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I have only updated to newer nvidia drivers. As for a turbo reset I have tried that. Could it dragon center that is bugged?

The battery was down during testing, I did runs at around 10% battery so that could be it, I am going to do another run now and see if that changes anything.

 

Woohoo another Ubiquiti user =D

I used to use the edgerouter and since moved to the USG...it lacks features (well none that I need to use anyways) but seeing the green circles on my UniFi controller is the best thing ever.

 

Oh if you had low battery that could be it. I remember MSI restricts a bit of power use so that you can charge your battery while taxing the system. This might mean you get reduced performance while it reaches a certain battery %. Charge your battery and then redo the tests

 

It was the battery. Here is the new score. Thanks guys!

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/16425214

 

Thanks for the quick reply. Will do, very excited with this laptop, coming from 880M, this is gonna be a beast!

 

I am also excited for mine, I'm just getting the 1070 though. I could get the 1080 but worry about the added heat and noise.

Plus coming from an 870M it will be a big big upgrade.

My main problem is I ordered from IBuyPower, I know they've never had a great reputation but the price was very enticing. Well I ordered on 11/25 and the estimated ship date was 12/09 which I could live with as my main goal is to have it for my holiday vacation. Well now they are saying shipments are delayed a month or more (they haven't even started getting parts for my order yet and here we are a week in).

The thing that REALLY frustrates me is that they charged me immediately without having parts or stock. So now if I cancel my order I have to fight to get my money back.

 

The 1070 is an amazing card and will crush AAA games at 1080p.

Why would you need to fight for your money back? They don't have it so buy one elsewhere.

 

I had a problem with CPU temp and fans. It seemed that whenever I did anything that stressed CPU even a bit, Dragon Center was showing CPU temp going up tp 90*C in a second and all fans went to max speed.

What I did was that I updated firmware and BIOS. It fixed the problem (almost) completely for me. I am just telling this if anyone is having similar problems.

Does anyone has some serious lightbleeding on this Computer's screen edges?

Also, does anyone know how to disable touchpad automatically on every computer restart?

 

They do have it, like I said, they charged me immediately, which due to a low credit limit I had to pay off quickly before I knew this information.

 

I can tell you temperatures are amazing. A max temp ofr 77 Celsius with fully stressing my GTX1080 is amazing. And if you use cooler boost max fan, it goets quite cooler. It also sounds like a super jet engine, way louder than my GT80 hahaha.

But on stock, temps are nothing short of amazing.

What a weird issue but if a BIOS update solved it, that's great. What are your temps now? User monitoring software like Intel XTU and HwMonitor to get a better idea of temps of your system. I don't have serious lightbleed at all. What screen did you get?

As for the touchpad, well, if you don't plan on using it you can disable it via Device Manager. You can investigate to create a bat file that will disable and another one that will enable your touchpad so that you can do so as you need. Maybe even map the file execution to a button on the keyboard/system.

 

@razerfold definitely made a great ICC profile, that really takes the screen to another level. On my screen the Notebook Check one was really washed out. Probably had the truest whites, but everything else suffered.

I've already had to uninstall Nahemic, as Darkest Dungeon would just instantly crash otherwise. Are there any updated versions that fix the incompatibility with some games?

Also, anyone ever have their keyboard lighting start flipping out when certain programs are opened?

I'm working on that. Any idea why my Dragon Center doesn't have any voltage controls?

 

I think there is a new version, I'm not sure about game capability though. I had uninstalled Nahimic when i did a full Windows 10 install but I was unable to get the mic to work without it so I reinstalled it and it works nicely.

I don't think it does, I was able to get 4.2 without changing the voltage, it ran the benchmark and just game at 4.1. I am having trouble using XTU so I look forward to reading about your overclocking experiences.

 

Not sure if Dragon center should have them. I did mine through Intel XTU.

I will try the ICC profile, I am curious.

How's the sound without Nahimic? I was never a fan of it, always found it inferior to sound blaster, but if it will cause troubles with games, might as well get rid of it.

 

What sort of problems do you have with Intel XTU? I am a bit jealous as I am unstable at 4.2ghz (stress testing crashes me) but so far 4ghz works wonderful.

 

I just did a stress test to CPU with XTU. min temp was 51*C, average 76*C and max 86*C. Does it sound normal'ish? This was done with "sport" setting on Dragon Center.

I took a picture with my phone of the lightbleeding.



Also about Dragon Center. When I reinstalled my Windows 10 to this Computer because of the problems I had, I uninstalled Dragon Center before updating Windows. Just now I noticed that there is something missing there as I don't see the VR-mode or the X-boost options there anymore. Anyone else have had this problem?

Also after I got this Computer back from the service, Dragon Center and SCM are both saying on lower panel: "Please change product name".



My dragon Center looks like this: http://imgur.com/fQvN2FX

 

min 51*C, should not be, on cold boot or warm boot, the min temp is always below 40*C and never hit 86*C in any stress test or gaming with ultra high setting....

uninstall the DGC, download the new version, follow the instruction on MSI support website how to install the DGC, after installation completed, if ask for reboot, do it if not, install XTU from Intel and must reboot, when back in windows, first run XTU, do not change any thing, close it and run DGC, it should work properly.

Cannot see any light bleeding, can you highlight the portion on screen where light bleed, another user also has the light bleeding problem on right side of screen and it was worse, he sent for RMA to MSI, they fix the right side problem and sent it back with light bleeding on left side....what happened later, we don't know.....

 

If you are buying from USA or UK, buy any model of GT73VR with 120Hz @ 5ms FHD screen, you will get G-Sync as bonus.

99% re-seller will not confirm you that screen support G-Sync as this feature is not listed on MSI website.

Still, it's better to confirm...

I bought from re-seller who didn't confirm the G-Sync but i ended up with G-Sync screen.

Good Luck.....

 

I think it is a bit hot, but still within spec. Download Hwmonitor so you can confirm the temperature on each core.

As for your dragon center, did you download the same version as you had on your laptop? It does look very different.

 

The problem I have when overclocking with XTU is that after I set the multiplier the speed will go to what I set but as soon as I launch Prime 95 it clocks down to the 3,2 range. I have even tried going into BIOS and set everything and the same thing happens. The only time I can get it to stay where I set it is when I run Dragon Center. Now as far as the 4.2 goes, I must say that I only maxed the settings on the CPU/GPU in dragon center to run Firestrike a few times so I'm not sure if I could run Prime for an extended period. I want to give it a go but I need to do a bit more homework before I mess around too much. As it is though I can run anything with the CPU at 4.1 and the GPU at 100/150, BF1 runs close to the 120 max with DX11 on and a bit lower with DX12

 

Why does this laptop run so cool? With my 1070 at 1620/4303MHz, Furmark after 5 minutes maxes at 67C. I hit the jet engine button, and it was doing bouncing up to 1650/4303 at 58C.

Feels unreal.

Why does it seem like changing the GPU offset in Dragon Center isn't resulting in higher clocks? I bumped it up to +175/+300 just to see if it stuck, but Furmark just seemed to be using the standard boost clocks. What gives?

Seriously though, it's almost comical, how powerful the fans get when you press the DEFCON 5 button.

 

If it's TDP capped no amount of clock adjustment is going to help. What's the power draw?

 

My Dragon Center currently looks like this:

Okay, just tried to 3dmark firestrike (got 12 654 points with GTX 1070). The HWmonitor showed following: http://imgur.com/a/DyHSy

Can't say that I am happy with this computer, 2,7k computer should "just work" flawlessly.

 

What settings in DC did you use?

 

I decided to post some pictures of my experience with DC. The screenshots of your DC are a bit different.

The main screen, in order to get the settings icon to show select another mode then re select Turbo.


Here I selected the CPU option, this was saved from before, I named it benchmark.



Here are the values I set under the GPU tab.



Here is the confirm window, interestingly enough you can see that the CPU has already been set even though I hadn't confirmed it.


Here is the result of a FS run, with the latest drivers I can't quite get past 15k

 

Now in the previous post I was unable to load more then 5 images but I wanted to show what happens when i launch Prime95. Youcan see that the CPU drops back quite a bit.

 

GT73VR with 120hz TN screen supports different refresh rates? (60, 85, 100hz etc)
and GTX 1070 gpus with micron vram has some issues.

 

I have the GTX 1070 version and have been happy with my temperatures (never seen 80C before) and haven't even bothered repasting. Then I decided to buy Battlefield 1. Amazing game, but my CPU temp max out at 89C all of a sudden in that game! What on earth..

 

I play a lot of BF1 and my CPU never gets past 80 with my CPU at 4.1. I did have a strange event while playing TW3, I noticed a drop in performance and that my CPU temp was above 90, for some reason my fans weren't working, I hit the coolerboost button to get the temps down and then noticed DC had just stopped working for some reason. There are some custom fan profiles on this thread which I was using, I tweeked the CPU one to get better cooling on the CPU during BF1.

 

The custom fan profiles are definitely the ticket to solving the temp issue. There's little difference in sound too. The default fan settings get behind on keeping the temps down.

 

I agree with the amount of money spent on these machines we shouldn't have to tinker around to get basic functions to work. I find myself missing my MacBook when I'm doing normal office stuff. The Apple couldn't keep up on the games or my autodesk programs though.

 

GT73VR with 120hz TN screen supports different refresh rates? (60, 85, 100hz etc)? No, only 120Hz

GTX 1070 gpus with micron vram has some issues. No idea, GT73VR with GTX1070 owners can confirm this....

 

haven't use the custom fan profile also haven't played BF1 yet but while playing COD MW Remastered Edition (on 1080p) with nVidia drivers 375.70, GPU temp max hit 83 and after trying to install drivers 376.09 (bad release) reverted back to 375.95 Hotfix drivers and while playing COD MW Remastered Edition (on 1080p) GPU Temp never exceeded 65.

 

The GTX 1070 has Samsung VRAM.

 

I have the same problem when I play BF1. My CPU hits 86C in Turbo mode but with other games it never reaches above 80C.

 

Does anyone here with a 1080 GT73VR have micron vRAM? (check using gpu-z)

 

yes, GT73VR GTX1080 Mircon vRam

 

@DukeCLR

HWINFO fixed the intel NVMe wrong detail in their beta release......

 

Anyone tried custom refresh rate on Nvidia control panel? Instead, fps can be capped below 120hz with in-game graphic settings ? (60- 85hz etc) I don't need 120hz at all games (except first person shooters).

 

Oh good, no more worries about the one red spot

 

Thanks for the recommendation Duke! I'll look into getting a custom fan profile.

 

ah if it's GDDR5X then it'll be fine, maybe the 1070 people having some trouble OCing micron GDDR5?

 

Is this a normal Firestrike score for this laptop?

 

Yest that is normal, my lowest was a 13500 where my highest was 15355.

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/10573329/fs/10827373

 

Iam having a hard time finding a backpack for this laptop ,anybody can give me any suggestions ??!!!!!

 

Everki Titan

 

That's a nice OC on the CPU / GPU, and really close to my top Fire Strike score on the GT80 SLI-263 980m SLI OC'd

http://www.3dmark.com/compare/fs/10573329/fs/10827373/fs/5708173

Has someone posted a top OC score for the GT73VR with single GTX1080 ?

 

Thanks man,but I'm not planning to spend more than 75$ on a bag .

 

Check this, I have this one for my GT73VR and excellent quality, too many pockets and extra space after putting the laptop in, shoulder or hand carry, water proof....

18.4 Inches Laptop Backpack

 

Anyone experiencing high temps on the CPU should also check the CPU difference between cores and check this thread out too.

If you experience high temps and your core temps are similar in temperature, then a repaste should definitely help. My overclocked temps rarely sit on the 70s and we all share this part of the laptop, regardless of model. We should have relatively similar temps (there will always be differences).

 

17872

my score gtx1080m. tweaked a little. +100@core +500@mem. cpu@4200 stable.