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    9550 throttling woes making the machine almost unusable :(

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by CraftyClown, Oct 13, 2017.

  1. Papusan

    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

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    This may be of interest, if you all haven't read it before How Dell cripple performance explained by Notebookcheck (And not only Dell use dirty tricks).
     
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    ok @pressing so what would I adjust if i were to try and get rid of PL1 throttling. Here is my throttle stop screen:

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    You can try increase Package Power Long to same value as Package power Short and max out Turbo Time Limit, but this won't do much on a locked down chips. Best bet is to see if you can do a decent undervolt to decrease Cpu power usage (Lower max TDP).
     
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