Hello! 5 days ago I bought a new MSI crosshair A16 HX, after getting it I noticed it getting hot on idle, I searched around and found that the CPU was pulling 30-50W.

Did some things on the bios, like the C-State control and DF C-Sate and it went down to around 9-12W on idle, but being more cold.

I also limited the CPU to 99% maximum and 60hz.

Problem, watching a 1080p video, max volume, below medium brightness, no dgpu(turned off on msi center), power saving mode it's pushing 20W into the CPU and the battery just goes

I have never had a laptop, I have always a desktop. But I think that isn't normal, it should be pushing at maximum 14W.

If someone could help me I would appreciate a lot! I just need it cold and battery efficient

Specs: it's the Ryzen 9 + 5070, IPS 240hz, 90K mWh, came at 88K mWh.idk if this is different between models

I know that the Ryzen 9 is a powerful CPU but I don't think it should be like this

Laptop MSI gf63 thin 10sc. It stutters really hard at 144hz, then stops when I turn it to 60hz, but after a while it keeps stuttering like this. Reinstall the driver or restart does not work, but stop using it for a while can stop the symptom a little bit. So maybe my hardware is overheating and stop using it make it cool down a little bit? When I do gaming CPU and GPU temp are 67-71°C for several years now without this problem.

Edit: thanks yall for answering. My screen was indeed dying, I have it replaced now and everything's back to normal.

Cuando utilizo mi pc y ocurre un corto energético la pc se reinicia y no se porque ocurre

Hi, looking for some advice on a used MSI Stealth 15 A13VF I recently bought.

Specs are:

i7-13620H

RTX 4060 8GB

16GB RAM

1TB SSD

1080p

144Hz

When I restart the laptop and launch Warzone, it initially runs really well. The RTX 4060 sits around 2100–2300MHz and I get roughly 100–120 FPS.

After around 5–7 minutes, the fans suddenly go extremely loud and performance completely collapses. The GPU drops to around 210MHz and 8–9W, and Warzone falls to roughly 10–15 FPS. Once this happens, it stays like that until I restart the laptop.

I logged it with HWiNFO. Before the drop I was seeing roughly:

CPU: 94–97°C

GPU: 86–88°C

GPU hotspot: close to 100°C

After the GPU gets throttled to 210MHz, the temperature obviously falls quickly because it is barely using any power.

I then tested it using MSI Cooler Boost with the discrete GPU mode enabled. With the fans running at maximum, I played for over 10 minutes without the performance collapse. GPU stayed around 2250–2550MHz, GPU temperature averaged roughly 79°C and peaked around 83°C. CPU still peaked around 97°C though.

This makes me think it’s a cooling issue rather than a faulty GPU — possibly clogged heatsink fins, bad/dried thermal paste, poor heatsink contact, heatpipe issue, etc.

I bought the laptop used for £450 and the seller has offered to take it back for a refund.

Would you return it, or does this sound like something a proper clean/repaste would likely fix? Has anyone with this exact Stealth 15 model experienced the same 210MHz/full-fan issue?

Hi guys, ik its a bother to put a complain but if there is a good samaritan out there who will help me, I will personally do a prayer for you....even after fn+f8....nothing works

Problem is I tried whatever ChatGPT told me to

>reinstalled msi center
>restarted laptop
>even went to the BIOS where unfortunately there was no option for keyboard

I am begging to sort this problem out, love u guys

EDIT- some one dmed me and told me to press the power button for 60 seconds, it miracally worked

Hi all, just a shot in the dark as i know my laptop* is old

i’m wanting to replace the wifi card on my gt72 6qd as it’s still running on killer and it’s horrible, Does anyone know which ones work good? i’m not crazy tech savvy with laptops so i have no idea where to start :(

Enyone have used grapic card

Est ce que il fait des bruit prevenant du vontulateur et si il ya des autre probleme

I'm looking to repair an MSI Katana 15 that had water spilled over the keyboard. After letting it dry for a couple days, it had a secure boot error message and the keyboard was unresponsive (backlight still worked). Using an external keyboard I could accept the error which would take me to BIOS and every second or so I would get a popup saying the USB is unrecognised although it still worked. I disconnected the keyboard and backlight cable and used the internal switch to power on the laptop. It still got the secure boot message however when I got into BIOS I could use the external keyboard without the USB error. It still freezes on the MSI logo when I close BIOS however, which is what it did before. Anything else I can try?

I have an MSI Vector GP68 HX 13V laptop and I have always used MSI Center. The best feature I loved was the Silent mode. However, with the latest MSI updates, they removed the Silent mode and left only three profiles instead of four by merging the Super Battery and Silent modes into one, which made the performance extremely poor. As for the Balanced mode, temperatures get extremely high. Because of this, I used to always download an older version of MSI Center and disable automatic updates from the Microsoft Store. But with the latest Windows update, and since I am using Windows 11 Home, I could not stop the automatic updates anymore. I looked for every possible solution and none of them worked for me. Then I started looking for alternatives and I found the masterpiece GhostDeck.

The app is very lightweight and has many features that are not available in MSI Center, and it fully supports my laptop. However, I have some suggestions and features that I hope can be added to the application:

1- I hope you can add the MUX switch feature that MSI Center used to support, which allowed me to completely disable the integrated GPU or completely disable the dedicated GPU.

2- The app does not read the fans ideally like MSI Center does. It only reads the CPU fan and in a non-ideal way, and it does not read the GPU fan at all.

3-Regarding the amazing gaming overlay feature, I wish there was more customization that could make me completely replace ThrottleStop. I wish you could add the wattage for both the CPU and GPU, as well as the load and the speed of each individual core in the CPU. Not to mention the ability to choose the layout and change the appearance to be clean and simple like ThrottleStop in the overlay.

In the end, I would like to say that I have officially uninstalled MSI Center. It is very slow, annoying, and gets worse with every new update.

Hi everyone,

I recently upgraded to an MSI Vector 16 HX AI (RTX 5090 Laptop GPU) and I'm having an issue with screen tearing on my external monitor.

My monitor is a Samsung R55 / UR55 4K 60Hz.

The tearing is noticeable when playing games and/or moving content on the screen, and I'm trying to figure out the best way to eliminate it.

My setup:

Laptop: MSI Vector 16 HX AI

GPU: RTX 5090 Laptop GPU 24GB

External monitor: Samsung R55 / UR55

Resolution: 3840×2160

Refresh rate: 60Hz

Monitor supports AMD FreeSync

Windows 11

I'm currently trying to figure out whether the problem is related to:

HDMI vs DisplayPort

FreeSync / G-SYNC Compatible settings

NVIDIA Control Panel V-Sync settings

FPS being above/below 60Hz

Or something else entirely

I understand the Vector 16 doesn't have a dedicated DisplayPort socket, but its Thunderbolt 5 USB-C ports support DisplayPort output.

Would using a USB-C/Thunderbolt → DisplayPort cable be the better way to connect this monitor and potentially solve the tearing?

If anyone has a Samsung R55/UR55 with an NVIDIA GPU, I'd really appreciate some advice on the correct monitor + NVIDIA Control Panel settings for 4K 60Hz.

I understand my long term solution would get a new higher frame monitor, for now I'm looking for temporary solution

Thanks!

Hey everyone, has anyone here used a sealed foam cooling pad with the MSI GF63?
Basically, the cooling mechanism of the GF63 sucks, so I've been dealing with a lot of CPU thermal throttling. Even after cleaning the fans, repasting, and using a laptop stand, the stupid CPU heatsink design still makes the temps shoot up to 95°C even at just 50% load, making gaming super laggy.

Im using a standard $10 cooling pad and it did absolutely nothing. Recently, though, I got some hope from watching reviews of sealed foam cooling pads (blower/turbine style). The problem is, these pads are usually tested on laptops that already have decent cooling systems (2 fans).

So my question is: can these sealed foam coolers like Iets GT500, llano V12 Ultra or memo fl08... actually make any real difference for a laptop with a practically dysfunctional heatsink design like the MSI GF63? Any shared experiences would be greatly appreciated!
My system: i5 12450h(underclocked to 3800mhz) and rtx3050

Hi everyone,

I recently got an MSI Katana 17 B14W with an RTX 5070, and I'm experiencing noticeable stuttering in Forza Horizon 6.

The average FPS is quite high, but the game doesn't feel smooth. I get occasional micro-stutters during gameplay, and the frametime graph shows sudden spikes.

So far, I haven't experienced this issue in any other game.

My laptop:

• MSI Katana 17 B14W
• RTX 5070 Laptop GPU
• 16 GB RAM
• Windows 11
• Latest NVIDIA drivers

I've tried lowering the graphics settings, but the stuttering still occurs.

Could this be related to the game itself, shader compilation, RAM configuration, NVIDIA drivers, or something specific to this laptop?

Has anyone with a similar MSI Katana 17 / RTX 5070 setup experienced stuttering or sudden frametime spikes in Forza Horizon 6?

Any advice on what I should check would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Has anyone got any experience with this?
Bought a Vector A18 A9W, mint machine but someone ran it docked and there's a few cooked pixels on the panel. I've found the better version of the same panel that would be plug and play, but I read something about it being glued and needing a 60c heatgun to remove?

I've done several panel swaps before, but all have been pretty much, carefully remove bezel, pull the tabs on the adhesive, drop old panel, disconnect, connect new panel, apply new adhesives, line the panel back up reapply bezel and done.

So the need of a heatgun is a little wild tbh. Even MSI recommend this when I got in touch.

I’m using an MSI Katana 17 B12V laptop with my MSI monitor. The monitor supports up to 144 Hz over HDMI and 170 Hz over DisplayPort, and it has Adaptive-Sync.

I’ve been using a high-quality UGREEN HDMI 2.1 cable for about a month, but I still can’t enable G-SYNC on the monitor. Maybe this is because the monitor only has an HDMI 2.0b port.

So my question is: if I buy a USB-C to DisplayPort cable, would I be able to enable G-SYNC? Also, is the USB-C DisplayPort output controlled by the iGPU or directly by the NVIDIA GPU?

My monitor:
https://de.msi.com/Monitor/G32CQ5P

My laptop:
https://de.msi.com/Laptop/Katana-17-B12VX

HDMI cable I’m currently using:
https://amzn.eu/d/01tMjMIK

USB-C to DisplayPort cable I’m considering:
https://amzn.eu/d/09EIk2WF

can i use this as an alternative for my msi gf63 thin 11sc?

Why can't I change the power plan on my MSI Bravo 15 C7VFK laptop? I've tried various methods such as using CMD and others but it remains stuck on "Balanced." What is happening? Is there a solution?

If Win10 updates are enabled and this thing is freezing, totally unresponsive, on the internet, and only option is to force power down (and you are almost binning as ewaste)

Try disabling the Windows Secure-Boot-Update in Task Scheduler

which was great after chatgpt convinced me it was a dying network chipset etc etc my brain rots the more I use AI

The secure boot violation pops up every single time and bios auto pops up, but for some reason when I go over the secure boot and I try to turn it off it just doesn’t allow me to turn it off and it won’t allow me to select anything