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Underclocking CPU - Help?

King Damager

King Damager

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My gf's laptop is slowly dying - and we're going to be replacing it soon anyway, however I found an issue I'm not too sure about so thought I'd raise it and see if this is something obvious that I'm missing?

It seems to be underclocking judging by CPU-Z

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This is running at 100% CPU usage - I thought it might be speedstep or something similar so made sure I maxxed out the CPU usage - wasn't too hard....

But yeah, if anyone has any idea why this is underclocking like this it might stop her having to upgrade a for a few months :)

Thanks
kd
 
Yeah I tested temps a while ago, think they were about 50-70, so not too bad, shouldn't really be throttling. Yeah I thought the speed step thing, but if it is on idle how would we fix it?

kd
 
Speed temp puts it at 44/45 C

Oh, and not using prime95 to max CPU, just running multiple chrome tabs - this maxes out the CPU usage as it is and massively slows down and lags the computer.... I'd have ran prime95, but doesn't seem to be needed to get CPU up to 100% constant.

kd
 
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44/45 degrees C is hardly overheating... :S

Did just the one intelburn test, and clock speed didn't change at all... Created massive lag on everything though, and did see a rise in temp to about 47... but again nothing too bad.... Temps went back down to about 40 after closing intelburn test

kd
 
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