I have an Asus GL503GE laptop with an I7-8750H CPU and a GTX 1050ti GPU, 16GB of RAM.
Over the last few months i started getting sudden frame rate drops in games that last from a few seconds to 1 minute.
I have tried many things to fix this, reinstalling GPU drivers, trying older GPU drivers, downgrading the BIOS version of my laptop, running malware scans for viruses, but nothing helped.
Now I am trying to undervolt my CPU as I read that this could help, but the issue has not gone away, even though I have tweaked the settings in ThrottleStop. I have undervolted my core and cache by 125mV and capped my turbo clock speeds to 3.4GHz
I noticed that in the Limits menu I get red warnings for PL1 and yellow warnings for PL2 for CORE and GPU, and EDP OTHER yellow warning for RING. This made me think that there could be an issue with supplying power to my CPU.
I download HWMonitor to check the utilization, temps and voltage of my components and during gaming I noticed that the CPU does not stay at around 1V, instead it stays below that most of the time. Also I can see that the package power usually is around 12-16 watts, which sounds low to me. Utilization and temps seem fine, but there are a lot of fluctuations for the clock speeds. In the screenshot I captured it at 3GHz, but it was constantly varying between 2 and 3Ghz, with some drops to around 1.4Ghz.
For the GPU, I managed to capture two values - one when the game was running normally, and one when the game was dropping frames. When normal, the clock speed was around 1.5Ghz with above 85% utilization and no overheating. The voltage was around 0.9V as well.
When dropping frames however, the clock speed would drop to 0.24GHz and the voltage would go down to 0.75V, but the utilization would spike to 100%. No change in temps.
After all the things which I have tried, the only possible thing I think that could be causing this is the laptop power adapter not supplying enough power. Could this be the case or is there something I have missed?
Over the last few months i started getting sudden frame rate drops in games that last from a few seconds to 1 minute.
I have tried many things to fix this, reinstalling GPU drivers, trying older GPU drivers, downgrading the BIOS version of my laptop, running malware scans for viruses, but nothing helped.
Now I am trying to undervolt my CPU as I read that this could help, but the issue has not gone away, even though I have tweaked the settings in ThrottleStop. I have undervolted my core and cache by 125mV and capped my turbo clock speeds to 3.4GHz
I noticed that in the Limits menu I get red warnings for PL1 and yellow warnings for PL2 for CORE and GPU, and EDP OTHER yellow warning for RING. This made me think that there could be an issue with supplying power to my CPU.
I download HWMonitor to check the utilization, temps and voltage of my components and during gaming I noticed that the CPU does not stay at around 1V, instead it stays below that most of the time. Also I can see that the package power usually is around 12-16 watts, which sounds low to me. Utilization and temps seem fine, but there are a lot of fluctuations for the clock speeds. In the screenshot I captured it at 3GHz, but it was constantly varying between 2 and 3Ghz, with some drops to around 1.4Ghz.
For the GPU, I managed to capture two values - one when the game was running normally, and one when the game was dropping frames. When normal, the clock speed was around 1.5Ghz with above 85% utilization and no overheating. The voltage was around 0.9V as well.
When dropping frames however, the clock speed would drop to 0.24GHz and the voltage would go down to 0.75V, but the utilization would spike to 100%. No change in temps.
After all the things which I have tried, the only possible thing I think that could be causing this is the laptop power adapter not supplying enough power. Could this be the case or is there something I have missed?