

@@JacobD. I'm sorry for bothering you again but I'm considering buying One myself to learn graphic design would it be good choice for me to run adobe apps " I don't have a great budget"

@@YouCefgames unless you're comfortable with manually upgrading this laptop yourself, it'd be best to look for something else, as this laptop doesn't have great color accuracy by default, but if that's something not super important, this is a great laptop

@@JacobD. Thank you sir have a great day 😊

Don't have a T580 but this may help www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/157vz9o/t480_vs_t580/

@@TechThusiast thanks. quote from reddit thread you mentioned. "And if you're fine with 14" I'd recommend T480s instead of T480. No TN screens, no i3s, better build quality, more compact, and you will have only one battery to care about. It is 57Wh whereas T480 has 24+24Wh if extenal is not an extended battery. And external batteries on T480/T580 a huge pain in the butt all the time. " as he pointed out having two batteries is big problem? can not use T480/T580 with only one battery? unfortunate if i can not find spare battery can i run these machines without any battery(just plug in to AC)?

@@2DAnimax I have 2 batteries in my T480 and i think it's a BIG luxuary: you can hot swap the removable battery without having to turn off your computer + longer battery life. My T480 has been running flawlessly for 5 years already Reddit is a bad source of information.

hello just wondering, Why?

@@NabilDaDon The PCH itself does not overheat, the heat from the heatsink could damage it.

​@@aungs8430 Any real claims to back this up? Oem's like dell claimed this with pre-skylake laptops and specifically stopped their coldplate's coverage at the CPU (the remaining heatpipe literally just floats above a naked PCH). Lenovo doesn't do this but you can clearly see on any t480 disassembly that the stock paste is deliberately applied to the PCH with coldplate real estate meant to contact the chip. Even if you didn't apply paste it will still make contact with the PCH due to how the cooler's mounted. Dell's 2018 XPS has awful EGPU throttling because they left the PCH naked. As for the CPU soaking the cooler and "leaking" a lot of excess heat onto the PCH that simply isn't true, PCH temps on my T480 never exceed 57c, below whats needed to cause throttling and dramatically lower than the max 100c needed to cause damage. The only freebie I'll give up is my testing is flawed as I don't have an EGPU enclosure handy to fully max out the thunderbolt bandwidth.