Hi,
I've had my laptop less than a week, it's a Vortex V running the nvidea 980M SLi graphics cards and a 6700k processor, 32GB RAM. Quite the beast. This is my first gaming rig in over a decade so forgive me if I waffle a little about insignificant things...
I've installed the Clevo software that comes with the chassis and allows me to manually change the fan speeds and a few other bit n bobs. I've installed the very latest drivers and the cards are set to SLi mode in the nvidea control panel.
I've installed Rise of the Tomb Raider and it runs perfectly on "Very High" settings, and looks simply stunning. However, after less than 5 minutes of gameplay a loud "beep beep, beep beep, beep beep" alarm is given off by the laptop (at this point the fans are barely moving). Coming out of the game and checking the GPU meter I have installed the temperature on GPU1 is just above or on 75'C.
The same happens eventually with the fans manually set to max, however I get about 15 minutes before the alarm starts at the 75'C threshold, and this time cools down much quicker too.
When I turned just the texture detail down to "high" I played uninterrupted for over an hour, and when I came out I saw GPU1 was at 60ish and GPU2 was over 80 - but no alarm went off.
The laptop itself is sat on a cooling stand, in an air conditioned hotel room and I can't believe it is overheating badly enough to require an alarm after just a few minutes of gameplay - and it's just days old so it's not full of dust or anything.
From what I'm told, the GPU's should be able to run up to around 90'C before I should start to worry, and I can't find out what is actually making the alarm - there doesn't seem to be anything in the BIOS, and the Clevo software doesn't have any setting for it either. And surely the fans would be running at full when running in auto mode if they were starting to get hot? Could it be something else getting too hot? I only have the GPU's and CPU temp monitored at the moment, and don't know of any other software that monitors more.
Any help anyone can give would be really appreciated, this rig has cost me a small fortune and I don't want to have to scale things back because of a simple cooling issue or badly set alarm.
Cheers,
Horlix
I've had my laptop less than a week, it's a Vortex V running the nvidea 980M SLi graphics cards and a 6700k processor, 32GB RAM. Quite the beast. This is my first gaming rig in over a decade so forgive me if I waffle a little about insignificant things...
I've installed the Clevo software that comes with the chassis and allows me to manually change the fan speeds and a few other bit n bobs. I've installed the very latest drivers and the cards are set to SLi mode in the nvidea control panel.
I've installed Rise of the Tomb Raider and it runs perfectly on "Very High" settings, and looks simply stunning. However, after less than 5 minutes of gameplay a loud "beep beep, beep beep, beep beep" alarm is given off by the laptop (at this point the fans are barely moving). Coming out of the game and checking the GPU meter I have installed the temperature on GPU1 is just above or on 75'C.
The same happens eventually with the fans manually set to max, however I get about 15 minutes before the alarm starts at the 75'C threshold, and this time cools down much quicker too.
When I turned just the texture detail down to "high" I played uninterrupted for over an hour, and when I came out I saw GPU1 was at 60ish and GPU2 was over 80 - but no alarm went off.
The laptop itself is sat on a cooling stand, in an air conditioned hotel room and I can't believe it is overheating badly enough to require an alarm after just a few minutes of gameplay - and it's just days old so it's not full of dust or anything.
From what I'm told, the GPU's should be able to run up to around 90'C before I should start to worry, and I can't find out what is actually making the alarm - there doesn't seem to be anything in the BIOS, and the Clevo software doesn't have any setting for it either. And surely the fans would be running at full when running in auto mode if they were starting to get hot? Could it be something else getting too hot? I only have the GPU's and CPU temp monitored at the moment, and don't know of any other software that monitors more.
Any help anyone can give would be really appreciated, this rig has cost me a small fortune and I don't want to have to scale things back because of a simple cooling issue or badly set alarm.
Cheers,
Horlix
