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    CPU problem with NP9172

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by Dav23, Nov 10, 2016.

  1. Dav23

    Dav23 Newbie

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    Hi everyone, this is my first post on this forum but it seems like an appropriate place to ask my question. I recently just bought a Clevo P775DM3/Sager NP9172(directly from sager) and wow is it a beast of a machine. Well it would be if there didn't seem to be some sort of CPU throttling going on. It seems that whenever I load anything CPU intensive such as a benchmark or a game, the CPU clock speed drops way below its base speed.

    This of course severely impacts the laptops performance. In multiple benchmarks and games, I've been getting considerably below expected performance such as an abysmal 170 multicore CPU score in Cinebench. Also fairly certain that it is not my GPU because it performs just fine GPU in benchmarks.

    http://imgur.com/LjHm3YP

    As we can see here in BF1, I am not getting the expected fps and with HWinfo we can see that my cpu has somehow downclocked it self to 1.8 Ghz on all 4 physical cores even though my temperatures are fine. I've already clean installed W10 twice but to no avail and any help in solving this problem would be appreciated.

    Specs: [email protected] Ghz, GTX 1070, 16 gb ram, 256 intel 600p ssd, 1 tb sata ssd (my own)
     
  2. fortune515

    fortune515 Notebook Consultant

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    I'm relatively new here also, so welcome. Not sure it'll help, but I saw something similar on one of the np9873 pages. The issue turned out to be GeForce Experience "optimizing" their game by reducing the power to the cpu. What you're describing sounds like it could be the same type of power management issue.

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  3. Dav23

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    Hey thanks for the response. Unfortunately uninstalling GeForce Experience did not boost my performance and I still get these low cpu speeds. Infact I even tried disabling SpeedStep in bios to force it to run @3.4 Ghz which was verified in HWInfo. But as soon as I enter a game or run a benchmark, it somehow downclocks itself to these low levels...not really sure what's going on.