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YouTube Instagram Adobe. Kickstarter Tumblr Art Club. Film TV Games. Fortnite Game of Thrones Books. Comics Music. Linkedin Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. Image: XPG. Next Up In Gaming. Sign up for the newsletter Verge Deals Subscribe to get the best Verge-approved tech deals of the week. Coming in at 4. Comparable laptops usually weigh about 4. The other compelling feature is just how quiet the laptop is.

The Xenia 15 KC, however, rarely makes noise under normal use. Switch it to performance and the laptop might see an 8dB increase in volume. It also activates its passive cooling mode, which means the fans or fan barely spins up. How quiet is it? Really quiet. For every 3 decibels, the sound energy essentially doubles.

That means older 9th and 10th gen laptops in a similar-size body would all start to scream far sooner and far louder. The blue line represents the Xenia 15 KC, which never spikes above 30dBA—the two peaks early on are from a car going down the street outside the home where the test took place. One key difference in the new version is the use of a liquid metal compound over less efficient thermal paste.

The Tiger Lake H version simply finishes the same all core task that much faster. We noticed that going from Performance Mode to Balanced Mode costs you about 19 percent in performance.

We also tested the laptop in Performance Mode and Benchmark Mode, which means percent fans. To get a better idea of how the Xenia runs lighter tasks like browsing the web or using Adobe Photoshop, we ran the Cinebench R15 benchmark, which uses a single CPU thread or core. The short answer is few can tell the difference between any of these laptops while doing the boring work. Cinebench R15 is a 3D modelling benchmark that runs fairly quickly. Modern laptop performance is often constrained by heat, so longer running tasks help shed more light on its actual performance.

It may not display this or other websites correctly. You should upgrade or use an alternative browser. Thread starter btarunr Start date Dec 22, Joined Oct 9, Messages 42, 8. With blazing-fast data transfer rates, users will enjoy a smoother and seamless gaming experience. With support for Intel XMP 3. It allows users to avoid cumbersome BIOS settings and never-ending adjustment of overclocking parameters.

Users can set the RGB lighting the way they want it. They can choose from different effects static, breathing, and comet or sync the lights with their favorite songs via Music Mode. All this can be done through RGB control software from all the major motherboard brands. Joined Oct 20, Messages 0. All, ddr5 memory I've seen so far has been trash.