Congrats bro on the new rig! Greetings to gamers world. I can’t say I have that brand new laptop smell but I am absolutely familiar with that feeling of having to ensure that everything is just right before the time to make a return has lapsed. It is never good to have a lemon after spewing a lot of money on a gaming machine.
Here are just a few and easy steps of an audit to ensure that your laptop status is 100 percent healthy:
1. The Visual and the Screen Examination (First 5 Minutes).
Check the physical things before downloading anything.
- The Dead Pixel Test: This is done by visiting awe site such as CheckPixels.com. It will be switching between solid colors. Take care to see little dots which remain black or some strange color.
- The Backlight Bleed: Turn off the lights in your room, switch on a fully black background and switch the brightness level to the maximum. When you notice the enormous "clouds" of white light oozing in the corners then it is alarming.
2. Check the Battery "Odometer"
You are concerned about the battery being really a new one and not an old one that has been lying around months.
- The Tool: No download needed! All you have to do is to type cmd in your windows search box, and right-click it, and Run as Administrator.
- The Command: Typing the powercfg /batteryreport and press Enter button.
- How to find it: Hit theGenerated file it creates (it will not only provide you with a path of a file confirmed as generated). Check the Cycle Count. In the case of a new laptop, it must be not more than 0 to 5. In case of 50 and above then somebody made this in advance!
3. Scan the SSD Health
This will inform you whether or not your storage drive is healthy and whether or not it is overworked.
- The Tool: Crystaldiskinfo download (it is free and better than the gold standard).
- What to look for: Check the status of health. It should say 100% Good. Also, the check "Total Host Reads" and Total Host Writes, on a new machine these numbers should be very low.
4. Optimize the "Guts" (Thermals & Performance) Stress Test.
It is a gaming rig, so you need to check its ability to heat up.
- The Software:Get HWiNFO64 (to monitor temperatures) and Cinebench R23 (to stress out CPU).
- The Process: Open HWiNFO is booted and you can now take a glance at the temperature of your CPU/GPU. Thereafter, execute Cinebench Multi-Core test.
- What to inspect: When your computer CPU temperature immediately goes up to 100 deg C and the machine shuts off, it may have a problem with thermal pastework. In the case of a gaming laptop, reaching 85 deg C to 95 deg C when doing a heavy test is expected but it should not throttle (slow down) instantly.
5. The Real World Test or Gaming Benchmark.
- The Test: 3DMark (The undisputed one is the "Time Spy" test). There is a free demo on Steam.
- The Objective: Experiment with the test and compare your score with other individuals with the same type of laptop. Trying to get a much lower score (by 20% or more) means you have a problem with your power settings or your graphic card.
6. The "Whine" and "Click" Test
Finally, just listen to it.
- Coil Whine: Some high priced GPUs will sometimes create a high pitch buzzing noise when used. A small amount is a normality; a high-pitched screeching is enough to change it.
- The Fans: Be sure that the fans do not resemble as hitting on a wire or clicking. They are simply to sound like beating wind.
Pro Tip: All this and all connected to the wall! The gaming laptops reduce their power to half when being used on battery which will produce bad results as it is not true.
If it passes these 6 steps, you’ve got a winner. Enjoy the games!
