Predator Triton 500 (PT515-51) Questions

SKYZ0R

Hi guys

So I got a Predator Triton 500 (sale) yesterday and didn't have a lot of time for playing with it after work.

On the retail site, even on Acer's product site, the GPU was specified as RTX 2070. But when I looked in the Device Manager (after I got the machine of course), it was an RTX 2070 Max-Q. Why does Acer not specify the GPU as such?

At first I was very disappointed, because I read that the Max-Q aren't as good as the normal RTX ones and I was already thinking of returning it.

But then again I really liked the laptop a lot, the quality is good and it's a lot better than my previous one (upgrade from GTX 980M).
After that I played around a little with the Predator Sense and found out that the GPU could be overclocked to almost absurd levels very easily, which persuaded me to keep the laptop.

Now I'm not sure about the temperatures. I played a recent game in max. settings for about 30 minutes and these were the temperatures that I got with a cooling pad:

CPU: Average 87 °C, Max. 91 °C
GPU: Average 76 °C, Max. 77 °C

I didn't tweak the fan speeds on purpose and left everything on automatic control.
Should I leave them on Auto or manually set the fan speed? What are your experiences?

Also, a lot of posts recommend to undervolt the CPU (i7 9750H) to -125mV or even -150mV. Should I do that? I'm completely new to undervolting.
Should I undervolt the GPU as well?

Thanks in advance for any experiences or advices.

Ishy

Hi, @SKYZ0R

First of all RTX 2070 and RTX 2070 Max Q, yes compared to the normal version is better in performance to Max q version. Although Max q will allow you to save power consumption better than RTX 2070.

Second regarding Temperate it's normal to get temps of 91 °C when playing games. The computer can operate normally till 98 °C and both CPU and GPU will only shutdown if it reaches 100 °C. 

Regarding undervolting I am not knowledgeable on the matter. 

Hope this helps.