

I can play COD:Black ops at 2880x1800 on max settings with still playable frame rates 35-40 but obviously thats ridiculous so i lower it to 1080p and sit on the 60FPS VSYNC limit instead. I can play older games like skyrim on max settings 1080p and sit on the 60FPS VSYNC limit continuously. Also note that both the Witcher 2 and 3 are incredibly demanding games.

Sure its not the best gaming machine but you can still game on it. I also play the Witcher 3, an extremely demanding game, with high texture quality, high grass and a few other things turned on and i get 35-45FPS with the occasional dip and sometimes it maxes out the 60FPS VSYNC limit if I'm indoors or something. I have been playing The Witcher 2 1080p with high texture quality and a few other things tuned up like bloom and even on stock speeds (with powerplay disabled) I get 40-50FPS with the occasional dip to 35FPS in really demanding scenes. I don't think the GPU is actually thermal throttling, I think its to do with AMDs power saving technology that obviously isn't working properly, probably a bug in the driver. I even overclocked by 11.1% to 888MHz on the core and from 1125-1250MHz on the VRAM and still got stable clock speeds and steady temps only 1 or 2 degrees higher than before. I did some testing and found that if you turn off AMD PowerPlay in the MSI settings it will stay at 800MHz and the temps still remain stable at about 75C. I installed MSI afterburner and set the graphs to only monitor the GPU temp, CPU temp and GPU clock speed and found that the GPU clock would drop from 800MHz to 725 or 675MHz sometimes even though the GPU temp was only about 75C. Hey buddy, I have the same laptop and I was having similar issues, although not 10FPS haha.
