Hi,
I have an ASUS Tuf A15 FA506IV, I faced a lot of black screen issues (hard reset was the only option to get the laptop responsive again) and battery mode switching (when plugged in, it would revert to battery mode instead of performance mode or turbo etc...) and unstable adrenaline software seemed to contribute to poor performance and wouldn't let the screen go above 58Hz. I purchased the laptop 2nd hand and out-of-warranty so I didn't have the option to RMA.
I have managed to get decent performance and stability out of the laptop with 4 fixes. The fixes were:
1) Disabling performance boost mode on power settings
2) Uninstalling Armoury Crate - This solved the battery mode switching issue
3) Uninstalling My Asus - This solved the battery mode switching issue
4) Finding a stable version of AMD Adrenalin, for me this is version 24.3.1. and this fixed the screen being able to actually refresh at 144hz where it wouldn't with only Nvidia drivers.
Now that I have the laptop stable, on certain games I'm getting decent FPS and I'm able to play pretty much anything I want, the laptop seems to stay within reasonable temps on both the CPU and GPU and for the most part im getting more than 100FPS on games like PUBG, Fortnite, DOTA 2 etc...
My question is: I would like to have armoury crate and enable the different cooling policies and I would also like to get more performance out of my CPU, but regardless of what processor setting I put it on, I get crashes unless I disable the boost mode. How to i get power modes stable and also more CPU performance?
Does anyone have other fixes that will give me more performance or a way of manually setting clock speeds on the CPU where I can try to get to a decent base level across all cores where crashing stops? I see in bios there is no possible way to try and overclock.
To try and see if the issue was temp-related I re-pasted both the CPU and GPU with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut and also got Thermal Grizzly, Thermal Pads, for all the power delivery, SSD's etc... but despite slightly better temps, it didnt help much.
Please, if there is any way to get more performance from a "manual overclock" id appreciate it.
Thanks in advance!
