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Oh well, I guess I will have to take my 1700X out, its been two years since I put it in, its about time to change the thermal compound..

Hey guys, so I just bought ASUS A320M-K and paired it with Ryzen 3 3200G for one of the offices here at work and surprise surprise, no video signal output, both from VGA and HDMI, so I went home, took out my 1070Ti, plugged it in, and again nothing, no beeps, nothing, the fans spin, but the monitor doesnt even turn on, the beeper doesnt beep, on the box it says Ryzen 2000 ready, nothing for 3000, but the CPU is on the list of supported CPUs. Thoughts?

So I have a HP Probook 450 G6 with i5-8265u and I am using the Intel XTreme tuning utility to increase the allowed power to 20W from 15W, and it works..... for about 20 seconds and then it goes back down to 12-15W limit. Any idea why that is happening? Temps stay at or bellow 70C at full load when it is at 20W so I dont think temps aer the issue.

Well it has 5 years of warranty, so I will definitely try to do that and go for sandisk or transcend

I just tried with actual files to see how it would perform, I am copying Cinebench to it which has over 2000 files, small ones, it even stops transferring from time to time and goes down to 0 bytes/s http://prntscr.com/p8lapn

500 MiB, same story 0.006 MB/s 50 MiB it went up to 1.537 MB/s But the transcend had the ~1MB/s without changing the test size Does that mean that the drive is ok? And does that mean that the Transcend one performs better?

I just tried doing the 4k test without doing the Seq test first, same results, I immediately took out the drive to see if it feels warm, but it has a silicon wrap around it so its hard to get its actual temperature, but the usb head that I plug into the PC did seem a bit hot, but not excessively warm, it felt warm to the touch, but nicely warm, so i would say that it was maybe around 35-40 degrees, at that point of the drive

I am not that concerned about the Seq speeds, I am concerned about the 4k write speeds

So I just acquired a Corsair Voyager GT 32GB and I did a CrystalDiskMark run, on two different computers, in different usb ports (usb 3 of course), and the write speeds are terrible, read speed also doesnt reach the advertised one. Here is the benchmark: http://prntscr.com/p8jt25 What concerns me is the 4k speeds, 0.004 mb/s ?! Is that a glitch between crystal disk mark and that particular flash drive, how can I test if this is really the case? I tested with a Transcend JetFlash 32GB and it has about 1 mb/s on 4k write speeds

Well I left it to sit for 15-20 minutes and fully charge the battery, and now it runs at 3ghz again when loaded with cinebench Edit: So my theory is that what maybe happened when I loaded it with cinebench, furmark and crystal disk mark is that it exceeded the 65W supplied by the AC adapter (cpu was set to 30W, gpu is also 30W and 970 evo plus is 10W), so maybe it sucked a bit of additional power from the battery?! but then that reduced its capacity bellow 100% and then it tried to charge it, that needed additional power, so it throttled everything else while trying to do that. Just a theory.

Could it be because my battery is not 100% charged yet and some of the power goes to charge the battery and thats why it limits itself regardless of what I do? It does turbo to its boost clock frequency on bursts, but on Cinebench after that it drops to ~2ghz

Duh, I was concerned there for a bit that I damaged the charger. Anyway, it still doesnt want to go to higher TDP, I dialed it back to 20W, but it still sticks to 12-13W

The battery is not charging at all now I tried system restore to earlier, before installing the tuning tool, but no change, its still not charging. Edit: I used it on battery until it dropped bellow 90% I thought that it may not want to charge it if its almost charged because it was sitting at 98%, so I plugged it back in at 88% and now it is charging and showing time left until fully charged.

With the SSD, probably yes, but now I am running Cinebench alone again or Furmark alone and the issue persists, it boosts to 30W and then goes down to 12-13W, its like it entered some kind of a safety mode

I decided to load both the CPU and GPU at the same time and see how the thermals behave, both reached about 80-85% during the tests, cinebench + furmark. Then I decided to throw in the SSD in the test too and everything throttled down, the cpu went down to 2ghz, the gpu went down to 875 mhz, I did a restart and both of them are still downclocking like this, I reapplied the settings in the Tuning tool, no difference, its set to 25W but it locks to 12-13W during the test. Also my battery is now stuck at 98% and doesnt show XX minutes until fully charged