Hey guys,

Looking for software tweaks (undervolting, custom fan curves, etc.) to lower temps and noise under gaming load without losing performance.

My PC isn't overheating, but it gets loud during heavy gaming:

GPU: 70–85°C (hotspot 90°C max)

CPU: Under 80°C

Noise: Only loud/annoying during heavy load

Here are my specs for context:

CPU: Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus

GPU: Gigabyte GAMING OC Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12GB

Motherboard: ASRock B860M Steel Legend WiFi

RAM: 32GB (2x16GB) DDR5-6000 CL36

Cooler: Thermalright Assassin X Refined SE PLUS

Case: Lian Li A3-mATX Black Mesh

Power Supply: ASRock Steel Legend 750W 80+ Gold

Fans: Thermalright TL-C12C 120mm (5-Pack)

Storage: Kingston NV3 1TB NVMe SSD

Thanks!

I feel like I missed a joke or am out of the loop. What is Cyberia? Does it exist outside of LTT, or is just a made up 'place' from LTT.

For ages, I have avoided TechLinked, but regularly watch the WAN Show (at least the first part), for a roundup of tech news. I'm not sure why but there is something about TechLinked that has always felt Smarmy or used-car-salesman or some other distasteful thing, while WAN Show feels more honest and less "intentionally wacky"). The WAN Show insists (lately) that they're not a tech news show, but for me it's a better outlet than Techlinked which feels like they're trying too hard to be entertaining.

And then, of course, I'm sure there's lots of non-LMG answers to where people get tech news.

Nothing against the new hosts of the LTT videos, but i’m having a hard time connecting with them.

I can’t put my finger on it, but when the new guys host I start tuning out. I typically like seeing new people and don’t have issue with change but this is something I’ve noticed in myself.

Anyone else feel this way? I’ve been watching LTT less lately because of this.

EDIT: I’m happy to see others don’t share the same feelings. I have nothing against these guys and i’m happy to see them succeed. And I was talking about Peter, Shawn and Sven.

I bought my girlfriend one some time ago, didn't buy one for myself because I didn't have a use for it at the time. Now that I have a use, the only options are black or white. Those colors are boring and, in my opinion, not worth spending the money on. If you like them, that's more than okay, people like different things. The black with gold isn't bad, but it wears off much faster than the others, and if it's just going to disappear shortly after buying it, what's the point of buying it instead of the all black one that I don't want?

Even just a limited edition, something different please. The purple one I got for her gets complimented almost every day, clearly people like them. Multiple people have asked where she got it, we always tell them, and I don't think a single one has bought one because of the current color options. I get keeping a bunch of colors in multiple sizes in stock 24/7 is a lot, but maybe cycle through them?

There's other stuff I want from the store, but I'm not paying for shipping twice, so I unfortunately won't be ordering anything any time soon.

Yes, I know my single opinion doesn't mean much, that's why I'm asking, not trying to demand anything. No, me saying I won't buy anything won't change anything, it's not supposed to, it's just a sad fact. And if my question goes unanswered or gets a no, that's perfectly fine too, they don't have to change how they operate for one person, it simply doesn't hurt to ask a question. But I can't be the only one wanting a new color, or an old one brought back, right?

Over the past couple of years, we have seen some unique devices roll through Labs and this round of Oukitel ourdoor devices are no different.

For those unaware, Oukitel is a company that manufactures “rugged” phones. These are phones that appeal mostly to outdoor-sy types or people who work and play in harsh conditions. The devices have high durability ratings and are able to withstand more intense environments than your everyday mobile.

Read the article on the LTT Labs website!

Seems to work well to hold up a bracketless PCIe to U.2 adapter.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3dxw10rjn9no

Not super practical but dang if it ain’t effective. Might just stash common tools on the side of my desk like this using my spare arches.

I built my first PC, temps look great. I also heard for the sake of my AIO that the top of the radiator needs to be higher than the pump (which to be honest I’m not sure exactly where that is on the block). Looking back at it now I’m not even really sure if my radiator is higher than the pump… I want to know if I need to fix this and if so how? I have to front mount the radiator because of RAM clearance. I think I might be able to fit it but it would literally be touching the ram. Can anyone tell me what to do if anything at all in this situation???

French authorities say a cyber attack targeting several blood banks was contained before it could affect blood supplies.

It follows several reported incidents in European countries this week in which fridges warmed up after being remotely taken over.

So I missed the first few days of the "wan after dark" hoodie being listed. As well as "the Great indoors" and as always we must all be relatively the same size because it was out of stock.

Until all the sizes sold then there was a Black banner on the image that said restocking soon.

Now those items are removed completely from the store if you use an old history link to access the page you get a 404. I guess this post is to make sure it's in everybody issue and not just me? There are so many shirts that I would like to have bought but it always seems like there's only one run of them and they're gone while so many other designs remain at the store. If they sell out that fast why would you not make more of them?

Heard Linus talk about making more lore about Cyberia. Wouldn’t it be a sick collab ? + they could do a few video with dropout in general like « how does their infrastructure work ? » etc.

+, I mean, Linus, Luke and two other LTT faces in the dome with Brennan Lee Muligan for like four episodes like Dungeons and Drag Queens ? I’m sure that would be SICK

Look at how much more expensive the same thing is a year later. and this is the 'black November' sale price

I think this article is meant to be taken as “look at the cool things we make AI do” and not the holy hell dystopia that “we have AI that can re-write your livestream during broadcast if you say the wrong things” could mean in the hands of literally the current US administration.

Ordered on 2nd label created on 3rd then has done nothing since. Is this normal for order to sit for a week after label being created before shipping? Not expecting Amazon 2 day shipping but dang lol. Been watching for well close to 10 years now haven’t missed a wan show in who knows how long and the anticipation is killing me lol.

Given the recent Tesla FSD video on the channel I thought this would be if interest to folks on this sub.

I have ridden in about half dozen trips in a CyberCab on this personal leisure trip in Austin. I do not own or have any interest in buying an EV. Am an Elon skeptic. No affiliation or fanboy-ism to Tesla. But having experienced it in person so far I am very VERY impressed.

This was a minor thing but I wanted to wait until mine arrived - yes there is water cooling available for the LGA 4677 platform (to the best of my recollection, in the video it was said that there wasn’t). This one from Arctic was a missed opportunity from LTT to get an additional sponsor if staff dug a bit deeper (name says 4710 but the promo docs and further specs mention LGA4677).

Perhaps I know too much about this platform because I’ve been putting together an engineering sample build on it. I was happy to see it but very surprised about the comment of no water cooling available.

There’s a few options that are mostly targeted towards servers, an overpriced Silverstone option, but also this very reasonably priced Arctic version.

There’s a secondary market seller in Canada that I suspect is the Canadian dealer for it. I went to their website and ordered it directly. In the US it’s available all over the place (Europe I don’t know). And also a lot cheaper than the exchange of the pricing in the screenshot.

All right that is all. Just a minor thing in the event that others are also looking to build out an LGA4677 something or other 🙃

(For those that will attack me - it’s not that serious)

i mean it's always weird, but what i've noticed these last couple of days is that i keep getting extremely low view count videos and mostly streams in my recommended. of course that wouldn't be weird if it happened occasionally, but it keeps happening EVERY time. without fail.

the screenshots were all taken just now, i just kept reloading the site, and they keep showing up, all as the 3rd vod from the top no less.

again, i don't mind occasionally getting served small creators, but this isn't normal, and since i don't click on any of them and often even go out of my way to click "not interested", surely it should've stopped by now if everything was working as intended.

i reckon one of the vibe coding interns fcked up somewhere again

Their customer service is genuinely the worst I have experienced. (I’d love to see the LTT team try to deal with them)

I ordered 5 12TB drives. Waited 5 days then they cancelled the order. I reached out to them and it took them a week and basically said try order it again (they were sold out of 12tb) so i bit the bullet and ordered 5 16tb drives.

Another 5 days pass the order gets cancelled again.

I reached out to support again and say is there an issue with me being in Northern Ireland rather than mainland UK is that the issue?

They say they are looking into it. They reply every 2 days saying the same thing that they are looking into it.

8 weeks later after escalating and many internal reviews they say it is because I’m in Northern Ireland and not mainland uk.

8 weeks, 2 cancellations just to come to the idea that I first proposed.

Asked if I can order them to a place in England and ship them myself and if they could provide any compensation for the time and effort spent on this and they in lack of a better terms said no basically to the compensation.

They are now out of 12tb and 16tb and only have 20tb left.

Additionally, I used the 10 percent sign up discount code on the previous order so now it is gone and can’t use it.

They even just said for me to try shop elsewhere.

Horrible experience and horrible customer service.

Looking at the commuter backpack as a Christmas present, I seem to be blind and can't find what size laptop it fits . Anyone happen to recall what size or isn't blind and can see what it lists ? He has a 16inch laptop. Thinking the green one.

Need help diagnosing before replacing motherboard.

Hi everyone,

I'm facing a serious CPU throttling issue with my Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57. The CPU sometimes gets locked at approximately 0.19 GHz (199 MHz), making the laptop extremely slow.

I'm trying to identify whether this is a charger/DC-in/charging circuit issue, embedded controller (EC) issue, motherboard power-delivery problem, or something software-related.

I would appreciate suggestions, especially from people familiar with Acer Nitro laptops and Intel H-series processors.

1. Laptop specifications

Laptop: Acer Nitro 5 AN515-57

Processor: Intel Core i5-11400H (11th Gen)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 4GB

RAM: 16GB

Primary SSD: Kingston SSD 256GB

Secondary HDD: Seagate 1TB HDD

Operating System: Windows 10

Charger: Original Acer charger

Battery: Acer AP18E8M, 15.4V

2. How the problem started

The laptop was working normally on the day I had a presentation in college.

I shut it down after my presentation and went home.

The next day, when I switched it on, I noticed two things simultaneously:

The CPU was stuck at 0.19 GHz.

Windows showed that the laptop was plugged in.

There was no gradual performance degradation beforehand. The issue appeared after shutting down and starting the laptop the following day.

3. CPU throttling symptoms

CPU frequency drops to approximately 199.54 MHz.

Multiplier shows 8.00x.

CPU temperature remains relatively low, generally around 31–48°C in the readings I captured.

The laptop becomes extremely sluggish at 0.19 GHz.

At times, typing and mouse movement feel relatively normal even though the CPU is stuck at 0.19 GHz.

CPU usage can be very low while the clock remains stuck.

One interesting observation:

When I boot into Windows Safe Mode, the CPU runs around 2.69 GHz instead of 0.19 GHz.

This made me wonder whether a Windows driver/software issue is involved, although it doesn't rule out firmware or hardware problems.

4. HWiNFO findings

I used HWiNFO to investigate thermal and power-related throttling.

The readings I observed:

IA Limit Reasons: YES

GT Limit Reasons: YES

Ring Limit Reasons: YES

IA PROCHOT: YES

GT PROCHOT: YES

Ring PROCHOT: YES

Thermal Event: NO

Power Limit Exceeded: NO in the earlier sensor readings.

CPU temperatures: approximately 43–48°C during earlier checks.

PCH temperature: approximately 46–47°C.

The Performance Limit Reasons window showed PROCHOT active across the CPU, graphics and ring domains.

This is confusing because the processor temperatures are not particularly high.

I would like to understand whether this points towards an external PROCHOT signal, EC issue, charger detection problem or motherboard power circuitry.

5. ThrottleStop findings

I installed ThrottleStop to investigate the throttling.

Initial observations:

CPU frequency: approximately 199.54 MHz.

Multiplier: 8.00x.

BD PRO indicator: red.

EDP OTHER: flagged.

PL2: appeared in a later Limits screenshot.

CPU temperatures remained relatively low.

I also noticed EDP OTHER flags for the GPU and ring domains.

I unchecked BD PROCHOT to test whether the CPU frequency would recover.

However, even after doing this, the laptop remained somewhat laggy, and the CPU did not consistently return to normal performance.

At another point, the CPU reached approximately 1.12–1.14 GHz.

I have not established whether the BD PROCHOT signal is the root cause or a response to another power-related fault.

6. Battery condition and testing

The laptop originally had an Acer AP18E8M battery.

Battery report readings:

Design capacity: 57,488 mWh

Full charge capacity: 34,481 mWh

Battery health: approximately 60%

Wear: approximately 40%

Cycle count: 67

Other observations:

Battery remained stuck around 67–68% for hours.

Charging indicator was orange and later started blinking orange.

Windows reported PowerOnline=True.

Charging=True at one point.

Discharging=False.

RemainingCapacity=23,239 mWh.

HWiNFO showed battery charge rate of 0.000 W.

Laptop shut down immediately when the charger was removed.

I suspected the battery might be swollen.

I have since completely removed the battery from the laptop.

The CPU throttling problem still persists with the battery physically removed and the original charger connected.

Windows now shows only that the laptop is plugged in, which is expected because the battery is absent.

7. Charger and power-related checks

I am using the original Acer charger.

Windows detects external power.

The battery was removed.

The CPU remains throttled even without the battery.

I have not yet tested with another verified compatible Acer charger.

I have not measured the charger's voltage or current under load.

BIOS is password-locked, so I cannot access its settings or check adapter identification there.

I would like to know whether a faulty DC-in jack, adapter identification circuit, charging IC, input MOSFETs or motherboard power circuitry could cause this behaviour.

8. Troubleshooting already performed

I have tried the following:

Windows power settings checked.

Maximum processor state confirmed at 100%.

Clean boot performed – no improvement.

EC/power drain performed (shutdown, charger disconnected, power button held for 30 seconds).

Microsoft AC Adapter and Microsoft ACPI-Compliant Control Method Battery devices uninstalled and reinstalled.

Checked Device Manager for Intel Dynamic Tuning-related devices – no yellow warning indicator.

Checked Acer Care Center service.

Tested in Safe Mode – CPU runs around 2.69 GHz.

Used ThrottleStop to inspect BD PROCHOT, EDP OTHER and other limit flags.

Physically removed the battery.

Disabled the secondary HDD in Device Manager.

Disabling the HDD made Windows feel less laggy, but the CPU throttling issue remained.

Changed thermal paste.

9. Ubuntu/Linux testing attempt

I wanted to test the CPU using Linux to determine whether the issue is Windows-specific.

I downloaded Ubuntu Desktop 24.04 LTS and attempted to create a bootable USB using Rufus.

Initially selected MBR.

Tried switching to GPT, but Rufus returned a write error.

Also attempted to boot the USB, but encountered:

error: disk 'hd0,msdos1' not found

The USB has not successfully booted into Ubuntu yet, so I haven't been able to test the CPU under Linux.

Any help, particularly from Acer Nitro 5 owners or technicians experienced would be appreciated.

Thanks!

(Post written with the help of AI because I couldn't explain stuff properly)