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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...

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...

Even if it’s possible I would expect lip sync issues due to the delay such a solution would introduce.

Why Intel? At i5 prices the Ryzen options are better. I’d only look at Intel when considering i7/i9, below that Ryzen.

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.

Don’t monitor total cpu usage. Monitor individual cores, it only takes 1 cpu core hitting 100% to limit performance.

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.

I cannot see any reason for it not to work?

Something like this using the adapter in your post http://

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.

If like mine it has a 3.5mm socket and came with an adapter for component that plugs into this.

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

This seems to suggest your receiver has a delay when decoding a digital signal but not when passing through analogue (RCA).

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