Got my new laptop (Asus Strix G17) and it's powerful but armoury crate sucks ass

[MYLAPTOPSUCKS]

My last laptop was an acer helios 500, and it had issues and it's equal to armoury crate ate cpu usage and wacked the temps up. But I could easily control CPU, GPU and fan speed separately with the macro keys. The manual fan setting sucked, but I could switch to auto, manual and max speed by pressing it. But this G17 nope!

The fan, cpu and gpu macros is 1 button and switches between performance profiles. Of which I cannot customise, or see the fan speeds for each. So I have no idea what each profile does exactly. Each profile also ******s with screen brightness. I don't want all this, i just want to turn up only fan speed via macro as the cooling on this thing cannot cope with the performance or turbo profiles on even older games. Right now my CPU @10-15% is idling on 69-79c in normal profile and it barely does anything to fan speed when it peaks at almost 100c during a light game. 

Then there is the stupid HDR saturation. At least I think it is HDR. Because the display setting say it doesn't support HDR but is supports HDR streaming??? What?? Orange, yellow and especially red is super saturated, turning a game character face stupidly rosey cheeked. I haven't done anything to base settings, but I cannot find the cause for this. Nor can I turn on G-sync like my desktop PC or old laptop. I had to change my standard display to be g-sync on nvidia control panel. Now it's just "enabled for fullscreen mode". What??

I want to like this laptop, I really do. The screen colours are lovely and vibrant, but things look so wrong. Helldivers 2 war map, the bot front is insanely bright neo red. And even my old gtx1070 laptop runs worse of course, but at least it is so much cooler on the same games.

[ElectroStingz]

Hello,

What CPU and GPU G17 model did you get?

The Intel 14900HX or similar performance grade CPU will always run hot not matter what you do, even with the fans MAX RPM it will be capable of 100 or above depending on the conditions. This is down to the Intel Turbo Boost, Thermal Velocity Boost and Adaptive Boost Technology, it's always trying to boost multi-cores for maximum performance and by design the Adaptative Boost Technology is working up to 100 Degrees C.

The issue with screen brightness, each profile has it's own windows profile setting, so once you set the screen brightness on all (switch to each and set) it should maintain the last setting. (The profiles are linked to Windows profiles).

As to what else the profiles are adjusting, they are all ASUS defined spec and not user adjustable, each one also increases the CPU and GPU power limits so they can boost higher. (GPU will have thermal target)

Silent = ASUS Fan curve, ASUS power limit on CPU and GPU

Performance = ASUS Fan curve, ASUS power limits for CPU and GPU

Turbo = ASUS fan curve, ASUS power limits [max] for CPU and GPU

Manual = Slightly adjustable fan curve (still has hard limits to safeguard user error), Custom power limit within ASUS spec. GPU core frequency offset, GPU memory offset.

So it's kind of hard to know the fan curve in each one apart from manual if that is what you mean by "cannot see the fan RPM"

For actually trying to reduce temperatures it's more a case of limiting the turbo boost ratio with lowering the CPU voltages.

[ThinkinBig]

I swapped from Armoury Crate and My Asus to G-Helper: https://g-helper.com/ and haven't had any complaints. Offers all the same controls and is much lighter