The third time was a charm for Paul Nienhiser of Chapin, Il. Nienhiser finished second to Chase Randall at Davenport in 2022. He also finished second to Scott Bogucki at Davenport in 2023.

This translates into a noise increase (50 dBA), but even with the notebook off the desk, the CPU is still slightly thermally throttled in this test, at around 76-77W. Switching over to the Performance ...