*** Laptop Overclocking Issue / Help Please ***

[ttechf]

Hi,

I wanted to do and test some light overclocking on my laptop. I used the Intel Extreme Utility Tool. Everything was fine and still kind of is, I just decided I wanted to default my changes back to normal. I even went through the BIOS and put the system to default.

Well, my laptop now is staying at it's top turbo clock speed on my high performance setting. Which is around 3.4Ghz. Before I did all this, it would usually fluctuate every 2 seconds. 1Ghz, 1.2Ghz, 2.8Ghz, etc. depending what was needed and the workload. Now it just sits at 3.4Ghz all day long. my computer isn't hot or anything, but it's like I "broke" the natural way the turbo boost works or something.


I'm not sure how to revert it back where it worked normally because I don't remember it ever staying at it's highest turbo frequency all the time,even on high performance.


Thanks a lot!! : ]

 

[ttechf]

*** I THINK I may have solved it. I went under power options for high performance and then to "processor power management" and saw that FOR SOME REASON [I have no idea] the minimum processor state was set at 100%.

So it was set to always stay running high/fast as possible. I changed it to 1% and now my speed fluctuates again going down all the way to 0.75Ghz to 3.4Ghz and hovering around 2Ghz or so. So hopefully this was A or THE solution.


I am wondering if that overclock utility knocked my minimum processor state to always be at 100%.

Thanks for any replies. : ]

 

[Burpo]

Of course it did.. It's overclock software

 

[ttechf]

Of course it did.. It's overclock software

Yeah, maybe it's just me but my processor still seems to be running a little funny in high performance mode. Sure, I did what I said above and set the processor down to 1% instead of always being at 100% but when I turn it on high performance, it always seems to want to stay around 3Ghz or so which makes the fan kick off and I dont mind a few minutes of it but it was doing it for 10 minutes straights so I just put my laptop into balanced mode.

 

[TrulyUncouth]

Just a heads up, I went through a similar issue on an old Alienware m11 last week and I put the minimum to 5% because that is what the default was for the old power state. I am not sure if 1% can cause problems or why Alienware defaults to a 5% minimum- just letting you know.

Did you manage to overclock an appreciable amount? what processor do you have in the laptop?

 

[jihe]

Yeah, maybe it's just me but my processor still seems to be running a little funny in high performance mode. Sure, I did what I said above and set the processor down to 1% instead of always being at 100% but when I turn it on high performance, it always seems to want to stay around 3Ghz or so which makes the fan kick off and I dont mind a few minutes of it but it was doing it for 10 minutes straights so I just put my laptop into balanced mode.

There are other power options, one of them is whether the os should turn up fan first or downclock first.

 

[jihe]

Just a heads up, I went through a similar issue on an old Alienware m11 last week and I put the minimum to 5% because that is what the default was for the old power state. I am not sure if 1% can cause problems or why Alienware defaults to a 5% minimum- just letting you know.

Did you manage to overclock an appreciable amount? what processor do you have in the laptop?

There is no difference between 1 and 5 percent because no processor has a low enough multiplier to see it.