Performance and Temperature Issues with the MSI TITAN GT77HX VI: Looking for Insights and Solutions

[alshinj156502d6]

Hello, I bought an MSI laptop a year ago (2024), specifically the TITAN GT77HX VI model with an RTX 4090 GPU, an i9-13980HX CPU, and 128GB of RAM. To my surprise, when I play Star Citizen 4.1 – the game I spend the most time on – the CPU temperature reaches 96°C and the GPU temperature hits 92-94°C. The issue is that I'm getting a frame rate of around 40-50 FPS, which worried me a bit at first, but I let it slide.


This year, I’ve been playing with some friends who also own MSI laptops from 2025, but they have Raider versions. They told me that their temperatures are around 70-75°C and they get about 75-80 FPS in the same spot and with the same settings, while I’m experiencing a significant drop in performance as I mentioned earlier.


Can anyone with the same model share their FPS and temperature data? I’d really appreciate any help or advice. Has anyone else experienced this issue?


Thanks in advance.

 

[electrostingz]

Hello,

How hot is your CPU when it is not running any boost clocks?

In Windows 11 use the registry and find this path

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power\PowerSettings\54533251-82be-4824-96c1-47b60b740d00\be337238-0d82-4146-a960-4f3749d470c7

Set the Attributes value to 2

Now go to your power plan settings, make sure you stay in the one you use when gaming and you will see a new field, here set the processor performance boost mode to disabled.

So this will set the CPU cores to base clocks speeds, the P-cores will run at 2.1/2.2GHz and the E-cores 1.6GHz (should be idle during gaming).
You are doing this to see how hot the CPU runs without any boosting to get an idea of the temperatures and if the cooling is actually working well. For instance under this condition one would expect your CPU to be somewhere in the region of 65-75 Degrees C when under a high load.

I use hardware monitor and CPUZ to verify the above, and there is a simple stress test in CPUZ you can try.

If the CPU is running 95+ under these conditions it's overheating and you need to get the cooling serviced / cleaned and new thermal paste, try gaming like this too but performance will be impacted due to lower CPU speeds, unless it was overheating badly before.

 

[drek4]

Hello, I bought an MSI laptop a year ago (2024), specifically the TITAN GT77HX VI model with an RTX 4090 GPU, an i9-13980HX CPU, and 128GB of RAM. To my surprise, when I play Star Citizen 4.1 – the game I spend the most time on – the CPU temperature reaches 96°C and the GPU temperature hits 92-94°C. The issue is that I'm getting a frame rate of around 40-50 FPS, which worried me a bit at first, but I let it slide.


This year, I’ve been playing with some friends who also own MSI laptops from 2025, but they have Raider versions. They told me that their temperatures are around 70-75°C and they get about 75-80 FPS in the same spot and with the same settings, while I’m experiencing a significant drop in performance as I mentioned earlier.


Can anyone with the same model share their FPS and temperature data? I’d really appreciate any help or advice. Has anyone else experienced this issue?


Thanks in advance.

Sent you a PM for your i9 13980HX!