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this is aimed for creators, most of us hooligans get all the above for free as is.

from my experience dealing with HPE is a can of worm nightmare you don't want open for any price.

The way the current stock market unfolding might actually work in our favor faster than expected. All these companies went all-in on AI when their stocks were flying high. Borrowed heavily, committed to massive infrastructure builds, stripped components away from consumer products. The whole bet was that AI hype would keep going. Now? Stocks cratering, and suddenly that NVIDIA "$100B OpenAI investment" went from a done deal to "optional" and "we're considering it." That's the canary. Here's the thing - when you're overleveraged and the money dries up, you pivot FAST. And what actually makes money? Selling products consumers want to buy. Not burning cash on AI infrastructure that hasn't proven profitable. The market's forcing their hand. They can't keep the AI spending spree going when their stock's down 50% and investors are demanding answers. They need revenue, and consumers are where the revenue is. ASML doing layoffs despite record profits tells you everything - they see what's coming. So yeah, sucks for the companies and investors, but for us? This collapse might actually accelerate the return of consumer products. When the leverage evaporates, they have to sell what people actually pay for. Beginning of the end of the AI bubble might be the beginning of getting our hardware back.

you over complicating things, install WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) and run any distro you like inside windows

im glad to hear that 👍 credit where credit is due, at the end of the day no vendors comes close to Dell's customer service standing behind their hardware.

you're right, i was referencing another scenario in my mind 😅

did you try manually changing PL1 limit?

some, it confirms storport.sys + iaStorVD.sys were interfering before (a clean fresh windows install after the BIOS change is highly recommended for perfect driver stack) did you uninstall the Intel Intel Rapid Storage / RST drivers and revert to using windows native drivers? In Device Manager > Storage controllers > uninstall any remaining Intel RST entries (right-click > uninstall device (select to also delete drivers), reboot). Let Windows use its standard NVMe driver. > Rerun LatencyMon - storport/iaStorVD spikes should drop significantly. ACPI.sys and kernel stuff here point to throttling. Disable CPU features like Intel SpeedStep or C-States in BIOS to keep things steady during benchmarks. also for your NVME controller, look for firmware update for it or if possible test with alternate drive just for validation purposes. as for NVIDIA involvement clean reinstall drivers with DDU tool, and check for power saving modes in NVIDIA Control Panel that might be interfering. Quick tweaks (do these anyway): Power plan - High Performance (disable all sleep/USB suspend in advanced settings, in particular look for and sleep features for the NVME drive or power saving nonsense). Update BIOS + chipset drivers straight from Dell's site for your your exact model (do not count on the drivers that shipped with the default system). NVIDIA Control Panel > Manage 3D Settings > Power management mode = Prefer maximum performance. Uninstall Dell SupportAssist / Optimizer if installed (known latency contributors). Rerun LatencyMon after each change to confirm drops.

absolutely agree! this is the main reason i didn't suggest more steps atm and was carefully building up to it from the logical starting point. (i did notice both the ACPI issue and NVIDIA potential)

@OneSunOne If your BIOS is set to RAID (Dell's default on many models), it ramps up storport.sys latency. Switching to AHCI mode often drops this dramatically and boosts consistency in I/O-heavy benchmarks. After that, uninstall Intel RST drivers and let Windows use its native NVMe ones. to do this change you must follow these steps to the T, if you missed F2 reboot and try again until you get it right (do not change this bios setting in any other order or you risk bricking your windows boot!) from windows admin command prompt issue perform the following in this order Enable Safe Mod: bcdedit /set {current} safeboot minimal shutdown /r /t 0 reboot, enter BIOS (Press F2 during post) Change SATA / Storage mode from RAID / RST → AHCI Save and exit BIOS Windows will now continue to boot into Safe Mode, once in Safe mode, from windows admin command prompt issue this command to Disable Safe Mode and boot back to Windows: bcdedit /deletevalue {current} safeboot shutdown /r /t 0 Windows will now boot cleanly in AHCI mode, if you still have the same issue afterwards report back.

both 7770 and the later 7780 were before they decided in all their wisdom to stack both dGpu and CPU on top of each other for the perfect "easy bake oven" effect.

taking you for a full circle 360 degree ride, wasting your time and money, just to leave you exactly where you started is not a solution im sorry, we call this a bunch of BS so other people can justify the poor job they are doing! do not close the ticket as resolved, you raised this ticket specifically for the WHEA errors and is the reason they sent the tech to replace your board with another faulty one in the first place, the errors did not go away, since you followed their protocol and issues still persists next step is a new system or refund your money. over here we have whats called the "Lemon Law" for the car industry, that should cover appliances now days not just cars. its a waste of your time they should now pay for since they feel its their to squander freely with... lets throw a tech visit to shut this case up, just shameful conduct across the board, you should escalate this to Dell corporate USA, and also inform the supervisor you are so he can have a good night sleep. (see your PM for direct emails for the individuals below) Jeff Clarke (Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer) - jeff.clarke@ Chris Cowger (lead Global Consumer and eCommerce) - chris.cowger@

i believe these are sales executives directly tied to profit cuts from ASML very lucrative sales cake, they don't need ambassadors or high end specialty sales connections anymore, all and any possible market players simply come directly to them now. cutting these high paid executives with direct huge cuts off the ongoing sales parade is cruel but its just a textbook play for greedy corrupt corporations. (seen it first hand too many times)