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You've been given good advice here, but I thought I'd ask just to be sure. Do you happen to have an NVIDIA GPU (your specs doesn't include one)? The new NVIDIA drivers 565.90 and 566.03 both have a known issue that causes higher CPU usage and temperature increases with iCUE...

Yeah, I hate Armoury Crate and would advise against keeping it on a long-term basis, but it does serve one benefit and that is installing the motherboard drivers fairly reliably. As soon as it's finished, I got rid of it and never looked back. I tend to install drivers from the manufacturers...

1) Have you ever opened your laptop since purchasing? If yes, what have you done to maintain it? 2) Have you replaced or upgraded any components? If yes, what? 3) Are there any devices which are plugged in when you boot the laptop e.g. mouse? If yes, unplug them and see if it makes a difference...

I used to hate Armoury Crate, but I found that Asus drivers are becoming more tedious than ever to manually install. Nowadays, there's multiple chipset drivers you have to install and there is no indication if/when they actually install with AsusSetup files. I would recommend installing Windows...

The easiest way to solve this (without spending hours pinpointing specific software or drivers) is to perform a fresh install of Windows 11 through USB. If however you did want to try and narrow down crashes, type Event Viewer in the Windows search bar and then click either Custom Views > Admin...

I wonder how new the PC is. I think (if they haven't already) PCSpecialist should delist the known defective CPU's or at least reach out to customers who bought them and offer a suitable replacement.

Although we can't offer specific advice without your hardware, the best solution here is to run MemTest86. Some ASUS motherboards have it on the BIOS itself as a feature, otherwise you'll have to install it to a USB https://www.memtest86.com/tech_creating-window.html

I have a corsair AIO and while the performance is great, I also had coil whine issues as well. I tend to have very good hearing so naturally it drove me insane... until it suddenly went away by itself. I have no idea how or why but it genuinely just stopped after a while. You can try capping...

I know how frustrating it is to see temperature increases like this. While your temperatures are fine, increases do become annoying when you can't figure out why it's happening. Edit: Ambient temperature can often play a role in this too. If you played games in the winter, your temperatures...

Hopefully it goes well! On the topic of NVIDIA drivers, I tend to follow enthusiasts who test every driver for performance, stability, 1% lows etc. The recommended driver by enthusiasts is actually version 537.58, although it is around 10+ months old at this point. I've been using this driver...

Just a few tips: 1) It is quite expensive, but I'd consider buying the IETS GT500. It's very good at helping reduce temperatures and has a lot of dust filters, so dust build-up is a lot slower than without it. https://www.amazon.co.uk/IETS-Powerful-Turbo-Fan-Infinitely-13-17-3inch/dp/B09FJBYQ7Y...

If you go to your order page, you can sometimes have the option to purchase a replacement battery or simply reach out to PCSpecialist via your account inbox. I had to do the same for my laptop, where the battery would essentially shut down after 5-10 minutes of being unplugged.

I'm not an expert with 4K gaming, so I probably can't give the best answer here. When buying a monitor, you generally have to ask yourself a few questions: 1) What do I want the monitor to ideally achieve? E.g. highest refresh rate with minimal ghosting, best image quality, HDR gaming 2) Does...

If the noise is only occurring when your hardware is under load, then it would typically indicate an issue with a fan(s). You can download software like MSI Afterburner to test the noise under higher fan utilisation %, or use your BIOS fan tuning capabilities to turn each specific fan up to...

I would recommend using RTINGS for this. I use their website whenever looking into monitors and it helped me make my decision when upgrading a while ago. https://www.rtings.com/monitor

Can you post your PC specs?

Whenever I reinstall Windows, I do the following (lengthy post incoming, but I hope it helps): Pre-installation: Download the Windows 11 Media Creation tool to a USB Download your motherboard drivers (LAN, Wireless, Chipset, Audio, Bluetooth), GPU driver I mentioned earlier...

Just chiming in to say that if you really want to further reduce laptop temperatures, the IETS GT500 is a very good laptop cooling pad. It's noisy as hell but it reduces temperatures quite a bit.

Like SpyderTracks said, it is more than likely thermal throttling. Laptops accumlate dust over time and the thermal paste tends to dry out quicker due to operating at much higher temperatures. You can download software such as HWInfo64 to check for thermal throttling. Essentially what happens...

If it's any help now, there has been a known issue with NVIDIA drivers for a long time now with checkers/squares in some browsers in addition to transparency effects not working correctly. The newest NVIDIA driver (546.17) supposedly fixed this.