BusPass
Member
Hello,
I have a brand new HP Pavilion dv2 laptop, and it runs at 1.6ghz when I don't run anything that needs CPU (most of you know that this is a bad problem). When I run something that demands a lot of CPU, the core speed goes down to around 800mhz, this is really frustrating when I play a game like Mirror's Edge or Half Life 2. I updated the BIOS for my laptop, turned on the PowerPlay option that the ATI Radeon had and put everything at maximum performance. Google did not help me at all. Haven't tried overclocking it (very risky), but I need to know if I have any other options.
Edit:
My default voltage for the laptop's cpu is 1.0V
When running a big program, it goes down to around 0.90
Thanks in advance
-The BusPass
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esquared
Anandtech Administrator
I have a brand new HP Pavilion dv2 laptop, and it runs at 1.6ghz when I don't run anything that needs CPU (most of you know that this is a bad problem). When I run something that demands a lot of CPU, the core speed goes down to around 800mhz, this is really frustrating when I play a game like Mirror's Edge or Half Life 2. I updated the BIOS for my laptop, turned on the PowerPlay option that the ATI Radeon had and put everything at maximum performance. Google did not help me at all. Haven't tried overclocking it (very risky), but I need to know if I have any other options.
Edit:
My default voltage for the laptop's cpu is 1.0V
When running a big program, it goes down to around 0.90
Thanks in advance
-The BusPass
Sorry, no cross posting of topics across the forums. It looks like you found some answers in the other forum so I will lock this up.
esquared
Anandtech Administrator
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