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    Finally Got Made my XPS 15 L502X run much cooler.

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by siquadri, Jan 28, 2012.

  1. siquadri

    siquadri Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi,

    I have been trying to make my laptop run cooler for quite a while.

    I tried every other thing suggested (that did not involved opening my laptop) and finally i disabled turbo boost and changed some windows setting
    and finally there you go .

    It runs much cooler than ever before.
     
    siquadri, Jan 28, 2012
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    alinad Notebook Consultant

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    if want disable turbo boost, why paid more buy I7 Cpu ? Higher temperature just a dell misstake, other brand such asus, toshiba that ok. so, why customer want to this stupid thing ?
     
    alinad, Jan 29, 2012
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    nomygod Notebook Geek

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    Many of us had turbo boost imposed upon us. I wanted a future-proof quad core, and turbo boost came with that. However, when I do things like heavy code compiling or video conversion, turbo boost has a very noticeable effect
     
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    NeoMesal Notebook Consultant

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    A quick change of power plans can easily enable/disable the Turbo Boost function. (I have all my 5 plans on hotkey)
     
    NeoMesal, Jan 29, 2012
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    @matrix5: can you please explain how you map those power plans to hotkeys? Thx =)

    /Dev
     
    Jubeltrubel, Jan 29, 2012
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    What are the drawbacks of disabling turbo boost?
     
    xxbadboys93, Jan 29, 2012
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    You don't have turboboost. I hate to be blunt, but it does what it says on the package.

    Single threaded applications might run a little slower, but other than that there won't be a huge amount of difference.
     
    funky monk, Jan 29, 2012
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