The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Whats the deal with my video card on my extensa 5420?

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by Bigfamine, Jan 1, 2010.

  1. Bigfamine

    Bigfamine Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Heya. I just got an acer extensa 5420 yesterday.
    Graphics are supposedly at radeon HD 2400 XT, with 256megs of dedicated vram and the option to use regular ram as hypermemory.

    My problem is, whats the deal with the clock speeds?
    This screen shot should explain everything....Clock speeds are half of what they should be.

    http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/8380/screenki.jpg
     
    Bigfamine, Jan 1, 2010
    #1
  2. weinter

    weinter /dev/null

    Reputations:
    596
    Messages:
    2,798
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Please note that powerplay will cut graphics performance to save power in Windows 2D Mode it will only ramp up to 600MHZ when gaming.
     
    weinter, Jan 1, 2010
    #2
  3. Bigfamine

    Bigfamine Newbie

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    2
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Okay thanks, so everything is probably running properly?
     
    Bigfamine, Jan 1, 2010
    #3
  4. TehSuigi

    TehSuigi Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    931
    Messages:
    3,882
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    105
    Yup - ATi and Nvidia both have the ability to let their GPUs slip into a lower-power mode when not needed. ATi calls it PowerPlay, Nvida dubs it PowerMizer.

    Get a game revved up and you should notice your clocks are back to normal.
     
    TehSuigi, Jan 1, 2010
    #4