How are you dealing with throttling?

I had another post in the forum but I wanted to make a bigger thread. "How are you dealing with throttling?". I received my first gaming laptop, alienware 17 r2 with gtx 980m/4720hq. I am using the stock 180W PSU + A05 BIOS. The temps are controled via HWiNFO. I don't know how to configure Throttlestop or Intel XTU although I tried a few configurations and I failed. Please share with everyone how did you manage to prevent throttling, were you able to prevent it? I am very mad right now. I don't even live in US or Canada so my chances of returning this machine is almost impossible. I just want this laptop working. I would be very happy if the CPU worked over 3.0 GHz stable. That is enough for me I don't seek 3.4-2.5 GHz.

 

The throttling you mentioned in the other thread seems worse than most. I have had some mixed feedback. ThrottleStop 8.00 might be able to help but it probably won't fully solve your problems. ThrottleStop should look something like this.

http://i.imgur.com/tMkSQfi.png

Check Set Multiplier and set that to the maximum value, uncheck BD PROCHOT, leave SpeedStep checked and remember to click on the Turn On button. Those are the basics. See how that goes. For advanced users, you need to open up the FIVR window and under volt your CPU core by about -50 mV. Under volt some more if you can get away with it. If your laptop crashes, you have gone too far so under volt less. A few tweaks like that can help the cause. Many of these laptops have known throttling problems that have not been resolved.

I recommend that you do not use Intel XTU, not even for monitoring purposes. Good program, nice graphs but even when it is minimized to the system tray and not doing anything, it is so inefficient that it reduces CPU performance and increases the amount of throttling. On these laptops, you have enough problems as is without creating more throttling problems.

Run a ThrottleStop Log File while gaming so you have a record of your CPU's performance or lack of performance. You can upload any data to www.pastebin.com and then post a link here.

 

Thanks for the help. I used throttlestop as you suggested and it did hold to clocks over 3.5 GHz for over 25 mins but it did throttle again(not to 800 MHz it throttled to 2.1-2.2 GHz). I opened XTU and it was showing the "Power Limit Throttling" %100. The same happened in the previous throttling situations of mine. I am using the 180W PSU. I am not a pro on these kind of stuff but I think 180W PSU is causing the problems. I started another thread to ask people if they experience throttling with 180W PSU + hybrid BIOS. I will get a 240W PSU soon and I hope that's going to be a soultion.

 

That's right get a 240w PSU chap

 

I'm using throttle stop with a 240psu and I currently have it locked at 3.5... Mine power throttles down to 2.8 every once in a while. Is there a fix to give it the juice it needs to maintain?

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