Recent content by purplezorz

Just for reference, whilst the load and power draw increased - the PL settings didn't appear to have changed, so I guess GPU-Z just grabs static values. I'm just going to stick with the workarounds for now as they're pretty solid.

Many reasons, though they're mostly excuses. First line in this post. There are a few other factors though. I didn't immediately use the PC from day one, I was planning my migration from Win7 as well as looking at how to use Win11 in advance. When I did eventually migrate a few months later, the...

This is interesting (although it's a different laptop) - https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/forums/threads/steam-apps-only-run-smoothly-while-connected-to-docking-station-otherwise-i-get-no-more-than-3-fps.100254/post-765894 My issue is somewhat the opposite to theirs, however it's very...

Hmm, never touched the internal components with paste - probably performed a couple of compressed air + hoover maintenances over the year and a bit I've used it. However, as this issue was occurring from the beginning, not an issue revolving around heat - and the symptoms happen at boot and the...

I've been putting this post off for almost two years, because I really wanted to avoid sending my laptop back and being laptop-less for a week or so and the issue has...workarounds. Also, the lack of threads about this probably means this is an edge case and probably won't help others, but...