Can anyone help me figure out why I have sudden onset performance issues when gaming?

I have an MSI GF63 Thin, i5-11400H, Nvidia geforce RTX 3050, secondhand—but the guy who got it originally (i assume in 2023) rarely ever used it, and only for remote work meetings. I’ve had it since June this year, and it’s been fine with games, even smoothly running red dead in ultra settings.

Recently, i’ve been experiencing an issue where games cause the entire laptop to freeze up and suffer, even on the lowest settings. My laptop storage is fine with over 200GB free, i even moved red dead to an external hard drive to make sure i had plenty of space left on it to increase performance. But even games like fortnite lag every 2 seconds, constantly dropping to literally 2FPS and freezing up.

So far I have tried:
- going to a place with better wifi (my bad wifi causes enough problems if its own)
- updating to windows 11
- updating my drivers
- changing settings so the laptop can’t limit performance
- reducing all game settings to the minimum/best for performance
- checked my CPU/GPU temps— which are at 71°C, and i even have a cooling pad for it
- scanned for viruses

None of these things have fixed the issue. Is there anything else I can try, or could it potentially be a hardware issue? I feel like I’ve tried everything, and I have no idea why this is suddenly happening to my laptop. I’m careful with it, so I don’t feel like I could have physically damaged something.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I tried to include as much information as I could think of but if any more context would help diagnose the issue I’d be happy to provide

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MSI Raider GE75 BIOS password bypass? Help!

I have to reset the BIOS settings/bypass the bios passwords that were put on this device by a disgruntled ..person. MSI Raider Ge75, I can give some proof of ownership if necessary. Considering going through MSI but it's likely expensive + shipping, end of life product, out of warranty. But unless I'm missing something it is possible to reflash and do a fresh install with new SSD without a motherboard swap, bricking the rig, or paying MSI and shipping it to California for their service to do a reset.

Because I plan to upgrade the DDR4 to 32 gb (possibly 64 but prices are insane) plus new SATA SSD, take out old HDD, and/or add a drive in the empty NVMe slot, im looking at $500 or so in just upgrades alone, so if bypassing BIOS pw is also expensive..it starts to not make sense economically vs just buying a more modern rig. Desperate for some help on this tbh, and thinking local shops might be cheaper, but riskier? my daughter will be born in a matter of days or weeks and I'll probably be broke and busy and exhausted and if I don't get this done soon, Idk if I ever will!

I did try pulling CMOS battery, which didnt work. I didn’t try to jump or short anything, felt out of my depth at that point and it’s been gathering dust until I realized it’s my only device that has a working gpu…soldered to the board.

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HELP ME PLEASE!!!
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Thermal paste for MSI thin gf63 12ve-292it

Hi, I need some advice on which thermal paste to buy for my PC. From Amazon, if possible, because I'll be ordering it from there. Mine is a MSI thin gf63 12ve-292it. My PC has been overheating and shutting down for a while now, making an unignorable fan noise. Besides that, can you tell me approximately how often it needs to be replaced? I use it practically every day for gaming. I bought it two years ago. I'm leaving some specifications below that I think might help, thanks :)


CPU/Processor
i7-12650H

Graphics
NVIDIA® GeForce RTX™ 4050, 6GB GDDR6

STORAGE CAPABILITY
512GB1 NVMe SSD PCIe Gen4

Memory
DDR IV 8GB2 (3200MHz)

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GPU Clock Lock

MSI GE76 Raider.

GPU is registering abnormally high power usage. This is causing the core clock to be locked at 210mhz. I can overclock it to around 700mhz, about half the 3080 should be.

Reinstalled drivers/bios. Took it to a repair shop, they said everything is testing normal so the GPU is failing and needs a new motherboard. Anyone know how to fix this? Purchased in 2021.

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RIP
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Msi temperature wile in idle😎
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Is this normal?
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Home screen turning black?
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Is this missing a screw ???
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What thermal paste do you use?

Curious to know what thermal paste /putty you use, and which you would recommend.

I'm new to this stuff and so confused on what to use. I own an MSI GE66 raider and it has so many thermal issues. Changed its thermal paste a while back and it's somehow already dried out (it hasn't been 5 months even). As of now my laptop heats up so bad, CPU heating to the shut off point and GPU resting at 70° (when gaming ie gta 5).I tweaked some throttlestop settings and it failed, which made me understand it's thermal paste, and since I bought one a while back (and it's clearly ineffective, I want to know what y'all use.

Thanks


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Rear plastic cover from MSI Titan Dragon Norse
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Best gaming applications

I'm trying to figure out what every body uses while they game to monitor their system or optimize their laptop or kill all unnecessary processes etc.

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Fans not going silent after Windows update KB5072033

I updated Windows 11 24H2 for my GF63 Thin 11UC yesterday after putting off updates for a while, and I'm offput by how the fans aren't behaving like they used to. They would initially ramp up under light loads, like browsing, watching videos, switching windows, or idling, and Silent mode spins at \~2200rpm, unlike how it used to, let alone the fact the automatic fan speed doesn't wind down to complete silence anymore.

I've installed the 2.0.48.0 version of MSI Centre and adjusted the Minimum/Maximum Processor States to fix the fan ramp up issues, but the fact the fans don't wind down to complete silence when doing light tasks is bothersome and I'm looking for a solution.

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Putting a 2tb SSD in the empty slot of my Bravo 15. MSI support sent me the bracket for free.
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Will they try to void my warranty?

Hi, my laptop is missing a back panel screw and a rubber pad, and I want to repair some problems it has under the waranty cover: dead pixel, strange yellowish light on the edge of the screen and some squeaky coming sound like some fan that's being obstructed. I haven't tried to repair it once or do something that might void my warranty but I have seen that I'm missing a back panel screw and a rubber pad, is this a valid reason to void my waranty? I carry my laptop everyday hence the missing screw and rubber pad.

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Memory ratio
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Best laptop for gaming

Hey yall, I currently have a MSI GE76 Raider that has an issue with its board needing a new power pin (or something like that). The shop I go to hasn't been able to find a replacement part and its a thousand usd to replace the whole board. I've had the laptop for a bit so was thinking of just upgrading.

I pretty much only use my laptop for gaming and would install windows 10 once i get it (hate u 11). I've seen online that the titan series is supposed to be good. Does anyone have experience or reccomendations for a msi laptop they like. Budget is flexible but was hoping with lots of storage I could get a beast within $4,000.

Cheers

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Question about cool down time.

I have an MSI gf65 thin i5 10eu I repasted for the first time in my life with mx 6 last night. Anyway idel temps seem very much improved (31-35c) and the graphics aren't switching anymore. But it'll go from 65-70c while gaming then when I'm done it'll die down to high 40s then it takes literally forever to go back to low 30s. I'm afraid I didn't use enough paste because I was scared to use to much. Is it normal to take forever to drop from high 40s to low 30s after a session? I've never had a laptop only desktops so I'm new to all this.

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MSI Thin 15 problems

(sorry if this is disorganized, I'm trying to get this working as soon as possible)

Just got an MSI Thin 15 from costco for just over $1k. I should've done more research, but it was the only gaming laptop there within my budget and my parents wouldn't have gotten me anything more expensive.

I'm shocked how bad the performance is. It has an RTX 4050, 16 GB RAM, 1TB SSD, and an Intel core 5 210H. My older MSI laptop had a core i5 1235u, and it ran games smoother than the Thin 15. When I'm playing graphically intense games, the framerate is very inconsistent(goes from 100+ fps to 40-13). Even when I'm playing The Strongest Battlegrounds on roblox, probably the easiest game to run, it still lags and the framerate drops. It freezes sometimes too, and some apps crash at random times.

I've tried a lot of stuff, but I eventually gave up and asked AI. It said that my CPU did better with single thread stuff and the games I play are meant to be multi threaded stuff. But what doesn't make sense to me is that, my old laptop's CPU is worse than my current laptop's CPU, so how are my frames so inconsistent? I figured it would run better than the other laptop I had right before getting my Thin 15, an Acer Aspire 15(Ryzen 5 7000 CPU, 32 GB RAM), which got over 100+ fps on games like fortnite on low graphics, while being consistent about it.

I'm 99% sure that I won't be able to return it and get a new one, since I just got this one a week ago after getting rid of the Aspire 15. What do I do about this? From what I'm understanding about all this, the performance for this laptop as a whole shouldn't be this bad, so why is it? What can I do to make it better?

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Problem with TPM

buenas tengo una laptop Msi gl65 9SD y no puedo activar el tpm, quiero jugar al warzone pero me pide tpm 2.0 alguna persona with the same problem ?

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