Overclocked Laptop no longer overclockable?

FatRakoon

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This is a silly one, and its not a huge issue, but I suppose its been niggling me.

I have a Clevio 650 Laptop that I bought from somewhere that I forget who they are ( LIAR )

But its based on the i7 4710MQ CPU and its core clock is 2.5Ghz wih a Max of 3.5

Now, when I bought this, when I ran it on the Battery, it defaulted to 2.5Ghz and when I had the PSU plugged in, it ran at the full 3.5.

There is nothing in the BIOS, as it has a basic one, but what can I do to somehow gte thisfeature back?

My thoughtsare to get a BIOS that will let me do this, but I have tried and the ONLY thing I can think of, is that the supplier had a BIOS taht allowed this and the clevio BIOSes do not...

I cannot remember if I updated the BIOS and thats is why I lostthe clocking feature, probably did, but I cannot remember!

Anyone have ny thoughts?
 
Hey thanks my friend.

I just got brought into hospital so I won5 look at it right now but I'll let you know if I make it
 
Possible power profiles have been reset (Windows 10 has a bad habit of doing that at random) - some of my laptops have had manufacturer customised power profiles that it won't hit the max turbo clock without for whatever reason.
 
No, it will not have anything to do with windows.

Its checkable in the bios.

No pay it's at 2.5 and with the psu it's at 3.5

Although, I'm actually thinking its 3.2 not 3.5 but hey ho...

I have been looking through all my drivers for the cleve and as with all my computers I always make backups of any bios I update and I cannot find ANY bios files for it and so that must mean that I never updated it
 
FatRakoon said:
No, it will not have anything to do with windows.

Its checkable in the bios.

No pay it's at 2.5 and with the psu it's at 3.5

Although, I'm actually thinking its 3.2 not 3.5 but hey ho...

I have been looking through all my drivers for the cleve and as with all my computers I always make backups of any bios I update and I cannot find ANY bios files for it and so that must mean that I never updated it
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It's 3.5Ghz:

The Intel Core i7-4710MQ is a high-end quad-core processor for laptops. It is based on the Haswell architecture and manufactured in 22nm. Due to Hyperthreading, the four cores can handle up to eight threads in parallel leading to better utilization of the CPU. Each core offers a base speed of 2.5 GHz but can dynamically increase clock rates with Turbo Boost up to 3.3 GHz (for 4 active cores), 3.4 GHz (for 2 active cores) and 3.5 GHz (for 1 active core).
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If you are looking for he drivers on the laptop just install XTU and check my previous post.
 
I knew its 3.5 max but I was just wondering about the 3.2.
I have realised cos my daughters laptop is 3.2 and I might be crossing lines with that.


I'm not looking for drivers, I have loads of the buggers, but I will definitely have a play with that XTU for sure.

I'm in hospital but I hope that if I'm staying, the missus will bring it to hospital so I can play.
 
Rroff said:
Possible power profiles have been reset (Windows 10 has a bad habit of doing that at random) - some of my laptops have had manufacturer customised power profiles that it won't hit the max turbo clock without for whatever reason.
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You still need to check this under the current power profile there is different performance settings for battery and under PSU it might not be set to Max Performance under PSU.
 
HOHOHO Sometimes, my life takes a turn and I really want to punch myself in the face.

The Laptop that I am on about is my Clevo 650SF

Its got SoundBlaster Cinema audio and this only seems to work in Windows 8 and for the past year or so, I upped it to Windows 10 and it worsk flawlessly in Win10, dont get me wrong, but I have just installed Windows 8.1 again, kind of for no reason other than to play about with the SoundBlaster Cinema thingy.

Anyway, its up and running, and seet as sugar and I download the XTU file and I see the Windows 10 message and I realise that I need Windows 10 to use it... OH FFS!

This is just typical isnt it?
 
LOL Well, there we are then! - I upgraded from 8.1 to 10

Shame cos I was really wanting to play with 8.1 again, but hey ho.

Right, I ran that XTU program and I did the becnchtest comparisons fomparing 2.5 with 3.5 and I was blown away by just how little difference there was!

This kind of reminds me of my DV6. Thats my first i7 Laptop and I still have it but my son is using it, and that only a 1.6Ghz but it can clock to 3.2 ( on one core ) and the ONLY thing that annoys the hell out of me, is when I used to play games on it, it would play at 1.6 and then clock to 3.2 but then it would go down back to 1.6 nd whenever it did this, there was a quarter to maybe half a second where the thing would lag. What bugged me about that, is that the games I played were absolutely fine at the 1.6 or the 3.2 but the actual change over caused the headaches. I wonder if I can lock this and stop it doing that?

Im not asking, its just a thought

But I will have a play again with that app and see what happens?

As I said though, the clocking was NOT any kind of windows app, it was done BEFORE any O/S started up.

If I had the PSU in and powered on, and I got to the BIOS, it was running at 3.5Ghz
If it was only running on the battery, then when I got into the BIOS, it was at 2.5Ghz

This MUST surely have been a custom BIOS?
 
Can you offer a little clarity.

Are you saying it used to run at 3.5Ghz on battery?

If so check that your power plan is set to Ultimate Performance, then set all of your active cores to x35 in XTU.

What are you using to monitor clockspeed at present?
 
No no.

If I had the PSU connected, it would start up in 3.5
If the PSU was NOT connected, it would start up in 2.5

I got these figures by going into the BIOS as soon as I booted up.

When I looked at the System Properties it said something along the lines of i7 4710MQ 2.5 @ 3.5Ghz

When I bought it, it ran like this right from the start.

In fact, I only realised that it ran at 2.5 when I forgot to switch the PSU on at the wall... I would then simply shut it down, switch the PSU on, and then boot it back up and it was at 3.5 again.
Admittedly, this also meant that most of its life, its been running with the PSU so thats not good, but there you go!
 
Yes, exactly.

I will concede, that it MIGHT have gone down on idle, however, I never saw this happen, and, I have also been trying to push the CPU to see if it goes any higher than 2.5 and I am NOT seeing it do that either?

I freely admit, that its a 2.5 CPU that can go up to 3.5 and I have enough systems to know that CPUs do this and I can do enough tests to see it happen, however on this particuilar Laptop, I have NOT seen it do any kind of boosting up to 3.5 with the exception, that when it was new, it ran at 3.5 or 2.5 and nothing inbetween, and this was dependaint on whether the PSU was connected ( and power on ) or not.

I admit that this goes against what I am reading, here, and in various other places on T'internet, but that is exactly what is was doing?

The ONLY thing that I can think of, is the BIOS, but again, I have NEVER updated it and there is nothing in the BIOS that lets me do any kind of change to the CPU / Power management or anything even remotely CPU related?
 
Have you got CPU-Z installed, if so run the bench whilst you have the laptop plugged in and see if it goes up to 3.5Ghz.
 
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