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With the long time period before BSOD, you are probably pretty close to the ideal setting. Dropping +10mV like that is a good first reduction. Hopefully that's all you need to drop it.
If you are stable at -135mV I would try halving that reduction and go -5mV more to -140mV and see if that is also stable. You can get within +-2mV on most CPU's to draw a finely tuned undervolt.
It takes time, and sometimes you are rewarded with BSOD randomly, so there is something to be said for being conservative and being +10mV off stable just to be sure long term![]()
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I personally havent encountered any performance loss on my AW (-130mV for the 6700HQ and -105mV for the 6820HK) nor on the Clevo systems.Rage Set, Donald@Paladin44 and hmscott like this. -
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There is no more NVIDIA Optimus. It has been replaced with MSHybrid...which does virtually the same thing. You can set it at automatic, where it switches between iGPU and dGPU depending on the demands being made, or you can lock any game or application to either the dGPU or iGPU. For business productivity applications, iGPU should be used, but for gaming or any other graphic intense application dGPU should be used.
All MSI models other than the GT series use MSHybrid, but it is not because of no G-Sync. If G-Sync was supported, then to use MSHybrid you would disable G-Sync.
The GT series does not support MSHybrid, rather it has a hardware MUX switch to change from dGPU to iGPU. Switching requires a reboot. When in dGPU mode, G-Sync can be enabled or disabled in the NVIDIA Control Panel.praetorianx and kooltilldend like this. -
It's not an unusual thought lately, there are people spreading the same incorrect assumption, not based on any real world experience, that undervolting causes a reduction in performance, it doesn't.
When you get a laptop, benchmark it out of the box, then undervolt it to stability, benchmark again.
After undervolting there won't be a reduction in performance given the same test settings, but there may be an improvement in performance if your pre-undervolting temperatures were causing thermal throttling, now with undervolting your CPU is able to run at full speed without thermal throttling.
Many thousands of people have undervolted and verified the same performance before and after, with lower temperatures and no thermal throttling the result. If you had tested this yourself before posting you would have avoided posting incorrect information.
Not all laptops benefit from an active fan laptop stand or cooler as not all laptops will take in the increased air flow, at best it cools the outside shell of the laptop. Each laptop needs to be tested to find if the increased air flow from a particular cooler will make a difference, quite often they don't.
Most of the benefit from a laptop stand, if set up correctly, is to raise the rear of the laptop higher than the front so as to start convection cooling. This makes a big difference even with laptops that don't respond to forced air cooling.
Alienware current models come to mind, they can have a 10c improvement in cooling by lifting the rear up an inch or two.
Before spending $50 on a laptop stand, try putting something under the rear feet raising the rear of the laptop a couple of inches higher than the front and measure the temperatures again to see if that helped.
Because of your post, and the posts of others with similar guesses about undervolting, I've had to explain this many times in the past month, whereas I hadn't seen anyone ask this in 4-5 years.
It's a waste of time for everyone, so please stop doing it, make sure you can back up your claims with real world test results before posting them. I'd be happy to see your before / after undervolting benchmark resultsLast edited: Sep 13, 2017ThePerfectStorm, chadkamei and Donald@Paladin44 like this. -
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@Mr. Fox and others have modded the Notepal U3 with better / more fans and gotten great results, here is a post from a while back, and @Mr. Fox has a video about the mods:
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usually i dont review products because my sux English skills
Got my GE63 3 days ago after long waiting because it was out of stock at HIDevolution.
Was looking for laptop that i can take everywhere anytime.
thought im going to buy average laptop before Donald recommended GE63 to me.
Everything in this laptop is different never thought i will buy MSI product in anytime, but let me tell you they did damn good job.
Keyboard is really awesome rgb so cool and buttons feeling is very nice
GTX1070 is really powerful card u can get u can maximum almost everything
Sound is amazing
Display as someone above said u better not try it if u won't really get it because its something really different
size and weight, if it would be a 17inch (didn't get that because i already have 5kilos 17 inch laptop).
what else mmmmm
just pull the trigger u won't regret(i dont know if its the right word to use here) it.
when Donald told me ur laptop is not in stock i was very sad and was about to cancel my order but im happy that i didnt.
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I had to put my purchase on hold after a plumbing issue cost me nearly 2 thousand dollars. I should have mine ordered at the end of the month so for right now, I'm living vicariously through user reviews. Haha.
By the way, your English is perfectly fine for being a second language for you. I wish I could speak a second language let alone write in one.
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i will try to log something for you tomorrow.
btw i undervolt mine -115, not because I got heat problems but after ppl keep chatting last 4 days about thermal heat undervolting Haha.
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The range I've seen is -15mV all the way to -220mV, with the Skylake / Kabylake getting the lions share of the better undervolting results
Even if you don't have thermal throttling, undervolting is a great tool toward benchmarking and finding the limits of your laptop, while cooling your CPU under normal use and gaming loads which keeps the fans from spinning up as often.
Then you can start OC'ing the GPU with MSI Afterburner and turning off vsync and using RTSS to limit frame rate to Refresh-1 to match G-sync.
Even if you can OC your CPU, the GPU might have some more useful headroom, and they usually have the better cooling in laptops, so there is more headroom to OC.Dovan1405 and Donald@Paladin44 like this. -
By the way, it looks like the dude with the CPU thermal problems has an uneven heatsink or bad paste job due to the uneven cores. Two of those cores were right around where they should be. High 70's, low 80's. The other 3 cores were up in the 90's.
I would definitely be returning that unit within the 15 days.
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If his undervolt takes the temp down enough to stop the hot cores from thermal throttling under long gaming sessions, he could keep the laptop and avoid the hassle of returning it.
He was also quick to pick up on the tools, and savvy to the process, he might be handy enough to want to repaste - or at least try to reseat the screws holding the heatplate.
He can unscrew the heatplate screws without removing / lifting the heatplate - that might introduce air bubbles reducing cooling - and then screw the screws back in 1/2 turn at a time going cross ways when tightening - cross corner to cross corner instead of round robin around the heatsink.
That completely removed a 7700HQ's core temperature differential, the repaste he did also reduced overall temps, but the important note to take from that is re-affixing the screws should remove the core temp differential without requiring disassembly of the whole cooling system and re-pasting.
Someone else recently repasted and got rid of a high core temp differential just by carefully screwing the heatplate back in after re-pasting - cross pattern with 1/2 turn per screw to get even pressure / coverage with the heatplate CPU mating.
At least he'll have options to keep it if it's too much of a hassle to return it.Last edited: Sep 13, 2017chadkamei and Donald@Paladin44 like this. -
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By the way, this is why I always tell people to buy from a reputable place or one with a good return policy. I'd like to think a place like HID would have never let this unit with the uneven cores go out the door. That's just not a few degrees here and there. Those core differences are pretty drastic.
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If someone doesn't seem savvy or comfortable with fixes I do recommend returning for refund or a new unit instead of RMA, as it takes a long time to get repairs done vs swapping for another unit.
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Just like there isn't a single laptop make to purchase, there isn't a single vendor to sell them, there are hundreds of retail locations that offer sales or discounts worth getting vs. paying premium costs. Not everyone can afford a boutique shop purchase, nor should they feel so obligated.
Except for Clevo + Prema partners, if you get a Clevo you are better off getting it from a Prema partner so eventually you will get the tuned firmware developed by Prema, otherwise Clevo's aren't quite so nice out of the box with stock firmware.
I buy all of my MSI, Asus, Acer, HP, etc laptops from retail - local businesses - so I have a place to go to work out issues. I prefer supporting local businesses and try to buy as much as I can locally. There are some things just too discounted to purchase locally, but with price matching I can usually get my laptop as cheap or cheaper locally. Then I can also swing discounts / price matching for components too.
Given a long history of purchases from a local business I can get better support and better pricing, plus calls for new equipment as it arrives. And, I can drive right over and get things I need the same day. I also can suggest products and area of product coverage to add so they know what is popular and what people are buying online that they don't carry. These are good relationships to build.
Not once have I found the need to get my laptop through a boutique buyer, even though I always check configuration and pricing - it's always cheaper for me to do the work myself, and then I know who did it and who to blame if it doesn't workLast edited: Sep 13, 2017Donald@Paladin44 likes this. -
Does Anyones can see ESS sabre logo above volume control (in Nahimic2 program)?
I try to push my headphone in line out and selected hi fi headphone But notthing to see ESS Sabre logo dac.
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If you start a source, maybe that will help switch over to the headset? Make sure you have the right output selected as default and when you plug in it switches, then Sabre should show up, something like this:
There have been Windows 10 update bugs that cause new fixes from vendors, so maybe that's what you are seeing.
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Whew i got scared when someone said you can get very high temps in one of the CPU cores due to bad thermal paste. Luckily this was not the case for me after checking it out using msi afterburner in witcher 3 (high settings preset with unlocked fps,very heavy load). All cores about the same temperature. Undervolted at -0.140
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Core temperature differential is one of the first things to check when testing a new laptop, and again after undervolting to see if thermal throttling (if present before undervolting) is still present.
MSI does a pretty good job of putting them out right the first time, but there are some that have not completely tightened heatplates that can cause this - or mis-tightened, all due to someone having the Monday's or too many hours on the line screwing in heatplates
It's good to know there are good ones out there too.
Please post your own results good or bad, it's good to know what people are getting out of the box with brand new models.Donald@Paladin44 likes this. -
Msi uses good quality thermal paste from the factory and not some cheap stuff like a lot of companies do. This can be further realized if you repaste their new machines with something like gc extreme or kryonaut sometimes you barely see improvement if any, where as on other companies the difference can be huge. Also the above post is correct and very good point. For all the people who complain of audio issues on msi newer laptops, make sure you go to msi support downloads and install the audio drivers and nahimic software from there.
Edit: I forgot to add I have heard of many people returning these devices due to said audio issues, even such as popping noises coming from the speakers...when the issue is never with hardware and is actually just the aforementioned driver issues.Last edited: Sep 14, 2017Kevin@GenTechPC and hmscott like this. -
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@hmscott So i disable hyper-threading and cpu-c states in bios. And i saw a significant temp drop. Now battlefield 4(multiplayer) maximum temps is 70C. i used to get 77C as maximum. I am not sure whether disabling decreases performance but temp was low.
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You disabled the hyperthreads and the Turbo frequency changes, you shouldn't need to do either, just undervolt and that should be fine. 77C cpu while gaming is good enough.maveeeee and praetorianx like this. -
Alright time for an update, I played GTA V again at undervolt: -0.135, and I didn't crash or BSOD.
I'm positive now that -0.135 is stable for my processor, might even push it a little further.
Here are my temps after playing GTA V for 30 mins:
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Also, your core temperature differentials are much lower, well within acceptable range.
Congratulations, as long as the rest of your game play exhibits the same lowered temps your results are good enough to stay with that unit.praetorianx and maveeeee like this. -
Yup, pretty happy. Going to try once more with -0.140 (I can't seem to increment less than 0.005)
If this doesn't result in a BSOD by the end of the day and it survives another GTA V test for at least 30mins I'm keeping it as permanent.hmscott likes this. -
Just got my shiny new GE63 today. The only disappointment is the sound. My 6 year old DELL XPS L502x has much better volume and sound quality. I thought the sound on the new one would be at least as good. I've fiddled around with numerous settings to get the volume up to an acceptable level but nothing like the DELL. Ah well, everything else is good.
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did you already try re-instal or update the sound driver/software.
you can check the GE63VR VS GE62VR speaker comparison of these video at minutes 6:17
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I have to admit I was also dissapointed with the loudness of the speakers in my GE63VR 7RF. Sound quality is great though.
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Still didnt't crash at -0.140, gonna try GTA V tonight.
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@hmscott: I really appreciated your undervolting explanations so I made a post on my own forum and credited you. I hope that's okay.hmscott likes this. -
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I am trying to make a final decision between the ge73vr and the pa71hs. I am very new to all the screen and output jargon but I see the pa71hs comes with thunderbolt while the ge73vr doesn't. So what does that mean in terms of what external screens I can use? I read thunderbolt supports a 4k screen at 120hz (so it can't support 144hz?) or 2 4k screens at 60hz while an hdmi 2.0 output supports only 1 4k 60hz screen. I think in the future, I'd love to have a 120hz+ 4k screen. I searched newegg just now for a similar screen and I could only find this which is 144hz: https://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod...215&cm_re=4k_144hz-_-9SIABHJ5281215-_-Product
Are these kinds of screens still new to the market. Is it possible to get a 28" 4k screen at 120hz+ for 200ish any time soon? And will the 1070 be able to handle it?hmscott likes this. -
Welp I think I answered my own question after checking benchmarks https://www.notebookcheck.net/Computer-Games-on-Laptop-Graphics-Cards.13849.0.html bf1 at 4k on the 1070 gets 49 fps so a 144hz external monitor is pointless. I wish they had HOTS on there as thats my main game. The 1070 probably can get well over 144fps in that game
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Also does anyone know when the 8700hq will come out and when msi will have it in the ge73vr? I'm guessing when this occurs, we will see the first price drop for the ge73vrs with the 7700hq. I wouldn't mind waiting a few months for 200+ cheaper comp. I remember the gt72vr with the 6700hq was going for 1300 while its 7700hq counterpart was going for 1800.
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The next cpu upgrade for the ge73vr and pa71hs will be the 8700hq, which is coffee lake right? Whats with the kabylake r series?
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Dang I would love a 6 core for vray renders (12 boxes rendering). But I can't imagine the ge73vr handling any cpu hotter than the 7700hq as that already needs significant tinkering to get under 90c when playing bf1.
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Time to share some temps after 30mins playing ffxiv maximum res
ignore the 18 fps because i was in another window that's why it drops my average fps was 145Attached Files:
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MSI GE63VR / GE73VR Raider Laptops
Discussion in 'MSI Reviews & Owners' Lounges' started by hmscott, Jul 11, 2017.