Gigabyte G5 KC in review: Upgradeable gaming laptop

[Redaktion]

The Gigabyte G5 KC is available starting at around 1,000 Euros (~$1,184), and it aims to win gamers' hearts over with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060 and very good upgradeability. Our review will reveal how well this works.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Gigabyte-G5-KC-in-review-Upgradeable-gaming-laptop.557926.0.html

[VJ Abonador]

I'd have preferred to see the i5-10500H go against the Ryzen 5 4600H or the newer 5600H.

[Zimo]

I have this laptop for 2 months now, it's great!

[Aaron]

Have this laptop for 6 months, besides short battery life (which I don't really mind for a gaming laptop), thermal is the biggest drawback. with stock config, CPU easily reach over 100C under heavy gaming, and the 3060 will throttle at 86C (with GPU hot spot over 90 C). I applied different solutions and the temp is under control now, include: undervolting CPU (around -100 mV) and GPU (1890 at 825), adding A LOT OF heatpipes and copper pieces, changing the thermal paste to Honeywell 7950 (really good result), and I set PL1 to 45W , PL2 to 55-60W. Now CPU temp barely reaches 85C, and the GPU temp is comfortably under 80C.

[Marc]

Hey, i just seen your message about the things you did to brign the temps more in line, can i ask how you went about undervolting the cpu? does it require another bios? glad you had success! hoping to acheive similar results myself.

[Marc]

Have this laptop for 6 months, besides short battery life (which I don't really mind for a gaming laptop), thermal is the biggest drawback. with stock config, CPU easily reach over 100C under heavy gaming, and the 3060 will throttle at 86C (with GPU hot spot over 90 C). I applied different solutions and the temp is under control now, include: undervolting CPU (around -100 mV) and GPU (1890 at 825), adding A LOT OF heatpipes and copper pieces, changing the thermal paste to Honeywell 7950 (really good result), and I set PL1 to 45W , PL2 to 55-60W. Now CPU temp barely reaches 85C, and the GPU temp is comfortably under 80C.

Hey, i just seen your message about the things you did to brign the temps more in line, can i ask how you went about undervolting the cpu? does it require another bios? glad you had success! hoping to acheive similar results myself.

[wyvernone]

Hey, i just seen your message about the things you did to brign the temps more in line, can i ask how you went about undervolting the cpu? does it require another bios? glad you had success! hoping to acheive similar results myself.

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