Recent content by sizzling

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    FPS drop after 10 mins of gaming

    Don’t change the thermal paste, it will likely void the warranty and is unlikely to be a long term fix as I highly doubt the paste is the cause. You need to be stubborn and insist there is an issue, it didn’t do this when new. Maybe record the cpu throttling and the temperature while gaming. Not...
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    FPS drop after 10 mins of gaming

    You are going to have to persue this with Dell. Tell them it’s because the cpu is overheating and if they don’t understand get them to escalate, I’d also recommend putting it in writing to them. Unfortunately this issue is really common with gaming laptops, the cooling solutions are often...
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    how can I watch a movie on my laptop and listen to it on my headphones plugged into my phone

    Even if it’s possible I would expect lip sync issues due to the delay such a solution would introduce.
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    Solved! Bad CPU and Good GPU, Why am I getting such low usage? (Bottleneck Questions)

    Why Intel? At i5 prices the Ryzen options are better. I’d only look at Intel when considering i7/i9, below that Ryzen.
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    Solved! Bad CPU and Good GPU, Why am I getting such low usage? (Bottleneck Questions)

    Then Lutfij has asked some good questions. If you are not maxing out any cpu cores it is not a cpu bottleneck. My next thought is the external gpu caddy bandwidth but to be honest this isn’t an area I’ve looked into before.
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    Solved! Bad CPU and Good GPU, Why am I getting such low usage? (Bottleneck Questions)

    Don’t monitor total cpu usage. Monitor individual cores, it only takes 1 cpu core hitting 100% to limit performance.
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    Solved! Stop Charging While Playing Games or Open Google chrome

    For gaming this is not unusual. The laptop power supply probably cannot deliver enough power for gaming loads plus charging, it is probably maxed out just running games. As for Chrome I don’t know. I’d drop the % charge down if using the laptop plugged in most of the time, it helps battery life.
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    Solved! How to connect a VHS to Smart tv

    I cannot see any reason for it not to work?
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    Solved! How to connect a VHS to Smart tv

    Something like this using the adapter in your post http://
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    Solved! Default Bluetooth audio settings

    Technically wired headphones have the potential to sound better than Bluetooth but that assumes the headphones are good enough to show the difference. From your description it seems the new headphones are lower quality than the Bluetooth headphones.
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    component to ? adapter

    If like mine it has a 3.5mm socket and came with an adapter for component that plugs into this.
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    Solved! Where do you get the cord to hook a xbox1 to a old tv

    I expect your TV has SCART? If yes I guess you would need something like this https://www.amazon.co.uk/d/DVI-HDMI-Adapters/BW-HDMI-SCART-Composite-Converter/B00NAT0W2Y
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    Audio lag when using Gpu's HDMI

    This seems to suggest your receiver has a delay when decoding a digital signal but not when passing through analogue (RCA).
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    Solved! Trying to watch DVD movie all sounds but no voices

    Do you only have a stereo 2.0 setup and the sound is set to 5.1 or 7.1?