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    Clevo p170sm cpu usage

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by davvd, Apr 19, 2015.

  1. davvd

    davvd Newbie

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    Hi,i would like to explain how i fixed a problem i have been struggled with for months,even though i didn't know i had it, and make some questions.I hope that this can help someone.Note that i had the latest gpu drivers,i had installed every driver that came with the laptop and i was using the nvidia gpu,not the integrated.Since i bought this laptop,while playing nearly every game my cpu usage was going at 100%. I tought that this was a good thing since it meant that the computer was able to fully use the cpu.This also meant that my framerate couldn't go in most games over 30-35 fps,and a lot of times i had huge framerate drops under 30,even playing very old games.I spent a lot of time changing settings,but at the end since most of the games where playable i gave it up,thinking that that was what the laptop was able to handle.But when i recently bought some new games and i tried to run them,i noticed that even with a very low resolution the pc couldn't handle them.I then searched for laptops with my same specs and discovered that they were able to run that games.So after some months i realized that there was something wrong with the computer.I tried fixing the problem changing settings in windows,but it didn't do anything.Yesterday i finally found a solution.I always though cpus didn't need drivers(i only installed the ones that came with the laptop,but usually in desktop computers i don't install anything).So i updated the drivers(the installer said that there were already installed older drivers)and when it finished i couldn't believe what i was seeing.A lot of games where using cpu under 50%,and now i was able to run games at 60fpsI could hear the cpu fan for the first time!Now the questions :) : is this a well known bug,and why wasn't windows able to correctly recognize the cpu?Now that i am not cpu capped,i noticed that when the ac adapter is not plugged i can only reach around 40 fps,but when it is plugged i can finally go to 60 fps.I changed windows power plan settings a long time ago,so this seems related to bios setting.Is there a way to use all the power of this pc when the ac adapter is not plugged in?
     
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  2. Meaker@Sager

    Meaker@Sager Company Representative

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    There are chipset drivers which should be the first step in any system install.
     
    Meaker@Sager, Apr 19, 2015
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