Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.

  • Vuraniute@thelemmy.club
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    had a Ryzen laptop that was really good, except it did not have the thermal capacity to maintain a workload, and would throttle itself all the way down to 600Mhz

    something something NBLK-WAX9X.

    I don’t think it’s the processor, I suspect you either have a configuration issue, or a thermal budget limitation.

    i have no idea what it is. I have tried everything.

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      3 months ago

      something something NBLK-WAX9X.

      It was actually a midrange HP provided by my school when I went back to college. Super sucked trying to build a virtual Windows domain while in a zoom class and waiting forever while it struggled with the sustained workload and kept thermal throttling lower and lower and lower…

      i have no idea what it is. I have tried everything.

      I’m not sure what to tell you on Linux since I’ve never had good luck monitoring throttling on processors on Linux, but I was just watching it in Task Manager (again, school laptop) and saw the integrated graphics temperatures get pretty high (>90C) then the CPU start throttling down lower and lower until I either gave up or it got down to ~600Mhz

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        3 months ago

        UPDATE (putting this in a separate reply so you’ll see it): So I just dusted the laptop again, it actually performs somewhat well, turns out my first pass where I also changed the thermal paste didn’t get all the dust.

        EDIT: This probably won’t hold, I’ve been seeing some γαμάτα deals for newer ThinkPads here lately.