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    Can someone explain throttle stop to me?

    Discussion in 'ASUS Gaming Notebook Forum' started by Truels2, Oct 3, 2011.

  1. Truels2

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    Iv seen mention of this program called throttle stop and was wondering if it's somthing that would better my computer (g74sx-xn1). From what iv gathered it uncaps the turbo boost of the CPU or evens it out? Does the g74 suffer from this and are you guys using it? I looked at the program it self and it looks pretty damn confusing.. Any help here?
     
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    TS won't do much for you unless the laptop throttles (i don't think the G74 has this issue) or if you have a xm cpu with the right chipset which the G74 doesn't have.
     
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    That Throttlestop Guide ^^ Is so straight forward if aliens landed and took over the planet they would all be using XM processor's within a week.

    Tijo is right though it will happily allow you to control your downclocks but you will have no access to the TRL and TPL's as they are locked on a QM model.
     
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    So basically this is nothing I really have to worry about. Sorry for the post I was just curiuse about it. Thanks
     
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    It is still a good monitoring tool if you run it in monitoring mode. The best one to get an accurate reading of your actual clock speeds when running benchmarks.
     
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    NotebookCheck Review Asus G74SX-3DE Gaming Notebook
    Review Asus G74SX-3DE Gaming Notebook - Notebookcheck.net Reviews

    If you own a G74SX, it would be a good idea to run a ThrottleStop log file while gaming to make sure that you don't run into any throttling problems. Their test unit only had the Core i7-2630QM.
     
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    Guess I'll have to do that when I get home today. Is this somthing I can post on the forums so you could see if there is anything going on?
     
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    Yes you can post it here, either as a .txt attachment or just paste into the reply and wrap code tags around it.
     
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    If you paste it, i'd use a spoiler tag to hide the log, just so things are nice and tidy.
     
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    Was over on the asus g series forums this morning and from what they say the g74 is effected. Chasity posted a guide on how to setup TS have to check and uncheck some boxes or somthing or other.
     
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    how i can do that? please :)
     
    IxDarKFirexI, Oct 4, 2011
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