GE62VR GTX1060 Clock/Power Issue

Hello,

I recently purchased a GE62VR with the 1060 and everything seemed to be fine until I tried gaming. I notice the FPS can vary widely for no reason, without moving or the scene changing in Valley and BF1, the only two things I have tried on it. I installed HWInfo to see what was happening and I noticed the TDP and clocks on the card are fluctuating like crazy. The card seems to have a max of 75w TDP, which is what I read, but most of the time the TDP seems to lock in at 50w and the clocks tank because of it, along with FPS. If I stay in one spot for long enough, all of a sudden the clocks will jump up and the TDP will return to 75w. As soon as I move or continue on with the benchmark, it tanks again. Is this normal or no? I cant imagine this is how this notebook is suppose to run. I cannot seem to find any setting to change this behavior either. Its really bothering me because the card cannot even stay above base clocks when this happens. I have tried all the different power options in Nvidia control panel and nothing has fixed it. Perfering max performance even makes it worse since the card tries clocking up but hits that 50w TDP barrier.

Thanks,
Stev3

 

It's sounds like MSI made the BGA GPUs power throttle. I had a GT62 with the MXM 1060 and it never had this issue. It always ran well above boost clocks and when overclocked it ran within 200-300mhz of the desktop overclocked cards. In BF1 I was maitaning 1800-1900mhz.

 

I wonder why, as temps are very good on the core when gaming. When running the little benchmark within gpuz, it'll hold the 75w tdp all day. Even boosts up to 1850-1898. Does anyone know if this is something that can be modified or changed? I really like the laptop but the performance loss I experience from this will make me return it if I cannot figure it out.

 

As a last resort I am trying a full restore of the system with a clean windows install. I cannot find anything within bios or a way to edit the TDP of the card. Hopefully this works, but I don't expect it to, as I do really like this machine, but performance is abysmal.

 

For what it's worth I had a GE62 970m/6300HQ model for a brief period before my current Pascal laptop.

I unlocked the vbios and overclocked the 970m. It overclocked great on stock voltage and ran cool around 60-70C. However it would randomly either hard downclock the core or memory during gaming sessions causing huge FPS loss. This happened randomly. Maybe minutes or maybe hours. It remained downclocked until a system restart.

Never found a way to fix the issue and discovered only later it did this on stock vbios as well. I eventually got rid of the laptop.

Your issue may be isolated but sounds very close to what I was getting. I would ask of you can try another laptop before giving up or callin MSI tech support and describing your issue. Don't return the laptop to them but request a BIOS or vbios fix. If they can't do that simply return the laptop. Make sure you let them know you're returning the laptop for said issue. Of enough people return the laptops they will issue a fix.

 

Yeah B&H are letting me return it. Going to go with a Sager instead. Shame, it was a nice laptop but I am not getting the performance I am paying for.