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Problems with the graphics card

leocreyes10

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Hello, first of all, sorry for the grammatical errors, i'm still learning english.

I buyed a second hand laptop Asus N56jr and i have been experiencing fps drops accompanied by "trsss" sounds after approximately 2 to 3 minutes after start running a game
This drops occur for half or 1 second and after a minute start to happen more frequently making any game unplayable

I don't know much about hardware or software but i ended up here, in your web, i tried using GPU-Z and Real Temp GT

I noticed that when drops occur PerfCap Reason showed a blank space in the marker, and its lenght depends on the duration of the drop, being the larger ones almost a second of drop

Also want to mention that drivers are updated with latest versions

Anyone know what its going on and what can i do?

Intel® Core™ i7 4700HQ Processor
Windows 10 Pro
8Gb Ram DDR3
NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 760M 2GB GDDR5
 

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You might have dustbunnies in the airvents, did you ever blow out the dust of the airvents?

Since those CPU temps are really hot and it's probably throttling...
 
As P4-630 says

You might have dustbunnies in the airvents, did you ever blow out the dust of the airvents?

Since those CPU temps are really hot and it's probably throttling..

Temperatures seem hot for your CPU your need to do a little maintenance in the form of Cleaning
Recommend you temporally jamb your Fans with something like a Qtip / kebab stick then Blow your vents with compressed air
un-jamb fans then Boot and run to see if that lowers temps .

If that fails to lower Temps then your either going to ( dis-asemble and Deep Clean and re paste the CPU cooler yourself ) or have some one competent do this for you.

once your laptop is running cooler the problem may be solved or further investigation and action may be in order

so in Summary
get the laptop running cooler
retest your games
Report back with progress or results

 
Take the laptop apart and clean the dust out of all fans and heatsinks, replace thermal compound on the cpu and gpu die. set your power to max performance, tether to the wall wart of yours.

On second thought, that laptop is Akin to what Apple pushes on its customers, (too thin)., If you seriously game, I'd honestly would get a laptop truly designed for it or build a desktop, or run the games at the lowest graphics settings possible.

Make sure your AV is set to game mode or turned off while playing games.
 
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Hello to everyone, thank you for your quick response, i've read all of your messages and i made the decision of taking my laptop to a repair center.
This afternoon they opened my laptop, cleaned all of its components and applied new thermal paste on processor and graphic card.

Back in my home i tested the games that i used to play and had the same problem, just that this time it started to happen several minutes after the game was running, formerly the problem started almost immediately.

Disappointed, i disabled the Nvidia graphic card and try to run the games with the integrated one... same issue again, this led me to think that the problem was not with the dedicated video card but with overheating as you wisely predicted.

Can you advise me what to do now?
Thanks
 
Do you hear the fans running when the CPU/GPU are under load?
 
Hello to everyone, thank you for your quick response, i've read all of your messages and i made the decision of taking my laptop to a repair center.
This afternoon they opened my laptop, cleaned all of its components and applied new thermal paste on processor and graphic card.

Back in my home i tested the games that i used to play and had the same problem, just that this time it started to happen several minutes after the game was running, formerly the problem started almost immediately.

Disappointed, i disabled the Nvidia graphic card and try to run the games with the integrated one... same issue again, this led me to think that the problem was not with the dedicated video card but with overheating as you wisely predicted.

Can you advise me what to do now?
Thanks

Get a laptop cooler or make that unit a non gamer and buy a true gaming laptop/desktop replacement, or build a desktop.
 
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