Ahhh I can help with the headphone jack! Gigabyte won't be able to fix that as it is a design issue and the interference you hear is the headphone jack being so close to the hard drive. This cannot be fixed but you can use this for your headphones as a work around. As for the speaker issue, no idea. Mine seem fine although I usually have my laptop sound playing through TV.
I have none of them games! Could use Heaven Benchmark 4.0 (free) on ultra settings to do a synthetic test?
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If it is still really bad, I might take the spinning drive out to see if it helps.
I've had an arb issue where that spinning drive doesn't stop spinning, can't figure out why though. When I first got it, it stopped spinning if it wasn't being used after a while.
Anyway, onto the benchmarks. I installed Heaven last night and ran it for a good 20 minutes. I don't think it stresses out the laptop as much as a full on game. I just couldn't get the temps high enough.
When idling, the GPU was at 32 degrees, and CPU at 28 / 29. Under load, the CPU went up to 82 / 86, but really hovered in the low 70's. The GPU hovered in the low 70's / upper 60's. It was rather chilly last night, ambient temps were around 21 / 20 degrees.
Edit: Forgot to mention, I have an external USB sound card that came with my headphones. While the headphones are high end, the sound card is rather budget. It did improve things (marginally) but it wasn't a complete solution. -
Anyone wants to sell his P37X v4/v5??
Edit:- Bought a new one.Last edited: Jun 5, 2016 -
Hi all,
I just purchased a p37xv5 with a 1080p screen. But, I'm wondering if I should have splurged for the 4k screen.
Does anybody know the part number for the 4k screen that I can buy separately and install myself?
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I'm looking at getting a P37x V5, but the heat has me a bit worried. Will there be any long term issues with the max heat temps when gaming? I also saw someone mention the HIDEvolution CoolLaboratory LUTC, will that lower the temps, and if so, by how much?
My other questions is if this laptop can be used with the new external gpu docks coming out. Like this: http://www.tomshardware.com/news/asus-rog-xg-station-2-gpu-dock-usb-c,31983.html.
Really wish they did something like Acer's frost core. It already has a swappable optical drive/extra storage just like the Predator, but no ability to add a fan? Seems like the one big prob for this computer could have been partially solved by that.Last edited: Jun 5, 2016 -
THe laptops that do support it still need to get some work done. On the Dell & Alienware's the TB3 docks work but have some disconnect issues, HP do not support 'm at all and Acer predator can connect but the connection is even more flaky than with the Dell & Alienware laptops.
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I managed to crack my 1080p screen and I'm looking for a replacement, I would be interested in upgrading to 4k if the price is reasonable.
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you need a 40pin cable. -
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Does anyone have any good instructions for removing a cracked screen?
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Hey guys I need assistance with my new P37W V4 I got last week. The system came with a mechanical 1TB HD and I've been wanting to upgrade it to a SSD. I first purchased an msata SSD, cloned Windows 10 and tried to boot from it but the bios doesn't recognize it as a bootable drive. I then tried a new Kingston 240gb SSD 2.5" and went through the same process but the bios still doesn't read it. I tried to remove the old 1tb drive and replaced t with the SSD alone and the machine boots into bios without giving me an option to choose a drive.
Also, I created a USB backup before I began the process but the machine doesn't read the USB as a bootable USB either.
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Anyone got the v5 in 4K with 980m? Is it worth buying??
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hi all,
I ve bought a p37w v5 and I really like it except the left side fan is on all the time, around 2200rpm, and I cannot change it in the smart manager, at all..
is it supposed to 'work' like that?
sent an email to gigabyte support and they said it is possibly HW failure...
how can I alter the speed with another SW?
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also all the 4 cores running over 3.2GHz constantly - nothing is running in the background.
is it normal?
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What I mean by pain, is that I would have to configure the resolution or redo the games UI to make it bigger because the game didn't scale correctly. Even with Windows 10 scaling some programs boot up screen is too small. Plus I ever glasses so sometimes this game can be too small to read.
With that said, I new what I was getting myself into when I changed my mind from 1080p to 4k. The good thing is my desktop has been down since I did an EVGA step-up and traded in my 980 Ti hybrid SLI for 1080 FE sli and it has powered my Acer Predator 4k so beautifully. So I guess this is only time I have utilized it fully. Though that's probably due to the 980m.
So all in all, it can be a hassle if you have glasses and play games because you might have to do some tinkering. But, the picture quality is awesome.
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Does anybody know where I can buy a replacement battery for the P37x v5? I have had to have it replaced once before by my insurance but they took the piss sorting it out so I am not going to replace it from them again. It first died and my laptop would only turn on when it was disconnected from the motherboard, got it replaced and it has done it again after a month.
Also, is anybody having problem with restarts/shutdowns? My restart won't always work, it will restart and then instead of the spinning wheel and loading it will stay at the Gigabyte screen. When it comes to shutdowns, it will get past the shutting down screen, go black, but then won't actually turn off until I hard reset it. -
As for the restarts / shutdowns, hasn't happened to me. The only odd thing I've picked up with mine is some odd horizontal lines going across the screen near the Gigabyte logo when starting up. It's fine after that though.
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I did spill tea on it a long time ago but these problems are unrelated (so i think) i quickly turned it off, took laptop apart and cleaned/dried out etc. I am thinking of doing a clean install of windows to see if that will fix the issues of restarts/shutdowns. Worst part is event viewer wont give back any information regarding these issues -
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On Saturday, I spilled some water on my P37. I turned it over immediately to drain. Afterwards, some of the keys were unresponsive. I opened the laptop out and cleaned it off, also took the keyboard out and cleaned the underside. In addition, I popped some of the "broken" keys out and cleaned underneath them. Some of the keys I had trouble getting back in place - namely, the left control, m, and k keys. Sunday, all the keys were working again. Iwas able to pop the m key back in, but the left control and k key I could not. It appears that the retainer clips on the k key are broken. I am becoming accustomed to using the right control key, and I popped out the right windows key (or pagination key, I guess... it has a page on it) and retainer clips, and put the right windows key in where the k key used to be.
Today, that windows key popped out.
TLDR: I spilled water on my keyboard on Saturday, and during my repairs, I screwed up the left control and k keys. I need a replacement keyboard. Does anyone know where to buy one? I contacted XOTIC PC, whom I bought the laptop from, but according to them, gigabyte doesn't ship replacement parts out for their laptops - I would need to send the entire laptop in for repairs. I'm not giving up my laptop for 2 weeks and paying hundreds in shipping, parts, and labor fees for a 5 minute keyboard replacement job I already know I can do from my this cleaning process (take out 4 screws on the underside, pry keyboard out, detach ribbon, attach ribbon to new keyboard, put new keyboard in, put 4 keyboard screws on the underside back in place). This is ridiculous. -
Just wanted to say. I acquired a P37XV6 recently for a very good price ($1300) and my one issue with it was the thermals. Running any demanding application for a significant amount of time was resulting in my temps getting very high (>95c, as high as 104c for the CPU, and >95c for the GPU) it was getting to the point where the machine was throttling in spite of the fan sounding like something out of a Boeing 747 at cruising altitude.
I decided to take the risk and open it up and manually repaste the CPU and GPU and it made a HUGE difference. The max CPU temp after prolonged gaming is now 85c and the max GPU temp is 77c, the CPU is now also able to reach its turbo core speed without throttling so the performance has increased as well. In addition, during prolonged gaming sessions the fan now sounds like something out of a Cesna Skyline at cruising altitude rather than a Boeing 747 (it isn't revving up to max anymore.)
Let me just say, that for those of you who decide to do it, it is kind of a pain in the ass. Opening the chassis requires you to use two different types of screwdriver, one of which isn't exactly common or easy to find if you don't regularly do this kind of stuff. In addition, you have to repaste everything, they used two types of paste (the thermal grease they use on the components other than the GPU and CPU core is very sticky and kind of a pain to remove) in addition to thermal stickers too. You have to remove all of it and repaste all the components, that includes removing the stickers and pasting those components too. It isn't easy (I had an MSI GX60 before this and repasting that was super easy) but it is DEFINITELY worthwhile if you have the tools and are willing to give it a go. -
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How do I change the colorspace on my p37xv6 4k panel to SRGB? Can't stand the oversaturated colors. The smart color in smartmanager only changes color temperature.
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I noticed a subtle rattling inside my P37X only to discover one half of the little hard drive caddy bits had sheered off leaving the HDD only attached at one corner. Does anyone know where I might be able to get another one? Gigabyte support any good?
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I've just got one of these second hand, and noticed the CPU is running very hot (around 95C max when running Unigine Heaven - curiously it's cooler at high 80s on Prime95), with a clock speed of around 2.8GHz for Prime (not sure for Heaven). I tried repasting the cooler but the temperatures are just the same. Can anyone tell me if there is something wrong or is this normal?
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1. Do not paste too much grease on the die, just make it thin and evenly distributed
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I live with two german shepherds and their fur gets into my fans for my P37xV6. Has anyone had experience detaching the fans to clean them out, or know where I can find a disassembly guide?
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I've tried to get a service manual from gigabyte a couple of times over the last few years with no luck.
When I've been cleaning the fans on my P37X v6, I've noticed that one of the fans seems to also be part of the heatsink. I think it's the GPU side.
It looks like you can't take that fan out to blow out the radiator part without completely removing the heatsink. The CPU side fan comes out OK though.
I just used heaps of air duster and a toothpick to stop the fan from spinning.
Does anyone know what the highest memory speed that the P37X v6 can run at is?
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I found a hyperx impact 3200mhz 32gb kit at a good price on ebay, so bought it.
When I installed it... the machine didn't boot. Couldn't even get to bios.
However, when one of the 3200mhz modules was combined with one of the original 2400mhz modules, it works fine. So I know that the kit works.
So, if you've got a p37x v6 (this is probably the same for the v5 as well), then the hyperx impact 3200mhz memory isn't for you.
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