Updated my HP Omen 15 2018 (i7 8750H, GTX 1060, 16GB RAM, 256 m.2 SSD plus 1TB HDD) to latest Windows 10 v1809. No problem until I downloaded and installed latest (Nov 2018) drivers for my particular Omen at HP Support (my laptop is registered, easy to see if new drivers are available).
After HP support drivers were installed, Omen now severely throttles CPU after about 15mins of CPU intensive gaming (although because this is a 6 core CPU, only 50% CPU usage is registered, much headroom for performance). GPU use is only 40 to 55% while gaming.
When it throttles, game runs slow, super slow, diving to 10fps (from 80 to 100fps), CPU usage dips to 30%, and GPU usage follows as 10fps does not need much GPU power. Neither CPU or GPU goes past 50% usage, yet it throttles down. CPU Temps do go at 90degrees C at start of game (GPU never goes beyond 75deg C). Omen Control Center set to Performance (same effect happens when set to Standard), Power Plan set to HP recommended (power plan created by HP, and is actually the only plan, unless you create your own.
Note, among drivers installed that caused the severe throttling is latest BIOS, and Intel Dynamic Platform and Thermal Framework Client driver. All drivers from HP Support.
Is HP going to turn this gaming spec Omen to an office work laptop with this aggressive throttling via latest drivers? And 10fps is just unplayable.
Note: No BIOS adjustments, no throttle stop or other overclocking solutions installed/used in this machine.