Intel HD graphics frequency on i3 380M?

[taisingera]

Before flashing a BIOS on a Dell N5010 laptop, flash games were running slow, so I tried shutting things off, and I saw that the graphics frequency was 370MHz, which I thought was kind of low. Normally for i3 380M it should be base 500 and turbo to 667. There is no way to alter this in the BIOS on this laptop. I updated the BIOS and magically the flash games are running better, but it could be the internet connection, but I have two other mid range systems that were not struggling with flash (i5 2450m laptop and i3 530 desktop). Do you think Dell crippled the video for heat reasons?

 

[Stuka87]

Quite possible. OEM's do a lot of things, especially to laptops.

Could also be your machine was running hot, so it throttled itself. Also remember that at idle, the clocks will be lower. You would need to check the clocks while it is under load.

 

[taisingera]

Loaded up 5 1080p videos at once and I saw the clock speed go up to 550. So it is getting up there. I thought even at idle it only went down to 500, not 370.