MeisterEder

I thought so. There are people with really bad temps (me included) and there are people with awesome temps. I read the default voltage is kinda dependent on the ASIC score? Mine is beyond bad... Before repasting I got nearly to 90°C under heavy gaming load, after repasting the 980m is significantly colder (~mid 70s under heavy load), same as the CPU now after repasting, though that are temps people got before repasting (GPU though, not CPU). The heatsinks sit perfectly, they press uniformly and firmly onto the chips! The default OC vBios voltage is significatly higher what GPU Tweak reports as default voltage now with standard vBios. Even with default vBios voltage and clocks, I cannot game for too long (for example demanding titles like Witcher 3 or Evil Within) before I get a "grey screen" and I need to reboot.

I did get some data jumbled up, though it's 165W, not 180W. Apparently the notebook pendant should be lower than 165W, whatever that means. Maybe chip selection for lower voltages? Maybe a lower power target?

Prema, is it possible to change the voltage to default, i.e. leave it untouched? Even though I repasted, the GPU gets a bit too hot for my liking with the new vBios so I'd just like to see how far I can go with standard voltage until I really need the additional performance. Also, I got weird behaviour: E.g. when minimizing Witcher 3 und bringing it back up again, fps was locked to 30 and the GPU wouldn't clock higher then ~670 until a reboot. Also a question to everybody: Did you guys get voltage control working with Afterburner? I didn't, so I had to use Asus GPU Tweak, which is an abomination. I'd really like to stay with Afterburner...

I don't think it's that overkill! It has a TDP rating of around 130W versus the 980m with 100W. Depending on the laptop and paste job, the 980m has plenty of headroom left. And when repasting my G751JY it was evident that in terms of cooler size, there's also still plenty of headroom left. But well, guess they will never give us more than we need.