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    GP73 hot after a couple hours of gaming

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by ApostateTapir, Dec 17, 2018.

  1. ApostateTapir

    ApostateTapir Notebook Consultant

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    Played COD BO4 on med settings, high FOV. Ambient room temp was about 25° C and the CPU temps got up to 93° C with the GPU at 85°.

    I understand that the temps will get hot after a couple hours of gaming, but my fans never maxed out. I could still press the turbo boost hard key up in the top right and get the fans to boost. How do I change the fan profile such that it will turbo boost automatically and sooner, before the temps get so hot.
     

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    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    Avé César Notebook Consultant

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    @Apostate Tapir I tried this game too, and whatever my settings, were mid or low, temp was the same, more then 90°, even with undervolt.
    After 10 minutes , switch it off, and saw on the net, lot of people complain about this game, code with feets....
    Someone wrotte on a reddit, can't remember where exactly, he got a Desktop HIGH END PC, 1080TI And got the same results, even low graphic, cpu goes above 90°, I suggest you wait for improvement, or patch, this game will kill your pc.
     
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    This may be the Reddit that was mentioned: https://www.reddit.com/r/Blackops4/comments/96afit/high_cpu_and_gpu_temps_on_pc/

    It looks like the game is causing up to 100% CPU usage. I have a code for this game but I haven't used it yet ... I'm glad too. Some people report capping the frame rates does help lower the temperature. Some cap at 70fps, others at 60fps. Either way, if it works it will just be a bandaid until the game gets a patch for whatever is causing this.
     
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    Kevin@GenTechPC Company Representative

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    Could this possibly caused by high quality settings on graphics? Perhaps the processor is bottlenecking?
     
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    It seems like people reporting this issue have tried lowering their quality settings, even to the lowest limit, with no luck. However there could be a link with bottlenecking, but that should be alleviated on certain systems where the GPU could take the load away, and it seems like both low and hi-end GPU systems are reporting this (along with lower and higher-end CPU's.) Certainly a head-scratcher......
     
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    Falkentyne Notebook Prophet

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    Yes? Someone need help with a throttlebook again? If it's that overheating fan speed thing just slide the sliders up sooner?
     
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    ApostateTapir Notebook Consultant

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    I have had the game configured two ways:

    1) Graphics settings all on high, 90° FOV. I would get 60-65 FPS and GPU max temp of 79°-81°.

    2) Lowered graphics settings to medium, max FOV (120° IIRC). Getting 100-115 FPS and temps screaming up to 85° on the GPU and low 90°'s on the CPU.

    Maybe I do need to start looking at limiting FPS.
     
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    Avé César Notebook Consultant

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    I read a post, where a guy said go to the config.ini and change a number on threads ( cpu) but didn't help on temp, all my games runs for now fine ~74° average , and goes max sometimes to ~84° , ~86°. Didn't use the bios unlock for now, didn't have time, only a bit of undervolt.

    If i were you, i would wait , and try others game.
     
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    Kevin@GenTechPC Company Representative

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    LOL @ Throttlebook. :)
     
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    Use SKYLAKE version of MSI Silent Option and slide the sliders down so the fans speed up sooner.
     
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    I apologize for the dumb question, but how do I get the Skylake version of MSI SO?
     
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    I ended up changing the fan curve in Dragon Center and now I'm barely breaking 75C degrees after gaming for a few hours. I also think that ambient temperature had a lot to do with it, even though my room was only 75F the night I was having overheating issues.
     
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