Why isnt my AMD A6 3420M quadcore not turbo boosting itself ??

[Candymancan21]

Just did that before your post, the stick thats in there is a Samsung DDR3 10600.


Nvm i found the samsung stick.

A little expensive tho, but i should probably match the pairs. Out of stock so i guess ill get he 12800 stick

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147068

 

[mrcmtl]

You don't necessarily have to match the sticks. As long as they have same speed, latencies and voltage, they should do fine.

 

[Candymancan21]

Hey mrctl.. You were right it was the single channle bandwidth limitation that was holding my laptop back.. I got a 4gb stick of PNY memory.. its not samsung which is in there but i took the chance on the missmatched pair.. The Latencys are running at 9-9-9 at 667mhz. My fps in skyrim on my savepoint which i use a refrence to check if my fps has gone up or down by tweaking settings and stuff has gone up nearly 100%...

I was getting 25fps at 1280x720 medium details 0XAA 0XAF. Now im getting 48fps lol.... HUUUGE improvment.. Raising the details up to high i get 43fps, and ultra high i get 37fps...

With 1600x900 resolution on medium details i get 31fps, i was getting 18 prior to that.... that is a 75% fps improvement with a $30 stick of memory..

Man it makes me wonder why they cripple thier laptops so badly like this using only 1 stick of ram.. Im glad you asked me if i had 1 or 2 sticks because i had never thought about that before.... Now i dont really need to return the laptop and get that A8 and waste $150 more. I think I'll keep my A6 48fps in skyrim on a $450 laptop is great...

Just goes to show you how much bandwidth plays a role in performance... oh and overclocking my cpu gives me another 5fps or so.. before overclocking the cpu did absolutetly nothing... heck downclocking it to 1000mhz didnt do anything either... so my cpu was just struggling to breathe

 

[richierich1212]

They cripple them to force people to buy the more expensive laptops.

 

[mrcmtl]

Hey mrctl.. You were right it was the single channle bandwidth limitation that was holding my laptop back.. I got a 4gb stick of PNY memory.. its not samsung which is in there but i took the chance on the missmatched pair.. The Latencys are running at 9-9-9 at 667mhz. My fps in skyrim on my savepoint which i use a refrence to check if my fps has gone up or down by tweaking settings and stuff has gone up nearly 100%...

I was getting 25fps at 1280x720 medium details 0XAA 0XAF. Now im getting 48fps lol.... HUUUGE improvment.. Raising the details up to high i get 43fps, and ultra high i get 37fps...

With 1600x900 resolution on medium details i get 31fps, i was getting 18 prior to that.... that is a 75% fps improvement with a $30 stick of memory..

Man it makes me wonder why they cripple thier laptops so badly like this using only 1 stick of ram.. Im glad you asked me if i had 1 or 2 sticks because i had never thought about that before.... Now i dont really need to return the laptop and get that A8 and waste $150 more. I think I'll keep my A6 48fps in skyrim on a $450 laptop is great...

Just goes to show you how much bandwidth plays a role in performance... oh and overclocking my cpu gives me another 5fps or so.. before overclocking the cpu did absolutetly nothing... heck downclocking it to 1000mhz didnt do anything either... so my cpu was just struggling to breathe

Great! Enjoy your laptop then.

Now I know dual channel is a must for Llano machines.

 

[bernlin]

From what I've read, it can only use TurboBoost on one core at time. Thus, if you have a lot of multi-tasking going on, it's unlikely it would ever be used (since it would more likely just distribute the work among all the cores). I think you would only see heavy use of it on programs that don't allow the use of multiple cores, which is getting shorter by the day, and so you should mostly see it being used on older programs, prior to multi-threading.

 

[Enigmoid]

75 degrees is not too hot. My laptop on the other hand (dell xps 15) gets 95 degrees celsius under games (ive seen it as high as 100 before). Which is rather hot. However, so far nothing has broke.