Need Help. M17X R3 - 560GTX FPS Drops.

Hey Everyone. I've had my M17x R3 for roughly 4 months now. I have a 560GTX and 16GB RAM. The 560 is OC'd slightly. The past couple weeks I'll be playing a game and getting 60+ fps (Skyri, BF3, Microsoft Flight) then all of a sudden drops to <10FPS that last for 5-10 seconds. It doesn't seem to matter what is going on in the game. I can be looking at the sky or a thousand trees in a flight sim.

Any ideas? I've tried adjusting graphical options and it appears to happen on medium-low settings as well. I even tried a clean install of Windows 7

Update: It seems to be throttling. It will hit 78 degrees and then the fan flies on high and the GPU speeds all drop. Been monitoring this is Afterburner

 

sounds like throttling, you might wanna run a program light GPUz or Hwinfo64 and figure out if they are to high or not. 78C is the throttle limit with all nvidia GPU's atm, though how your 560m could get that hot i find hard to believe.

 

You need a repaste and a cleaning, I used to OC my 560m to 935 MHz and it would never reach 70°.

 

yea I would do clean out the fans and do the repaste and that should fix your issue.

 

Yeah it is easily reaching 78 degrees. Unfortunately I now have to wait for thermal paste in the mail. Though I will say, it never throttled until recently. It seems like the fans arn't even coming on until it hits that temperature though.

 

you could use HWinfo and manually make the fans run at the desired speed. It could cause system problems though.

 

You can follow this fix:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...throtting-fix-no-need-modify-system-bios.html

and to reduce temps, you can repaste the gpu, but at a minimum, you should have the back of your laptop raised up slightly. Either use a notebook cooler that does not obstruct the flow of air to the two bottom intakes, or a DIY method. You will hear reference to the "book" method or "bottle caps" method on this forum a lot. This will drop your temps 7-8c

This is my method and works great because its free and raises the keyboard to a comfy typing angle (those are Vitimin Water Bottle caps lol):

 

It could also have to do with the fact that this thing is on ~10 hours a day. 8 for work, two for play.

 

It shouldn't matter. While you are working, your fans are barely spinning up. Its only during play that it will throttle. A 560m even OC'ed like yours should run cold.

A gpu repaste will drop your temps 10+, raising the back of your laptop will drop another 7-8c...you won't have to worry about throttling again

 

Oh, even the 560 throttles too,
I own the m17x r3 with 560 also, and so far so good, never got problems until now and so on

Well i hope no problem

and btw how do i repaste? just in case if i need to do it someday..

 

never had issues with my 460m getting even close to throttling, and I had it installed for about a year. as to repasting this guide should help you out. M17x-R3 CPU & GPU Re-Pasting Guide w/Pics!