Hi Mikei233,
you're talking about
this review. The remarks about CPU and GPU Temp Targets are at the end of the review, after mark 8:57.
Let me copy/paste my answer from Notebookreview forum:
I just had a quick chat with a product manager at AftershockPC.
AftershockPC confirmed to me that they did not modify the BIOS in any shape of form and they are getting the same answer from Intel as we did: GPU Temp Target is set to 75°C by default and cannot officially be changed. There are no BIOS customizations or flavour for any global regions. One ring to rule them all.
The review sample at Jarrod's Tech is pretty much straight off the line from the Intel factory. The shipping process was rushed because AftershockPC in Australia only got stock very recently and Jarrod got needed his review unit ASAP.
AftershockPC currently has access to BIOS 0048 (our latest one is 0054) but my contact is not yet sure if it was actually flashed on the review unit. We will clarify this over the next few hours.
I have sent an e-mail to Jarrod to ask for clarification, to see which BIOS version is on his system. Not sure if he will reply to me since we never had any contact with each other prior to this day.
Now I have a couple of theories as to what happened here:
- Review Sample
might have a blatantly outdated factory BIOS with bugs and/or inconsistency, if Aftershock did not flash the BIOS before shipping.
- Even if they flashed the BIOS, they
might not have loaded the Setup Defaults after flashing. This can sometimes have weird side effects like stuck/wrong hidden settings.
- CPU and GPU Temp Targets
might have been modified (perhaps accidentally) by system tuning software.
- Elektruboost/Overboost
might actually be present but was not recognized as such by the reviewer because system monitoring tools will not be able to detect the increased power consumption.
It is therefor my assumption that this review is a
glitch in the Matrix. I will try to dig out more info on this if possible. Meanwhile: move on people, nothing to see here.
/edit:
Confirmed. Jarrod had BIOS 0038 on his system. Build date of this BIOS is June 2019 which is hopelessly outdated. This was from a time when the BIOS was not even production ready. We already received BIOS 0040 around middle of July and we are not on BIOS 0054 as of last week.
Cheers,
XMG|Tom