Acer Nitro 515-55

[unclewebb]

Temps look good so far. NT-H2 is designed to work better at high temps without breaking down. Hopefully this new paste lasts longer than a week.

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

and these are temperatures in Hearts of Iron IV and RDR2

 

[unclewebb]

@DisguisedPigeon - The first half of that log file shows constant GPU throttling. Temperatures are OK so not sure why it is throttling.

At 10:15 you stopped playing and then at 10:30 when you resumed, this problem went away. Do you remember changing any setting related to the GPU?

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

nope, not a thing changed for GPU

 

[unclewebb]

The first half of the log file shows the GPU MHz constantly cycling. The second half of the log file does not show this. Do you monitor GPU performance in game with Afterburner?

It looks like a GPU temperature or power limit is holding the GPU back. At first the GPU is being held to about 52°C and then in the second part of the log file the GPU is able to run consistently faster and goes up to 79°C. Big difference.

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

Maybe because of Hearts of Iron ? It sometimes changes to Intel Graphics and then comes back to gtx. I'll inspect it

 

[unclewebb]

You should get better performance and more consistent performance if you can force it so it is always running on the Nvidia GPU.

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

And these are for somewhat an OC and UV for GTX 1660TI. Don't know very much about OC but Undervolt was pretty good and stable

 

[unclewebb]

The CPU and GPU speeds look very consistent in that log file.

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

And these are the temps for today for NT-H2

 

[nguyen]

Another tip to reduce thermal is to set the max FPS option in Nvidia Control Panel.
For single player game like RDR2 I would set the Max FPS to 60 (with Low Latency mode to Ultra) that way you can reduce the thermal and noise of your laptop. It would improve your gaming experience by reducing the severity of framerate drop (stutter)
Consider lowering some settings so that you game can run the game at above 60fps before being capped, so the framerate cap would actually be of use.

 

[DisguisedPigeon]

That actually brought down the temps from 88-90 Celsius degrees to 83-85 degrees, couldnt have thought about it. Thank you so much for this tip