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Unfortunately it is the MaxQ. Basically a gimped 1080 that will probably peform like a 1060/1070

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From everything shown it performs 15% better than 1070, while running cooler. And since it's the same chip just underclocked, OCing is viable as long as power and temps can hold out. But all that will come at a premium price over the regular 1070 model.... I'm guessing around $3k.

 

Yep msrp is about 3K. Thats a really heafty tag tbh.

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Ya, a hefty premium for the performance bump, but than again, that's always the case for the highest end specs... it's always diminishing returns, but more choices is always a win.

 

If it was 3K for a full 1080N then it would be worth it. But with the gimp of MaxQ. Not really

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....200watt psu...

 

Max-Q is all about saving costs!! On components and Psu!! The main reason for this scam from Nvidia.

 

Anybody noticed this?
Whenever I run the render test on GPUZ and check PerfCap Reason, it indicates that it is limited by reliability voltage. Is this the card's bios or is this because of the default power brick they send?
Also, I am facing a problem with Heaven Benchmark. It crashes when I start the benchmark test. Even the G-Sync display seems to be giving rise to screen tearing, most prominently in GTA V and watching youtube videos.
I have already re-installed my driver two times and this problem hasn't gone away.

P.s. Does anyone know how to control the fans from outside of the Command and Control Software suite?

 

I have tried extensively many ways to control the fans without C&C. Absolutely no luck!

 

Is there any way for anyone to look into the code of the software and see how does the suite itself do it?
I can see the fan(s) listed in AIDA64 Extreme but do not see any way to change any values whatsoever.

 

What's the objective of controlling the fans outside of C & C, simply so no need for C & C to be installed?

 

I'd prefer if i could control it more accurately. C&C feels a bit lack luster. Like you set it to an auto max speed and thats it. I mean it works quite well and temps are really good for me but the sudden ramp in fan speed can abe a bit jarring especially in a quiet environment. There is an app buried in the aorus folder in Program Files (I'll dig it up when i get home) that supposedly lets you set 10 predetermined levels of fan speed according to temperature but it seems to have no effect

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customFanControl

C:\Program Files\AORUS\SmartManagerV3\StepFan

I'm not sure if that will run as a standalone with C & C installed though?

 

Oh, it gets worse.

Check this out for core temp differences under load:



22 degrees C difference between core temps!

I'm getting more and more perturbed.

 

I think you should actually contact Gigabyte/Aorus. Its either a ****ty heatsink that Clevo whipped up for your repair center or your thermal paste is non existant

 

I think it's my original heatsink that was fine before. So either they knacked the heatsink installing the new mobo or they really fu.... messed up the paste.

Not happy

 

May be soon since new version shows up a tool called :

Versatile Fan Control | 10 Stage Deep Fan Control

http://www.aorus.com/product-detail.php?p=218&t=35&t2=&t3=

 

I really hope that they allow v6 users to update their C&C software/BIOS and EC to allow us to use manual control as well. I would really appreciate more granular fan control

 

I'd definitely get back onto Aorus about this, core temperature differences like this indicates not only a poor pasting job but I'm also willing to bet they haven't seated the new heatsink properly.

Liam.

 

How about try to see if its making good contact yourself first and repaste with some of your own if it is pasted properly?

 

They've agreed a replacement.

Grrrr, more waiting.


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Has anyone seen these overclocking results with the X5V7?



http://hwbot.org/submission/3545561_

 

Hi all,

I decided to take the plunge and go for the Aorus X5 V6 after an unfortunate experience with my old new Gigabyte Aero 15 that went back a couple of weeks ago (QC issues with the screen & couldn't get used to the keyboard sadly). I was also going to wait for the X5 V7 but sadly there does not seem to be any ETA's as to when they are going to arrive anywhere here in the UK.

I went for the WQHD variant (Not keen on TN screens), and took delivery of the laptop yesterday. Initial impressions with unboxing - wow talk about pass the parcel haha, the laptop itself came in four boxes. However, a very impressive way to package the laptop given it's value to ensure that it is shipped safely. Out of the box the laptop feels great in the hand and also lighter than I thought it would be despite it being 2.5KG, also the actual footprint of it is exactly how I envisioned it to be - very similar in terms of size when compared to my old MSI GS70. The chassis feels very solid and well built, and it's not as much of a finger print magnet either which I am very pleased about too when coming from the Aero 15 (practically picks up anything all over the laptop and hard to clean off).

The WQHD screen is very nice, however I was greeted with some slight lightbleed along the lower part of the screen unfortunately but this is only noticeable on black backgrounds. The overall clarity of the screen is excellent, nice and bright and the colours out of the box are very vibrant. The default colour setting via the command centre is set to 6800K which I feel does dim the display ever so slightly and changing it to the native colour does make the screen even more vibrant but at the same time adds just a little yellow tinge to it... I'll do some more tinkering as time goes on.

I also changed the power profile within the command centre to balanced & changed the fans to silent, I'm impressed with how quiet it is with only the sound of the 1TB HDD spinning in the background - however I noticed that the fans do still spin up as & when they are required to, taking into account that it's a dedicated GPU & the HK CPU.

Overall performance out of the box performance, I am immensely impressed - having recently come from 6700HQ / 7700HQ laptops this feels that one step quicker. The first initial power on & setup literally only took 2 minutes and then I was already on the desktop. Even navigating through various Windows tabs & having several chrome tabs open this thing doesn't seem to skip a beat all, it very much feels like the performance of a high end desktop setup. Cold boot & shutdown times are very quick too.

Some of you may think why I have gone for this model from the Aero 15 in terms of the keyboard (As both of the look very similar, if not the same!), for some reason with the keyboard placement and positioning on the Aero 15 I simply couldn't get used to it at all - I was making a lot of typing mistakes and the keys alone felt harder to press down overall which hindered the entire typing experience. Fast forward to setting up the X5 V6 last night, the keyboard feels a lot better and easier to use - much softer presses and as I originally judged, the placement of the keyboard itself feels better.

One minor thing that springs to mind with the X5 V6 that I would like to touch base on, with the power profile set to balanced & the fans set to silent - the CPU idles at the 49c mark on average & the GPU is at 55c as well. Is this somewhat normal? As far as I know the CPU has not been set to overclock via the command app yet, unless it does it automatically by default when stressed? I've yet to determine the load temps as I haven't got around to doing more tests yet.

Many thanks - Liam.

 

Welcome to the club @LiamAcer (should that be LiamAORUS now?).

Just set my fans to silent and my temps after a few minutes are CPU - 47-48*C and GPU - 47*C.

I like to use the Fan Control option Customize > Auto Maximum. This tends to keep temps well within acceptable levels, and reasonably quiet.

There's always a liquid metal repaste if you are willing to accept some risk for some serious temp reduction reward.

Any other questions, just ask.

 

Cheers MiSJAH I see that you frequent the OcUK forums as well - I'm known as LEK-89 on there. Haha yes indeed, I think a username change should suffice over here now

That's good to know, I'll give the fans some tinkering tonight when I'm home. I'll think about giving it a repaste some time in the future as well, but most likely down the Thermal Grizzy Kyronaut route. Oh yeah - out of the box do these units automatically come overclocked to 4Ghz or is this solely done manually afterwards?

Many thanks - Liam.

 

Welcome to the Aorus club!

By default its at 3.6Ghz. You have to select the 4.0Ghz option in their OC launcher software

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From memory I think they come set at 4Ghz out of the box. Have a look in C & C > OC Guage, level 4 is 4Ghz.

Anyway I need to package up my X5 for RMA to OcUK and await a new one later in the week

 

Ooh yours came 4.0 out of the box? Mine came at the lowest 3.6

Hang in there! A new one will be with you soon

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Thanks for the input guys - I'll check out the overclocking facility to determine this later. As when doing everyday tasks last night & setting things up while running HWMonitor in the background, I did notice the CPU cores frequently reaching 3.9Ghz which got me thinking on the temperature side of things too.

MiSJAH - fingers crossed you'll be all sorted with a new one by the end of the week mate. Oh yeah out of interest did you have a lot of attention with regards to the new MSI laptop that they sent you a while back that concluded your upgrade experience? I noticed you had it up on one of the PC groups for sale on Facebook at the time for a hefty price tag

Liam.

 

@LiamAcer for now you're liking the Aorus better than the Aero ?

 

I must say I am, but I also opted to go for the Aorus over a replacement Aero 15 for 1070 gaming with the WQHD resolution. I still do like the Aero 15 but sadly with the difficulties I faced with the keyboard, it wouldn't be ideal for me in the long run as I also work from home on the laptop regularly as well.

Hands down, the Aero 15 any day is more portable but my laptops very rarely ever leave my house anyway and always situated on my table.

Liam.

 

That cannot be stable, or that is the holy grail of the silicone lottery. Oh the speed at which I could compile code with that!
I wonder where this came from.... if it's internal aorus testing (doubt they would bother OCing, then again, it only takes one enthusiastic employee), or if they started shipping these to reviewers....hopefully the latter as it should mean the release is indeed just around the corner. Lets hope notebookcheck gets their hands on one of these, and an MD version as well.

 

Mean Machine is an AORUS staffer. That was one of the first hand built v7's.

I'm badgering him for further info.


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Yeah, the OcUK forums are my home

The GT73VR 7RF I traded up to from my GT72 2QE for £365 ended up selling on the bay for £2,550, about £2,200 after fees. The thread I started over there is still active and I suspect it will continue to be so.

I'm genuinely pleased I jumped on the AORUS when I had the chance. It's a superb machine (even after I fried it). I have to big up AORUS/Gigabyte/Atom80 for being helpful and responsive in my time of need.




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Ahhhh interesting and that's good to know that you were able to sell it on eBay after that final debacle you had with MSI, and finally able to put the entire fiasco behind you

Yeah I know what you mean, having only recently moved over to Gigabyte / now Aorus I can tell that in terms of build quality and overall support - they are leagues ahead when compared to MSI. Oh yeah I've made a couple of more adjustments with the machine this evening, I can confirm that the OC was set to 4Ghz by default as originally thought, upon lowering it back down to 3.6Ghz did result in slightly cooler idle temps but to be honest I think I'm going to leave it set to 4Ghz as the CPU temps when idle were only ~3-4c different if that.

Another thing, I'm still trying to determine the best color profile for my liking & daily use, to me 6800K seems just a bit too blue and hinders the brightness in my opinion. The Native setting while overall great and brighter, just adds a slight yellow tint to it but that could just be me - after I've adjusted it for 5 minutes or more it does not seem as yellow. Do you think a manual windows calibration could be worthwhile? Actually there again - you run the TN display on your X5 V6 so I'm not sure if you even get that color setting via the command centre lol

Just plugged in the laptop for the first time after a full battery cycle as well, I managed to achieve just over 2 hours on battery and that's with the brightness set to 100% so not bad at all so far, I reckon 50% could easily gain up to 3 hours in return.

Liam.

 

@LiamAcer, someone posted a profile earlier (in this thread?) and I'm using that.

I can't remember who it was now.


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The Super Pi score showed is crippled. Don't match that clock speed!!

 

I found the post but it's only for the FHD screen, though I've settled on the colour profile for mine now but thanks anyway

Trying to update all of the drivers via the update program last night and ran into a bit of bother with the Nvidia driver - why is there a official driver & latest driver tab? When I attempt to download version 8233 if memory serves right, the installation process hangs within Nvidia.

However I was eventually able to download & install the older one which is 7667 if memory serves right and this is the same one offered on the Aorus website. Which one are you running on at the moment mate?

Edit - in other words if I do a DDU clean of the old drivers, am I safe to use the latest drivers directly from the Nvidia website?

Many thanks - Liam.

 

@LiamAcer ,what is the colour profile that you use. Also, could someone share a stable oc profiles for the cpu and gpu

 

For now I am settled on my V6's native display color profile that I set via the command centre. Originally by default and out of the box it was set to 6800K if I recall but it's too blue for my liking and also dims the overall brightness slightly.

Liam.

 

You are right. Although i do prefer the 6800k better than native colour due to the green tint, it does make the image appear a bit duller/dimmer. I did try to change native colour settings but ended up turning the yellows into a sickly green and ywllow nwon mix. Tell me, how would you change the colour profile?

 

Yeah I know where you're coming from with the conflicting colours between the different profiles. Out of interest I did also give the built in Windows color calibration tool a try and for me it returned even better results than the profiles supplied , though sadly the new profile is not retained after shutting down or restarting the laptop - Gigabyte's own colour calibration profiles still kick in when the command centre starts upon boot up and overrides the custom Windows calibration profile. Apparently this is a known problem to Gigabyte / Aorus from what I read online last night but no solution has been offered.

Liam.

 

If we did know where these profiles are stores then maybe we can edit the ones we would not use to one we most definitely will. I'm no pc expert but i think we can transport those profiles and either execute it on startup or unload command center to prevent it from overwriting the customised settings.

 

I'm sure I also read last night that another owner tried this procedure with their Aorus and even though it did work, the command centre itself still defaulted to another colour profile by default - I may be wrong though.

Liam.

 

Well if it defaulted to another colour profile, say one, then was it so that the modified colour profile was saved in another slot, say three?

 

I'm going to try and give this manual alteration of one of the profiles a go tonight and see how I get on.

Liam.

 

Cheers mate
Best of luck

 

I'm running the latest driver direct from nvidia. AORUS, recommend using the version on their site as it is tweaked specifically for the X5. I find no detriment running the one direct from nvidia though and the AORUS one is not recognised by 3DMark.






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Which power brick can be used along with the x5, other than the 200 watt one already there? Having a 300 watt psu will give a very good oc headroom.

 

Where are the 300w power bricks that fit the x5 available?


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