Samsung Series 7 Gamer NP700G7C with AMD Radeon HD 7970M/Geforce GTX 675M

Hi guys, bit of a thread resurrection here!

I have passed this laptop down to my son who is using it to mostly play Fortnite. Whilst the CPU is still more than powerful enough, the GTX 675M is proving to be the limiting factor on FPS even on medium settings.

Has anyone on here has tried an external graphics enclosure?

 

Yeah the 675M is getting a bit long in the tooth.

 

I doubt an external gpu would work with this unit as they require 4-lane thunderbolt 3 to work optimally to make it worth the money.

 

It's a shame it wasn't possible to swap out the mxm card with a new GPU. Maybe modding the system bios (vbios is embedded there) it woukd be. I doubt anyone has the desire to do it as this unit is quite old now.

 

Hello

i getting a huge problem for my pc nowadays any can help me ? Problem is randomly black screen generally playing a game sometimes 10 minutes in a game sometimes an hours. this games not a req. huge graphics its happening playing league of legends, path of exile, working on photoshop . After getting black screen didnt fix without reset. then opening pc there is warning in the event viewer. "nvlddmkm display driver stopped responding and has recovered" i didnt any overclock or etc. yesterday changed thermal paste and updated graphic card driver still getting black screen. Has anyone encountered such a situation? someone can help me i will be happy.

Thanks

 

Not really, you can monitor temps but this may not help. When you say updated the TIM, you did this for the GPU not CPU or both?

 

hello only gpu cuz i cant reach cpu. i monitored gpu temps max 75-80 but its not relevant with temps this will happen sometimes when i opened pc newly. do you have a any idea for this ? now i tried to decrease core clock about 100hz this time more stabil then previous but lower performance.
thanks

 

If you are able to decrease the core clock and gain some stability I'm a little afraid that this means the power delivery phases to the GPU are seeing some instability. It could also be the power supply itself is having an issue. Hard to diagnose this. You could try undervolting the GPU using the MSI tool Afteburner to edit the power curve. Search these forums and youtube for some help there, it's slightly complicated and unintuitive to change the curve properly for undervolting if you've never done it. That might help reduce power usage without sacrificing performance.

Just to try some other things, you might want to try removing the GPU card and re-seating it. If the temps are only getting to 80 and you're having instability it's either that, maybe power delivery to GPU is becoming unstable, or it's an entirely software based problem. Are you using Windows 10 updated to absolute latest update? Did any windows updates or driver updates happen right before this started to rear it's head?

I had this exact problem and it ended up being an incompatibility with a piece of software (I think it was one of the MSI tools, I forget exactly) with the latest Win10 update. The crash reasons were all over the map, and it was sometimes the nv driver. There was another time that I was having performance issues and I tried everything to figure out the problem. I ended up reinstalling windows and it fixed the problem. But mine was rearing it's head without ever having to put load on the GPU, so I doubt this is your problem if the system is always stable when no or little load is present.

It could also mean your memory has a slight issue, but usually that causes a number of different crash reasons not just always nv driver. You could reseat your DIMMs at the same time you are reseating your GPU MXM card. The CPU is soldered, so the only thing you can do there is reapply TIM. If you CPU isn't reaching super high temps it's probably not a problem.

At any rate, taking all into consideration, even if the GPU+CPU were reaching high temps, they should probably just throttle before ever causing any crashes unless you were doing some massive overclocking to cause instability.

Good luck.

 

Hi All,

I cannot believe this thread is still going! Happy to see some fellow users still holding on to this laptop.

Its been my daily driver since i bought it (2012? 2013? the first version with the i7-3610), as even though I'm a software developer using my laptop for hours a day, i just cant justify upgrading, as it still performs well!

I've had a couple issues recently though, wondering if anyone else has, or have any recommendations...

1. This started months ago, i've gotten used to it.
   If i "shutdown", windows gets ready to shut down, then it just hangs forever. If i "restart", it shuts down without booting back up (this is my daily workaround). Hibernate and Sleep just hang too.
   I assumed this was a windows issue, but i booted of a linux live image, and have the same result.
   No idea how to fix, but not that bothered, im used to just hitting restart now.
2. This is the big one, the deal breaker...
   Today my external displays stopped working. If I plug in the HDMI to my monitor, the monitor just stays blank. I've tried on two monitors, and all three display interfaces. Depending on the monitor/port combo, the monitor may say "no signal" or may be awake and happily receiving a blank black image of nothing, but now just never works.
   Windows recognises the monitor, shows up in device manager, i can screenshot whats on the screen, and it thinks its there and working, but theres nothing on the physical display.
   tried sysRestoring to recovery point a week ago, no joy. updated nvidia drivers, still nothing.

Anyone experienced these issues? Anyone have any tips?
Theres no no-compromise laptop out that i really want to upgrade to yet, i just want to keep using this until i find a worthy candidate.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,

 

thanks all for this replies.

after decrease core clock speed about 100 hz(620 to 520) seems problem is fixed.

another question, this notebook have a sata III support ? i bougth a ssd and put this on notebook to optical driver place with hdd caddy. tested with crystaldisk application. results like sata II 3gb. there is any problem or i need to do/install anything ?

Regards
thanks