Do the studio 15 throttle?

Do the studio 15 throttle?

 

If the CPU or graphics card overheats, yes. Pretty much every computer in the world these days will throttle down to prevent overheating.

 

Iwas meaning like the same problem as the xps line?

 

I believe the answer is yes if you get it with the Core i7 line of processors but it seems as though the Core i5 line does not as they require less power to run. But what Mastershroom says is true.

 

yeap, because of overheating, not becose of the power consumption (i`m talking about mi 1557 i7... alredy called, i`m sending it back)

 

All of DELL 45nm Core i5 or Core i7 throttle and should have been recalled. However 32nm Core i5 Core i7 are excellent no throttling. Probably why Apple refused to even accept and use 45nm Core i5 and Core i7 in their MacBook Pros. That generation of Processors are junk.

 

It's not necessarily the processors fault. The thermal design of a laptop will also play a huge part whether it overheats or not. Trying to cram too many things in a thing space will cause heat and if not properly designed to dissipate it, then you get the overheating issues.

 

As Wildman says, it seems more an issue of Dell's laptop design than it is a fault of the processor. If you actually read through the whole of the Studio 1557 thread here, it becomes even more apparent that a lot of the heat (and throttling) issues are caused by the GPU, not the CPU; I can vouch for this, as my usage is more CPU- than GPU-dependent (lots of CS4, little gaming). And, after three months, I've yet to experience the fabled throttling or overheating issues.

I think the processor works fine. And I'm sure the i5s do too

 

Actually the problem also occurs on studio 1555, due to gpu overheat but not bcoz of cpu

 

The problem on the 1557s is more caused by the GPU as well. Although, not everyone has this problem - but it seems that the people who don't have the problem aren't actually stressing the GPU at all.

 

Nah, apple isn't using the i7s because battery life stinks. And because there is huge competition in the i7 space, and they won't compete on price.

They're not using the i5s (yet) because they were only released a month ago.

Don't worry, they'll get around to it. Maybe they're just trying to clear old stock - quite a move, but hey ... it's apple.

 

No. the XPS line isn't getting enough juice to run at full speed, the studio 15s have bad thermal design and the i7/i5s won't use turbo boost (and will even downclock) if they don't have thermal headroom. The power adapter for the XPS line doesn't provide enough power to run everything at full load, so the processor will drop into a lower clock. At least, that's the word from the Studio XPS 16 discussion...

If they are well cooled, then they'll run as fast as they can. The i7 is a beast.