Gigabyte P35K-CF4 UltraBlade Review

Measuring temperatures on the underside of the P35K clearly illustrates the difficulty of packaging high performance hardware in such a slender chassis.

When the Gigabyte was idling on the Windows desktop I measured 22c degrees at the front corners (empty drive bay and battery) and 26c and 29c degrees at the back corners (CPU and GPU coolers) with a high point of 41c degrees at the central exhaust vent.

Under heavy load the temperatures at the front of the chassis remained constant at 22c degrees. The rear of the chassis got very warm to the touch and would be uncomfortable to use directly on a lap, long term.

That waste heat is a direct consequence of the high performance we saw in the benchmark results however, as we are about to see, it also has an impact in terms of battery life and cooling noise.

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