Nice that they have released a formal statement about it and are looking at addressing it.



I just tried the fan test. I found a small desk fan and pointed it at the back of the SP3 while using the kickstand and ran the Steam game Tomb Raider on normal and then super high quality settings. With the fan on, the unit stayed cool and when I turned off the fan, the internal fan wasn't even on. When I cranked up the graphic options to max, the internal fan came on, but wasn't going full tilt like it has before when trying to cool down the unit.



Both tests showed the CPU NOT throttling down, but once I turned off the fan and the CPU started to heat up, the throttling kicked in and the CPU speeds went down.