AW M15x Throttling Issue Investigation - Stock clocks and overclocked.

is the throttling issue seen in all M15x?

 

untill the bios fixes it, all the M15x will have throttling issue (with 260m GTX).

 

i ve ordered priety much the same one you have, but are you experiencing throttling issues alot?

 

well not a LOT but yes i am.. if u look 2 or 3 pages back i have posted that i contacted the dell about this and i will be sending my system for them to carry out tests (as they have not got one... bhaa!!) and meanwhile they will send me a replacement with he same spec and all... they promised me they will bring out a new BIOS update asap to solve this issue...
But for now everything seems to work nice with the lil software here and the small trick with rivatuner.

 

hello... for the throttling fix i can use the adapter that i found in the m15x box or i must buy another adapter?

 

Use the one that came with the Computer.

 

ok thanks....sorry but i've another question....when i install throttlestop my Gpu e Cpu can works at 100%...but after a lot of time that i work hard on the notebook can i have a chance to overheat the pc?

 

That im not sure of but just by using common sense im sure after some time you could risk it. But if the fans are doing their job they will help in keeping the heat down, but like i said its probably possible over a period of time.

 

Guess it is good there's a fix for the problem now, isn't it?

 

andreaprio: Intel CPUs are designed not to overheat. They will run slower and cool off automatically if they ever reach 100C. No worries.

 

I remember joker testing throttling by adjusting the brightness of the screen. Does the 240 have the same power requirements at full load as the 260m?

 

Hey what program do you guy use to monitor the CPU temperature? Is it Realtemp? Thank!!

 

Personally I use CPUID's Hardware Monitor.

 

koo thank wolfpup. So i just leave it on while I play a game and it will monitor my CPU temperature?

 

http://www.fileden.com/files/2008/3/3/1794507/RealTempBeta.zip

RealTemp works well too and you can set it to monitor and log what your CPU is up to while gaming. It should put a very light load on your computer while doing this and will show you the MHz of the hardest working core / thread while gaming. I don't know of any other tools that can accurately show that on the Core i7 CPUs.

 

Nice...Thank Unclewebb!!

 

ok guys im buying a m15x tomorrow, going to put the 260m in it and report if it throttles and what bios i have in it,

does anyone know the 3dmark of the m15x with the 240m / 260m?
also using the 1.6ghz cpu ? thnks

 

This what i got but i have a i7 820QM instead. I think you can expect a 1000 point lower with the 720QM. View attachment 3dmark06.doc

 

so about 11k thankyou

 

this is with my 720QM http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=12434131 the I7 mobiles arent clocked far enough apart to be a huge difference

 

Last question... 900p or 1080p display? Got the 1200p on my laptop m17 and regretted it. Is there a big difference in gps between these? Thanks

 

It would be totally personal preference. I want lower resolution-1080p on a laptop screen is nuts to me, but I know tons of people want it. If you don't like 1280p on a 17" screen though I doubt you'd like 1080p on a 15.6" one.

 

1080 on a 15 inch screen just doesnt look right its even a stretch on a 17

 

joker you live in aventura, i live in miramar, go to aventura all the time, lol

 

Hi everyone,

Well, I starting reading this thread yesterday evening, and finished this evening....pretty long in just around 1 month of posting, haha.

Anyway, I got my m15x built in November, but didn't get to touch it until mid December since I was abroad then.
I'm abroad now, in China, to be specific, and before I go on, could someone be so helpful as to send me throttlestop via email?....the throttlestop site joker posted is banned here in China, and I can't download it. I would really appreciate that.

As well, I want to thank joker and unclewebb for their priceless help with finding how to get around Dell's scheme.

I did the tests, and I also get both my cpu and gpu to throttle during heavy loads....unfortunate really...but much has already been said by our fellow m15x owners.

My setup is as follows:
820QM
4 gigs ram
1920x1080 native
256 SSD drive
GTX 260M
Windows 7 ultimate
9 cell battery

I found this setup is a much better bang for your buck over getting the 920XM processor....I'll just wait until that processor is ridiculously cheap and get it off ebay or buy it somewhere after I've driven the 820 almost to dirt,haha.

I did some reasearch about being able to change out your 260M for the 280M that comes in the M17, and apparently it's possible, but currently very hard to find the stand alone chip for sale.

So I'm leaving those 2 upgrades for the future....maybe 1.5 years later.

I have been playing a lot of COD Modern warfare, and I put everything on YES, at 60htz, and everything in EXTRA running at 1920x1080

I put on gpu-z and logged. I get solid runs with the clock at stock speed, and the gpu load fluctuating between 95% >< 97%
But no gpu nor cpu clock fluctuation whatsoever. so I'm guessing COD doesn't really push our systems that hard.

 

ThrottleStop 1.71
http://www.sendspace.com/file/337mxu

How about sendspace? Is that site banned too?

I just did one minor adjustment to this version for better support of the 0.5 multipliers that the newer Core 2 CPUs have.

Send me an email to real_temp ATyahoo.ca and I will send you the latest version if the above download doesn't work.
Replace AT with @ and it should work.

 

hi guys, if i want to update my graphics drive do i have to use the one from dell or can i use the one from the nvidia site?

 

use nvidia's newest youll be fine

 

hey everyone whats up i don't understand how to use riva tuner it asks me a bunch of stuff at install and i'm totally lost, anyone willing to help????

 

it says cannot load RivaTuner64.sys driver please ensure that this file exists in the riva tuner's folder and your user account has admin rights.

 

Hi,

did you try running it as administrator?

what windows are you using? are you 32 or 64 bit system?

 

yeah i'm an admin on my system, 64 bit windows seven also when i installed asked to update i said no and since i couldn't get it to work i uninstalled was waiting to hear from someone to reinstall.

 

this is what it says when i try to install "windows requires a digitally signed driver"
"a recently installed program tried to install an unsigned driver. this version of windows requires all drivers to have a valid digital signature. the driver is unavailable and the program that uses this driver might not work correctly.

uninstall the program or device that uses this driver and check the publishers support website to get a digitally signed driver.

 

You shouldn't be seeing that error at all. Did you get 2.24c? Try changing your user account control settings and set it to off (never notify).

 

That's the exact same error I was getting with RivaTuner. Never did get it to work on my machine. UAC is turned off. Did all the turn off driver signing stuff I could find on the net. Nothing. Finally gave up. Don't really need it anyway with my 240M. But still would like to know why the error.

 

Well a quick google search found this suggestion:

Give it a try. Also make sure you select "yes" when it asks you if you want to install available updates for rivatuner. I just downloaded 2.24c for my desktop running win7 and it installed without a hitch.

 

kk thanks alot joker, and yeah i have the same settings as the other guy posted. what driver btw i don't see it.

 

also my bios is A03 12/16/09, and i used the link u provided for rivatuner, all i see is the installer and an .rtu file in the setup folder.

 

also don't i also need to disable powermizer or something???? sorry for the triple post i just want my machine to run at full capacity.

 

Right click on the installer, run as administrator and install it. When rivatuner asks if you want to install updates, choose yes.

 

alright also i'm using throttle stop and while playing crysis at near 1080 and very high i get no change in my gpu clocks and load only goes up to 90 ish% and never above 700mb memory used

 

is it supposed to have a wierd gui or skin cuz ur instructions leave me lost for this new update

 

nvm got it i think though from running gpu z while playing crysis at almost max i never saw any dips or throttling so yeah....idk though it didn't go past like 87% so idk.

 

k i did what the instructions said but now when playing crysis i'm getting lower clock speeds, before riva tuner i was hitting max clock speeds without throttling, i'm very confused.

 

You have to set the clocks in rivatuner.

 

figured that out and it all works except the core clock doesn't change the mem and shader do, the core clock won't change

 

yeah whenever i change the core clock speed nothing happens on gpu-z after i hit apply and if i hit okay the slider goes back too 383 thats where its staying at

and if i uninstall rivatuner will my gpu go back to normal or do i have to do something special, also what multiplier for the 920 xm on throttlestop

sorry btw i'm new at all this

thanks alot joker i'd be lost without u

 

also where do i go to make sure my bios and what not for all the hardware is right???? anyone else have problems running portal?? or hl2.exe cuz it won't run on my setup.

ok how do i get my gpu back to how it used to be?

 

if you're stuck at 383, make sure stealth mode is off. I had a similar issue. At first I needed to restart the comp, to let rivatuner do its job. Since I didn't restart I was stuck at the wrong clocks. I checked stealth mode and everything and it wasn't on, nor did it make a difference in clocks if I toggled it on/off. After that I restarted, but then I forgot to check stealth mode. So I was still stuck at the wrong clocks. I even uninstalled rivatuner, and still was stuck. At that point I realized I was back in stealth mode, and it all made sense. You have to restart if enabling or disabling rivatuner and stealth mode is sneaky!

 

ahhhh ok i got it to work finally, but my question is once u use rivatuner there is no way so that your pc will do what it does without rivatuner, mine wasn't throttling on crysis max settings and max resolution, didn't run super fast but no throttling on gpu z, and it fluctuated according to what i was doing, i.e. checking gpu z and leaving crysis in the backround drops the core clock to 200 but back to 550 for crysis.

so my question is how do i get my comp back to normal how do i make it so it's like i never installed rivatuner without doing a system restore. i really wanna compare my performance with and without it, i don't think mine throttles tbh but idk.