Question Control Center 3.0

[cyrust]

I have a Gigabyte Aorus 7 laptop, I have had heat issues but I have gotten the temps down to around 65c under a load with throttle stop. The thing I am having trouble with is getting the fan speeds to run consistently. Gigabyte has an app called Control Center 3.0 to manage keyboard lights, power options, and fan speed profiles. I can not find any manuals on this app and it just does not seem to be working. I can make changes and not only does it not seem to change anything it also does not save fan settings. I have poked around the web looking for some info and I have not found anything that helps.

 

[Darkbreeze]

That app will not work for laptop fan controls. Those are hardware level controlled and not user configurable. If there are thermal issues it is likely that the GPU has been overclocked at some point, which is a bad idea on a laptop, or the unit has been run on a soft surface like somebody's pants legs, carpet, bed clothes/blankets, papers under the air intake vents, etc. that has caused some thermal damage.

The cooling systems on all laptops are precisely calibrated to handle the hardware it came with, barely, without modifications to the clocks or voltage, and nothing more. In fact, in many cases they are often barely, if at all, capable of that. Even "gaming" models, don't (And can't) really have any better cooling than any "standard" laptop, with the exception of some models having an additional fan for the GPU in addition to the one for the CPU, but they are still extremely limited when it comes to cooling and I've yet to see any laptop model aside from a couple of very niche products like those offered by Sager that allowed any kind of changes to the cooling configuration aside from simply "active" and "passive" (Meaning throttling the CPU/GPU rather than increasing fan speed, generally for reasons related to battery life). Speedfan, various motherboard manufacturer control utilities and other tweaking applications aside from something like Afterburner which MIGHT allow, on some models, some additional control of GPU fan speed, pretty much don't work on laptops.

 

[cyrust]

That app will not work for laptop fan controls.

Sigh. I bought the laptop new 6 months ago and it has spent 95% of the time at Gigabyte. Seeing how this is the second RMA they may not do anything more. I tried to use throttle stop to get it to work at an acceptable level, So, no overclocking. It is a shame if Control Center is not usable on Laptops and to make it worst it came preinstalled. Lastly, yes the bios is a ghost town. There is nothing in there to help

 

[Darkbreeze]

The app center itself might work, as that is a multi function utility, but it's unlikely it will work for fan controls. And even if it did, as you have found, it is unlikely that the app will actually "work" for them. If there is something software related that actually works on fan controls on newer laptops it's news to me, and that's possible because I haven't bought or worked on one that was very recent for a while, but traditionally none of that crap works on them AND, furthermore, ALL of these manufacturers are extremely guilty of preinstalling software that is either garbage or just plain incompatible with the hardware in the system it is installed on.

If you've had the unit RMA'd once and still have the same problem, then I'd escalate the issue higher up the food chain at Gigabyte and insist on replacement since nothing was fixed.

 

[cyrust]

Thank you for the advice. This thing is a hair dyer, hot and loud. It is very ungratifing to use. They replaced the fans the first time and the motherboard this time. It blows 110 degree exhaust.