Rog Gaming Center is neat with all the monitoring gadgets in one place, but its really a let down. Sad that a program that has a dedicated button on the laptop is so flawed. Previous iterations were the same. A lot of the time the recommendation was to just uninstall them or not use them. On a laptop that costs over $3k, that shouldnt be the case..
I will say I have not experienced any stuttering yet with sound. But have noticed some other issues which may play a role in the problem?
Svan, you may want to run Intel XTU, and run the benchmark. Im currently getting "Thermal Throttling" when running the benchmark on the default extreme profile which overclocks to 4.3Ghz which this laptop is supposed to be able to do without issue (its advertised as such). This is causing gaming benchmarks to be lower then expected. I have a feeling that could be the cause of your stuttering. My laptop out of the box was already on the extreme setting. If it defaults to that and throttling occurs, the throttling could cause the stuttering. Im going to look into throttlestop today and see if I can get the CPU to not throttle. With the touted beefy cooling in this laptop, it should not be throttling with stock overclock values.
I know its throttling in games/benchmarks because I score well below my friends desktop 1080, and his GPU clocks are actually lower then the 1080 in this laptop. According to all the specs, these are full fledged 1080's in these laptops and not maxq or mobile variants, so I should be scoring very close to a desktop 1080. I believe throttling on the CPU side is currently hindering that.
EDIT: Also Svan, could you possibly post a screenshot of your CPU-Z? I would like to see what speed the laptop is running at without Rog Gaming Center installed. Hopefully we can fix these issues.
(ROG has simply become too expensive compared to the competition with same specs... 😞 )
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