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Tuchas, that's interesting feedback. Thanks for that. I suppose what bothers me from a psychological perspective is paying for a beefed up processor, like an i5, and not being able to get its potential because it's being throttled down. I think it must be something related to gaming...

Jeff, may I ask the specs of your SP3? Sounds like I may have had a bad apple.

Hi malberttoo. Yeah, I did a fair amount of research on this device. I have been following them since their inception, as I said. I watched performance videos, and I must admit, I came across one video of a poster blowing a box fan on his device and showing much improved performance and clock...

Thanks for your reply Jeff. I believe in my original post that I did mention WoW (World of Warcraft) and Hearthstone. These are games that I can play in the living room with my girlfriend in the evening while we watch TV after work. Just casual stuff. I play them on low settings, but it...

Yeah, I did the updates. My only concern with having to dethrottle the device to play something like WoW on low-settings would be that Microsoft probably throttled it for a reason. Am I going to be damaging either the chip itself, thermal paste, or neighboring components by running the cpu too...

Thanks for your reply atoms83. I am debating whether or not I rushed into my return, and I am considering requesting an alternate device on the chance mine was particularly "hot". I really like the device a lot in all other regards. As for the poster asking why I bought a "business class"...

Hi All, I am a very disappointed customer. I have been following the Surface for years, and when I saw the new developments in the 3rd generation, I couldn't resist. I brought my Macbook Air into the store for an exchange, and walked out with an i5 SP3. Unfortunately, it didn't take me more...