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Ariane Delbrune

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Aug 5, 2024, 9:29:12 AM8/5/24

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Iplayed the game on a new lenovo legion laptop 4080.

I played for 30 minutes. all seems fine with no lag and too much fan noise.

Temp felt good.

I looked at HWMONITOR and the watt looks fine,

But for some reason it shows max value 538W !!!

How is it possible ?

I closed the game for the sake of not killing my laptop.

is it hwmonitor glitch or can be real ?

I am really afraid to play the game.

Thanks !

Is 538W for the GPU only? or the whole system?

Im not running a laptop and never have so im a bit clueless.

Is a 4080 in a laptop the same speccs as a normal 4080? I have a 4080 and playing on 4k it maxes out my 320W GPU limit.

HWMonitor is not accurate. Use HWiNFO and be sure you are looking at the correct sensors. This sounds like the wattage of the entire system or at least GPU and CPU combined, which is well within normal values. I would be more afraid of core and uncore voltages on the CPU and memory.

As for your driver question, I have the best experience with official studio drivers and not game ready drivers. GRD are sometimes more useful when Nvidia releases a quick hotfix for a specific game to address poor performance, but they are not tested for stability as much as studio drivers.