ASUS TUF FX504GM

[kristalshards]

So I bought this laptop a week ago and I need to make up my mind real quick whether to return it or keep it. I read lots of bad reviews of the laptop about thermal throttling, TDP limit and so, and to be completely fair I am not sure how to identify that. I bought this laptop mainly to play Battlefield 1 and it's working alrighty, just that I have some FPS drops and apparently that's because of the 8GB single channel. I'm going to add 8GB more if I keep the laptop.

But until then, I have still encountered some issues - the laptop has an i7-8750H & GTX 1060 3GB and I noticed that GPU temperature sits in the high 70s (77-78 degrees Celsius) when playing Operations/Conquest in BF1 which, for those who don't know what's the game about, is basically its most intense game mode. The CPU is more reasonable, it's around 72 degrees. So I tried different things so far; installed drivers off the Asus support website then undervolted both CPU & GPU using ThrottleStop and MSI Afterburner respectively, went back in game and the temperatures are still around the same, 75-76 degrees for GPU and 71 for CPU. I tried different values for GPU and it didn't make a difference. So anyone has any ideas what I can do? Or maybe is this an issue of the laptop and it can't be solved?

 

What other issues are there and how can I test my laptop to see if it affects my experience with it? I have a few days left in the return policy so I need to make up my mind real quick if I want to return the laptop.

[genexis_x]

Don't just look at temps, check clock speeds too

[kristalshards]

6 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Don't just look at temps, check clock speeds too

I have HWMonitor, is that what I need?

[genexis_x]

3 hours ago, kristalshards said:

I have HWMonitor, is that what I need?

Use Rivatuner to monitor clock speeds in game

[kristalshards]

Ok but I need to reduce the trmperature, any ideas?

[genexis_x]

6 hours ago, kristalshards said:

Ok but I need to reduce the trmperature, any ideas?

Undervolt and repaste

[kristalshards]

7 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Undervolt and repaste

Undervolt doesn't seem to work much, unless I'm doing something wrong

[genexis_x]

21 minutes ago, kristalshards said:

Undervolt doesn't seem to work much, unless I'm doing something wrong

Undervolt both core and cache

[kristalshards]

18 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

Undervolt both core and cache

Yeh

Thats for cpu, the gpu is the problem here

[genexis_x]

41 minutes ago, kristalshards said:

the gpu is the problem

what problem?

[kristalshards]

2 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

what problem?

Well I said in main post, it gets hot, up to 78 degrees and I tried undervolting it with MSI and nothing happened, temperatures remained around 75-76

[genexis_x]

2 hours ago, kristalshards said:

I tried undervolting it with MSI

can I have a look on how you do it?

 

clock speed might have increased, don't just check temps alone in thermal test

[kristalshards]

2 hours ago, GeneXiS_X said:

can I have a look on how you do it?

 

clock speed might have increased, don't just check temps alone in thermal test

Ok so let’s say I choose a voltage point on the graph on the default MSI settings (900mv it is) and let’s say it’s up to 1790mhz on the frequency scale, so I decide to make it reach 1850mhz. For that I add +60 at Core Clock, apply, Ctrl+F to open the graph again and then I move the voltage points after the 900mv in line with it. After that I click on the 900mv point, press L on the keyboard and click apply again.

i run Unigine Benchmark and temps are around 73-74 or more.

 

 

idk if I am doing it right but I was told by a friend to do like this so I just followed his steps.

 

in my mind i want the same clocks as they are atm if possible (no overclock) and lower temps that are in the low 70s at its highesf.

[genexis_x]

13 hours ago, kristalshards said:

Ok so let’s say I choose a voltage point on the graph on the default MSI settings (900mv it is) and let’s say it’s up to 1790mhz on the frequency scale, so I decide to make it reach 1850mhz. For that I add +60 at Core Clock, apply, Ctrl+F to open the graph again and then I move the voltage points after the 900mv in line with it. After that I click on the 900mv point, press L on the keyboard and click apply again.

i run Unigine Benchmark and temps are around 73-74 or more.

Try lower clock speed