Disable CPU power saving

Geoff

Geoff

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I just got my laptop, and im not that farmiliar with it yet. What i've found out is that when its running on the battery, it downclocks the cpu, and maybe a few other things. When i ran 3DMark01 with just the battery, i got a score of 36xx, but with the ac adapter i got 10xxx.

My old laptop used to have a setting in windows where you can change the processor speed, but i dont see that here. And i dont think i saw anything in the BIOS for it, so do any of you know a way i can have it run at full power when im going to be playing games?
 
Have you tried looking in the power settings?

Stat>Control Panel>Power Options

But not to be an asswipe, there probably is no option for this knowing its a Dell.
 
Get some overclocking software...?

That's the best thing I can come up with.

But, There should be a way to make it stop making it self slower to minimize power consumption.
 
I looked a little deeper and found that there is a speedstep option in the BIOS. But the reason it was getting poor scores was because of ATI PowerPlay, which optimizes the card for longer battery life, and worse performance.
 
[-0MEGA-] said:
...But the reason it was getting poor scores was because of ATI PowerPlay, which optimizes the card for longer battery life, and worse performance.
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Yup, that's it. You can also use a utility like NHC (notebook hardware control) to undervolt and underclock for better battery life. But I also mentioned this because you can set it to max performance at all times (instead of when needed) like you requested too.
 
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