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    Studio 15 Processor Problems

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hurley81388, May 11, 2010.

  1. hurley81388

    hurley81388 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Hi all,

    I noticed my computer drastically slowing down in the past few days and finally just got around to doing a benchmark on the cpu using Geekbench. After running the test, I got a score of 1025 which is drastically smaller than what everyone else is getting. A same exact Studio 15 had a score of 2456.

    Can anyone tell me what's going on with my system? I have no idea why my processor has suddenly gotten so slow. BTW i have a studio 1555 p8600 processor with 4 gigs of RAM. thanks in advance
     
    hurley81388, May 11, 2010
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  2. unclewebb

    unclewebb ThrottleStop Author

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    Your CPU might not be running at full speed due to throttling. Run ThrottleStop in monitoring mode while you are running this benchmark. Post or send me the log file when you're done. It can very accurately track exactly what your CPU is up to.

    http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/3/1794507/ThrottleStop.zip

    Dell uses a variety of performance throttling schemes on their laptops so you need to keep an eye on performance to make sure you are getting what you paid for.

    Here's how my T8100 does,

    [​IMG]

    so there is definitely something wrong with your CPU.
     
    unclewebb, May 11, 2010
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    hurley81388 Notebook Enthusiast

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    unclewebb, thanks for your reply.

    what i just did was i was running the most recent bios (a11) and i downgraded this to a08. after re-flashing to the old bios, i re-ran the geekbench benchmarking test and got a score of 2800 which seems about right. it seems as if there is something fishy with the new a11 bios...
     
    hurley81388, May 11, 2010
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    dimodi Notebook Consultant

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    That's very strange indeed... but at least you've fixed it. Probably a good idea to post this in the Dell forum on their site so they can look into it. I get about 5.6k on Geekbench, but I guess I'm running a very different studio to yours.
     
    dimodi, May 11, 2010
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