


Especially if I started to play a movie with VLC (other players weren't impacted) or sometimes when doing heavy work, I'd get "lockups" where the mouse/system would appear to freeze, I couldn't do anything at all and had to wait them out for a few seconds. Oh, and one thing that was _definitely_ a big issue for me with this laptop is the nouveau driver. I can't compare to previous releases as this had 1.13 on it when I got it. I'm definitely seeing a few throttling events in dmesg output, but they are very short (< 1 second) before it reports that things are back to normal temps/speeds. I am also running Fedora 31 on a Precision 5530, and this morning I'm doing quite a bit with the machine (simultaneously running a Borg backup of a 1.6TB filesystem, copying 130GB of VM images from my old system to this laptop, and running a Win10 VM to build a software release for work). Are you on the 1.13 BIOS? Dell implemented some fixes in that release that were supposed to improve things a good bit.
