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    Searching for a new Notebook

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by TheRoyalTagz, Jun 27, 2017.

  1. TheRoyalTagz

    TheRoyalTagz Newbie

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    Hi, I'm Antonino and i'm Italian, I'm Searching for a new Work/Gaming Notebook.. I'm really confused, My first choice was the Asus Gl502vs, with the I7 7700HQ, 16gb Ram, Gtx1070, and 256gb SSD NVME.
    And the second choice was The GL502VM with I7 7700HQ, 16gb Ram, Gtx1060, and 128gb SSD.
    But when i started to read the forum to see if this Laptop have problems, I was informated that this laptop have some Thermal Throttling.. Someone that owned it can give me an opinionof this product? Thanks a lot.
     
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  2. Chewingum

    Chewingum Notebook Consultant

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    My GL502VM(K) with same specs (but 1 TB of HDD too) never trottled so far. Can't tell the same about the VS cause I never owned it.
     
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  3. don_svetlio

    don_svetlio In the Pipe, Five by Five.

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    Both run on the warm side. The GL502VM doesn't really have major throttling, tho the VS model does drop clocks under heavier load.

    In both cases, you can undervolt the CPU via Intel XTU (Intel's toolkit) and also ramp up fans via the RoG centre - that usually solves the issue for the most part. If you want to go a step further, repasting with IC Diamond or fine-tuning the GPU voltage and clockspeed via MSI Afterburner can also decrease temps.

    Overall - if you are willing to do some tweaking and fine-tuning, both machines work fine with the GL502VM running a bit cooler.
     
    don_svetlio, Jul 6, 2017
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