Playing a game results in what I think is throttling

Hey,

So when I am playing a game, any game, after a few minutes or so the FPS will 1/2 and go sort of slow-motion and I will get a lot of input lag. First I thought it was related to WoW but then after trying to play Divinity 2, I also got the same problem (As well as horrible FPS in that game -.-). It'll last for about 10 secs or so and opening a window seems to nullify the issue's frequency. Probs due to heat. WoW causes card temps to 110c and 80c. I am using a Coolermaster Notepal U3.

Thanks

 

Wow 110C is extra hot, i dont play WoW but i dont think its more intensive than Crysis Warhead with specs maxed (i get around 86C on the first GPU).

My guess is this is due to over heating, I would try playing Wow on a lowers specs just to see wither the same problem persist on low heat.

and try to play with one card (crossfire disabled)

 

Yeah 110 is not good. Are the cards overclocked or stock? I get a max of 93 and 84 on mine in WoW, my cards are overclocked at 800/1100 so they would be cooler at stock freq. I have every setting maxed except AA which is off.

 

Stock clocks. I'll try suggestions. thanks

 

I would definitely recommend a re-TIM job for your CPU and GPUs. Use a high quality, non-conductive paste like MX-3 or MX-4. There are guides all over the forum for repasting etc. I guarantee that if you do this right, you'll see drastic temp drops. Good luck bro, don't let that temp keep going high like that, it'll stress the components too much.

 

I'd rather just get Dell to fix it up:

1. So I can laugh at their poor service

2. Potential free upgrades/exchange

Also Crossfire has no effect so I will lower settings a tad. Thanks!

 

I would definitely look into that ASAP. 110C is way too hot for WoW. Even before I put some new paste on my cards, 90C was the hottest they got. Now it's 75C at worst, and that's with cat hair in the vents (I have to clean them out fairly often, darn shaggy beast).

 

I have had this problem in the past with WoW as well. I am not sure what fixed it but now I can tell a difference with it. It's not double the FPS like some other games, but just a slight boost in FPS. It can work with crossfire as long as your in single screen mode and fullscreen mode (all windowed games will run off one card!!!).

 

Thanks for your input I am phoning dell now and see what crap they come up with.

 

My primary card was overheating to 100 degrees C recently. I took a can of compressed air and cleaned off the gpu/fan vents and now its running very cool. You might want to try that first.

 

Wow player here, i get 74 C on primary and 70 on slave after several hour of playing. I do use notepal U3. Crysis will rise temps at 82/80 and furmark stab test 86/82.
Slave card is always a tad colder than the main one.

Do your fans run at full speed? (the 3 of them)

 

Wait what the hell, you guys can play WoW with crossfire enabled? I had to turn it off because the game would start to hurt eyes! Like the sky would change color really fast between the real color and a redish tint... i thought it was micro tering but now im guessing that its not.

 

Of course i do use crossfire and wow runs butter smooth. Almost everything maxed out, shadow on high, water on high, 4x antialias, 8x anisotropic.

From my experience wow needs badly v-sync and triple buffering to be active. You wont see >100 fps but a nice and constant 60 fps. Without v-sync/triple buffer it looks really bad (at least on my config and from my point of view)

running on latest v-bios, 10.12 and cap by the way

 

you wont see more than 60 (actual) FPS on the laptop monitor in any game, its the maximum refresh rate of the M17xR2 monitor

 

we got the exact same PC stats, and i can run wow x2 on max graphics with 40-50c

 

You should probably clean it out and if the temps are still bad you can look into doing the ash cooling mod for the 5870's and do some of it which will help you alot.

 

If I were you I would clean out the dust if you are comfortable opening it. I had similar problems and simply cleaning out the dust from my GPUs completely fixed my problem. I saw a huge drop in temps.

 

Dell service is a risk as well as opening the laptop up yourself. If it was me I would first try to reset the paste on the GPUs. If it still runs hot then it needs to be Dell to come and replace the faulty chips. Good luck!

 

Oddly, I saw something like this in a game- traced it down to the fact I had limited the fps to 30 frames per second in game AND had temporal AA on at the same time

I changed back the setting to 60 fps and it stopped, do you have something like that going on?