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Oh absolutely, if you have the water cooler definitely use the control center. I don't see the need to spend the extra money to get my gaming temps below 70 degrees, personally.    ... View more

The only thing you can do about the temps is undervolt your cpu in bios and then use a 3rd party tool to restrict the power. I got a stable undervolt of 1.29, that's -129 in the bios, but if i don't limit the power, games freeze and the odd BSOD occurs. Playing Starfield, I'm getting 100+ fps and the cpu temp only spikes over 90 degrees every now and then but mainly sits 70-80 degrees on max settings, idle 53-69 degrees. Best I could manage. I've had the laptop 2 months. 2 months pretty much spent on learning how to lower the temps of the cpu. Definitely worth the hassle. This cpu is a beast and the gaming amazing once you've done the work. X40 13900HX  RTX 4080 ... View more

Both Medion and XMG bios are pretty much the same in my opinion. The XMG control center is green and has a few more options. Personally I would just set your RAM to max speed possible in the BIOS (5600 DDR5 is the fastest you can run on these laptops, so don't bother investing in better RAM) and then remove the control center completely. The RGB light tweaker is handy actually, but I'm sure there must be a program out there that can do the same.  If you're hoping to use the control center for any kind of watt, volt, degrees, celsius, hz or ghz adjustment don't waste your time.  These laptops/chips run very very hot and don't have adequate fan adjustment so your only option is to undervolt and then restrict the processor/power in something like Throttlestop.  To keep the package power constantly below 93 degrees while gaming you will take a performance hit, obviously. ... View more

My x40 came with the 1.20 bios. I admit I'm not familiar with flashing/upgrading a bios, and since there was no updated bios on the medion site, I was apprehensive about changing anything. I came across a 1.21 medion bios and a 1.21 xmg bios. I first flashed the medion, I think I done it right, it said I had the most up to date bios (1.20?!) so I then flashed the xmg one. System Info still says I'm on ver 1.20 even though the bios menu has changed and there are now several extra menus/options that I can change.  All I wanted was the beast running cooler when I'm gaming, even if I took a hit on frames, because I was hitting 98 degrees and I know plenty of people have their temps around 80, max. I've tried to get my head around the core vaultage offset and PL1 PL2 and PL4 in the control center to lower temps. Not a clue if I've set it correct, but I've got it set to: 77 degrees max temp PL1 60 PL2 60 PL4 160 Core vaultage offset -1 In the end, I haven't got a scooby whice bios I have, or if I've messed anything up, but my x40 is running perfect. Taken me about 5 weeks to get it to the standard I wanted (new ssd and windows installation as well). ... View more