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P170SM-A Turbo LED

Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by draxen, Apr 13, 2014.

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Hi folks,

I just bought a new P170SM-A from the guys at Aftershock Singapore. It's running perfectly but there is one thing I'm curious about.
The LED indicator to the far left of the power button that displays an icon like a speedometer (Turbo LED?) is constantly blinking on and off.
I assume it should only switch on if my CPU hits turbo mode at high load?
Can anyone shed some light on this?

Thanks,
Drax

CPU: Intel Core i7-4800MQ
GFX: NVIDIA GTX 880M
RAM: 16GB DDR3 1600mhz
HDD: 2x 750GB Samsung 840 Evo SSDs

draxen, Apr 13, 2014

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Hi draxen,
the led with the speedometer is the led that annunce if the dedicaded GPU ( you GTX 880m) is activated ( it's deactivated by optimus when the application don't need it ) , the CPU don't have anything to do with that ^^.
The fact that is blinking say that something constantly wake up the GPU, probably a monitoring programm ( Afterburner/Hwinfo/GPU-z/gpu-shark, anything ).

Hope i helped !

Elipsus

Elipsus, Apr 13, 2014

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Aha! Mystery solved!
Thanks Elipsus

It was indeed a monitoring program, I simply disabled MSI Afterburner and the LED switched off.

draxen, Apr 13, 2014

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