Hey, how are you doing with this laptop in general? Having the same one I can't complain about performance, but the i7 4860HQ is a freaking hot chip.... Most games are fine since they don't max out the cpu but some, like Dark Souls 3, manage to push mine to 95-96 in less than half an hour. Clean, repaste, even lowered multipliers via XTU didn't do the trick, the only thing I found is reducing cpu max use via power option, even to 99% since it's the Turbo Boost that heats up for me. How do you deal with this?
Hey, I've pretty much learnt to live with it. Got it for more than 2 years already, and whatever I do, my first 2 cores always reach 90+ degrees, the other two are at 83-87°C max. So, I was unlucky with the silicon lottery. I underclocked it to 31x when 4 cores are active for specific games, but no matter, if the cpu sits on 3.4ghz or 3.1ghz it always reaches 94-95°C on those first 2 cores. There's not much you can do, if you have similar chip. You shouldn't worry however, your CPU should be fine even in these conditions. Anyway, I plan to return to desktop at the end of this year, most likely.
BoXiS Well, looks like with got a similar situation... Except all my cores have no issues reaching 90+ degrees... I would even be fine with 90 but the heaviest stuff brings it to 95+... Mine has 2 years as well and I was already considering something new with a gtx 1070, but from what I see they have the same issues with Skylake cpus. Unfortunately I need to stick to mobile since I move across Europe for work... I think I will keep this one for some time until I see something new at the end of year or next year, hoping they solve the temperature issues on the next generation.
BoXiS Well, looks like with got a similar situation... Except all my cores have no issues reaching 90+ degrees... I would even be fine with 90 but the heaviest stuff brings it to 95+... Mine has 2 years as well and I was already considering something new with a gtx 1070, but from what I see they have the same issues with Skylake cpus. Unfortunately I need to stick to mobile since I move across Europe for work... I think I will keep this one for some time until I see something new at the end of year or next year, hoping they solve the temperature issues with the next generation.
sm4sh3d Ye, seems we and many others got one of the worst binned chips. However, it's not just about the cpu, it's about the fact that Asus is going primary for silent fans over low temperatures. I understand their choice, because people don't like noisy fans in general, however other people would prefer to have an option to speed up fans in order to reach lower temps. They made such option in their newer models, however their cooling system as a whole is so obsolete that it just simply can't compete with cooling MSI provides for its top models at the moment when it comes to internal hardware temp(if you choose higher fan curve on top Msi models, your Cpu sits at around 70°C and Gpu even less). Asus should learn and improve in this regard. Anyway, I bought the laptop because I used to move a lot from house to flat and so and I didn't know if I'll have to travel in my new work often or no. However since I see that I'm not really traveling that much in my work as of now, I plan to invest into desktop later. For now I will just wait and see how the fight between AMD and Nvidia will continue after Vega comes out.
I dunno about MSI, unless you spend $5K on their Titan with SLI and extreme unnecessary bullshit, I see they have the same problems. The MSI GT62VR with GTX 1070 is so bad even the GPU throttles at high loads. Didn't read good stuff about Razer and Sager has the same issue. Not making this a budget issue, but I don't need and don't want SLI systems and 5K seems too much when half of that does all I need. Don't need a 4K screen as well on 17 or 19 inches, that's just a waste of horsepower. I dunno, guess I just to accept that 90+ degrees is ok and the system will hold up at least 3-4 years, before I change it.
Hey, how are you doing with this laptop in general? Having the same one I can't complain about performance, but the i7 4860HQ is a freaking hot chip.... Most games are fine since they don't max out the cpu but some, like Dark Souls 3, manage to push mine to 95-96 in less than half an hour. Clean, repaste, even lowered multipliers via XTU didn't do the trick, the only thing I found is reducing cpu max use via power option, even to 99% since it's the Turbo Boost that heats up for me. How do you deal with this?
Hey, I've pretty much learnt to live with it. Got it for more than 2 years already, and whatever I do, my first 2 cores always reach 90+ degrees, the other two are at 83-87°C max. So, I was unlucky with the silicon lottery. I underclocked it to 31x when 4 cores are active for specific games, but no matter, if the cpu sits on 3.4ghz or 3.1ghz it always reaches 94-95°C on those first 2 cores. There's not much you can do, if you have similar chip. You shouldn't worry however, your CPU should be fine even in these conditions.
Anyway, I plan to return to desktop at the end of this year, most likely.
BoXiS Well, looks like with got a similar situation... Except all my cores have no issues reaching 90+ degrees... I would even be fine with 90 but the heaviest stuff brings it to 95+... Mine has 2 years as well and I was already considering something new with a gtx 1070, but from what I see they have the same issues with Skylake cpus. Unfortunately I need to stick to mobile since I move across Europe for work... I think I will keep this one for some time until I see something new at the end of year or next year, hoping they solve the temperature issues on the next generation.
BoXiS Well, looks like with got a similar situation... Except all my cores have no issues reaching 90+ degrees... I would even be fine with 90 but the heaviest stuff brings it to 95+... Mine has 2 years as well and I was already considering something new with a gtx 1070, but from what I see they have the same issues with Skylake cpus. Unfortunately I need to stick to mobile since I move across Europe for work... I think I will keep this one for some time until I see something new at the end of year or next year, hoping they solve the temperature issues with the next generation.
sm4sh3d Ye, seems we and many others got one of the worst binned chips.
However, it's not just about the cpu, it's about the fact that Asus is going primary for silent fans over low temperatures. I understand their choice, because people don't like noisy fans in general, however other people would prefer to have an option to speed up fans in order to reach lower temps. They made such option in their newer models, however their cooling system as a whole is so obsolete that it just simply can't compete with cooling MSI provides for its top models at the moment when it comes to internal hardware temp(if you choose higher fan curve on top Msi models, your Cpu sits at around 70°C and Gpu even less). Asus should learn and improve in this regard.
Anyway, I bought the laptop because I used to move a lot from house to flat and so and I didn't know if I'll have to travel in my new work often or no. However since I see that I'm not really traveling that much in my work as of now, I plan to invest into desktop later. For now I will just wait and see how the fight between AMD and Nvidia will continue after Vega comes out.
I dunno about MSI, unless you spend $5K on their Titan with SLI and extreme unnecessary bullshit, I see they have the same problems. The MSI GT62VR with GTX 1070 is so bad even the GPU throttles at high loads. Didn't read good stuff about Razer and Sager has the same issue. Not making this a budget issue, but I don't need and don't want SLI systems and 5K seems too much when half of that does all I need. Don't need a 4K screen as well on 17 or 19 inches, that's just a waste of horsepower. I dunno, guess I just to accept that 90+ degrees is ok and the system will hold up at least 3-4 years, before I change it.