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My girlfriend has an acer aspire v5 nitro black edition Laptop with a 60Hz 1080p screen and a GTX 1060. She is trying to play Divinity OS 2, a game which my 970 can easily handle at 90-150FPS at that resolution. But she experiences big lag spikes, regardless of her graphical settings.



We checked NBFC and her fans are running at 100%, her GPU is still at 95-100°C, which obviously causes thermal throttling. But lowering the setting to low and the resolution to 1600x900 doesn't help that.



MSI Afterburner won't let us set a power or temp limit, and the Core voltage can only be set higher.



Over or underclocking doesn't seem to make a big difference. But as the Core Clock at a specific voltage can be made higher with the same heat, I assume we should try to OC.



Now I wish we could undervolt, which can allegedly be made with the Core Clock/Voltage curve, but when we try to pull all the points after 1000mV down, the curve just gets reset.



Is there anything we can do to make the performance better, aka get the heat away? I know it can be quite an intensive game, but it's ridicolous that it runs at the same temps in 1600x900 Low and 1900x1080p ultra settings.










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  • You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

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  • 1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

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My girlfriend has an acer aspire v5 nitro black edition Laptop with a 60Hz 1080p screen and a GTX 1060. She is trying to play Divinity OS 2, a game which my 970 can easily handle at 90-150FPS at that resolution. But she experiences big lag spikes, regardless of her graphical settings.



We checked NBFC and her fans are running at 100%, her GPU is still at 95-100°C, which obviously causes thermal throttling. But lowering the setting to low and the resolution to 1600x900 doesn't help that.



MSI Afterburner won't let us set a power or temp limit, and the Core voltage can only be set higher.



Over or underclocking doesn't seem to make a big difference. But as the Core Clock at a specific voltage can be made higher with the same heat, I assume we should try to OC.



Now I wish we could undervolt, which can allegedly be made with the Core Clock/Voltage curve, but when we try to pull all the points after 1000mV down, the curve just gets reset.



Is there anything we can do to make the performance better, aka get the heat away? I know it can be quite an intensive game, but it's ridicolous that it runs at the same temps in 1600x900 Low and 1900x1080p ultra settings.










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  • You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

    – DrZoo
    Jan 9 at 16:30











  • 1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

    – Peter.G
    Jan 10 at 8:38
















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My girlfriend has an acer aspire v5 nitro black edition Laptop with a 60Hz 1080p screen and a GTX 1060. She is trying to play Divinity OS 2, a game which my 970 can easily handle at 90-150FPS at that resolution. But she experiences big lag spikes, regardless of her graphical settings.



We checked NBFC and her fans are running at 100%, her GPU is still at 95-100°C, which obviously causes thermal throttling. But lowering the setting to low and the resolution to 1600x900 doesn't help that.



MSI Afterburner won't let us set a power or temp limit, and the Core voltage can only be set higher.



Over or underclocking doesn't seem to make a big difference. But as the Core Clock at a specific voltage can be made higher with the same heat, I assume we should try to OC.



Now I wish we could undervolt, which can allegedly be made with the Core Clock/Voltage curve, but when we try to pull all the points after 1000mV down, the curve just gets reset.



Is there anything we can do to make the performance better, aka get the heat away? I know it can be quite an intensive game, but it's ridicolous that it runs at the same temps in 1600x900 Low and 1900x1080p ultra settings.










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My girlfriend has an acer aspire v5 nitro black edition Laptop with a 60Hz 1080p screen and a GTX 1060. She is trying to play Divinity OS 2, a game which my 970 can easily handle at 90-150FPS at that resolution. But she experiences big lag spikes, regardless of her graphical settings.



We checked NBFC and her fans are running at 100%, her GPU is still at 95-100°C, which obviously causes thermal throttling. But lowering the setting to low and the resolution to 1600x900 doesn't help that.



MSI Afterburner won't let us set a power or temp limit, and the Core voltage can only be set higher.



Over or underclocking doesn't seem to make a big difference. But as the Core Clock at a specific voltage can be made higher with the same heat, I assume we should try to OC.



Now I wish we could undervolt, which can allegedly be made with the Core Clock/Voltage curve, but when we try to pull all the points after 1000mV down, the curve just gets reset.



Is there anything we can do to make the performance better, aka get the heat away? I know it can be quite an intensive game, but it's ridicolous that it runs at the same temps in 1600x900 Low and 1900x1080p ultra settings.







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  • You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

    – DrZoo
    Jan 9 at 16:30











  • 1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

    – Peter.G
    Jan 10 at 8:38





















  • You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

    – DrZoo
    Jan 9 at 16:30











  • 1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

    – Peter.G
    Jan 10 at 8:38



















You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

– DrZoo
Jan 9 at 16:30





You could try using some compressed air to make sure it's fairly clean on the inside. Assure that the laptop is on a hard surface so it gets good air flow. My only next guess would be that the fans aren't actually running at 100%. As a side note, are you comparing a desktop GTX 970 to the mobile GTX 1060, or are both they laptops?

– DrZoo
Jan 9 at 16:30













1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

– Peter.G
Jan 10 at 8:38







1.You need to clean out the dust. Just Open the back cover and clean the dust. 2. You can set up a standing fan near your laptop to provide it with a cool breeze. 3.Buy a laptop stands to help it cooling better. 4.Give a rest to the laptop.

– Peter.G
Jan 10 at 8:38












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