roll back i suppose. the new drivers were meant for the 960, not exactly 980

Uhh So how do I rollback o.O
I update through the GeForce experience thingy lol

yeah, for mobile GPU its now harder to "OC". I think for stability issues, or something they don't want laptop gamers to do, not sure what.

Thank you, may I know which version of the more stable driver that you are currently using?

actually shouldn't OC yet. wait till the time comes, because I don't want to be responsible for anything. its a "Do it at your own risk" kind of a thing. Seriously.

I've got reports that NVIDIA is clamping down on this for some reason. Even for users, some underclocked it only to find it becoming unstable.

I've already made sure the computer is running at maximum performance mode :/

I even tried using ThrottleStop, doesn't seems like the CPU is throttled too.
I tried Furmark, the GPU usage is 98-99% so doesn't looks like there is any throttling going on with the GPU. Do tell if something is wrong with the score from Furmark.

Any clues? I'm kinda disappointed if this is actually the hardware limitation which I find honestly, is a big joke. GTX 980m has issue running a 2 years old game which a 1.5k cheap desktop can run flawlessly -.-

It comes with Windows 8.1
Any modes I tried has the same weird slowdown at random intervals. Even watching games gives me the same issue.
Playing any other games gives me the same issue, yes. I tried L4D2, Ace Combat Assault Horizon, Crysis 2, Resident Evil 4 HD, Resident Evil 5, and some of these games are generations old even old fart 285GTX can run them smoothly without problem :/

Btw, I also tried running the games at lowest setting, same thing.
All games are running at 1920x1080 only. No 4k.

I did not overclock both GPU and CPU.

By the way, I noticed that the GPU usage does not go beyond 50% when I play Dota 2, and the temperature does not go beyond 62 centigrade. What the F? It's like the GPU isn't really working like it should lol

If your Z5 with 860m can run Dota 2 smoothly out of the box, then something is very very very wrong with my S5 with 980m :/
Perhaps I should send it back to Illegear and have them to look at it. Sigh. What a luck.

True that, but then where does the random slowdown comes from lol
And yeah I could benchmark with the Furmark without problem, seriously I'm lost -.-

With Optimus, you're stuck with it, and no way to disable it in the laptop.

Which is why I got my Aorus X7 Pro, which ran off dedicated 970M SLI, and the onboard Intel GPU deactivated permanently. Optimus creates more problems than solution when you're treating your laptop as a purely gaming laptop connected to power plug all the time. Optimus only is useful when your gaming laptop is intended to double as a work laptop to extend battery life via switching to Intel GPU.

Extra benefit? Only non-Optimus laptops are expected to be able to take advantage of the upcoming mobile G-Sync feature, enabled once the drivers for mobile G-Sync is ready.

Maybe you can but having to do that or switching in and out of BIOS to do that, isnt what I call convenient. To each his own, I prefer no Optimus than having one at all. Optimus creates more problems for gaming on a gaming laptop than the sole convenience of prolonged battery life. For productivity laptops, you will need Optimus to enable you to work on your laptop longer.

You can't and it will lead to problems.

Who are you reassuring, yourself or other people? 

The thing is, if you're lugging around laptops with high end discrete graphics, you're not be using it other than playing games or doing graphics-intensive activities that REQUIRES plugging in your power plug. And yes, I do expect a gamer to 100% game on his GAMING grade laptop, because that's the reason they bought a GAMING grade laptop. I do. If I bought an expensive GAMING grade laptop and use that to do spreadsheets or web surfing, I'd consider that a gross misuse and money poorly spent, I could've gotten a cheaper, longer lasting Ultrabooks than a GAMING grade laptop.

I think my S5 may have a bad ram. I'm getting BSOD that says "Memory Management Error" very frequently since this morning. Ran the windows memory diagnostic and it says problem were detected. Guess I'll have to pay Illegear a visit very soon after all ><

Tried using memtest86, I've got 91k errors lol

EDIT:
I swapped out the Samsung 4gb ram, left 8gb (Team elite ram 4gbx2) in the system with dual channel, now testing and see if the laptop is stable. If it is then I guess this Samsung ram is faulty.

Hey PrinceJ,

I bought a laptop during the CNY promotion but your free bags were out of stock. Has it been restocked yet?

Also, as the battery is non-removable (S15), any tips on maintaining battery life so it doesnt lose charge over time?

thanks

hi my name is Adil. i am one of the Illegear staffs.  if you have any future inquiries on our products, please don't hesitate to ask or email me at Adil@illegear.com.

Thank you.

which models of Illegear laptop that have its gpu upgradeable ?

Apologize

Lost you at IIRC ? What's IIRC ?

Hi, has anyone ran Firestrike scores for GTX980M?

i'm getting 8K scores, but average reviews put it at 9K, so I'm just trying to figure out what happened to 500-700 scores missing?
Any help?

Or its just my CPU (17-4710MQ) that's holding up the scores?
Or the RAM?

default. Its the test version. You can't change settings on demo version.
second run got 9k for gpu, 9k for cpu, 3k for combined, total at 8K (the orange one)

I remember seeing an Illegear with GTX980M going on 9K score (the orange, total score)

Is it as smooth as those on macs? And how's your battery life?

78C Max in One hour 1080P Furmark test.

IC Diamond + GTX 960M + I7-4710MQ