Alienware r11 Slow performance

[mking28]

Hi,

 

helped my brother buy an alienware aurora r11 in april 2021 to replace his aging machine fx-6300 with a rx570. ( bought at NCIX )

 

So we decided to look into something new. We picked out a Alienware aurora r11

 

Intel i7 10700F water cooled

Nvidia 3060 TI 8 GB

512 GB nvme boot + a mechanical for video storage (dell wanted 350 for twin 1000GB ssd 2.5") going to add a few soon myself.

16 gb 2933 MHZ dual channel hyperx

2.5 gb ethernet bluetooth 2.4/5ghz wifi.

 

When we got it out of the box. It blew him away, an amazing upgrade from his old machine. Really thrilled with it. However as time progressed, especially with the recent windows 10 update, performance has been less than lacklustre. During this time we did move from a place with max 10 mbps to gigabit fiber (not even funny the difference) And performance has dwindled.

 

Sea of thieves. 1080p mythical settings 130 resolution settings. He was getting 80-90 frames consistently. Now its down to a choppy 50 FPS with nasty lag spikes. Satisfactory has similar results. Cyberpunk still runs well, but im guessing thats due to it being well optimized for an NVIDIA rtx card. the recent windows 10 update hasnt seemed to help so we did a clean wipe in win 10. deleted all files. and started from scratch. yet still, results that are way less than what was two months ago, in pretty much all non-rtx games.

 

he is super careful with viruses. Nothing i have seen so far. Sea of thieves is on the NVME. its 350 gb full. I dunno what to do. Is windows 10 hogging all those resources with gigabit internet? uploading/downloading havent touched any overclocking settings yet. I dunno what to do. He really really likes sea of thieves, and has been reduced to low graphics. 0 dust in the case. water block is full still. Awesome thermals all around. set everything to high performance mode in alienware control panel and in the NVIDIA panel. he did re-install the NVIDIA drivers and he said there was a performance boost, but after a reboot it went right back to choppy and laggy.

 

Any help or ideas would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

 

 

 

[mr cheese]

I typically recommend users do a full reinstall of Windows from a piece of installation media after wiping the drive clean of any and all partitions, this'll usually remove any and all bloatware save what manufacturers package with Windows Update drivers like Razer does. Is this what you guys did?

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Check your cpu and gpu utilization in games

 

I bet its the stupid cpu throttling to 65w cause intels stupid base tdp limit, if it is the cpu being a bottleneck (you can tell if gpu is only being utilised 90% or under), youll have to swap mobo to a decent b460 or z490

 

Id suggest the b460 bazooka or torpedo, and z490a pro, gaming plus, or z490p whichever is cheapest out of the three

 

For b460 make sure you enable whatever cpu boosting thingy the manufacturer has

 

For z490 lock cpu turbo multi on all cores (48), you can prob get around 1.25 or 1.3v vcore stable on your chip but if you dont like screwing with volts dont mess with anything and leave them auto unless your cpu is thermal throttling

 

Heck you might not need to swap mobo and instead do this

 

Short throttlestop guide to yeet power and or thermal throttling

 

Download and put throttlestop in system files (x86), open it, press the turn on button, disable bd prochot, disable set multiplier set multiplier to your all core boost clock which is (insert cpu specific boost clk here) yeet power limits (paragraph below this one) then run a benchmark like cinebench and see what freq your cpu will land on whilst monitoring temps and freq and making sure that only temps are limiting your freq (make sure temp is around 95-105c) and once youve found that set the multiplier in throttlestop but add +1 or +2 over the thermal throttle freq cause youll prob have a lil bit of headroom (will be important for undervolting but if you cant undervolt cause fivr is locked dont add to the multiplier cause thats just gonna thermal throttle)

 

go into tpl menu, for turbo long and short power limit, and pp0 current limit set all boxes to 99999 and max out the sliders, clamp, lock, apply and your power limits have been yeeted

 

If you have it available go into fivr menu and undervolt your cpu and cpu cache abit, run a cpu stress test in the background like prime95 and start undervolting, -50mv is a good starting point, press apply not ok and see if it crashes, if it doesnt crash then keep lowering by -10mv till it crashes, once it crashes and youve rebooted, go back into throttlestop and raise the volts by +15mv from your unstable volt so its stable and doesnt crash

 

To run throttlestop at startup (to apply the settings) this is how

http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/the-throttlestop-guide.531329/#post-6865107

 

This copy paste guide doesnt contain all the specific steps you may have to do so please send screenshots of all your throttlestop menus and other stuff, and if you see any (insert xx here) thats because im a moron and forgot to insert

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