AW18 Windows 10, A10 bios and higher than expected temps

G'day

I've had my AW18 (4800qm, 770 sli) for about a year and a half now and it ran well.
About 2 weeks ago I did a clean install of 10 to fix a couple of issues I had after upgrade. I got all the drivers off the Dell page and it recommended that I upgrade my BIOS to A10. Ever since then my lappy has been running sluggish.

After reading some of the threads in this forum I downloaded HWinfo64 and XTU so I could test and monitor my CPU and GPUs. I've found that my CPU is at an average of 62c while at idle and Hits the mid to high 90's when benchmarked. My GPUs fluctuate from the 80's up into the high 90's when stressed using Valley Benchmark. When I set my CPU's and GPU's fans to max they behave quite nicely, CPU idles at 41c and under load only occasionally gets above 80c. The GPU's sit in the mid to high 70's when stressed.

I've bought some Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and plan to redo my thermal paste when it arrives, and am hoping this fixes the issue. I was wondering if A10 still had the dodgy fan profiles and I was better off finding an older version, if this was a windows 10 issue or a combination of all 3? Any advice as to which BIOS I should get or other solutions to this would be greatly appreciated.

With Battlefront coming next week I was also considering trying to OC the GPU's to run at a better FPS. Could anyone recommend the best vBIOS and suggested OC speeds?

Thanks for taking the time to read this

Edit.... Forgot to mention that I was concerned about the GPUs because of tearing while playing Alien Isolation, something that never happened before. All drivers are up to date and were clean installed, Physx and GPU driver components only.

 

Upgrade your Bios to the recently released A12. Should see some improvement from that. Taking a risk with W10 though. Good luck

 

Thanks for the reply

Hopefully I'll do the thermal paste and BIOS tonight, just waiting for it to arrive.

I upgraded before I checked any forums, so all I can do is keep my fingers crossed and hope that W10 doesn't kill my lappy. So far so good and I've run it for well over 80 hours. If it does the extended warranty should cover it.
Interestingly enough on boot, after the clean install my resolution seemed to be 800 x 600 and the Nvidia drivers auto downloaded and installed. After I'd installed all the drivers that the Dell support page said to get, I noticed that I had no iGPU drivers.
Bios didn't show the device either(might have been because the 770's were GTG at that point?). At first I was a bit peeved because the iGPU now made the dGPU's run faster and smoother, I was hoping to squeeze a bit more out of my cards using that function and avoid overclocking them. but 40 mins on the web looking for a solution and I started to think I'd dodged a bullet. Seemed most peoples problems started with the switch from iGPU's to their dGPU's. Seeing as it now acts as a semi-control device and a bit of a boost for the dGPU's it doesn't seem too far fetched that it's not working properly and making hardware bugger out.

I found some vBIOS's here http://forum.techinferno.com/genera...-editions-modified-clocks-voltage-tweaks.html and was wondering if anyone had used these and if they were safe?

Thanks

 

I can't speak in a lot of detail regarding the issue you noticed, I will say I am a little concerned but others could tell you more accurately than me. However, I can say that vbios's and other files you find on techinferno are safe and good to go.

 

Thanks for the verification.

Updated to A12, and haven't noticed any difference in the temps. Unfortunately my thermal paste didn't arrive so i'll have to do it on Monday if it does.
One thing i have noticed is that with A12 HWinfo64 now i can't set the CPU fan seperately, it's tied to fan 2. MSI afterburner doesn't seem to activate the custom fan profiles for the GPU's either.
Can anyone recomend a program that can get around this and let me set custom fan profiles for the CPU and GPUs?

Thanks

 

Yeah its always been an issue on Aliewares' trying to access fans, its never consistent.