Paddy Baxter
Bronze Level Poster
Thats a pretty great result. I’ve settled on 1470 MHz on a pretty low voltage that gets me 76-84 degrees while gaming (only hitting 84 under 99 percent load for an extended period) I reckon I can live with that.Any help will be much appreciated. I've tried locking the clock on the GPU to the spec'd boost of 1380MHz. That's reduced the max temperature under heavy load to 70. Which is pretty much the minimum under heavy load too unless I turn on fan boost in game and turbo mode in Gaming Centre. With the boosted fan running and the GPU locked the temperatures come down to a pretty calm range of 60 to 62 degrees.
Watching the temperatures under normal load, however, the CPU is still going up to 50+, which seems hotter than it ought to be. It comes down by several degrees if I set a custom fan speed profile for Office mode in Gaming Centre, but that of course makes the fans quite a bit louder.
Running the Red Dead 2 benchmark at max settings netted me 45 FPS average. Comparing this to notebookcheck on their MSI 2070 Super laptop with the i9 processor and it’s a 2 FPS difference. Another benchmark I seen on YouTube with the same MSI laptop in Rise of the tomb raider had the i9 laptop at 88 FPS average and my recoil on 89 FPS average. Just goes to show that those higher clock rates don’t necessarily translate to higher performance.