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At least for me on BIOS 3.05, what is happening is if the battery is less than the max charge, then the dGPU will vary in its wattage. When fully charged it is fine, but once it drops a tiny bit, youāll see frame spikes as the wattage starts to fluctuate for half a second.
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Mine shipped yesterday from Digikey (Ordered 28/11/2024, shipped 16/12/2024, about 2.5 weeks while the site indicated 32 weeks from factory).
Now Digikey shows 24 in stock for immediate shipping; get them while theyāre hot!
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Thanks, reordered from digikey again as Mouser werenāt even trying to look into why they couldnāt supply me the PSU.
Since it doesnāt look like anyone else has posted this example yet, hereās a screenshot of my Framework 16 on Windows drawing power from battery while playing Helldivers 2 on the 180W charger (started playing at 8pm). Didnāt have more sophisticated logging software at the time unfortunately.
I knew a higher wattage charger would be nice, but I was surprised to see the RX 7700S drawing so much power (I guess all those cinematic explosions are pretty demanding). Thanks all for the info on 240W chargers, Iāll be picking one up as well.
Oh noā¦ We had a similar problem with other chargersā¦ looks like this Delta 240
w has the same āstuttering wattsā problemā¦
I recieved my unit today. Can confirm:
-stock 180w Framework charger: 100w dGPU pulling during 3DMark
-Delta 240w: power oscillates between 50 to 100w, as described in another thread.
My bios version is 3.03, now Iāll upgrade and see if it gets better on the newer version.
EDIT: I upgraded to bios 3.05. The charger now works flawlessly. While the stock one, on max performance, while running Furmark + CPU burner (10 threads) pulls ~20W from the battery, the Delta 240W loses 3-5W from the battery while keeping everything at max TDP: 100W GPU and 30-35W CPU. Now I dont have time to test further, Iāll keep you posted.
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