Blacklotus84

Found the solution! Updated the BIOS and now it acts like normal. Tried a few settings you suggested too. Now it acts in the manner suggested by the spec sheet woo!

Don't forget the latest Chipset drivers from AMD too.

Found the solution! Updated the BIOS and now it acts like normal. Tried a few settings you suggested too. Now it acts in the manner suggested by the spec sheet woo!

Not much you can do besides setting a negative curve in Curve Optimizer in PBO settings. 
You can go as low as (negative) 30 offset. 
The lower, the less heat... At the cost of stability, so test if its stable or your games and applications may crash. 
 
Make sure to enable DOCP for your DRAM. 
 
If you're not using any sort of virtualization you can disable TSME (memory encryption) for some little extra performance. 

The X3D chips are not designed to be overclocked due to the 3D VCACHE.  No amount of cooling will compensate for the fact its sat on top of the CPU die so gets all that heat before it reaches the cooler.

Ah ok, I misunderstood. That makes sense.

What I meant was if you used an FPGA to build a generic purpose GPU it would use more power, because it would need the same flexibility (e.g. programmable shaders). If you programmed an FPGA to accelerate one particular game it should be more power efficient, but then it wouldn't work for anything else.

FPGAs can do both, much... much more efficiently than a general purpose CPU or GPU. The thing is, you need to either find someone who has programmed a specific FPGA to do the task you want AND purchase/use the same FPGA that they did or you need to program it yourself.
 
FPGAs are vastly more power efficient than GPUs for a given task. There's a reason why they're so wildly popular in the mining world and people bend over backwards to protect the configuration and sell it for exorbitant amounts of money.

In a sense it is. Let's say you have a use case where
 
- the CPU is too slow to handle it
- the GPU is unsuitable (i.e. your code has lots of branches and is not massively parallel)
- designing a custom hardware accelerator is cost prohibitive
 
Then you could buy such a card, program its FPGA for your use case then adapt your software to use it as an accelerator. You could probably also use it to design/validate a hardware accelerator before going into mass production of the actual IC.

It has a field-programmable gate array (FPGA). As such I would assume it accelerates whatever you program it to accelerate. Naturally whatever software you're using that you want to accelerate would then have to be adapted to run that function on the card rather than using the CPU.

Vortex - Intel Agilex FPGA PCIe Accelerator
https://coloradoengineering.com/products/vortex-intel-agilex-fpga-pcie-accelerator/

the Turbo boost is turned on while under a larger load than the os and a few applications are running. meaning that while gaming or transcoding etc. it will clock at 4.3 ghz. I wouldn't bother to overclock this cpu. no need to go into bios and switch things around!

Sounds like a problem my machine had a few years ago; it's possible that the thermal paste has melted and re-solidified which renders it less effective (sometimes even useless as it was in my case). Depending on how old the laptop is might pay to get a new one
 
If it's quite recent then re-applying decent thermal paste could do the trick

You talking about ram had me looking around and i found this,
 your right looks like i could get away with simply buying better/faster ram for now without having to do a practically full system upgrade
 
The fps drops in the video are in the same places as i get them in witcher 3 with my old Corsair XMS3 DDR3 1600 C11 4x8GB stuff that's only 1600mhz due to the xmp profile.

I suspect the PSU, maybe check temps and logs before buying a new mobo.

Thanks for that! I usually don't ask others until after a few months of looking. This took me about a half a year! I was going to get a regular mid tower and call it a day, but that would really make it look half empty wouldn't it? Thanks for that, that's the chassis I'll be getting!

well, i really like the meshify mini C from fractal. it's basically just a shrunk down versionof the ATX Meshify C. 

I've seen on MSI forums that "less than 25% free space will shorten the life of SSD device", coming from what looks like MSI-written software.
 
Tbh, it's the first time I ever see something like that. I... didn't know, very surprised.
 
Take it with a grain of salt.