What can I say? An I7-8650U, MX150, 16gb RAM and a basic FHD panel in a very good condition on eBay. But there is only one (or two?) caveats. The battery is fully dead and sadly there were no fingerprint and IR-Sensors.

I can't really complain tho.

Originally I was looking for a T440P to tinker a bit for like 50€ and found one on eBay. But after checking the seller out, there was one T480 for 100€ listed with ofc no description. After asking the seller about specs my eyes got wide open. He listed all the good hardware stuff and I had to buy it immediately. He was even nice enough to drop the price. Seemed too good to be true

Few days later the Laptop came and I ran all the relevant diagnostic options from the BIOS with success.

To get a proper insight I did the following:

• installed Windows 11, Throttlestop, Hwinfo, Asus Tweaks 2, tpthinkfan and 3Dmark

• checked the Thunderbolt Controller (it's on NVM 20 but can't update because of dead battery)

• replaced the thermal paste with PTM 7950

• undervolted the CPU by -130mv and raised the throttle threshold on the GPU by 15°C

• ran Cinebench R23 Multicore Score: 3500 Points at a constant 25W TDP

Funnily enough, my undervolted X380Y with a shitty cooling solution gets 3.7k on cb23

But this laptop is just way too hot. Even with the PTM 7950 I'm getting 85 °C on cb23 and on basic Office stuff like 65 °C

The GPU will spike a few times to 18W in TimeSpy but will stay at 4W

According to Throttlestop, this laptop is power constrainted but somehow It won't accept my 100W PD 3.0 Charger from my IdeaPad 5 Pro. The powerbutton will a blink a few times but that's about it. Oddly enough it does accept the 65W PD charger from my monitor.

Might have to reapply the thermal pads tomorrow

Is this normal?