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er not so sure about that the as Vince said the i7-6700HQ has the Intel® HD Graphics 530 on the CPU. Check that you have the 1070 enabled for all gaming in advanced properties. Also check that you have the 1070 for physx too. I noticed a few times that the physx was set to CPU or the Intel even though it was disabled in the bios.
My son has a GE722QC with same CPU but a gtx 960. Every so often when I update the nvidia drivers I have a problem where it crashes. So sometimes I go back to the original MSI one off their website have you tried that ?
@String ,here are the requested graphs. GPU usage is 99% during Heaven benchmark with few random dips. I got a score of 84.5fps on my GTX1070 notebook, is this healthy?
1) GPU Core Clock was running at the lower end 1440MHz-1530Mhz during the benchmark and did not try to boost to 1911MHz like it does in games. Hence GPU temp in this benchmark is relatively lower than in Games, and less fluctuations in FPS. Why did the GPU Clock not bother going to max possible clock speed? Driver limitations maybe just like nvidia did to furmark? I saw the steady 1440MHz in benchmark window if you are wondering. This test remains inconclusive because as you can see in my previous battlefield 3 videos, GPU clock is fluctuating and framerates are lower than other owners of this GPU and lowering all graphic settings did not change framerates at all.
2) CPU Cores speed: CPU1 to CPU4 running at 3.2GHz, CPU5 to CPU8 running at 3.4GHz. Is this normal?
3) Power Limit flag in last screenshot. It is very recurrent. Still not sure if that is normal to Notebook GTX1070 or not.
4) Notice when the GPU clock increased to 1911MHz at the very end, I got a Voltage limit flag.
Most importantly, I would really appreciate it if GTX1070 notebook users can confirm that my reported Heaven score is normal or not, so I can filter out the GPU as the problem. Many thanks.
If all the basic software tweaks have been covered, then it's a hardware issue, because it shouldn't take massive software modification to get your GPU working correctly.
Power limit and Temp sliders in MSI Afterburner are locked and greyed out. I cannot modify them. If anyone has a GTX1070 notebook, and these settings are unlocked, please report your VBIOS version.
@ronferri It looks like a constant throttle on core clock being caused by power limit. Run another test, and monitor power usage. Is it consistently over 100%?
@ronferri It looks like a constant throttle on core clock being caused by power limit. Run another test, and monitor power usage. Is it consistently over 100%?
Yeah it will do because default power and relative temp limit equates to something like 70c before throttle and he already said it’s in the high 80s. Unlock those you can stop it but I’d wager it gets too hot very fast. Allow 120% power limit it’s roughly 90c temp.
Yeah it will do because default power and relative temp limit equates to something like 70c before throttle and he already said it’s in the high 80s. Unlock those you can stop it but I’d wager it gets too hot very fast. Allow 120% power limit it’s roughly 90c temp.
Also on pascal you get power limited also if you don’t have the voltage up to 100%... if you unlock that then the temps will increase roughly 10% if my own tests are anything to go by in heavy clocking.
Thank you very much gentlemen. Other owners of my laptop (i7-6700HQ, GTX1070) have better performance overall.
@Smffy I cannot unlock power limit and temp limit modifier in MSI Afterburner it is locked and greyed out, even when i unlock voltage control. Any tips?
@String As for the temperatures on CPU and GPU (which one did you mean is the culprit, GPU?), this laptop was serviced twice this month, once by MSI and 2nd time by computer shop. They cleaned fans, and reapplied thermal paste and they say nothing is wrong with cooling system. Now, Temp of GPU stabilizes at 82C under heavy load, max fan rpm. Also, HWinfo says there is no GPU thermal throttling happening under heavy load.
I kindly need your contribution on the below. This is the ultimate post. Figure out why this is happening and you will solve everything.
After sharing all GPU and CPU readings while running Heaven benchmark (GPU usage 99%, score: 84.5fps), I will now share the same readings for the problematic game of Battlefield 3, at ultra settings 1080p, and at lowest settings 720p. Reminder: Framerates in BF3 surprisingly remain the same in both low and ultra settings, so let us analyze together what is happening at the CPU and GPU level.
Go to settings and tick the box that says unlock it... while you’re there change the skin to cyborg so you can see more useful information.
The problem is obvious, power limit constantly, probably due to temperatures on the GPU or voltage limit. Get the latest afterburner and see, won’t fix your temps though.
As you can see in graph above, in low settings BF3, I dont have power limit flags at all, and GPU clock is steady and stable at 1443MHz, GPU temp is around 58C, framerate is around 130FPS.
In ultra settings, I ALSO have framerate around 130fps! I have many power limit flags, GPU clock starts steady at 1800MHz range then fluctuates between 1600MHz and 1700MHz as soon as the temperature exceeds 70C, later on temp stabilizes at 78-81C (which is not bad according to MSI and they believe there is nothing to fix).
??? i know my system can generate more than 130fps at low settings because it generates that at ultra. So where is the limit coming from at low settings? Is it from the CPU?
In The Witcher 3, GPU usage is 99%, GPU temp is 80C, GPU clock is stable at around 1535MHz and I get framerates close to the average at ultra settings (50-70fps). It is a GPU bound game.
But in battlefield 3, what is keeping the GPU from reaching 99% usage and higher framerates?
Also, temp limit flag is NOT triggered during BF3 gameplay as you can in the graphs above (last graph), both ultra and low settings. Throttling temp reached? Maybe, and i think it is 72C. Can someone confirm the temp after which GTX1070 in notebooks starts throttling?
Anyway, here is The Witcher 3 at ultra settings: 60fps to 80fps, and 1 occurence of volt limit when clockspeed starts at 1911Mhz
Thank you @String and everyone for being patient with me. Below are the graphs as requested: BF3, ultra settings, VSync ON. Wish everything runs that stable while achieving 150+fps as it should. EDIT: Just saw your edit, sorry Gsync is still OFF in the below graphs. Need a rerun?
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