champion0369

A friend I play games with is having issues with their wife's computer. I believe its a cyber power pc. It has an AsRock mobo, Intel 8700, 16g of ram, NVidia 1060. Basically the computer is running extremely slow. He took it to geek squad and replaced his SSD before I got involved. When I say running extremely slow I mean that opening anything, downloading and installing anything is very slow. Games running at maybe 10 fps. He said a lot of this started just shortly after loading a new GPU driver (but not immediately after) so we used DDU and put on a fresh driver... No luck. He had already had a fresh windows install when he got the new SSD so it seemed unlikely to be a software issue. Before I got involved he had swapped memory with this other computer with no difference. So a memory problem seemed unlikely. With a new SSD in his M.2 slot I figured it would be unlikely that it was a SSD problem. We ran 3d mark which loads the program in ram and should not have been bottlenecked by a bad SSD and it gave him a score of 1100 on the CPU and 2800 on the GPU. GPU average for 1060 6gb is like 4400 and CPU average for a 8700 is like 8000 or so. I would have also ran a crystal mark to confirm but it was seeming to be a CPU issue. We loaded up HW monitor and put a load on his CPU with powermax and we saw some interesting results. His CPU was showing 100% utilization on all cores but would boost to 4.6 ghz on two or three cores keeping the other 9 or so cores at 800 mhz. His package wattage never broke above 31 watts and temps were all in the 40's. The CPU is rated for 65 watts and I expected to see everything at 3.2 ghz. I've never seen this but from what I could gather from a bit of research is that it seems like his VRM's may be crapping out though admittedly I've never seen this exact issue. This morning I woke up thinking about this and was thinking that we should have seen if there was a bios update for him and the perhaps the bios had updated when he updated his GPU driver and caused the problems. His current plan is to buy a ryzen 7 with new mobo and just replace those two components. I guess my question is... has anyone seen this sort of issue before? If not, do you agree with my probable diagnosis? Anything else you would try besides a BIOS update before buying a new cpu/mobo? Thanks! Champ

I never received a reply here so I thought I might bump it to see if anyone had ideas. Thanks in advance for help!

I have both a galaxy S 8 and a Dell Precision 7710 with usb-c / thunderbolt 3. I also own a thunderbolt 3 docking station (though the laptop can in theory pull work loads that would stop charging and in fact start draining the battery in general this isn't the case). What I am looking for is a car charger that will charge both my laptop and phone. Moving forward I would like to look into a usb c power bank that I can use with both my laptop and phone. So I realize that usb-c power delivery specs provide for 20v @ 5 amps or 100 watts of power delivery. I have yet to find a single usb-c car charger that has that rating. (Just for reference most car chargers are fused at 10 or 15 amps so 120 or 180 watts of max power so in theory it should be able to saturate a usb-c port even with dc-dc power conversion losses. The only one I have tried is this... https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07BTC644S/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 however, it does not charge the laptop. Does anyone know of a car charger that is usb-c that will charge a Dell Latitude 7710 via the usb-c port (and will also charge a galaxy s 8. Thanks in advance for help.