Need A Recommendation/Some Help

[jcsnyder]

Hello! I’m not entirely sure if this is the place to put this or not but here goes

 

I’m having some issues with my setup and I’d like to see if anyone has had this problem and found a solution. 
 

Here are a few details about my setup:

I have a total of two computers

• One laptop which is my work computer. The outputs are 1 HDMI, 1 Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C, 2 USB 3.0
• One desktop PC which I built for gaming. Graphics card is a RTX 2070 Super with 3 DisplayPort outs and 1 HDMI out

I have a triple monitor setup

• One LG ultrawide monitor. Two HDMI inputs
• Two HP 1080p monitors. Each has 1 DisplayPort, 1 VGA, and 1 DVI inputs

My current solution is this: 

Wavlink USB C,Type-A Dual 4K Laptop Docking Station https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07DCLK55V/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_UCdXDbHTBQTBY

 

This allows me to only have 2 cables (HDMI our and Thunderbolt 3 out) coming from my work laptop and connect all three monitors and peripherals, which is very necessary for my laptop and works amazing. 
 

the issue I’m running into is with my Gaming PC, which does not have a single Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C port. The dock works in two ways USB Type C and USB 3.0 to get signal from the computer. On my Gaming PC I’m plugged into a USB 3.2 port on the back, but whenever I am using the side monitors and playing games I get really frequent (and very bad) frame drops on both my game and my external monitors. This may be because my CPU doesn’t have any integrated graphics (AMD 3600X) but I’m not sure what the exact problem is. 
 

I really like this setup because it allows me to have one keyboard and mouse for both work and when I’m off work and literally only requires that I swap out one cable on the Wavlink Dock. 
 

Does anyone know anything I can do to get my Gaming PC to work smoothly, without spending too much money? 
 

Apologies for the long post!

 

TL;DR:

Having issues with frame rate drops because the docking station I’m using for my laptop bottlenecks my gaming PC when using the side monitors. Plugged into my laptop with Thunderbolt 3 USB Type-C, and my gaming PC (no integrated graphics) with USB 3.2

[Radium_Angel]

1 hour ago, jcsnyder said:

for my laptop bottlenecks my gaming PC

Bottlenecks are almost always a hardware problem and cannot be sidestepped without changing hardware.

If you connect things directly to the gaming system, I assume the problems go away?

[WkdPaul]

@jcsnyder did you contact their support? I've had great interaction with them and found them quite helpful in the past (one of our client uses their solution as docks for everyone).

[jcsnyder]

1 hour ago, Radium_Angel said:

Bottlenecks are almost always a hardware problem and cannot be sidestepped without changing hardware.

If you connect things directly to the gaming system, I assume the problems go away?

Yes, but when the dock is connected to my laptop it works perfectly fine.

[jcsnyder]

1 hour ago, wkdpaul said:

@jcsnyder did you contact their support? I've had great interaction with them and found them quite helpful in the past (one of our client uses their solution as docks for everyone).

Yes, they seem to think it has something to do with my pc, because the laptop works fine.