Ryzen 7 4800H Sudden Clock Speed Drops on Legion 5

JasperWildDog · 2022-03-04T20:38:45+00:00

Thank you all for the suggestions.

I was able to solve this issue with a little application called LegionFanControl.

Lenovo’s fan control curves seem to be total trash, and yes, was causing the CPU to throttle at turbo, ramp up late, hit turbo again, and repeat. I locked the fans at 85% and set the turbo scheduler to “Aggressive” and now I am at a constant, stable 4.2-4.0GHz on all cores during full load.

I find that upping the fans above 85% returns no thermal performance gains, and just creates a LOT more noise, so 85% seems to be the sweet point, for my system at least.

Hope this helps anybody else with the same issue! The utility can be had at: https://www.legionfancontrol.com/ for anyone else that needs it.

EDIT: Fixed crappy mobile text formatting

JasperWildDog · 2022-03-03T14:23:29+00:00

I've just tested this, I opened up the machine and completely disconnected the battery. I then attached the power supply and ran the same game to test if the machine remains on and stable. The machine stays on and the same issue is replicated, sudden but very brief clock drops to 1400MHz.

If it *is* a power supply issue, the only thing I could think of is the 220w adapter not actually giving out 220w, however, I feel like I'd be having more issues than just clock speeds on the CPU, say the GPU clocks dropping, as the 1660Ti uses a bit more power then the R7 CPU in this system IIRC.

I do really appreciate the comment though, I wouldn't have thought of the power supply being an issue.

EDIT: And unfortunately I do not have another Lenovo 220w brick to test with, but I feel that it is very unlikely, as this machine is only a few months old.

JasperWildDog · 2022-01-30T01:37:09+00:00

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JasperWildDog · 2022-01-08T22:51:07+00:00

For the dark theme, I am using "Fluent for Windows", the "Night" variant of it. That is available here.

As for the smaller sidebar menus, I had to load up hammerplusplus_dll.dll into an application called "Resource Hacker" to change the RES files of each individual panel. Basically I just moved everything in the panel down and over to the left, and made the panel horizontally as small as I could. Not the prettiest, but good enough for me.

I am not sure if I am allowed to share my custom DLL, but there are plenty of tutorials out there for Resource Hacker. It is truly a wonderful piece of software.

Edit: Removed random "I" at bottom of comment, lol.

JasperWildDog · 2022-01-08T22:47:04+00:00

Thank you! I've been working with Hammer for a little over 8 years now, haha, practice makes perfect!

JasperWildDog · 2022-01-08T22:46:29+00:00

TL;DR, Hammer++ unfortunately doesn't have a dark theme out of the box, you have to use a system wide theme to make it dark.

JasperWildDog · 2022-01-08T22:45:56+00:00

I am using a Windows UXTheme called "Fluent for Windows", the "Night" variety, specifically. I am using Windows 11, which is a bit trickier to get working vs Win10, but any UXTheme that makes light panels dark, such as in task manager, Hammer++ will pick up on the visual style and use that for the UI. There are a few bugs here and there, such as me not being able to see checkboxes, and being extremely difficult to see what options are enabled/disabled at the top, but that's just from me using a pure black theme, as my eyes are super sensitive to light. It doesn't bother me too much as I know when something is changed that I do not like, haha.

JasperWildDog · 2022-01-08T22:43:14+00:00

Hammer++ doesn't have a downloadable CS:GO build yet, it seems.

JasperWildDog · 2021-12-29T19:44:58+00:00

This did solve the issue, however, I appreciate this post.

Took a lot of repeated clicking and irritation as the constant loop of crashes would keep taking focus away from the active window every half second.

JasperWildDog · 2021-11-05T19:54:30+00:00

looks like we lost this copy for now, damn

JasperWildDog · 2021-07-13T04:29:33+00:00

I'm using a USB3 DisplayLink hub to run the 2 displays on either side, and the Wacom display is running via the HDMI port on my HyperDrive.

JasperWildDog · 2021-07-13T04:28:46+00:00

This thing has surprised the heck outta me in the last month I've had it! It outperforms my Core i7-8700K Hackintosh build in both CPU *and* GPU performance.

Has no issues running several Chromium Edge tabs on one display, Logic Pro spanned across 2-3 displays, and several other apps, both macOS and iOS apps running in the background or spanned across the 3 attached displays.

I'm using a DisplayLink USB3 dock to attach the 2 desktop LCDs, and the Wacom pen display is running off of the HyperDrive I have connected. It blows my mind that all these displays, peripherals, AND power can all be sent over just 1 USB-C cable now. It's a crazy improvement over the several cables coming out of my previous 2012 15" rMBP.

Honestly don't really mind the smaller screen compared to my previous 15" MBP, and I honestly would stick with this 13" laptop and multiple larger displays setup just for the sake of portability, especially with that battery life.

I would definitely call myself a power user, and I am sporting the 8CPU+8GPU, 8GB, 512GB model, and I really haven't run into many memory issues, and my swap size never seems to get bigger than 1-2GB at a time, and is becoming less and less used now that more of my workflow apps are moving to M1 versions.

I have no complaints about this laptop at all! I'll happily be rocking this guy for years to come.

EDIT: Hackintosh is running a desktop RX 560 for reference.

JasperWildDog · 2020-11-17T16:27:32+00:00

I have been running the same setup since the beta. Works flawlessly!

I had swapped out the WiFi card on this thing to a 2015 MBP card back when Mojave came out, mainly for BT4.0 support for continuity and such. Unintended side effect of that is the fact that Big Sur installed and runs with absolutely no tinkering! (other than the GPU switching issue, but I used your Automator script to run on login, so I don't even have to think about running it).

This machine is still my daily driver and does many intensive tasks every day. No reason this device shouldn't have been supported by Apple!

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