Quick feedback - the Vapor chamber has been exchanged by a DELL technician. Everything is now back to normal and the machine can pull >130W again!   [IMAGE]
Problem appeared last week (or at least, I realised it last week, when getting back to work). The XPS 9710 ramps up the fans very quickly, while doing lightest work. These are the facts: - Power Profile in My Dell is set to "optimized". But that also happens in the other profiles- Not process is using more than 2-5% of CPU - it is basically idle- Because the CPU heats up so quickly, the system throttles so fast, that it can't draw more than 65W overall. Last year when doing Cinebench testing, it draw more than 140W peaks- Cinebench R23 results only in 6900 points - last year, it easily did 12.000 - 13.000 points- In HWiNFO I can see, that the CPU already reaches 100° while only drawing ~20WChecked already:- Stopped all (unneeded) Software and Services - nothing uses the CPU/GPU anymore- Checked and renewed thermal paste and made sure, that the vapour chamber is sitting well on everything- Checked and installed all available Updates from Dell Update and Winows Update- Updated BIOS to 1.6.0Does anyone have an idea about this? I can't really concentrate with this hairdryer on the table! [IMAGE]
XPS 17 9710 - CPU gets ridiculously hot quickly (in idle), fans run nearly 
continuously at full throttle