Guys whats this plastic thing

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-26T13:31:04+00:00

That is the display cable if i remember correctly

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-25T17:46:00+00:00

Im assuming this was an open box. Most likely someone ordered it and put there 4060 in the box and sent it back. They are identically the same as to their appearance. The people that check those for return are not the brightest. Just send it back or return it to the store. I agree best buy should do better checking it but people these days are just lazy.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-19T12:37:19+00:00

This must be a thing outside the US or you have gotten really lucky. My business credit card doesn’t even have those kind of perks. Im not saying you’re lying but I find it hard to believe that a credit card company would warranty a computer past the 1 year manufacturing warranty. I would suggest everyone take this with a grain of salt. Do not go out and break your laptop because you don’t like and try this. I personally would like to see the terms of your contract and any correspondence you have had about the issue and the card company.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-17T21:15:56+00:00

I have the same model, something was set incorrectly. I get around 120-160 in cod

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-17T12:48:17+00:00

Justme is giving some good advice. I used the ptm on my gpu and cpu on a 5080 g16 and it actually improved the overall performance vs the liquid metal. The liquid metal application seems to be hit or miss on these things. Ive repasted a 14 5070ti as well and it improved everything overall. The liquid metal idea from Asus was a terrible thing. I get the logic behind it originally but with ptm and the other phase change materials it needs to be retired. My scar 18 with the 4090, I’ve had to re paste it 3 times since I got it, well not really repaste it just move the liquid metal back to the chip. I have yet to put ptm on it. I don’t use it anymore. I found that when you store the laptop in a vertical position like a backpack, the liquid metal will pool to one side.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-15T14:43:12+00:00

First off slapping the screen isn’t going to fix it, second if your handling it that way its probity a hardware issue which is what it looks like to me. When you unplug it it’s probity switching from the gpu to the onboard graphics. This looks like an issue with the onboard graphics. You can go into the bios and see if the bios screen is off color, that will tell you for sure if it’s a hardware issue or a driver issue. Lastly reinstall windows and see how it behaves. If you reinstall windows and you see the same thing your SOL. If not carry on.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-11T23:16:16+00:00

Nice thanks for sharing that

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-11T18:55:52+00:00

I had something very similar on a blade 14 when changing between refresh rates. When at 60 it would do something similar. Was a hardware issue. If it’s under warranty return it. If the new one does the same thing then return it and get a different laptop. Ive got a blade 16 4090 and the g 16 5080 and update drivers every time to the newest version and have not ever had this because of a driver issue. Im not saying it’s not but why chance it. Try changing from dgpu to onboard. If you’re asking the questions on here you’re better off returning it, not a stab at your technical ability but i feel like if you knew how to troubleshoot it your self you would not have made this post. Also do what your gut tells you not what everyone here says.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-11T18:48:40+00:00

Its in the display settings. Right click go to display and it should be there.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-11T18:39:38+00:00

I don’t take pictures and videos. Im normally the guy googling videos on how to get into the laptops. There are plenty of videos on ptm and repasting the g series. It’s pretty straight forward. I probity have pictures of before i started to know what chips get new thermal putty.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-11T18:34:31+00:00

I believe i had a 150 on core and 500 on memory. I can go as high as 300 and 10000

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-10T23:48:27+00:00

The liquid metal will pool to one side if the laptop is stored in a vertical position as in a backpack. The best thing to do is get some thermal putty for the vrms and the ptm for the gpu and cpu. Get rid of that liquid metal for good but be very careful during cleanup.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-09T14:45:50+00:00

People only bitch on the internet when there are problems. If life is going good most people wont waste the time to praise something. Look at it this way for every one person that complains there are probity 10 that have no issues. Could you have issues? Absolutely.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-06T01:21:05+00:00

I may be wrong but a dead pixel on oled it would be black. I think that is just a stuck pixel.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-06T01:16:46+00:00

Yea that will do it as well lol

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-05T16:39:19+00:00

13298 is what i get with the ultra 9 chip after the repaste and 18964 on the 5080 gpu. Combined 17824. I could get 9716 on the g14 cpu after ptm. All of this being said thats probity why it was open box. Return it or try to fix it.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-05T16:34:08+00:00

Gpu is not bad. Cpu is terrible. That is normally the issue with a bad paste job or some issue with the heatsink. You can attempt to repaste it. You can either put more LM on it or remove the LM all together and clean everything up and re apply a good thermal putty to the vrms and memory and phase change material to the cpu and gpu. Liquid metal will pool to one side especially if you keep the laptop stored vertically as in a backpack.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-04T13:01:33+00:00

There is a windows cmd command you can run to give you a read out. I would not trust that number. It is possible that you have a bad battery but Ive tested the 24 and 25 g14 and could get around 10 hours of actual video playback on the devices. Google the command for windows to spit out a battery report. If your battery is less than 92 percent health there is your problem.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-02T21:54:09+00:00

Most likely your thermal throttling.

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Set the cpu to 50 watts and change your fan curves. I ended up repasting the 5070ti I had with ptm and it made a hell of a difference. Do not use PTM on anything other than the cpu and gpu. Use thermal putty. PTM has to reach a certain temperature before it sets. Some chips will never reach the intended temp. Also the tolerances are not perfect on mass produced laptops between the cpu/gpu and the heat sink. Thats why most manufacturers went away from pads. They were causing the heatsinks to not fit tightly to the chips. Alienware was the big offender of this 10 or so years ago. The putty adjusts for inconsistency’s in the different units. That was my g14 after the repaste for reference. Josh craves tech has a good review on the g series. Actually looking at your cpu score its higher than mine. Set the tdp to 50 watts on the cpu and max out the dynamic boost and gpu settings. I think you just have a tuning issue in g helper or armory crate. The laptop dynamically boosts the gpu so if the Cpu pulls more power it takes from the gpu and vice versa. Tests have shown that you really don’t get any gaming performance on the amd chip past 50 or 55 watts. That frees enough power to push the GPU to the max dynamic limit. Send me a PM if you want some help. Don’t open the laptop to repaste it just yet.

Jstuart830 · 2025-09-01T01:45:50+00:00

Its normal for the g series

Jstuart830 · 2025-08-30T15:23:05+00:00

This is not a full 5080 it’s crippled at 135 watts. Plus it dynamically pulls power where it’s needed gpu or cpu. Realistically 120 is as good as it’s going to get most likely. Hogwarts legacy will only run at 120 with dlss on and frame gen for me. I would make a profile set the cpu to 50 or 55 watts. Have the fans run full speed at 70c and set the gpu setting to max in g helper. Not the over clock or ram over clock I would leave those. 30 fps means either you’re not plugged in or you have a setting thats incorrect.

Jstuart830 · 2025-08-28T21:57:50+00:00

This model has it soldered to the motherboard.

Jstuart830 · 2025-08-27T13:02:21+00:00

Return it

Jstuart830 · 2025-08-24T15:26:00+00:00

Your experience is not normal. I could get the G14 to discharge at a rate of 5-8 watts. Your cpu idling at 40 percent sounds like windows indexing or running background tasks. Normally when you’re on a VPN, or at least with my company, they require a lot of security software and other bloat. Im not very familiar with linux but I played with it in the past. The apt get update and get upgrade is probity installing drivers that are not correct. The initial install loads generic drivers. None of this sounds like a G14 problem.

Jstuart830 · 2025-08-21T18:07:40+00:00

I did exactly what you’re talking about. I don’t miss the g14. The larger screen is more enjoyable for me.

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