Precision M4400 Owner's Lounge

Unfortunately, the story didn't end so happy. I'm a prime example.

 

I'd say unlucky, but a GPU shouldn't dethrottle unless it get's very very hot. Sins during intensive battle scenes, zoomed in, really pushes this GPU...but, after hours, I still haven't seen any 'unwarranted' decelerating of clock speeds. I'll be getting Crysis soon and will report back on THAT one

EDIT: with BIOS A11 I got some stuttering while gaming, which would indicate the Vid Card had throttled back...went back to A09 and it was gone again.

afhstingray: report on Bioshock...please....thanks!

 

Sins is no match for the FX 770M, regardless of what it looks like its doing. It's required graphic recommendation is about 1/2 the power of the FX 770M. Crysis is another world, I've tried it myself and downclock in 5 minutes, forget it.

Edit: On mostly gamer settings (high) and native resolution.

 

'RAM...did you ever use AS5 on your cpu/gpu? this machine I have really doesn't getting hot, after hours of gaming solid...thus no downclocking...I don't understand why your machine would get that hot, and mine not? Mine was built around Dec 12, I haven't heard they changed anything.

 

Like I said, and if you've been reading the last 2 pages, you're gaming on different games and different qualities. I'm playing Bioshock, L4D and Gears of War on native resolution on max quality and it throttles. The FPS runs high as can be, but it throttles to about 10% of what it starts with. You can't play games like Sins and expect the card to heat. My system was received November 28th I believe, there aren't any changes. There's nothing to not understand, the card overheats and throttles because it loses efficiency fast when being stressed. There are threads with pictures in this forum that analyze the design further.

 

Yeah man, it can heat alright the way I've been playing it. At least it does on my Asus. I'm getting Crysis soon..almost picked it up today but couldn't get up there in time, and I'll push it real hard, real long and take notes.

 

The point of my last two pages of my experience was not to get you guys into finding the same flaws, I don't see why you'd purposefully seek the throttling if you're happiness with the system is fine right now. I personally happened to experience it once, then tried to find it more and found that it was indeed existent and there was almost nothing you can do to fix it.

 

It's heat....if it's not heat, it's an nvidia defect...I monitor my temps all the time and I can't make it get hot (gpu hot, like 90C, like my Asus C90s would do mid 90's), this m4400 has never gone over 78C and that was o/c'd). Not trying to find flaws...I'm getting the game anyway and I'll for sure know if it gets real hot and 'downclocks'. I'll report back for grins...I see what you are saying.

 

What program do you use for monitoring?

 

I've been using HWmonitor...