Since my thread in laptops seems pretty dead, i'll repost here.
I have noticed while casually gaming on my laptop that after a while in any game my fps will suddenly drop by a considerable margin. It isn't an extremely powerful laptop; I have a studio 15 with an i3 350m, HD 5470.
I was just playing around in Guild Wars when one such frame rate drop occured and noticed the desktop CPU monitor was reading 80-100% load. Nothing was listed under the task manager as being a significant drain other than GW. So I opened CPUz to check things as something was obviously wrong and it appears that my laptop has formulated a cunning plan to boost my gaming enjoyment. Rather than remaining at stock speeds of 2.27GHz it has decided, while under load, to lower the multiplier all the way down to 2 and run a core clock of 266Mhz instead. Is my laptop retarded?
Temps are not too high, Under the current power plan when my laptop is plugged (it is plugged in atm) in it is supposed to run at a minimum of 100%, Speedstep has been turned off in bios with no effect, it is still occuring.
I have noticed while casually gaming on my laptop that after a while in any game my fps will suddenly drop by a considerable margin. It isn't an extremely powerful laptop; I have a studio 15 with an i3 350m, HD 5470.
I was just playing around in Guild Wars when one such frame rate drop occured and noticed the desktop CPU monitor was reading 80-100% load. Nothing was listed under the task manager as being a significant drain other than GW. So I opened CPUz to check things as something was obviously wrong and it appears that my laptop has formulated a cunning plan to boost my gaming enjoyment. Rather than remaining at stock speeds of 2.27GHz it has decided, while under load, to lower the multiplier all the way down to 2 and run a core clock of 266Mhz instead. Is my laptop retarded?
Temps are not too high, Under the current power plan when my laptop is plugged (it is plugged in atm) in it is supposed to run at a minimum of 100%, Speedstep has been turned off in bios with no effect, it is still occuring.