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    MSI GX70 poor overall performance

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by martin778, Feb 11, 2014.

  1. martin778

    martin778 Notebook Consultant

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    Hello everyone! I bought my second MSI notebook today (the first one being the GX740 which I really loved) but I'm greatly disappointed with GX70's performance.

    The first thing is: I'm running 13.15 graphic drivers because no other GPU drivers would install as the installer always get stuck at "Detecting hardware..."
    Games like World of Tanks are barely playable, my fps is around 25-38 on low settings. I tried GRID 2 but it's not playable at all: 15-20FPS on lowest settings and 7-9 maxed. :mad:
    All this with power plan set to high performance and CPU locked at 3.2GHz.

    Also my Crucial SSD seems to run on SATAII speeds even if the benches report it as Sata III, the read speed maxes at 275MB/s and write speed is around 190MB/s which look like typical sata II results.
    Not to even mention the fan reaching astronomical speeds for a few seconds after power up and while waking up from sleep....
     
    martin778, Feb 11, 2014
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