Good job to whoever thought this was a good idea.

This seems to be programmed in, like a turbo boost window of some sort, even if you cool it with god damn LN2 it will still throttle back after 1-2 minutes. So I can confirm this has absolutely nothing to do with temps of any component including VRMs, as the backcover was so frosty I was concerned about condensation. Idle temps were between 12-15c (APU), when it reached thermal equilibrium, I launched Dishonored again to replicate the same scenario from last time and taadaa, the exact same thing happened again while plugged in (see attach.)

This is driving me crazy, if anyone has any idea what the hell is happening and how to fix it your help is N Jalad I was determined to know what the hell was happening, so I pulled out my 9000 BTU portable air conditioner (I think you know where this is going), positioned the laptop on its side and the air conditioner directly facing the bottom intake side of the laptop, turned it on and left it doing its magic. Provided some screenshots from AIDA64 to illustrate the problem. I also don't understand why it doesn't hit the advertised 15 watts TDP, it's designed to reach that so why is it not doing so? even when I stress test the CPU, FPU and RAM, it only ever scratches 12 watts max. No matter what options I change, it always behaves the same. I tried every solution available (except Ryzen Controller which I don't wanna use), added hidden power options through cmd and tweaked them, windows battery slider is always on Best Performance.etc to no avail. Same behavior whether the laptop is plugged in or not, it doesn't matter. And the strange thing is that it stays like that for the rest of the gaming session, regardless of what happens. CPU package power goes from the normal 10-11 watts down to 5-6 watts for no apparent reason. A couple minutes later, the CPU clocks drop to 2Ghz or under, GPU goes all the way down to 400-500Mhz and stays there regardless of the load/temp. I would launch a light game, the CPU clocks would sit around the 2.4-2.9Ghz range, GPU clocks vary from game to game I guess but it usually starts at 900Mhz to 1.1Ghz, everything is cool, temps are in check (sub 70c), no thermal throttling, plugged in, everything's great. I recently got a mid-range laptop with a Ryzen 5 3500U and noticed some strange behavior with power consumption and clock speeds

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