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    W150HR 2820QM HT & Throttle Questions

    Discussion in 'Sager and Clevo' started by idahosurge, Sep 16, 2011.

  1. idahosurge

    idahosurge Notebook Enthusiast

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    The BIOS on the W150HR is pretty limited and there are no options to disable HT on my 2820QM. I would like to disable HT so the CPU produces less heat since none of the programs I run use HT.

    I would also like to force the 2820QM to run at 2.3GHz at all times, but the BIOS has no way to disable Windows from throttling the CPU to 1600MHz when Windows decides it does nto need to run at 2.3GHz. Is there anyway to force the CPU to run at 2.3GHz at all times?
     
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  2. Bryanu

    Bryanu Notebook Deity

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    You can force windows to run the CPU at max (Max stock rate, not turbo), but HT you are stuck with.

    In windows make sure you have it on max performance and go into the advanced setting and set min CPU speed to 100%. Also make sure if you have any sager apps installed (on my lappy for example it has this) that they are set to max performance.

    TBH though if CPU goes down to 1600 and its not from heat more speed wont help what you are doing. Intel designed the CPUs to be dynamic. If it needs more speed it bumps itself up, it slowing itself down saves power and heat which is why they did that. GPUs do the same thing. If the demand hits it they instantly bump up.

    My CPU idles at 798Mhz but when I put load on it this bad boy makes it way up. I have seen it at 3.5Ghz at times even.
     
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    Religion Notebook Consultant

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    A valid request.
     
    Religion, Sep 16, 2011
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  4. Bryanu

    Bryanu Notebook Deity

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    Actually to put my own foot in my mouth setting the min CPU speed to 100% does not seem to work on my lappy. lol

    My old Core2Duo it did. Maye its hard coded by Intel now? So long as it speeds up when demand is made I don't care though.

    But the HT disable would be nice. Some things actually perform worse with it on people have found, and this goes back to the P4HT days
     
    Bryanu, Sep 16, 2011
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