Asus k53tk lag

Hi, I have just gotten my k53tk today. But the framerates in games are all so laggy.
I have tried installing new drivers, enabling crossfire, set to high performance mode but its still the same. Please help!

 

If it's the version with the a6+hd7670m, it will peak out at 1700 3dmark11 marks (with some overclock). That's.. actually a bit above average, sadly. Higher than the mobile fermi cards, for example.. But you can't run Battlefield 3 in "720p" on full detail.

Two things, though. The power-profiles control more than just the light settings. The processor and the bus-speed won't hit "boost" in any other than the "performance" profile by default. And since you're practically dependent on the bus-speed running as fast as possible to get crossfire working well, this isn't.. the most strategic thing with this setup.

So change the power-profile, and maybe download this neat utility called k10stat. And for example set a "normal state" at 2.2Ghz, and a boost state at 2.3Ghz, etc, with the highest bus-speed/lowest multipler. So you won't drop down to saving-mode in the middle of something.

This won't turn the laptop into a monster, but it can improve performance in some games when you have large cache/texture hits/transfers, or the effects keep referencing and changing the ram-areas while other things happen.

But we're talking about very special circumstances here; power-profile, maybe find the v-sync option and force it off, and make sure you don't have anything crazy running in the background, then reduce certain expensive effects, and so on - that's going to get you.. 90% of the way to the limit of that system.

 

Thanks alot for the reply. Though I tried reformatting it and reinstalling the drivers which improve the performance alot. But fps drops when cpu intensive though. Kinda sad cuz my friend got about the same laptop with the 6760m and i7 for the same price i thought mine would be better with the 7670m.
Thanks again for the advice but since its still a new laptop i wont mess around with overclocking stuffs first

 

Huh.. That's interesting. I think the graphics card probably should be about the same, just running at a lower power-drain. But the clock speed and the bus-speed is important, noticed that on my n53 as well. This kit does overclock extremely well, though. As in... you can turn it up to 2.6Ghz before going past 60 degrees. But just having a standard clock and locking the p-state probably is going to make a difference, since it's not dropping to lower clocks any longer.

 

Yeah ive tried it. Thanks alot it does help. =)

 

Here's a good guide. Aspire Gemstone: K10STAT AMD Griffin Processor UnderVolting Guide

You can safely overclock the internal bus/ram speed on the graphics card as far as it goes as well. If you install MSI Afterburner, you can .. with some trickery (you have to start a "crossfire/high performance" app before you open Afterburner) adjust the internal bus-speed. This stops at 667, because it's an effective transport for 1300Mhz max on the ddr ram bus (2x bus).

But you can safely run that speed because the volt is set to 1.5v on the ram. Massively higher than necessary on a laptop.. Should have been 1.35 max.

That's the philosophy for the cpu as well. You can run this at extremely low clocks and volts. I had mine running at 450/0.6275v. I probably goes lower as well.

But that means, basically, that you have 20% load while playing a 720p mkv, running at the lowest multipler. As long as no windows update kicks in, etc. So that's really where that setup shines. On low/battery mode with moderate load.

 

you got fooled. The i7 + 6770m will kill this many times over.

for the same price, you should have bought the i7.

7000 series radeon does not automatically make it faster than the 6000 series.
you have to do your research.

 

yeah i know. im getting fps drops because of the cpu bottleneck

 

hmm.. kinda weird. I tried games when crossfire and enabled and disabled but performance is about the same. Except that when crossfire is enabled the fps drops are more often