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    Question Poor gaming performance on my Dell XPS 9570

    That's unfortunate. I did read on some forums that this is possibly due to some Dell BIOS updates that thermal throttle very aggressively and reduce the power draw as well. I'll investigate if any of that can be bypassed without damaging the hardware. Thank you for your help :)
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    Question Poor gaming performance on my Dell XPS 9570

    I just tried out 3DMark, I've linked the results here. I once again noticed that the GPUs reported temperature maxes out at 74 °C, and frame rates in the benchmark remained choppy throughout. I did also run the GTAV in-game benchmark, and that had similarly disappointing results. Here's a link...
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    Question Poor gaming performance on my Dell XPS 9570

    I don't really run anything else too taxing. Thr GPU clock speed would bump up to about 1290MHz and then bounce back down. Are there any other applications I could try running which would help you gauge performance?
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    Question Poor gaming performance on my Dell XPS 9570

    Lately, I have noticed my XPS 9570 having painfully bad FPS when gaming. I recently tried GTA5 and noticed FPS in the 10-20 range on lowest settings at 1080p, when it used to average a cool 40-50fps earlier on medium settings. The GPU was running at 100% as indicated by NVidia GeForce...
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    Backlit Keyboard Upgrade

    I have a 2012 Lenovo ThinkPad T430 without a backlit keyboard, and I was wondering whether I can upgrade it to a Backlit keyboard. Is this possible?