Bought the MSI and I have got a good impression so far.. but what I am a little concerned about is the temperature at it while gaming.

Here at rest:
https://i.imgur.com/nRqYpDz.jpg

Right after gaming, csgo:
https://i.imgur.com/POBmfBZ.jpg

Running 1280x960 4:3on high settings and got like 200+FPS and I dont experience any lag/issues. I think the game itself runs smoothly. The fans go up in RPM while gaming so it seems to respond that way.
I switched to performance mode in windows and also performance settings in nvidia control panel. Havent changed anything else.
Got the laptop on a flat, firm surface.

Is this normal?

its a gaming laptop, thats normal, either get a cooling pad or modify it with liquid metal tm and void warranty

Do you have any experience of undervolting the CPU?

Just lower the voltage .05V at a time until you get instability in stress tests and gaming. Then turn the voltage back up kust a but till its stable again.

It's just reverse overclocking

This post was edited by kclla on Aug 25 2019 09:06am

Tried some. Temperatures before was up to 97 degress and very loud fan work..

Here with -.250V at CPU core and -.125 at CPU cache.

https://i.imgur.com/uE0Sjvq.jpg

Same performance ingame in CSgo and didnt even hear the fan, I guess cuz of lower temp..

Nice glad to hear it.

often times you can replace the stock thermal paste with some higher end stuff like kryonaut and get a 1-5C just from that if the stock paste was bad.

This shouldn't void your warranty on most models unless you break open a void sticker to do it

Yeah thinking about doing that If I Will switch to bigger SSD.

When I run ITX CPU stress test it signals yellow for a brief second now and then after like 3min. It Says Yes for power limit throtteling for a half second then change to no and change like that during The test. When I look at The highest W at power its like 50-55, but in my turbo power settings it got max 45W.
I have not experienced any problems ingame or reglar. Is this a problem that I should fix anyway?
If so, how? Just increasing maximum W?

Hey man.. looking at that SSD disk now to order.

What specs would I need for my comp?

https://www.msi.com/Laptop/GP73-Leopard-8RE/Specification

SSD, 2,5" only?

What’s your recommendation to downgrade gpu if you don’t game? But will be using statistical software