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    Core i7 2630QM turbo boost problem?

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by gulmat, Oct 11, 2011.

  1. gulmat

    gulmat Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi people, during one of my class today I noticed on hardware info 64 that my turbo boost seems to be defective or something like that.

    What it does is all of my 4 cores randomly switch to 2.8ghz all the time even tho nothing is running. And there doesn't seem to be the 2.0ghz speed anymore.
    The only frequency showing is 800mhz (8.00x),2.6ghz(26.00x) and 2.8ghz (28.00x). All of them switching rapidly for no apparent reason. I tried restarting with no luck. Does anyone know if it's normal or not?

    btw my power plan is on high performance.
    If anyone has a good desktop recording software I could record it so you can see.

    Thanks
     
    gulmat, Oct 11, 2011
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  2. gulmat

    gulmat Notebook Enthusiast

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    I disabled Intel speedstep in the bios and the speed now only goes to 2.0ghz but will still drop to 800mhz for no reason. If Intel speedstep is disabled shouldn't it not be able to throttle/down clock the speed?
     
    gulmat, Oct 11, 2011
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  3. Tinderbox (UK)

    Tinderbox (UK) BAKED BEAN KING

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    What app are you using to monitor the cpu core speed? , guess HWinfo

    When stressed , all 4 of my cores seem to run at 2.6ghz together
     
    Tinderbox (UK), Oct 11, 2011
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  4. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    You should never disable Speedstep. Also the speed jumping around is completely normal. It is intelligently switching what cores and what speed to use. You are freaking out over nothing.
     
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  5. gulmat

    gulmat Notebook Enthusiast

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    well not even a month ago I check with hwinfo and all four were running at 2.0ghz without jumping everywhere so I figured it wasn't normal...
     
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  6. widezu69

    widezu69 Goodbye Alienware

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    Nah. I have ThrottleStop which is well know to be the greatest app for CPU's and it is up and down non-stop. And clocking down to 800Mhz is normal too. That is the CPU's idle state.
     
    widezu69, Oct 11, 2011
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  7. gulmat

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    Allright, thanks for the help! Just wanted to make sure everything was working like it should hehe.
     
    gulmat, Oct 11, 2011
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