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    TurboBoost for SmartGesture Fix?

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by rfii, Jan 22, 2016.

  1. rfii

    rfii Notebook Consultant

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    Can someone tell me what the driver version is that you have if you do not have the turbo boost problem where smart gesture triggers turboboost for 10+ seconds?

    So my UX303LN system was plagued by the bug whereby using the two finger scroll would kick the CPU up to the max 2.9 GHz clock speed in turbo mode for 10+ seconds after I stopped scrolling, which means it was almost always on turbo boost while surfing the web.At some time after I upgraded in place to Win10 Home the problem went away. But now it's back that I've done a clean install of Win 10 Pro. Windows says there's no driver updates I dont have.

    Anyone have any other solution?
     
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    May have fixed it but the solution makes no sense...

    I went to device manager > touchpad and told it to check online for an update. It found an update and installed it. After reboot, there STILL was the turboboosting problem. I then went into control panel > power options and STILL had the turbo problem on all power modes (ie high performance, balanced, power saver). I went into the high performance's options > change plan settings > change advanced plan settings > processor power management > minimum processor state. I noticed it was at 100% for high performance, but power saver and balanced were at 5%, so I changed high performance down to 10%. I did NOT alter that setting for power saver or balanced. Now miraculously smartgesture does not hold turboboost for 10 seconds on ANY power option mode, which makes no sense bc balanced and power saver modes haven't been altered! It does ramp up the processor while scrolling, but it goes back to idle about a second after stopping so that's all good.

    wtf...

    The only thing I can think of is that the new driver needed 20 minutes to figure itself out (I didn't reboot in all that time) or changing that setting somehow caused the computer to reassess something for all modes? grasping at very weak straws here...