The Gigabyte G5MD is performing poorly, eliminating the typical causes right away.
The Gigabyte G5MD is performing poorly, eliminating the typical causes right away.
My friend's Gigabyte G5MD laptop has been struggling with games for about a year since it was purchased around 2019. We've attempted various fixes, but the issues persist, returning after just a few hours or days. We've tried cleaning, repasting, reformatting the drive, and installing a completely new Windows version. Running hardware benchmarks shows similar results to another identical model bought less than a year later. Temperatures remain normal, drivers are updated regularly, and we're still facing the same problem.
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Have you looked into whether your laptop needs a BIOS update?
Cleaning and reapplying thermal paste with isopropyl alcohol?
Formatting the drive and starting a fresh Windows installation?
Where did you obtain the OS installer? Speaking of OS, are you talking about Windows 10 or 11? If it's the latter, should you install offline?
Temperatures remain within normal ranges
Which would be considered? Both load and idle temperatures? Room air temperature?
Moved this thread from the Systems section to the Laptop Tech Support area.
that's included with the Windows updates now, isn't it? anyway, we did that quite soon and it didn't really make a difference.
i explained it to him using Arctic MX-6 and IPA, which showed some improvement but wasn't the main problem.
on win11, we made the installation media from the existing Windows installer and signed in with a Microsoft account.
we had a hardware monitor running while playing games; it looks like the computer never really reaches full speed. even when set to performance mode through the software, it never went above 85°C on either the CPU or GPU during intense games like Horizon Zero Dawn. it just dropped frames and froze at various settings.
we completed that process quite early, but it didn't really assist much.
For clarity, are you using version F010?
win11, generating the installation media from the existing Windows installer on the computer and signing in with a Microsoft account
Recreate your bootable USB installer for Windows 11, set up the OS in offline mode. Ensure all relevant drivers for your laptop are on another removable drive, to install them during offline mode using an elevated command—Right click installer > Run as Administrator. The GPU driver can be obtained from Nvidia's support site.
Running games awkwardly
Share the titles you're attempting to tax the laptop with and where you obtained them.
Take a screenshot of Disk Management as well.