Mysteryguy2107

Thanks for your input. Do you reckon it's the TB3 connection or is it the 8750H to be the bottleneck for the 2080? Just being curious at this point.

Thanks for your suggestion. The reason for me to go with 360 rad is because I want some headroom to overclock the 12700KF (the reason for me to go with that CPU). Also, the H500M case comes with a couple of 200 mm fans in the front. I dont think I'll be facing that caviat of not being able to run full speeds on those DDR5 sticks since I'll be going with a 12700KF. Do let me know your suggestions. Thanks in advance.

Budget (including currency): 2400 AUD Country: Australia Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Mostly AAA title gaming and some 1080p and 4k video editing. Other details (existing parts lists, whether any peripherals are needed, what you're upgrading from, when you're going to buy, what resolution and refresh rate you want to play at, etc): Already got an RTX 2080 which I was using with my Dell G7 7588 via thunderbolt 3 connection. Hey Guys, This is gonna be my first build. I just went with the numbers of the current 12th gen Intel CPUs and I felt like 12700KF is going to be the best CPU for me. I am gonna include the Gigabyte Aorus Pro Z690 motherboard (for DDR5 and PCIe gen 5 for GPU and Gen 4 for the NVMe). I already got an RTX 2080 with me which I initially bought to 'cheaply' upgrade my Dell G7 7588 (i7 8750H and GTX 1060 Max Q) but the performance wasn't satisfactory. Either the CPU is being the bottleneck or its the Thunderbolt 3 connection (and my money is on the TB3 being the bottleneck). For case, I am gonna go with the Cooler Master H500M (particularly for the mesh front panel and 200mm fans in the front) along with an AIO from Cooler Master as well (Their ML 360 illusion) and of course a 16 gig 4800 MHz double DIMM kit from Kingston. I am getting 55-60 fps on Forza Horizon 5 and about 30 fps on RDR2 (1080p max settings) and I feel like the RTX 2080 is being restricted by 4 lanes connectivity via TB3. Am I right for this one? Also, how is 12700KF (I know the 'KF' model don't have discreet graphics in them) as well as an RTX 2080 (particularly from Gigabyte) on PCIe 5 (if I am not mistaken the Z690 Aorus Pro got PCIe Gen 5 for the GPU) are gonna go together? Has anyone ever run this setup before? Will it be able to do 4k gaming (Its a 'nice-to-have' feature for me)? And what PSU wattage should I target? Should I just go a 1000W modular PSU without too much thinking and call it a day? Do let me know your thoughts. Thanks in advance.

Sorry for not to mention, my laptop got an i7 8750H and GTX 1060 Max q

Hey Guys! The thing is that I was trying to fix the issue of sudden fps drops and I reset the settings which I did in Throttlestop and after doing that what I found out while playing games, if I put the speedshift EPP to 0, although it will increase the clock speeds of my CPU (i7 8750H) to 3.9 ghz but it wont increase the fps. Is this because of the GPU? and I think putting it at 128 is better than 0 because if I put it on 0 then it will increase the temps drastically from lets say from 65 to 95 but still I am not getting any fps boost even doing the speedshift thing. Even if I disable BD-PROCHOT. It wont increase fps because the GPU is already running at its peak performance and I believe that in games, GPU has a bigger role than CPU. Should I try undervolting GPU and CPU then try to put the speedshift EPP to 0? And, I am already running on custom fan curve.

Hey guys! I got a dell G7 7588 with i7 8750H and GTX 1060 Max-q. While playing games, the CPU clocks tend to jump from 3.9 to 3.0 all the way to 1.4 Ghz and this tends to the fluctuation of fps a lot and it tends to happen a lot of times randomly. my temps are not going over 75 degrees as well. How to solve this? Any ideas?

Its already running on "best performance" settings and is there any way that I can remove the power throttling by using Throttlestop since I used that app to undervolt my CPU and yes whenever it goes down to like 1.6 GHz, the framerate drops from lets say 55-60 all the way to 30-35 but that happens in NFS Heat and other games as well. I also tried to put the maximum and minimum power state to 100% but still no luck

Its already running on "best performance" settings and is there any way that I can remove the power throttling by using Throttlestop since I used that app to undervolt my CPU and yes whenever it goes down to like 1.6 GHz, the framerate drops from lets say 55-60 all the way to 30-35 but that happens in NFS Heat only.

Hey Guys! I got a dell G7 7588 with i7 8750H and during gameplay (like NFS Heat) it goes as low as 1600 MHz from 3910 MHz, the temps are fine since I've done liquid metal application on it and it never goes over 75 degrees. I tried to disable "C states" in the bios and tried to undervolt as well but still the problem wasnt solved. So what should I do to stop these MHz dips?

Hey guys, so I was running some stress tests on my Dell G7 7588 with i7 8750H and GTX 1060 Max q and I got to know that its thermal throttling and used to hit like 100 degrees. To fix that, I did a repaste from Dell's factory paste to liquid metal and temps went all the way to 70 degrees. Now I am having power throttling issues. I tried to uncheck the "C states" in the bios, although it helped but not a lot. So the other option is that I should buy a 240w Dell's power brick to fix this (the one which came with my laptop is a 180w one). So will it help me or not?