Looking for a gaming laptop

[SvennoJ]

Pemalite said:

If the CPU utilization is lower, then the fan speed is probably going to be reduced so your temperatures will continue to sit in a similar range.
There is the noise and power consumption to keep in mind with cooling as well.

You could also have been thermal throttled prior, so it seems like the CPU was 100% utilized but the throttling was keeping temperatures in that same temperature range.

Yes.
In saying that, it varies from game to game. Some games will have hard syncs to 30/60/120hz on a 144hz and other games will have a clean division of the refresh rate so there are no pacing issues.

I would personally just set v-sync to adaptive in the nVidia control panel and turn it off entirely within your games.

Odd, I only have the option of on or off for v-sync (next to let the app decide)
I also can't find how to update it. It's supposed to be in the help menu yet the option is not there. GeForce experience is up to date as well as the drivers, however that control panel is missing any update option. It says it's version 8.1.940.0 (Checking online I guess GeForce Experience is what does the driver updates now)

Ugh what's going on, GeForce experience is now re-installing itself. PCs are so much fun lol. Got to reboot now.

Everything seems to be up to date still, except now a debug mode option has appeared in the nvidia control panel help menu. And now it's gone again. I'm not drunk, I swear I saw it there a minute ago. I better stop touching things lol.


As fot the fans, theu get exponentially louder at higher rpms. Not that I notice with headphones on, but understandable why the laptop would like to keep them at a lower pace. Anyway this was Forza in action a bit ago

The game did get throttled a couple times while playing (some slowdown a few times) likely as the cpu temp exceeded the max. GPU is fine.

Now I know what the H stands for in I7-8750H, hot!

Last edited by SvennoJ - on 28 February 2019