Is your laptop running slow?
Is your laptop running slow?
I own a ROG Flow X16 GV601RW and it used to run really fast when I bought it. But lately, everything feels slow. I tested it with Userbenchmark, Geekbench 5, and Cinebench, and all my parts look weak compared to before. For my CPU and GPU, both official and third-party benchmarks show serious drops. Even for RAM and storage, UBM scores are way down. What's going on here? I think the CPU is overheating and slowing itself down when it gets hot, which hits 95C under load. I tried boosting the GPU clock speeds before, but Windows crashed instead of running normal. It shouldn't have hurt me since I kept the voltage the same. Any other suggestions?
1. Are you sure your laptop is using that dedicated graphic card instead of the one in your CPU like an AMD Radeon™ 680M? 2. If the temps get too hot, sometimes around 95 degrees or up to 99 degrees depending on the laptop, it will slow down. I would make sure there is no dust on the radiator and that a hair isn't blocking the fan. 3. Maybe some programs are running in the background right now. Right click on the start menu, go to Task Manager, check Autostart, and uncheck everything. Check EVERYTHING! 4. Have you changed anything in your BIOS settings? The laptop might be set to a power-saving mode that isn't by default, so if you never went into BIOS you can ignore this part. 5. Make sure your laptop is set to "high performance" mode instead of the normal balanced one.
Is it plugged into a power source or just sitting there? That looks off, and the Turbo feature runs at 2.4 GHz speed—on Performance Mode?
It plugged in, but I'm confused about what you mean by performance mode. When I run benchmarks or game, I use "Turbo Mode" in Armoury Crate... though I think on Windows it's just a power-saving thing called "Best Efficiency." Also the temps keep going up to 95C (the CPU max temp), not sure if that's related. By the way, my advertised turbo is 4.9Ghz but it never hits that speed; I'll try with the highest performance or whatever setting.
Welp, I tried again but things aren't working out. My CPU is doing okay on Cinebench R23 with 10870 multi-threaded, though the single core feels slow, maybe around 1017. Both Geekbench and UBM show me underperforming here too. The GPU seems to handle things better in UBM than elsewhere. I got these results for an ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. ROG Flow X16 GV601RW_GV601RW with an AMD Ryzen 9 6900HS processor from browser.geekbench.com and UserBenchmark. Please click the green human to continue. Also, I just can't get BeamNG.drive running at more than 60fps on most maps 😞
1. Are you sure your laptop is using that dedicated graphics card and not the one inside the CPU, since it has an AMD Radeon™ 680M? 2. If the temperatures get too high like 99 degrees or even 95 depending on the laptop, it will slow down. I should make sure there is no dust on the radiator or any hair blocking the fan so it works properly. 3. There might be some programs running in the background. Right click on start menu, go to Task Manager, find Autostart, and turn off EVERYTHING. 4. Have you changed anything in BIOS? The laptop might have power-saving mode turned on (this isn't by default so if you never went into BIOS you can skip this). 5. Make sure your laptop is set to "high performance" mode, not balanced.
i'm pretty sure this uses the dedicated graphics card, and the fans look okay because I took the PC apart back a couple of days ago. Even though the control panel shows high performance now, I don't know how to turn on autostarts since it's Windows 11.