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Possible Cooling Problems or Laptop Throttling ?

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Processor Intel Core i5 12400F Alder Lake Hex-Core Processor @ 2.5 GHz
Motherboard Asrock B760M Pro RS/D4
Cooling Thermalright Assassin 120X Refined SE
Memory 16GB DDR4 2666MHz Dual Channel Corsair Vengeance LPX
Video Card(s) Asus RTX2060-DUAL-O6G EVO (NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060)
Storage 1TB Samsung PM9A1 NVMe + 500GB Crucial P3 NVMe + 2TB WD Black P10 External HDD
Display(s) Asus VG278Q TN Full HD 144Hz Gaming Monitor
Case MSI MAG Shield 110R
Audio Device(s) Logitech G Pro X Wireless Gaming Headset
Power Supply CoolerMaster MWE Bronze v2 450W
Mouse Razer Viper V3 Hyperspeed w/ Hyperpolling Dongle + Razer Deathadder V3 Wired
Keyboard VGN VXE ATK68 Gateron Mechanical Hall-Effect| Monka 3075 V2 Pro Cherry Powder
Software AtlasOS v0.4
I have an Acer Aspire V3 laptop for a couple of months for now (check my specs)
At first it ran games quite smoothly (particulary NFS Hot Pursuit and Dota 2). Back in a few weeks, the FPS started to drop down quite significantly, from 50-60 at the beginning of the game, down to 20-25 and then went up to about 30-40. I'm guessing it can be throttling from the laptop itself, I did check my GPU temp by using MSI Afterburner, went to about mid 60C to 70C, and the frequency of the GT630M is not quite stable. Any ideas ? Solutions ? (Nah I guess there won't be any solutions though). Older titles like CoD4 or NFS Carbon seems to be fine, no problem at all (I do notice some frame drops in CoD4 but still maintain smooth gameplays so ...)

EDIT: A BIOS update fixed this :)
 
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