Laptop gpu throttling issues

[thelightinggeenie]

Hello,

 

I am having some issues with my laptop (specs below). I don't play any triple A titles, mostly just league of legends, so this laptop was adequate. I have owned the laptop for about six months and haven't had any other issues. Recently I have noticed some weird fps drops. It usually runs at about 60-70fps but randomly it will drop to 20. I figured it was background programs running, downloading updates, etc... so I decided to do a fresh install of windows. My performance did increase significantly with the fresh install and I was able to get a consistent 120-160fps (kind of strange). However, it would still dip down to 20 or lower in-game. I download afterburner to check out the GPU usage. I found that my GPU was running hotter than I expected, but it was spiking to zero. I have never had any thermal issues in the past six months so I am doubting that that is the issue. I will include a screenshot of afterburner while in a league game below. I have also heard that it could be because of lack of power to the GPU. I have a mechanical keyboard, mouse, and my laptop stand fan connected via USB. I also have an external monitor attached via HDMI. Again, nothing has changed recently except for the fresh install of windows and all of my settings are the same. I am truly stumped by this throttling and any help would be greatly appreciated!

 

PC Specs

Laptop: Toshiba Satellite S55-B5268

CPU: i7-4510U

GPU: Radeon R7 M260

RAM: 12G

[Xenift]

Getting a laptop cooler would help, as well as eliminating other possible factors by like updating your graphic drivers.