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    GT60 Dominator thermals?

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by golfguy251, Apr 7, 2014.

  1. golfguy251

    golfguy251 Notebook Guru

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    I'm looking at buying a laptop in the next couple of days, and I've been eyeing this GT60 Dominator model. It has an 870M in it and comes with repasting applied by XoticPC (a good thing since I hear MSI sometimes does a shoddy job with the paste). My main question is, will it be able to handle running Intel Burn Test and FurMark at the same time (at non-boost speeds) without throttling? Also, how overclockable is the 870M (though I understand that's getting quite greedy as the 870M is already very good)?
     
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  2. Support.3@XOTIC PC

    Support.3@XOTIC PC Company Representative

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    You may run into throttle issues when really stress testing it like running two burn in programs at a time. We havent done this to test, but maybe someone who does have one will chime in.
    There is still some head room left for overclocking the GPU. It will vary by individual computer but 10-15% should be stable. If you plan on doing it yourself just be careful and make sure you're monitoring temps as you adjust the clock speeds.
     
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    Saiyan96 Notebook Geek

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    I tried this with my laptop (GT60 680M) and everything went haywire. GPU clocks fluctuated and CPU kept clocking up and down. Then again, I might have a faulty AC adapter. So in short, don't try it. You won't gain any benefit from it and no game (what I know of) taxes both 99% usage for CPU and GPU. Most games have either high GPU usage or CPU usage.
     
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  4. MrGuvernment

    MrGuvernment Notebook Consultant

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    This was my thing with MSI, it seems with trying to go so thin and light, they forgot about decent cooling, with their claim of turbo cool system they have, to me 1 fan just doesn't cut it with a quad core i7 and today's GPU's. Also that the chassis they are using on some of the new models is the same chassis they have used over the last 4 years...
     
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    The whole point of turbo is to boost during games so real performance is higher and then throttle during stress tests so the limits are not exceeded.
     
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    Remember that some of those benching applications are designed to put an almost unrealistic amount of stress on components. They're really there to test the limits of the hardware, as well as for any problems with specific technologies (such as DirectX).
     
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