Gigabyte P34W v5...need some info

So I'm looking at the Gigabyte P34W v5 laptop to replace my 1st gen MSI GS60 Ghost Pro. The GS60 has been a good laptop, but the amount of heat this thing produces when streaming is insane. It throttles the heck out of itself and gives me pretty constant frame skips in XSplit.

The P34W ticks off all the checkboxes I need: lightweight, Skylake, GTX 970M, lots of USB ports, HDMI 2.0, etc. The reviews seem to say it's decent on heat (gets hot like any other ultrathin gaming laptop, but not scalding like the GS60), but several people have also mentioned things like the adhesive holding the screen in place melts off easily, causing the screen to fall off? Sounds dicey, especially given that I stream up to 12 hours sometimes.

So yeah, if anyone familiar with this laptop or its predecessors could offer some insight on how well it handles sustained heat, that would be great. I'm also interested to know which USB controllers it has (basically so I can tell whether the Blackmagic Intensity Shuttle will work with it).

Thanks!

 

Heat and throttling is more of an issue with these laptops than the msi's.

 

It's not fair to compare 1st Gen MSI GS60 with P34W V5. In general, the Skylake CPU runs way cooler than Haswell and Broadwell CPUs. If you like you can watch our review videos of older and Skylake Gigabyte and Aorus laptops for comparison.

The USB 3.0 is Intel and 3.1 is Asmedia.

 

I did a quite test of P34W V5 with i7-6700 and GTX970M:




And here is the P34W V4 with Broadwell i7-5700HQ:



The Skylake runs at 77C and Broadwell at 95C during benchmark.

 

thank you. although it appears that the Skylake CPUs runs way cooler tha the previous gens, I think we should take it with a grain of salt. firstly, the previous cpu gen on some Gigabyte bodies don't have some good cooling paste used. secondly, the Haswell and more so to speak Broadwell perform better in raw power performance and thirdly, the igpu used and fused along with the Skylake CPU are much lower and weaker compared to what is used on Haswell and Broadwell. so the school of thought is that there isn't really a significant improvement as far as cpu cooling on what is supposed to be a new architecture used for Skylake. they just made it underpowered to appear cooler. although size-wise, they did accomplish to maintain the performance to a degree despite the size reduction. personally, I would say that the igpu is the biggest contributor as far as heat goes. when I benchmarked the igpu, it does post some incredibly high temp numbers but nothing over a 100C.

 

Yes we do know the integrated GPU is the cause of heat on CPU. But overall the Skylake does indeed cooler that's what I was trying to tell.

The thermal compound isn't really the cause of the heat on the previous Gigabyte laptops since even with IC Diamond the temperature doesn't change much.