- Feb 15, 2000
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Dear good people of Anandtech,
I am the owner of a Lenovo 720s laptop with i5 7300hq and 1050ti Max-Q, which I got a good deal on. The laptop is very slim, looks great, weighs very little and works quite well when plugged in.
When it is running on battery though, there is serious throttling and I'm not sure if its the CPU or GPU being throttled, but I can't even run a SNES emulator, when I run it its like 1 frame per second and the sound is all messed up. And there's basically no way to stop it from happening. I have done a good bit of research but the laptop seems to be "hard-wired" for this throttling and it cant be turned off. I'm not sure if the throttling occurs when it is plugged in as well, to some extent, but when its unplugged the thing is like molasses when any gaming is involved.
I am planning on buying another laptop for my son soon, and I am hoping to avoid this problem.
Below is a youtube video where the guy describes the problem. Unfortunately I did not see this video prior to purchasing.
I want to know if you folks can tell me: is this a problem just with my laptop, or is this problem widespread? I want to make sure this doesnt happen again with my next purchase!
And of course, if anyone has any idea how I could stop this from happening, that would be amazing too.
Gracias amigos.
I am the owner of a Lenovo 720s laptop with i5 7300hq and 1050ti Max-Q, which I got a good deal on. The laptop is very slim, looks great, weighs very little and works quite well when plugged in.
When it is running on battery though, there is serious throttling and I'm not sure if its the CPU or GPU being throttled, but I can't even run a SNES emulator, when I run it its like 1 frame per second and the sound is all messed up. And there's basically no way to stop it from happening. I have done a good bit of research but the laptop seems to be "hard-wired" for this throttling and it cant be turned off. I'm not sure if the throttling occurs when it is plugged in as well, to some extent, but when its unplugged the thing is like molasses when any gaming is involved.
I am planning on buying another laptop for my son soon, and I am hoping to avoid this problem.
Below is a youtube video where the guy describes the problem. Unfortunately I did not see this video prior to purchasing.
I want to know if you folks can tell me: is this a problem just with my laptop, or is this problem widespread? I want to make sure this doesnt happen again with my next purchase!
And of course, if anyone has any idea how I could stop this from happening, that would be amazing too.
Gracias amigos.