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Laptop GPU power limit throttles every 20 seconds from 110 watts to 60 watts even when Temps around 70 degrees. (Didn't happen before)

prajwol.shr18

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My (undervolted/repasted) Laptop, Asus strix scar III 9750h, 2070 power throttles every 20-30 seconds even when temps are around 75 degrees for CPU and 70 degrees for GPU. So for 30 seconds any game runs at 100fps then for 10 seconds fps drops to 20. (Ambient temperature 29 degrees Celcius)
This started around a month ago. Wattage for Gpu drops from 90-115 to 50-60 watts even when cpu and gpu temps are below 85 and 72 degrees receptively. CPU Effective clocks also drops after a second or two (See HWinfo screenshot attached below). I have listed the things I have done in detail below (Grab popcorn). Thanks in Advance for all your suggestions.
aida 64 throttling.png

Wattage,temps and clocks reported while throttling when running Assassins creed odyssey Internal benchmark. Here is the HwInfo Log in excel as well

hwinfo.png



List of things I tried:
1. Undervolted CPU
using Throttle stop and capped cores to 3.7 ghz.
2 Undervolted gpu and tested with fixed voltages and clocks from as low as .700 volts 1250mhz to .800 volts 1550 mhz. I tried around 30 different settings some I have listed belowMsi Afterburner capped voltage testing
undervolted gpu.PNG

3. Repasted. Actually repasted twice in 2 days. Results as follows
Part Before Repaste (Max temps Aida 64 stress test with undervolt) After Repaste (Max temps Aida 64 stress test with undervolt)
CPU 89-92 85-87
GPU 78-80 72-74

4 Turned off game bar options.
5.Set CPU to 99% in poweroptions
6.Enabled Performance mode in Nvidia control panel
6.66 : Started Panicking
7. Gave up and reset windows and installed drivers again
8.Didn't work so formatted the drive and installed clean windows and new drivers.
9.Updated bios to Version 308 . Didn't help at all. Also DONT DO THIS!!! Got even more Fu** problems because this bios even disabled CPU undervolting. Crap! (Reset to 307 to undervolt CPU)
10. Tried plethora of GPU drivers drivers : 431 , 444, 445, 451

List of games tested:

Game Normal Framerate Throttling Framerate
CS GO 170-200 35-45
AC Odyssey 55-70 9-15
Divinity OS 2 120-140 12-15
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Specs:
i7 9750h
16GB RAM
Windoes 10 Pro, 1909, OS Build 18363.418
RTX 2070
 
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