Advice for Maximizing CPU performance

Hey all,

I've been playing some CPU intensive games and I'd like to find out the best way to use my CPU to its fullest potential. I've tried unparking the cores, which didn't really help all that much. I also have heard that forcing turbo boost can be beneficial but I haven't tried it (wouldn't it be at max during gaming anyway?)

The CPU is definitely bottle necking me despite being a quad i7 so any advice to get the most out of it is appreciated.

 

You could use throttlestop to keep your clockspeeds where you want them, unfortunately that 3610qm isn't able to be OC'd like the 37xx ones via XTU. What games are you playing that you're seeing this?

 

Forcing turbo might help, but you will not get max turbo on all four cores. Just keep that in mind when you bench and monitor those temps.

 

If you really want a big jump then cross flashing to a 170EM bios and sticking in a 3720qm or up would give you an extra 800mhz upwards....

 

Mainly planetside 2, which does admittedly have pretty bad CPU optimization, but I'm just trying to do what I can until they improve the engine.

@Meaker: Sounds like that would help. How would I do this? (Flashing bios)

 

I have P150EM and 3610qm, OC locked in XTU, what to do ?

 

Did you want something like that GPU Rendering Optimazation + FPS ?

 

nothing to do, since the 3610qm is fully locked.

u can pretty much go by the 2960xm oc guide in my signature, just be sure to replace the HM with the EM bios versions

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Nothing you can do, its locked down. Only the i7 37XXQM or higher can be OC'd.

 

I forget if the TDP limits are also locked, or if they have some give, if not you could maybe allow it to turbo a bit longer, but because 3.1ghz is not that aggressive you dont hit that limit much anyway IIRC.

 

How do you know your CPU is a bottleneck? Does it frequently hit 100% while gaming or anything? Your CPU should be similar to mine in performance, and mine doesn't hit 100% at all in that game. It could easily be GPU bound though. That game is the pinnacle of unoptimization. It's as bad as Metro 2033 and Crysis 2's DX11 mode. Or probably worse.

 

Haha, no D2, his 3610QM destroys your i7 950. Even a 2920XM isn't much of an upgrade over 3610QM. It's just barely, a smidgen better.
- For gaming, 3610QM is actually better. It has better single threaded performance and better physics performance.
- A 3720QM with XTU, definitely trumps any Sandy Bridge and any prior CPU.

 

I know the 3630 and 3740 and up break mine in half, didn't know the 3610 too. Never checked. But either way, if my CPU isn't ever a bottleneck, then his shouldn't be either.

 

3610 and 3630 are basically the same

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Just about. The extra MHz in CPU and graphics frequency gain over the 3610 is minuscule, but Trusted Execution Technology in the 3610 is nice.

 

The 3630 has a 100mhz clock advantage at all points, with a 3720qm and the +400mhz overclock you are looking at a 700mhz advantage.

 

So, how does your laptop run Planetside 2 in terms of FPS and settings? Just curious, since Im looking at picking up a laptop similar to yours.

 

Planetside 2 runs garbage on any system, even desktop monsters with GTX 680... Any online game with PhysX for the most part, will run garbage..