MyPC8MyBrain

sadly mine too, its not easy but a fact of life we have to confront and accept, some are exposed to that reality early on some later on some never, they say the righteous get a break early on, the rest of us sinners stay behind to repent longer for our sins.

maybe this will cheer you up bit, i found an old bench i run on XPS17 with 11980HK and 3060 combo, your dGpu score is way better than what i scored and that was high score for the model at the time, (i also repasted it with LM TIM application) https://www.3dmark.com/spy/28621022 4GB ram its 99% means you run in single channel ram mode, add another 4GB ram stick or upgrade to 2x8GB sticks you cant bench with 4GB and expect a normal score, that prob why 3DMark sysinfo is complaining,

i miss XP days, it was the best times for personal computers before they started going crazy with security, i had my XP system back then idle using 90mb ready to blast off anything i sent its way with quad core P4 a beast at its day, its not a typo 90mb as in 90 megabytes we came along long way since 😉

it is clear that with recent years hardware heat issues are predominant, for mobile users in particular it comes down to managing thermals efficiently, with the base premise that heat is here to stay we need to manage it with tools provided, yes in some situation it means mobile users will revert to per application profile, for the sake of conserving i do the same on my desktop, with my desktop i also opted for a sleek small form factor i can keep on my desk, i was willing for that to take some performance/heat, the unit is custom built and spec'd to the max, it does "relatively" leaves maybe 5% performance overall on the table in favor of sleek case, its not always about best bench scores unless one is doing it seriously as a hobby or professionally, at the time i built my custom build i didn't spare a dime on top of the line components of the time, so performance were already up there by merits of components but it may not be the fastest, and that is just fine overall, we don't race these its more fun/cool to know if you score high, (there are 3 computers on that desk, two precision laptops are vertically mounted behind the screen, and there's room for two more 😉 )

i usually just compile a clean standalone installer i don't let nvcleanstall do the driver install only the drive repackage without bloatware and the tweaks pre-applied, do a clean install and redo/double check the nvidia control panel for the bench exe settings afterwards! (clean install reverts everything to default)

the tweaks you need (< click on the link) are all integrated in NVCleanstal, no need to chase old ghosts, if there were other tweak that mattered today they would be there too, just use the nvcleanstall tool you are wasting your time someone else will post that high score before you 😄

not smart to use global setting with these selections, it is best to do it per application, setting these in global means dGpu is always running at max power increasing heat in a mobile chassis needlessly (likely there's an iGpu there too), when its per application system will run much cooler with less power consumption until an application that needs dGpu power is running, same applies for desktop only there the heat retention is usually less critical than in a mobile chassis,

maybe your paste or pads need refresh?

you might want to make sure you assigned all max power option in nvidia control center to the bench executable which lives by default here "C:\ProgramData\UL\3DMark\chops\dlc\time-spy-test\bin\x64\3DMarkTimeSpy.exe" (other bench executables also live nearby), (note it is 3DMarkTimeSpy.exe in the path described above not 3DMark.exe) also in afterburner make sure to drag your power limit slider to max your system driver will allow (this will likely be possible only after you use nvcleanstall with the tweak listed)

never seen that error before (has to be unrelated or coincidental), i benched with standard TimeSpy, no reboot is needed for this to work either, you can enable disable this feature on the fly, this is what is keeping your gpu from utilizing its full TGP, it has no functionality beyond governing wattage plummed through, i did this with latest NVidia game ready driver, i use nvcleanstal and few expert tweak (you can see here the tweaks i used) to create a clean driver installer which i than use to reinstall the driver cleanly, 100% you can and will! 😉

@Reciever is it light reflecting or your fins clogged with dust?

didn't work for me 😄 what did work (20% gains on my system) is if you have in device manager under "Software Devices" > "NVIDIA Platform Controllers and Framework" try disabling it and give your bench another go my before and after result below before https://www.3dmark.com/spy/33797525 after https://www.3dmark.com/spy/34146281 one more 😉

since win8 when MS originally changed classic start menu i use startisback, for win10/11 they renamed the app to srartallback https://www.startallback.com/ it does cost $2 per pc lifetime lic (it used to be $1), for the record you can manually restore most of these options if you wanted to save $2, this is updated regularly and been running flawlessly throughout MS iterations thus far 8/8.1/10/11 with refined classic menu and classic control options, well worth the price of admission.

that looks all over the place, you are confusing yourself needlessly, first leave all cores to their default speed, set proper cache ratio min/max and don't over undervold your cpu, start with -100 (actual -97.7)on core and p cache only, run 3D Mark bench if you crash go back 25 clicks on both undervolt settings until you pass the bench with no errors,

if you are crashing you are doing it wrong or your undervolt is not stable and you should keep trying to dial it in, what are your undervolt setting you are crashing with atm?

i posted plenty official benchmark results throughout this thread you can use as reference, the above post gives reference to a desktop system with 9900KS compared with the 12950HX in mobile chassis running the same payload, both system with dual channel 64GB RAM, desktop has robust cooling with hardware raid M.2, dGpu is not active during the script run so the results are pure cpu load comparison,

the script itself can be shared but its not something you will be able to run on your end easily, there are other project related files that's being processed i am unable to share, its also not a common programing language,

thought id share a real world example i find quite impressive, i run a new heavy payload on both my mobile and stationary, a heavy script involving AI learning with heavy floating point math, the small test script i run on my stationary 9900KS with top of the line component (of the time), hardware raid 0 M.2 with 2 x 240 separate loops for the cpu and gpu the system run at 100% @5ghz the entire time, completion was 25 min, same test on the 12950HX in the 7770 completed in 15 min, i find that impressive from a mobile station,

what's the corresponding EFI registrar corresponding to MSR 0x195 than?

tried to mess with that EFI value got my system lagging and slowed down to a crawl for whatever reason, I think the name is misleading and that's some current protection element,

seem to be RW and is unlocked on my system with bios 1.8.0

i do this for every system i receive, no need to remove the drive though just press F12 as soon as system shows sign of life, i use Acronis boot media on usb drive to load a low level backup software, you can backup to external drive, takes 5 min to take a snapshoot regardless of Dell leniency it will not void warranty from any manufacturer. sidenote: read up on the 7X70 line discussion on here before you jump head first,

came across another issue, turned on classic power schema, on ultimate power plan when i unplug my power the entire screen starts flickering, until power is plugged back in the system is unusable, anyone else using classic and can check this? (bios is on cool)

interesting... for the first time ever i wanted to see what modern standby is like so i didn't disable it out of the box, i did disable modern sleep and pagefile functions but kept the one power schema they try to drive all power options under, it functions but far from being smooth and its kind of annoying,

been having issues with system not putting brightness back to where it should, I actually exposed the settings in power management so I can manually set 40 brightness when on power supply and 85 when plugged in, whenever the cycle happens the system ignores the values and places brightness randomly where it wants, each time I plug in and out I have to manually put brightness back to 85, I have auto brightness and presence awareness off in bios and any windows app, I think windows modern standby schema is bugged out, I should be better of with old classic stable power schema for the time being,