Solarflare

Make sure u take all the heatsinks off first and make sure u use PREHEATED oven set to 385F ( gass mark 6) (solder melts around 364F) ) different people left it in there for different times, most people said 6-8 mins 14 is too much GUIDE 1: remove heatsink and thermal paste 2: preheat oven to 385F to 400F( NO HIGHER!) ( gas mark 6) 3: lay foil over the oven rack 4: make 4 balls of foil, about 4cm high, 5L when the oven is heated to its corrent temperature, put the graphics card on the 4 balls, one on each corner Card GPU SIDE UP or it can potentially fall out of socket! ) 6: leave for around 6-10 mins, NO MORE THAN 12 OR IT WILL MELT 7: ENOJOY!!! remember to keep the card level in the oven rememeber this is not allways permanent THIS FIX MAY NOT LAST FOREVER, SO PLEASE DO NOT PUT CARDS IN THE OVEN AND THEN SELL THEM its not nice!!

Just got this game with a XFX-R9-290x for my Main pc. Ill post back how it work's on my MSI-GT70-2OC-US096 Laptop w/770m gfx card@ +135mhz core -+650mhz Mem.

in my newest water cooling setup i decided to try the Cougar 120mm Fans available for about 5$ each or 20$ for 4. I found they perform really really well. coming from NF12's they are 1/4 the price and work basically as well as far as i can tell. Good static pressure and in recent test's were proven to provide nearly identical static pressure / airflow at same RPM level's and comparable noise levels aswell. considering how they are performing i will buy more in the future.

If i have the option to limit I will set my fps to 240 -180 Or 120 FPS If i can sustain one of those fps amounts on this MSI-GT70 2OC laptop "even when attached to my 27" 60hz Samsung @ my parents place" or my guest pc with a BenQ 27" 60hz monitor. I have never had tearing at those frame rate's I may be wrong but my theory behind it is doubling , Tripling or Quadrupling your fps exactly over a 60hz monitor seems to land frames more evenly. When i use my 120Hz benQ XL2420TX "main PC" I either run 120fps or 240fps depending on What my gpu can sustain which also mean's I need to keep they GPU up to date Highend in order to do so. I prefer Capping over Vsync as if the fps ever happens to drop under desired vsync fps then it does not cut in half or a portion to half if triple buffer is on and it works better then vsync or adaptive vsync even for not giving the user input lag.

I found Nvidia inspector to work better than MSI afterburner ect for me. It offers unlocked voltage adjustment . I didn't need much voltage to increase my core clock more just a touch and since the fans are linked to the CPU in GT70 2OC I found the other options afterburner has to be semi useless.

I would remove the battery unplug the laptop from power source. and if its out of waranty i would open the bottom find the bios battery and pop that out as well and fully reset the laptop. the bios could be messed up atm. also unplugging it from power and pulling battery and holding the power button may drain the power entirely from they system if the board is experiencing a power issue. try these 2 things . also when you have it open check for any pop'ed capacitors and make sure all the connectors are pushed in firmly. reseat your ram and cpu ect. could be degraded connections. good luck!

If you already have AS5 dont bother but mx-2 and mx-4 are really decent pastes that are non conductive - work well and can be bought in larger tube volumes at much better price per gram price points. thats assuming your going to want paste for the future i personally use alot of it for benching and replacing many paste's on other components so a 20 or 30 gram tube is nice. MX-2 has a 65 gram tube for around 30$ on the market so thats why i keep MX-2 as a option. Now there are slightly better pastes currently on the market (1-2*C Cooler) but they typically are either messy / conductive / or liquid like. Those types of thermal "pastes" i don't like to recommend as the chance to cause problems are there even for advanced users.