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Hello, I've had my laptop for around 4 years and while gaming I have noticed very low performance and I do not know what causes it. Apparently my battery health is dying but apart from that I'm not sure what is causing it 

Pc specs: processor: amd A12 9700P base speed 2.5ghz and turbo speed 3.4ghz (It has never went that fast ever)  And the graphics card is an AMD Radeon r7 Graphics 

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Have you checked the temperatures on the cpu? Also, when was the last time the actual laptop was opened and cleaned inside? as well as thermal paste replacement?

Im with the mentaility of "IF IM NOT SURE IF ITS ENOUGH COOLING, GO OVERKILL"

 

CURRENT PC SPECS    

CPU             : Ryzen 5 3600 (Formerly Ryzen 3 1200)

GPU             : ASUS RX 580 Dual OC (Formerly ASUS GTX 1060 but it got corroded for some odd reasons)

GPU COOOER      : ID Cooling Frostflow 120 VGA (Stock cooler overheats even when undervolted :()

MOBO            : MSI B350m Bazooka

MEMORY          : Team Group Elite TUF DDR4 3600 Mhz CL 16
STORAGE         : Seagate Baracudda 1TB and Kingston SSD
PSU             : Thermaltake Lite power 550W (Gonna change soon as i dont trust this)
CASE            : Rakk Anyag Frost
CPU COOLER      : ID-Cooling SE 207
CASE FANS       : Mix of ID cooling fans, Corsair fans and Rakk Ounos (planned change to ID Cooling)
DISPLAY         : SpectrePro XTNS24 144hz Curved VA panel
MOUSE           : Logitech G603 Lightspeed
KEYBOARD        : Rakk Lam Ang

HEADSET         : Plantronics RIG 500HD

Kingston Hyper X Stinger

 

and a whole lot of LED everywhere(behind the monitor, behind the desk, behind the shelf of the PC mount and inside the case)

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3 hours ago, MartinKweh said:

Have you checked the temperatures on the cpu? Also, when was the last time the actual laptop was opened and cleaned inside? as well as thermal paste replacement?

For some reason when I check the temperature through programs it doesn't show the actual temperature I don't think as it just drops from 55 to 50 and then resets at 55. And I've never thought of opening my laptop ever for the past 4 years. I don't know why but yeah. I should probably do that.

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I have the A12-9700 as well, I updated to latest drivers and CHIPSET drivers from the amd site, you might have too back track  too 20.11 though, It helped alot. This notebook is also prone too be pushed with a 5400 rpm drive so thats probably your bottleneck. Use PerfectDisk on slower drives. 

 

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