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My 2 month old G14 has had appalling battery life recently and I can't seem to diagnose the problem on my own. As recently as yesterday my battery life was reaching well into the 11 hour range with the dGPU disabled and the screen set to 50% brightness and 60hz. However, out of nowhere, my laptop got down to 20% battery after two hours of light usage today. I'm talking "only a few tabs of Chrome and OneNote at 5% CPU utilization" level light usage. I checked the ASUS Armoury Crate and my settings were just as I left them (Optimized profile, so dGPU is completely shut off when on battery and turned back on when plugged in). Checking Task Manager, the iGPU was the only detected graphics card, which is to be expected when the dGPU is shut off. I got one notification saying my graphics driver crashed or didn't load so it was booted into safe mode. Another said my graphics driver wasn't loading or wasn't detected and asked if it could send diagnostic data to AMD to collect data on the problem. My working theory is that my dGPU is draining my battery despite being disabled in software and undetected in Task Manager. But I have no way of diagnosing this on my own. I tried reinstalling my GPU drivers and the Adrenalin software altogether, but no dice. I'm still losing a percent of battery life every minute and a half or so, even with the dGPU disabled. Can one of you fine folks help me out? Thanks in advance. P.S. Before you get on my butt about being a laptop gamer, I'll let you know I built my own 9700k and 2070 rig a few years ago but had to leave it at home when I left for college. Bringing a desktop on a plane simply isn't practical. Specs if it helps: AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS with RDNA2 integrated graphics AMD Radeon RX 6700S 16 GB DDR5 RAM at 4800 MHz 1 TB SSD EDIT: I'm told countless other 2022 Zephyrus G14 users are having the same issue and it's a BIOS problem. Click here to see a Reddit thread

I currently have an i5-8400 and an H370 GAMING PLUS from MSI, but got a killer 9700k deal from Micro Center ($200 new). My current board should be fine because I don't intend on overclocking, but I might sell my current board to my brother and get something like a Z390 Steel Legend from ASROCK. The website for this board only mentions 802.11ac speeds, below the 802.11ax speeds of the Intel AX200 upgrade kit. I don't see any reason why the AX200 wouldn't work with this board, but the spec sheet doesn't explicitly list this part: "Supports CNVio1 WiFi module(Intel Wireless-AC 9560 / 9462 / 9461) only.)" Are these parts compatible or would I have to look elsewhere? (NOTE: I don't NEED Wi-Fi right now, and I'm very happy running an ethernet cable into my PC, but some college dorms are stupidly designed and don't have anywhere to plug an RJ45 ethernet cable into, and that's obviously a problem).

Every now and then I browse Newegg for fun, with no intention of buy anything. In my search yesterday I discovered this: the Intel AX200 Gig+ Wi-Fi 6 Desktop Kit. Wi-Fi 6 in your PC for only $30 sounds like a bargain, but the card requires a Key A or Key E m.2 slot to function. In my supplemental research, I could find no motherboards with Key A or Key E m.2 slots and no adapters that go directly from PCIe 1x to Key A/E m.2. All of the adapters I found were mPCIe to Key A/E or Key M to Key A/E. This begs the question: who is this card for? It's an incredible value and not from a shady Chinese brand, but the prerequisite for a fairly rare motherboard connector or even rarer adapter means not many people can use it. What motherboards could actually use this card without adapters and what adapters would a prospective buyers have to buy to use it (without daisy chaining) if they don't have any Key A/E slots? EDIT: Most of this information is kinda irrelevant, scroll down for my reply with important information

I'm building a new computer for birthday and Christmas. I have a 1050 Ti and am also throwing in a low end z370 board or mid tier h370 (which ever one has a better deal at the time), 16gb of Corsair Vengence, an ssd and a hdd. Will my 1050 Ti seriously affect my gaming performance at 1080 by 1920 with medium-high settings? If so, should I overclock to make up for it? (Side Notes: I'm upgrading from an Athlon II x4 620 and my graphics card will be my next upgrade when needed, as the 6 core 6 thread 8400 will be good for a long time) Also, my brother will be inheriting my dad's old FX-8350 but will also have a 1060 6gb. Who will have the worse bottleneck?