P35W V3 Performance

Hi Guys,

1st post here so go easy on me. Just received the Gigabyte P35W V3 yesterday and got it set up. I previously had a Samsung 700G7C which is a fairly similar spec but a couple of years older and a 675m as opposed to the 970m on the P35W.

I previously had a monitor hooked up to my Samsung via HDMI and had dual screen, one of which I could play games whilst simultaneously stream videos on the 2nd monitor.

When i attempt to do this with my P35W, the performance is dreadful and completely unplayable. Even if I've got a web browser open on each screen streaming video the playback is choppy and unwatchable.

I would have assumed that my new laptop could handle all of this with ease but it seems to be really struggling.

If anyone could offer an opinion or any sort of help/advice I would really appreciate it!


Thanks,

Neil

 

Make sure the dedicated GPU is used and not integrated Intel HD GPU.

 

I had a feeling this might be causing issues. I have selected the High Performance Nvidia processor in Nvidia control pannel as the preffered graphics processor but I'm not convinced it isnt using the onboard as well. Is there a way of disabling the integrated entirely?

When i disable the Intel HD Graphics 4600 on device manager, the feed to my 2nd monitor thru HDMI is switched off.

I then try to go to the Nvidia control pannel, assuming this is the only GFX card active and it says:

You are not currently using a display attached to an Nvidia GPU.

Thanks,

neil

 

Not really with Optimus there is no way to disable it.
Does it do it when gaming just on the laptop itself not hooked up to a external monitor?
You might also want to update drivers.

 

all drivers are up to date.

As long as there is video/gaming on one display at a time performance is fine but as soon as both displays have a game or video running at the same time performance drops off significantly. Ironically turning power settings from high performance to balanced seems to have made an improvement.

Really confused.

Does anyone else use a similar set up and what sort of performance are you achieving?

Thanks,

neil

 

Sorry I don't have this laptop myself .

 

I think my poor performance is coming from the CPU. Load gets up to 100% on all cores when I have multiple twitch streams and a game running. Would RAM have anything to do with this? I was able to watch multiple screens and run games with no issues on my old laptop which is a similar spec but had an inferior GPU but 16GB RAm instead of the 8GB i have now.

 

It is possible you are hitting a ram barrier, but not likely. Download HWinfo64 and look at your ram usage. It will tell you what you at.

How the temps? Can you run some games with just one monitor? I'm specifically looking to know if the GPU and cpu and throttle during gaming sessions. HWinfo can also tell you that.