Aurora R16 performance issues

Question

I have an Aurora R16 with i9-14900 and rtx4090 and it is losing performance dropping fps significantly. I have tried AWCC in performance mode, balanced and yet 3dmark continues to show way under what it should. I ran stress test and it have < 60% which clearly isn’t great. I have tried a totally clean install and it still isn’t behaving how it should

I have windows 11 home

I have recently had the processor changed. Not sure if that would matter?

but I noticed the fans never seem to start up. Which makes me think it is some form of overheating causing throttling somewhere but I’m not too experienced at how to troubleshoot

I know this isn’t a lot of data and happy to run any troubleshooting to try to work out what is causing the slowdown

Tesla1856 · Answer

Clean Windows-11 Home Install ? How ? (from what media).   Why was someone messing with the Intel-i9 CPU on your new-ish computer?

andydragon247_562aea · Answer

@Tesla1856​ restore was from official dell restore media. Resetting due to wanting to sell given I now have an Area 51. But not happy to sell until I can work out why its not working as it should The processor changed due to degradation from the intel issues. It was exchanged under dell warranty exchange.

John1701 · Answer

Have you tried stopping the killer network service and also the killer performance suite software?

This helped with my performance with random 1% dives and a small 150point 3dmark steel nomad increase.

Core i7 14700kf

Alienware Aurora R16 with a RTX 4090.

Make sure you have the latest nvidia 591.86 drivers as they resolved a issue with a recent (towards the end of 2025) windows update that caused low performance.

Oh and make sure your BIOS is up to date as latest BIOS revision fixes the degradation issues.

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Aurora R16 performance issues

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