Is Your Gaming Laptop Throttling? How to Know and (hopefully) Fix it!

[@GizmoSlipTech]

Hopefully this was helpful to you! This is how I quality check the laptops I review to see if their GPU is being throttled. P.S. I'm doing some giveaways. See below. Mega-Giveaway is still going on! kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2SmmYxtgrWMo7M Note 9 Giveaway is over. Ivan from NJ won! Congrats dude! V-Bucks and Galaxy Skins have been given away to all 3 winners!

[@rileyolsen196]

GizmoSlipTech when I opened the msi afterburner zip my browser keeps opening tabs of the same site

[@Ghost16-k5n]

So how close are we to the mega-giveaway?

[@zocksstudio5956]

Lol ima share this with my geek class. Laughing with this guy on a fryday with 23 people. Good job making these funny videos

[@musictherapy9803]

I have a acer tritan 500 how do i check the cpu performance

[@vohrashaheen]

It does not let me update my nvidia control panel I am on laptop

[@abijithla5865]

Wait... I could swear I heard mr.beast's voice just now...lol

[@braz4951]

bruh i do too

[@breeze9076]

Bruh

[@peesicle]

Bruh

[@croissant._.003]

Oh

[@croissant._.003]

Omg true wtf

[@J4yRise]

him: "the fans arent even really blowing" Me: *hearing a jet engine in the video*

[@Johannes-sq4es]

*laughs nervously* i havent cleaned mine in 4 years lol

[@demoth]

Urs last 4 years?!? I never had a laptop that didn't blew up on me after 3

[@premsharma7916]

@@demoth aah. Yeah. I have an hp from 5yrs yeah intel hd

[@khichdimomoswithharichatni3598]

Bruhh mind is just 4 months old

[@AnzaraGG]

Never cleaned my laptop in 10 years of its life time

[@aaronaston3320]

Yeah my laptop is from 2006 i think and still runs xp perfectly

[@anikethsahu6117]

The best advice is don't expect too much from your laptop otherwise it will make it worse than previous. Compromise it from your side by Lowering your game resolution Adding more RAM SSD Cleaning Unblocking the heat vents Buy a PC when you have enough cash. Keep your laptop safe for longer periods.

[@Jdogg4089]

That's what I'm doing. I like the idea of a $1000 laptop but I want something with full modularity. I want a really masterclass PC.

[@Sevastous]

The last one is most important. If youre into gaming that much to risk modifying a laptop. Get a Case. If youre not a international businessman. Getting 3080 laptop is wasteful and overheat nightmare for the price you will pay. Especailly for campus folk. graduate. save up for a case. These devices arent upgradeable. Heat very badly and mostly a bad bank for the buck you will get

[@agabayu6283]

Every 2 year i clean my pc board and fan, replace thermal paste. And never get any issue on throttling performance.

[@yqwl]

Aga Bayu my laptop is only 1 and a half year old and ive started getting 86* gpu temp

[@sudhanshu9831]

A brand new asus tuf a15 hits 90 lmao

[@olasubomiodekunle7878]

Mine is 6 month old and 97c when gaming 🗿 I hate hp

[@parancid]

unlimited edit which one

[@olasubomiodekunle7878]

Scorpion Gamer hp omen 2019

[@arizona4ever972]

His elbows are on top of the laptops God damn those poor puppies xD

[@Agumon5]

Just remember that thermal throttling happens for a reason. It happens to extend the overall lifespan of your machine. I guess if you don't mind replacing your laptop every year, might go ahead and crank it up. For those of us who cannot afford to blow thousands of dollars on a laptop on a yearly basis, thermal throttling is actually a feature not a bug.

[@Snow-yi1wn]

Agree but my cell g7 throttles to 20 fps in csgo and is considered a "gaming laptop". When it came out of the box performance was horrible and I genuinely regretted buying it. Now iv change tons of settings to actually use the PC for gaming but it's ridiculous for a 1200 to 1400 pc to run games like league legends at 200 fps and then mid game to drop at below 30 which is unplayable

[@ziadelali3385]

That's its purpose but almost always you can do something to make the situation better by like reducing your cpu voltage so you don't even hit the thermal throttling limit and in the same time fully take advantge of the cpu

[@youtubeshadowbannedme]

@@Snow-yi1wn wow I have a budget Nitro 5 and I get 150fps in CSGO at max settings

[@ruy7164]

Limit the fps to your display, 200 fps is useless if your display has 120hz or similar. Doing this makes your gpu and cpu stop doing a lot of extra work which will lower temperatures. It's pretty easy to do and should honestly already come capped by default by the manufacturers.

[@Enoxix.]

The first 30 minutes of gaming mostly go well, but after that it lags and gets sudden framedrops. My laptop broke few weeks ago and I got it back from repairs. They replaced the needed parts and did a fresh install, but before the repair I didn't have these problems. With normal use it's actually way faster now, but whilst gaming I get these problems. Could they've changed some settings that this is happening now?

[@wbacardi3719]

A friend of mine had a ridiculously overheated laptop which was the predator helios 300 running on an i7, i helped him out by replacing his thermal paste and did some basic cleanup by unclogging the dust buildup from the fan. ever since then everything went to norm and fps was back to 97fps on gaming from 28fps. temperature on that laptop was pretty bad as it was going on 98*C and now it is running at 64*C while gaming. on idle not in game lowest temp was going at 68*C and now its running at 45*C. i hope this helps. sometimes the basic cleanup works.

[@srapie]

They probably removed the heat sink and didn't repaste. So the thermal paste dryed out. Just repaste it and you should be fine

[@wbacardi3719]

@lob ops oh and when you apply the thermal paste, make sure it hits every part of the chrome to take full potential of the heat sync

[@saveshgaming]

Same here Bro When i Play It's Working Well After that My Laptop Start Lagging Lot While Gaming my Graphics Card is Geforce 1660ti

[@worldwidewebreda124]

Wouter, I have the EXACT SAME problem. I’ve been trying to find a solution, I reset BIOS, I factory reset myl laptop, I’ve redownloaded drivers ETC

[@engrfka]

No matter how good your gaming laptop is, it's eventually gonna develop heating issues especially with its fans.

[@prajulk9157]

you sounds like mrbeast

[@SAMMYBOY90.]

True

[@JarvinTheJar]

Now I can't unhear it. 😑

[@JarvinTheJar]

Now I can't unhear it. 😑

[@YaBoiDhyan]

Fr

[@mirekzadrozny8483]

I didn't even know there is power setting in the Nvidia Control Panel. Now all my issues resolved. Thank you very much.

[@yoyadalius7652]

Same here

[@muhammederenkaradag3881]

What is a voltage limit?

[@bijou0106]

and how to deal with it. up vote this

[@zetaroo9602]

@@bijou0106 this ain't reddit chief.

[@shiroi_hige2718]

You need an app to tweak the voltage supplied to your core and graphics card... it helps you adjust the volt suplied to the minimum without the core crashing meaning you get the performance you want at the minimum functioning voltage because the less volt you supply to your core and graphics card the less temp you produce, usually atleast 10 percent even with millivolts of undervolting....

[@immadeofmagic]

You can achieve more performance with higher voltages, the tradeoff is higher temps which can then cause the cpu to thermal throttle. Because of this laptop cpu's tend to be locked to intake no more power than the manufacturer sets, to avoid any damage to the hardware

[@1337fraggzb00N]

it is a limit to voltage

[@peanuts3049]

When I bought my laptop, I put it to performance mode, it overheated and when I changed to the normal mode it was lagging for some reason. Lags when overheats, lags when its on normal mode. Idk why but I feel like there should be a mode in between of the two. It really messed with me, I need to change between then every 10 minutes

[@EM-ks5my]

In a laptop the first thing to check is the BIOS settings, Dell G5 and Alienware has modes in the BIOS menu, and sometimes optimized is the the best. Also update your BIOS, like Dell now power management app can do this without going to the BIOS. Like if I'm traveling, I can set to a low power mode, if I'm plugged I can set the high setting with the fans always on and higher power. I find that sometimes manufacturers don't give all the information. Like he said, you can always check the clocks, with riva turner or other app.

[@DeanieIskandar]

my laptop power throttled when unplugged, thermal throttled when plugged in. Help.

[@MythosMagnet]

@engineer gaming engineer gaming HD

[@jveerf8573]

@@MythosMagnet enginner is engy here.

[@MythosMagnet]

@@jveerf8573 demo pan gaming

[@jveerf8573]

@@MythosMagnet nope. Pootis gaming

[@MythosMagnet]

@@jveerf8573 nah medic gaming

[@SERP92_]

I did this on gta5 and every Time i have fps drops my proccesor drops from 4000MHz to 800MHz i play on laptop

[@diggerpy]

@@Atari8888 lmao

[@yotoprules9361]

@@Atari8888 CPUs like the 8750h boost to 3.9 while in-game.

[@-HongChanchheangCiE]

@@Atari8888 i7 8750H 6core all boosted to 3.9Ghz bruhh

[@gdomzo5784]

I was have the sameme problem. Thankfully, it's fixed now.

[@SERP92_]

@@gdomzo5784 damn now i have a 3070

[@godzilla7391]

My Dell g5 5587 , with the i5 8300h easily goes over 90c when gaming. I keep it plugged in while gaming, but im sure its getting throttled. I cleaned it out, repasted, still throttling. I read somewhere that it was a poor choice by Dell with the design. I even use a laptop fan/stand.

[@nischalrokaya7563]

I have same issue dude.. btw have you fixed it?

[@godzilla7391]

@nischalrokaya7563 Nope. Sold it. I have a decent gaming desktop, also bought a Acer Triton Predator laptop ( i7, rtx3050, 32gb ram), wife has it

[@nischalrokaya7563]

@@godzilla7391 wow! lucky you... By the way recently I have fixed it by the help of throttle stop now somehow I can run games on 70 to 85 degree with stable fps...

[@NCIA-93]

The gpu and cpu reach 90-95 degrees. This must be my reason of lower performance. How do i fix this?

[@daniboiyy]

Undervolt, underclock, repaste.

[@Smoothsmoothie]

dani how do I under clock

[@bermuda2543]

Man I have the scar 2 gl504gs and I hit 1980 to 2000 MHz GPU and temps 65 to 75 and CPU 3.9 GHz max temp is 80 The scar 2 is the best gaming laptop I ever bought

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@Smoothsmoothie scroll up some comments. I replied with instructions on some. If you're not sure what you're doing, take it to the shop for a repaste at least

[@mohammedgaming1414]

Hi there i have the same problem i solve it by disable cpu turbo boost i get 71c from 95c

[@ramondouche3640]

I have and still use my laptop from a year ago. It has a ryzen 5 vega 8 graphics and a 1050. I am no tech person but it says my gpu 1 is 65550% idk why the bench mark is saying that :/

[@kenarnold9132]

Ha Ha, ok, so adding Liquid Metal to your CPU/GPU is NOT considered advanced, but loading the Intel software and undervolting is? However, your video is informative on how to check when you get a new laptop.

[@K4rgo]

this guy is an idiot. advicing people to set the windows profile to maximum performance.... is a no go

[@JDrach30]

@@K4rgo could you please explain why? For I have set my laptop to this and will research the pros/cons

[@K4rgo]

@@JDrach30 It makes ur CPU run at max frequency at all times even when it's at idle. No point in doing that.

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@K4rgo This. Balanced profile is where you want to be at.

[@racemanstill]

:))

[@wintersall1000]

Mine takes 10min to load KZbin and 15min to open apps

[@yotoprules9361]

Install an SSD into your laptop and make sure you also install windows onto it. What laptop do you have? I can help you do this if you need it

[@willie2843]

I have the Rog strix scar 2 aswell. (with the 1070 and 32gb ram) The default throttling limit is around 70-75 C's, in which case was happening in this video. I get around double to triple the performance of what you were getting in Fortnite

[@nahbro5913]

My problem is that my GPU keeps going up to 100% usage and because of the heat the laptop drops frames down from 144 to 20-30

[@nahbro5913]

*it's fixed now* turns out there was dust that wasn't accessible easily so I had to take the laptop apart fully to get access to those spots.

[@gaigebryant3015]

Lol (your other comment)

[@liamcosbey4307]

I have the same problem as you, what did you do to fix this problem? any help would be much appreciated

[@mukuroikusaba7347]

@@liamcosbey4307 dude literally responded to his own comment. are you blind?

[@Jupiter.141]

@@mukuroikusaba7347 yes

[@joelthehero1o140]

I downloaded GPU Z which is something else you can use and I found out I was limited by reliability voltage which I don't know what exactly what that means.

[@BranFlakesR1337]

thank you for that software rec, i found out that my laptop had a speed limiter on it to prevent overheating, sadly i think its in the o.s. so i cant find it, simple solution was to raise it, move it away from the wall, and put a fan under it. now it runs at 60 deg. C even when running 120 fps 4k games.

[@SansUndertale0]

BranFlakesR1337 how? I’m able to keep it around 70c at 144 fps but only at 1920x1080. What laptop and cooling pad do you have?

[@ms-ff9ed]

@@SansUndertale0 does your cooling pad help stopping your cpu and gpu throttling?

[@SansUndertale0]

It keeps temps lower by about 10-15 degrees Celsius. It’s around the 80 mark that I find that most throttling issues start to happen. So yeah, I guess so. However, you also want to set the laptops fans at the appropriate speed. It will be loud when playing demanding games, but I have a pair of noise cancelling headphones to counteract that. Tl:dr. Yes it helps. Make sure that there is also room underneath the laptop/cooling pad to let the air escape

[@ms-ff9ed]

@@SansUndertale0 how do i set up the fans to an appropriate speed?

[@SansUndertale0]

On your laptop you mean? Depends on what laptop it is. If it is just your average acer/lenovo/asus laptop, then I’m not sure, as I haven’t owned those before, but just like it is said in this vid, there is software you can download for free that lets you adjust it, or you have to go into the BIOS immediately when you boot up your laptop. As for me, I had it easy since I own the aorus x5 v8, so it came with the necessary software.

[@ravipeiris4388]

More troubleshooting videos like these in the future would be beneficial, thank you,

[@mykeable]

I was wondering why I was getting massive FPS drops. Like I'll be getting 80-90-100+ fps, then it drops down to below 20 for a few seconds, then shoots back up again... My temp is 83-87, cpu is 4.0ghz (i7-7820HK) and gpu (GTX 1070) is between the base/boost. I have no idea wtf is going on.

[@mykeable]

@Shanke. Yeah, I do. I'm assume I'm getting thermal throttled, when the temp gets too high 98-100 degrees, my FPS spikes downward, then back up again when it goes under 95 degrees.

[@merwinaamir5960]

Mykeable ur definitely getting thermal throttled

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[@toastcart8211]

O k

[@lordinsidious9672]

I fixed my laptop since it was in a bottle neck. Cpu was 100% while gpu utilization was at 30%. Went into the laptop power settings and changed it to performance and balanced the utilization. Also restarted my laptop after. Now my laptop is not stuttering or freezing while playing games

[@sworei5716]

How did you do this

[@lordinsidious9672]

@@sworei5716 Go in ur power management settings and change the cpu utilization percentage from 100% to 90%. And then change the performance setting from adaptive to maximum performance. When you apply the settings, restart your pc and it should work.

[@dragonhead0074]

@@lordinsidious9672 I am sorry but can you be more specific. I can't find any options to change CPU utilisation

[@futurisma]

My laptop has a gtx 1050ti 4gb, and it almost gets 60fps on minecraft, and about 25fps on cold war, very dissapointed, will be saving for pc

[@masteryoda2772]

"How to know if your pc starts to throttle" well my omen sometimes decides to go from 120 to 40 fps in rainbow six for a whole minute and than goes up again...

[@MrJosevintem]

Hey omen crew whats up... I have 17-w101np I7 6700hq 1060 6gb I play csgo high settings, without fxaa... im always power throttling. Cant figure why. I already repaste gpu and cpu twice. Same shit. And i check that cpu is getting "not enough power" even with original huge ac adapter

[@thiagogallinucci6172]

Hey @master Yoda, i was having some fps stutter problems in some games, like ESO and Borderlands 3. I've spent months trying everything and the only thing that helped was undervolting my cpu. I tried it with 2 different softwares: Intel XTU and ThrottleStop, with the first i got rid of stutter by undervolting, but kept having high temperatures (95°C with fan on max speed), then changed to ThrottleStop, which is harder to use, but maintained the fps constant and got me a 15°C drop in the cpu.

[@masteryoda2772]

@@MrJosevintem lol i have a cheaper omen though, it's the hp omen 15 ax248TX Intel core i7 7700HQ Nvidia gtx 1050 16gb ram 1tb ssd

[@mirageplays4774]

guys I have an acer nitro 5 and for the first 2 days I got 144 fps on battery but after that on battery I got 60-120 fps.. any fix for that?

[@masteryoda2772]

@@mirageplays4774 144 fps on battery? How..

[@MrAntiRatio]

Im having throttle problems on my asus rog laptop its going down from 200 fps to 50, its over heating which is obvious i have 90 to 92 degrees of gpu heat and 95 to 97 degrees of cpu heat which makes me concerned if my thermal paste is bad its the paste they pasted on warranty what do i do?

[@ahmedomerah1078]

do you fix it please reply me

[@ahmedomerah1078]

@@MrAntiRatio thank you bro for answer and reply also i have laptop lenovo l315iml05 its bad cooling10th gen 10110u there is only two way repaste good thermal paste and disable turbo boost of cpu or making strongest cooling bad ever thank so much for reply

[@notkamminchon3947]

When I got my laptop everything was going fine and I was getting 60 and above fps now I get frame drops now I didn't do anything to make it happen but I need to know how to fix it.

[@jonnywilson9117]

How long have you had the laptop? What are you power options set to? And how dirty are the heatsinks/fan intakes?

[@jonnywilson9117]

@@-Corvo_Attano "Do reset" is mega vague. How would resetting a laptop that never had problems, going to fix a fps drop issue?

[@notkamminchon3947]

@@jonnywilson9117 I had it for almost 3 years and my power options are highest performance and I dont know what fan intakes I have

[@notkamminchon3947]

@@jonnywilson9117 I also play on windows 8 alienware

[@crossetta]

@@notkamminchon3947 Get a PC, all power throttling problems will be gone.

[@dewie1242]

What is the program that shows al of the computer temperatures and frames?

[@daximander1622]

Search up * MSI Afterburner (a program that can show your pc stats ingame and you can overclock your gpu in this program) Also include *HWinfo (shows temps voltage, clocks and all your pc details however you can't use it to display ingame)

[@MichaelHarto]

the easiest step to take is to disable intel turbo boost. that alone would push the temp down up to 20C.

[@fleetc]

amazing, thank you!

[@azure_mae]

this gave me knowledge. thankyou!

[@sushobhonkonar1155]

lol still stuck with that scar 2 asus just did not listen they keep formating the pc and giving it back

[@sushobhonkonar1155]

as a student i blew the approx 2000 usd at a damn laptop that cant even play any games without fps drops

[@bitchets3744]

Is 70-80 degrees okay for gaming On laptop?

[@YISTECH]

yeah. On the newer laptops with the 3000 series, upto 87 is fine. After 91 I would be worried

[@jamesreddington2885]

So mine is definitely throttling when a game goes from 75 FPS to 25 FPS then back up to 75 in like 2 seconds

[@ilari8836]

Zeon o i have the same problem... updating drivers did not help. And changing settings to max didnt help

[@jamesreddington2885]

Zeon I have been updating the drivers but I didn’t change the FPS slider only in games that let me lock the FPS I will but I have an ASUS rog gl702vm which was reported to have bad ventilation so my guess is with poor heat exhaust and maybe bad thermal paste it has to throttle from overheating

[@derpedfox]

My guess is temperature

[@MrCovin]

Have the same issue with a GL504

[@likeaboss5207]

James Reddington did you already fix the issue ? I haved same problem here

[@apoorvmeshram4711]

Try Intel extreme tuner and increase 2watts power in turbo boost power max. My Asus laptop was supplied a limited power to cpu and gpu by default. After increasing power I got the max fps and best results, no fps drop, no lagging issue. May that help you out..

[@nicolasmolina6111]

Asus fx? 504?

[@apoorvmeshram4711]

@@nicolasmolina6111 yup fx504

[@lyle596]

Can i do that on ROG gl504gs Scar 2 with gtx1070?

[@apoorvmeshram4711]

@@lyle596 yes you can ,but try not to increase too much power as it becomes a fire ball . By default Asus laptops are running in balanced mode, you just have to creat a new power plan with high performance settings.

[@megapet777]

Why doesn't laptop makers invest more into paste, fans and the heatsink?

[@kensimon4478]

they sell laptops. they hope after a year or 2 you'll buy another laptop when performance drops..

[@manjitmishra410]

great video, really helped me, exactly what i needed, thanks a lot

[@nuyorican91st]

I swear CPU tdp hasent changed in years.

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[@chunkytomatosoup1826]

Lol at him talking over the turbine engines.

[@yourchair9376]

Me too😂😂😂

[@monsieurbrochant7528]

Hi, my MSI GT72 laptop starts throttling below 60°C, sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't, even when setting min ingame graphics

[@khandapwner6805]

Are you actually throttling or is your boost going down? My cpu runs at 4.5 ghz but goes down to 4 or 3.9 when under load Its base clock is 2.6 ghz

[@donttreadonme4355]

60c isn't bad

[@nubfaceforthelose]

If you have the Intel® Core™ i7-9750H model, you are WAY far from throttling at 60c. The problem (if there is one) must be elsewhere as Intel states that the TJmax junction for your chip is 100c

[@monsieurbrochant7528]

@@nubfaceforthelose I have a lower CPU, but anyway my problem was due to outdated Nvidia drivers

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@monsieurbrochant7528 that's more like it :) nice

[@breeze5459]

i dont even know what Throttling is

[@nubfaceforthelose]

Thermal Throttling is where the temperatures on the CPU or GPU get extremely high and will lower their clock speeds to compensate for it, thus hurting performance with massive framerate drops/stuttering (and possibly hurting your chip). This is called hitting your T-junction or tjmax. You can download a free piece of software called coretemp which will display your CPU temperatures across all cores and your tjmax. If you would like to see your GPU temps, MSI afterburner or EVGA precision x will do the trick. Those tools can also be used for overclocking and underclocking unlocked chips. I've been building and repairing laptops and PC's for about 15 years and different chips have different temperature limits. when they hit that temp, they will throttle and if they get far too high the system will simply turn off for safety reasons. Solutions: 1) If you know what you're doing, reapply the thermal paste on the CPU and GPU. I recently had an Aorus 15 x9 laptop brought to me, its a high end gaming laptop with an i7 8750h CPU and an RTX 2070. The CPU was hitting mid 90's during load/gaming, I've never seen degradation on a CPU due to heat but in theory it's possible. It had awful shoddy "chalky" stock thermal paste applied by the manufacturer. Not uncommon and unacceptable really. Gaming laptop manufacturers cutting corners which I see far too often. Replaced thermal paste with Arctic Silver. Non conductive kryonaut or mx4 is even better though (by about 3-6c). I just used Arctic silver because we had some at hand in our shop. Now the CPU hits mid 70's. Done. You want a "pea sized dot" on both the CPU and GPU. Too much or too little paste is not recommended and won't lower your temps as much as you want or will result in uneven temps across the cores. If you really want even lower temps you can use kryonaut liquid metal but you have to be EXTREMELY CAREFUL when applying this. It has to be a very very small dot because it's electrically conductive. If it gets spread over any transistors it could short your CPU or GPU and then you'll be stuffed. Especially in a laptop, you'll have to buy a whole new one. Also DO NOT use liquid metal on AMD CPUs as it will eat away the chip because of the silicon AMD use on their processors. Liquid metal I personally would not recommend at all in any circumstance. Hot temperatures would even be preferable. Just not worth the risk. 2) If it's a desktop and you have the stock cooler, invest in an aftermarket one. Some people, especially really high end machines or enthusiasts install watercooling loops for really low temps and overclocking abilities. There is some work to be put in but It gives a pc that sexy appeal as watercooled PCs look lovely. 3) If you're on a laptop, buy a cooling pad for underneath. They are only like 30 bucks on amazon. 4) undervolt your chip using throttlestop. I have a good easy to follow link for that if you need it. 5) use compressed air to blow out the dust (DO NOT USE A CLOTH). 6) Try to lower the ambient temperatures in your room with air conditioning or simply opening a window. Even pointing a desk fan towards your system can have an effect. It may seem obvious but in summer your ambient temps will be higher and the higher your ambient temps, the temps of your components go up with it. Watercooled systems are even no exception to this rule. Us gamers love winter! :) Regards, and don't let your temps bother you that much unless they get over 95c on Intel Cpus. Maybe a little lower with AMD as they don't like the heat as much as Intel. The extra heat is always to be expected with gaming laptops in particular as fitting such high end components in such a small and thin form factor, the air cannot flow as good as desktops. Also 9 times out of 10 the coolers in laptops are doing double duty (cooling both the CPU and GPU under the same cooler). So to sum up basically just enjoy your system and don't stress about the temps unless they are really worryingly high and you're regularly throttling. If they are not super high your system should live a long and healthy life. Hope this helps some of you! Adam

[@meekalhassan3247]

@@nubfaceforthelose Hey Adam, thanks for the tips. You seem to have extensive knowledge about computers and their components, so I hope you don't mind me asking a question. I just recently undervolted my Asus VivoBook with throttlestop to -75%. When I play Overwatch, the graph in the task manager for my CPU is like endless mountains. Rise, dip, rise, dip, and it continues, but the rise and dip aren't very steep. I can feel the frame drops as well. Should the graph look like this? My GPU isn't very strong but it is new, the MX250. The GPU is usually at 70-100 percent used when playing overwatch on medium settings. I also faced the same issue with my previous laptop, my brother has a similar GPU, MX150 on HP pavilion 15, yet he has really smooth gaming. Is there a problem with my settings? What can I do to combat these frame drops. Thank you very much.

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@meekalhassan3247 No problem. I'll help if i can. This doesn't sound normal. Although I've never played overwatch. Download core temp (it's free) and run that in the background while you play, that will give you a heads up on your temps. Try putting all the settings on their absolute lowest and resolution too and see if you get the same results. Also what system are you running? Cpu? Graphics card? Ram? Storage? Regards

[@meekalhassan3247]

@@nubfaceforthelose Thanks for the quick reply. Here are the specs of my laptop: www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/25611431 I have MSI afterburner installed and ever since undervolting the laptop, I get 65-75 Celsius on GPU while under load. While idle I get 60 Celsius. There have been some developments I should mention: 1. My GPU's core clock speed is 1518-1582 MHz according to Notebookcheck. Using MSI afterburners extremely handy statistics, I hardly ever go over 1000 MHz, and the speed fluctuates from 150-600 MHz most of the time. www.notebookcheck.net/NVIDIA-GeForce-MX250-Graphics-Card.382341.0.html 2. Some people have reported frame drops due to high latency on Reddit and other forums. I do have packet loos when playing overwatch(btw if u have the time, you should give the game a try) at 100-200 ms. Perhaps this is the issue, but frame drops also occur on GTA and any other game I play. 3. I reversed the undervolting changes using Techpowerup. There was 0 change in temperature, usage, and performance. Perhaps I didn't undervolt properly. The game runs smoothly until I am 5 minutes in and then the frame drops start. Surprisingly, the temperature drops as time goes on. Perhaps this indicates that overheating isn't the issue? Averages: GPU Temp: 68-75 Celsius GPU usage: 80-100% CPU usage: 15-24%. The biggest drops I see are 10 percent, and the consistent drop rate is 3-5 percent. CPU Temp: 70-75 Celsius Thank you so much for your help! The lack of professional knowledge and help was bugging me out.

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@meekalhassan3247 you'll get it sorted dude. I take it you have the latest nvidia drivers? Sounds like somethings eating ram... I'll do some googling but I'm actually not sure. I would also suggest you contact support. Have you taken the laptop apart?

[@tioliwa4368]

My rog gl503ge When i play apex legends the temperature around 70-80+ celcius is that normal? Sry for my bad english

[@Smashedsushi1]

yes its perfect

[@bogdanandrei9803]

I have the power limit throttle and i just bought the laptop. Can somebody help? *i've tried what he said and nothing*

[@deadpool8422]

Every hardcore laptop gamer must repaste their laptop and undervolt it. Period.

[@dystant2539]

how would i go about doing this rip.. got a ryzen 7 5000 series 3060 laptop and any game i play that strains it it gets up to 90C and throttles. Cpu usage is fine

[@Ked778]

Thank you so much for making this video. I know you will not read this comment but this video helped me a lot.

[@DamnAwesome]

I have an asus gl703vd and it always thermal throttles and I've tried to underclock it, however, that hasn't work and i don't know what to do

[@nielsf2704]

I had the GL503VM and yes it get really hot. Now I have the Zephyrus S GX502 and I can say the thermals are way better despite the fact it's thinner as well.

[@willyframadhan]

Replace your thermal paste man, it really helps

[@DamnAwesome]

@@willyframadhan its okay now i have a PC

[@daveed9849]

I have no more stress thanks to, *P a i d T o B e H o m e .c o m*

[@Anisyi]

i have problem with my asus rog g731g, i7 9750h and 2060rtx. In any test i see Power limit throttling, even when I just download something. I try change CPU power limit to 90W and nothing. Can anyone come across such a problem?

[@GarethBrown_MisterG]

Brilliant video, thanks wish i had known about afterburner and its overlay when i was testing. Ive had to send back 6 laptops now due to overheating which seems to be a huge problem at the moment. I ended up running hwinfo and outputting to .csv file and then colour coding >90 and throttling to see how much of a problem it can be. Looks totally old school next to that :)

[@TheRealCatof]

Bruh, just underclock

[@yotoprules9361]

maybe you should watch some reviews before purchasing. I think Notebookcheck is a great source of information, they test pretty much everything about the laptop, including thermal and power throttling.

[@vooligan9499]

Aorus 17G YD 3060 Here. Actually purchased it due to your fairly glowing review of Aorus' models (I believe you reviewed the previous years model) Shop is refusing to allow me to return it as it has been used, however my use for it has been what has made it apparent that it is awful. 1080P display, high settings, maximum fan settings, all settings optimises for performance, hitting maximum of 35-42FPS when other brands of laptops with 3060's are hitting 40-50FPS on Maximum settings at 1440P (looking at you Lenovo Legion 7) Honestly I've never regretted a decision more in my life and it's frankly disgusting that the seller won't allow me to return it due to me having used it. Was told to send it to Aorus for a repair, had it back saying there was nothing wrong with it, stuck with the laptop now despite having numerous professionals look into it for me, no explanation for the low FPS. Cannot bypass Optimus either and this is when it is plugged in. Was without my laptop for 2 months after a months wait to even hear back from them in the first place waiting for it to be returned, NEVER purchase Aorus products as their RMA and other Customer service is disgusting, in my honest opinion.

[@dziedzorm4147]

Hi, have you been able to solve this issue? Please open task manager > performance & see if the cpu is stuck at a constant speed. Lemme know your feedback, I may have solution to your problem. Hoping to hear from you soonest.

[@ThePudgeyPooper]

@@dziedzorm4147 what was your solution?

[@khaahkd2830]

I just tested my asus Scar 2 same as yours and its around 1600/1630 with temperatures (gpu less then 77 , cpu around 87). I tested with The Witcher 3 in ultra (60 fps with hairwork and almost 80 fps without it).

[@sangamshiral2654]

Video is fake

[@krotchyos1561]

Is it normal 87C for CPU? Dont you wanna undervolt?

[@qut3479]

Krotchy O's under 90c temperature for cpu is good enough just dont let it reach 90+ you need to repaste thermal ASAP or it will hurt your laptop lifespan

[@lucariog7549]

i bought a gaming laptop about two week ago, started playing star wars battlefront 2 online for a whole week and played it smoothly, then one day it started going slow and fps dropping a lot, thought it was my wifi but even on single player modes it started lacking on fps and speed, been trying to find what’s wrong with it

[@ethangoymer6693]

same here i have no idea what been happening with it

[@yourordinarycanadian8222]

does this work with HP Omen ?

[@johnpaulbacon8320]

Thanks for this nicely done video.

[@akimeusof5996]

I returned my asus gl504 for that same reason. Even my friends 1050's y520 beat the fps of my gl504 at dota. Sucks having such high specs but unable to fully utilize it.

[@TheRealCatof]

It's dota, who cares?

[@avishesbasnet7791]

bro my fps in dota is 10--13 and it suddenly increases to 50-55 what the fuck is happening this lenovo laptop sucks any tips or ideas::

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@avishesbasnet7791 never played dota but can you open task manager in game and monitor the performance of your components. Sounds like something is bottlenecking your system

[@avishesbasnet7791]

@@nubfaceforthelose ohh thanks gonna try that

[@nubfaceforthelose]

@@avishesbasnet7791 also download the free application "core temp". Google it. Run that in the background and take a look at your temps after you've played for 15 mins

[@DeltaPrime95]

13/10 video, seriously man

[@archangel7388]

When I opened monitoring all of them were checked 😂😂

[@maine4153]

What does that mean?

[@archangel7388]

@@maine4153 i dont know😅

[@clay_reznor647]

I have a Helios 300. It crapped out in 6 months. Sent it in to the manufacturer - they fixed it (reluctantly) it is the first and last time I'm buying a 'gaming laptop.'

[@TimeYT]

That moment when a 2013 Titan GTX runs better than my Laptop 1660ti

[@jveerf8573]

Yeah why :c

[@istgyash]

Same :(

[@dyna9255]

Same but my laptop has a 1650

[@Aaron-xw7qe]

Is it normal for your gaming laptop to making loud fan noises

[@Tichrai2]

it feels like you might have skipped a step, or maybe i am just too noob. how do you get the stats on the top of the screen ingame, after installing msi afterburner?

[@jaypi8223]

I have the same question. Thanks!

[@Tichrai2]

after restarting computer, it worked in game on its own as long as i launched msi afterburner :)

[@derpedfox]

Thanks, you made my problem clear...it's that everytime my laptop hit 80 C the power cut to half....almost gone crazy just trying to figure it out XD

[@everestsdriveway366]

Try replacing your thermal paste, believe me it's so fucking awesome how well the difference is! I had a problem with frames but as soon as the thermal paste Was replaced i got back to my normal frames

[@MarkAlexisDrilon]

@@everestsdriveway366 how much did it cost you for replacement?

[@everestsdriveway366]

@@MarkAlexisDrilon not to much, just depends on the so called "quality" of the paste and who you buy it from. It comes in a little tube that you put on to your components. Mine costed like 5 bucks I think, but it can be more or less expensive. The one I bought worked well, I'm away from my house but when I get back I'll tell you the brand. Good luck!

[@MarkAlexisDrilon]

@@everestsdriveway366 thank's mate 👍

[@fatih3194]

@@everestsdriveway366 tell me the brand too man thanks

[@somethingcringe4081]

My laptop Takes 100 hours to load up anything but when i first Got it was completely fine

[@Krispza]

Same

[@mitkgraal6019]

My gtx 1070 max q laptop did 90 - 144 fps on epic avg: 115 fps The gpu is running 1240 MHz Laptop: HP Omen 15 2018 I7 8750 h 16 GB Ram 2.667 GHz

[@MrJohannson]

Not a single word about undervolting. Nobody is going to repaste their under warranty laptop.

[@dankpillow]

i tried undervolting and sadly it didn't fix anything

[@MrJohannson]

@@dankpillow Bullsh. It works, unless the undervolt is too low to make a difference

[@BuckieJr]

@@MrJohannson depends on laptop as well. My razer didnt get much cooler with an undervolt until i got to around -140w, which ended up power throttling it some. Ends up giving better temps because of it but i lose some performance. A Repaste coupled with undervolting though made a massive difference in my temp, almost 15 degrees. 85-90 to 67-77ish.

[@MrJohannson]

@@BuckieJr It sure does depend on the laptop. Sad to hear your Razer didn't quite benefit from it initially, although I don't understand how undervolting could cause power throttling, it doesn't work like that. If you lower the voltage too much the system will become unstable, but not power throttle itself.

[@jai.f]

@@MrJohannson true because laptops are actually overpowered and by undervolting it you basically just reduces that over power.

[@SD-vs4wx]

I think you need to enable turbo mode in Asus to get full performance ..... maybe your unit is faulty

[@rohitv2466]

Mine was really good for almost a year and then suddenly started lagging. Can u help

[@SD-vs4wx]

@@rohitv2466 you start by undervolting and clean the dust inside the air exhaust and in the fans if that doesn't help replacing the thermal paste will help definitely

[@rohitv2466]

@@SD-vs4wx I did the first two but not thernal paste. I'll see if I can do it

[@SD-vs4wx]

@@rohitv2466 i would recommend you to visit service center or call them don't do it by yourself

[@rohitv2466]

@@SD-vs4wx thanks for the advice 😃

[@robertleont]

Hello! Great Video! How can I know how much tdp my rtx 2060 for laptop configuration is? i was able to see that they come with 2 configuration one for 80w and the other with 90W.

[@bepis2104]

Sorry I'm late but it has a TDP of 115 now.

[@cemsengul16]

So I have a question for you guys. I own the 2021 Blade Advanced 3080 with the OLED display. I flashed the 130 watt 3080 vbios from the 17 inch model. My performance improved from 105 to 115 watts. I am not able to actually reach 130 watts and I wonder if that is because of thermals?

[@StefanutCoadaDeStrutz]

A just got a 1060. But when I play gta ('let's say) after I play like 15 mins it's starts to lag and I can't play anymore. It's just gonna play in 2 fps. PLEASE HELP

[@thanicssans9458]

What laptop do you have?

[@StefanutCoadaDeStrutz]

@@thanicssans9458 It's an ASUS FX505GM

[@thanicssans9458]

I got an asus laptop too that heats up.. Your laptop has thermal throtling issue. See that when u get 5 fps just plug out and plug in your charger does that temporarily fix ur lag for few secs?

[@_hazem3880]

@@thanicssans9458 bro plz help me i get a new asus tuf gaming 504 gd ( i7 gtx 1050 ti ) when i run fortnite some time 100+ fps then drop then baclk to 100 fps my gtx 1050 somtime reach 90°

[@Icaga1903]

@@StefanutCoadaDeStrutz use your fan to reduce heat and it would stable the fps

[@lordadz1615]

im getting 1670 mhz on my gpu clock but it still shows no load power like you. what could be the issue :/ it still is having good usage but still. is this still ok or is there more to be done guys. please help. I'm using a gtx 1060 non max q

[@shuraque]

You sound like Mr.beast

[@battleben6283]

Haven’t cleaned mine in 5 years … runs 100 degrees as a max … I hope it can run faster once I clean it!!!

[@smitrana3809]

I just got a asus rog strix gl503 few days ago and it has power throttling even though the gpu frequency is high but still doesn't give the performance, giving it back for a replacement.

[@bruhfade4047]

Yeah me too man the perfomance so sucks damn

[@asta_6832]

CreeperDesu 77 so did I I regret it so bad I should’ve just got a pc

[@uparanjandas1723]

Bro was there random fps drops in your games due too power limit throtling?

[@MrSchafonator]

So when i buy a new laptop and it throttles at the first day, does that mean the laptop is generally bad designed? Or is it just a mistake at this specific laptop i bought? Cuz i just bought a acer aspire 5 with a mx350 and it should run dota2 with around 80fps on max setting, but i could barely reach 60 fps on lower settings and the fps were fluctuating all the time. I checked the temps and stress of cpu and gpu, temps were at 70 degree, cpu stress 50% gpu stress fluctating between 90% and 40%, no matter what settings even at 720p and all low settingss and the gpu was sometimes at 90%. I did send it back, but Im not sure if the mx350 is just the wrong gpu for me or if that was just a production mistake. I only need the gpu for dota.

[@LynKazoyuu]

my pc goes to 105c when playing games

[@Colby.1186]

LukePlayzz that’s not normal lol

[@q_q123]

That's not good

[@MrWill1729]

how does it not shut down....if my pc gets to 100 degrees it will shut down as damage control

[@username3961]

I use my laptop with 90c the 8 hours. lol

[@ragnarosunleashed5073]

@@username3961 You'll be out of a PC really soon... 😱😱😱

[@jonathangustavus7767]

In my MSI Afterburner, it doesn't show the temp, power, or any other limit reading, so I can't tell if I am being temp or power throttled.

[@Adler1945ja]

its nor works on laptop, only a desktop

[@Phei.]

@@Adler1945ja in the video he is using it on a laptop.

[@TR1ppl3]

Do not use liquid metal in laptops. It will be worse. You will kill your cpu or gpu. Liquid metal likes to be runny when in a hot environment. And you will bump hit and move your laptop so will the liquid metal. Bad advice to tell to use liquid metal!

[@megapet777]

@Professor Weaboo xD

[@killakam123321]

@Professor Weaboo r.i.p laptop

[@zocksstudio5956]

This guy is trolling lol. He has no idea what he talk abbout lol

[@Endorion_YTC]

Tuteparle Your a total idiot.

[@DeFault-Gamer]

absolutely Correct! Linus(from Linus Tech Tips) mentioned it too.

[@hotord205]

great informative video thanks 👍👍👍

[@lalitrathore3863]

Guys! Any idea how long can you play on laptop with power plugged in? How to know when to stop. I heard that long term gaming can damage baatery and stuff. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

[@Patata.yeeeeey]

If your battery is removable, you can remove your battery instead to avoid damage on the battery. Hope this helps

[@yotoprules9361]

You should be able to do it as long as you want.

[@soundrex9995]

Bruh my laptop got 300+ frames now it can’t even get past 60 I have hp omen 16 please someone help

[@Tempest31]

I have the same laptop and facing the same issue

[@deej3827]

Please do not rest your arms on laptops like that next time. That hurt lol

[@davel7037]

Oh shut up

[@deej3827]

@@davel7037 Oh fuck you simp

[@blackdragongamerytonamazon3696]

@@deej3827 do u know what simp means😂😂😂

[@deej3827]

@@blackdragongamerytonamazon3696 Yes I do and I called him a simp after seeing his uploads lol

[@blackdragongamerytonamazon3696]

@@deej3827 ok now i see lmao and he got 600 subs with that🤣🤣🤣🤣 SIMP NATION

[@slanderedstone]

I just got an acer gaming laptop yesterday it has one terabyte of storage and on my bigger games the pc lags and it slow is all hell! Please help!!!

[@johngreen761]

i have to say that using liquid metal isnt an ideal idea if you re not experienced people! its metal ,if no protection were made,it will leak and destroy everything!!!1

[@nubfaceforthelose]

It''s thermal paste. This is precisely what it's designed to do. Use 99% Pure IPA (Isopropyl) to clean away old paste. Avoid using rubbing alcohol, which is just 70% IPA. Put a "pea" size dot of new paste on both the CPU and GPU instead. I have never in 15 years damaged a PC or Laptop by reapplying paste. Or take it to a shop and ask them to do it if you don't feel comfortable doing it or don't believe me. Regards

[@DARK_AMBIGUOUS]

I looked up Gaming Laptop Lagging because mine has a RTX 2060 and it’s getting 5 FPS on Cyberpunk lowest graphics and I tapped on this video and I just realized that this is Gizmoslip, I watched this guy like 5 years ago and he would put phones inside of water melons and ice and random stuff and he would drop them off of parking structures

[@smokeywings6875]

I have asus GL503GE and i have the same problem I think asus have serious problem with power throttling

[@MrKobert]

Yeahh.. I have asus GL503GE too.. and I also have the same problem..

[@nathanaeladhyasta2344]

Same with me bro,how to fix that?

[@smokeywings6875]

May be buy some cooling pad

[@infernogaming324]

same problem here

[@nathanaeladhyasta2344]

@@smokeywings6875 buy a coolingpad isn't help to solve your thorttling problem,because i have a coolingpad and i try unfortunatelly it still thorttling. I try to downgrade my nvidia driver from version 417 to 399 or you can use 388 version and i test some game and it work perfectly.

[@nischala3405]

My Gpu's clock speed is stuck at 405 Mhz and Gpu no load limit says Temperature! I have a 960 m which has a boost clock over 1000 Mhz! Getting very bad fps right now! Any solutions!?

[@dimitriskaikkis6226]

why i cant use power limit, temp limit on afterburner?

[@Moca-Aoba]

Dimitris Kaikkis normally on laptops. they are built to use certain amount of power. As seen in the video he searched up the 1070 laptop version which is different from the 1070. increasing the power limit could kill your laptop and could leave it as a brick. temp limit should be changed but i’m guessing the manufacturer has locked these settings to prevent the laptop from being bricked

[@Tommygimbal]

I didnt know if my laptop before was throttling or not, bcs I just found out this video. around 2 weeks ago or so I just undervolted the gpu and cpu just bcs I found it help to increase the performance. right now after I tested it, it runs around 1700 MHz for 1050 ti. great vid!!

[@youtubeshadowbannedme]

I have 3GB 1050 which is actually a tiny bit faster than 1050-Ti and I easily reached 1750MHZ without undervolting

[@pranjalkumar272]

i m fed up with gl 504 gm throttling can you please help gtx 1060

[@uparanjandas1723]

Bro are your games laging due to power limit throtlinh?

[@pranjalkumar272]

@@uparanjandas1723 was a bios problem .got solved .yup it was throttling initially.

[@championboy1479]

thx for helping me i have a geforce 1650 and it was dying on roblox itself it had 1350 - 1485 but it was not able to reach 1000 it self now it is proper

[@XxTimeL0rdxX]

Holy shit about everything was check on msi afterburner when I went on it

[@PuineaGip]

that doesnt change anything...

[@Pughhead]

Useful video.

[@Jonas-ej7id]

Great video. I'm wondering if the 'GPU usage' (that is shown in % in msi overlay) decrease if the GPU is being throttled? For example, When I'm playing heavy games like Rdr2, the GPU usage is at 99% Will that number go down if the gpu throttles?

[@sodenoshirayuki4288]

No just the clock

[@noel.sk03]

Should i repaste my I9-9880H? i have the SCAR III (rtx 2070) CPU 94C / GPU 84 . i didnt have any fps Drop but are that Thermals Healthy?

[@spudward6902]

Damn I was thinking of getting a gl704 when it comes out.