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    Unable to disable i7-720qm Throttling on n71jq-x1

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by LewsTherin, Mar 26, 2010.

  1. LewsTherin

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    Hi guys,

    I hope you can help me with this problem.
    I just received this laptop in yesterday, and I'm having a hell of a time getting the speedstep/cpu throttling to disable (I'm on AC power 95% of the time).

    I've set the minimum processor state to 100% in the power management profile (high performance)...I can't see anything else that might effect this though.

    Thank you for your help
     
    LewsTherin, Mar 26, 2010
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  2. hakira

    hakira <3 xkcd

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    What do you mean throttling? The 720's 'standard' state is 1.6ghz per core, speedstep can only increase each core to 1.73 (or take a single core to ~3ghz), I don't think it is responsible for any underclocking. If you're asking how to force it to stay at 1.73 I'm not sure if that's really necessary, but have you tried RMClock?
     
    hakira, Mar 26, 2010
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  3. LewsTherin

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    It's throttling down when on A/C power...which i had thought wasn't supposed to happen. For example, right now I'm fluxuating between 900mhz and 1200mhz.

    On any i7 desktop rig I've built, I can disable speedstep and C1E in the bios, and there is no throttling of any kind. However those BIOs options don't seem to be present on this laptop...so I'm somewhat at a loss.

    I have tried RMclock but have been unable to get it to work on w7 64bit
     
    LewsTherin, Mar 26, 2010
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  4. hakira

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    I'm not sure how to lock the FID at a certain level on an i7 without using RMC, hmm. Perhaps asus' power4gear software is interfering in some way?
     
    hakira, Mar 26, 2010
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    I've tried that, I set minimum processor state to 100%...but unfortunately that did not work either
     
    LewsTherin, Mar 26, 2010
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    I don't believe what you are attempting to do is currently possible on an i7 mobile cpu.
     
    ajreynol, Mar 26, 2010
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  7. LewsTherin

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    thats what i was afraid of :(
     
    LewsTherin, Mar 26, 2010
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    It bumps itself back up full speed when the power is demanded so why worry about that? It's not like you are having low speed when running a game. That is when there is a problem.
     
    mrPico, Mar 26, 2010
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    Asus are not Dell. ;) The ramping is by design, power on demand. It does throttle under intense situations such as a system backup.
     
    Risco, Mar 26, 2010
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    run prime95 or wprime in the background. That'll put processor usage up.
     
    DCx, Mar 26, 2010
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  11. PJPeter

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    Exactly - or run SuperPi and you should see a huge boost since it only uses 1 core. As part of the power saving it only boosts if you need the extra processing power.

    Peter
     
    PJPeter, Mar 27, 2010
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  12. sama98b

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    It is how i7 meant to work.
     
    sama98b, Mar 27, 2010
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