u/billie_eyelashh

Got a Beelink GTi14 (Ultra 9 185H, 64GB) with the EX Dock and an RTX 4060. Fortnite used to run at 180+ fps on this thing. Now I'm getting 25-60 with dips into the low 20s, and GPU usage sits at 20-35%, sometimes dropping to 0%. The card is basically idle while the framerate tanks.

The confusing part is that everything benchmarks completely fine:

• 3DMark Time Spy: 10,254 graphics / 9,152 CPU
• GPU-Z shows full PCIe x8 4.0 under load
• GPU at 44°C, storage idle, 64GB RAM, network's fine

Stuff I've already tried:

• BIOS Internal Graphics = Enabled (the known GTi14 dock throttling fix, this genuinely helped, took me from sub-20fps to where I am now)
• Monitor plugged straight into the 4060 in the dock instead of the mini PC (also helped)
• Full clean reinstall of the game + fresh config
• Performance Mode instead of DX12, literally zero difference which is the part I can't explain.
• Disabling E-cores and the SOC north LP E-cores in BIOS. Made it worse so I reverted.

So every subsystem tests healthy on its own but the GPU just won't get saturated in an actual match. Anyone running a GTi14 + EX Dock seeing the same? Trying to work out if this is a dock/firmware quirk or something dumb on my end. I already sent an email to Beelink support but I don't think they can reply until next weekday.