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    Anyone have an ideapad with Core i7 running into turbo problems?

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by alishamim, Jan 16, 2010.

  1. alishamim

    alishamim Notebook Geek

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    I've been reading around and have heard that some companies are disabling turbo mode when the laptop is running on battery. Does the ideapad have that problem?
     
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    I heard about that. Supposedly it wasn't intentional and there is a bios fi forthcoming. Also a few machines are having thermal issues running at full power and the dell xps 16 apparently didn't ship with a big enough power supply.
     
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    Renee Notebook Virtuoso

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    This must be a different mode than we had we with the t61p? Because we found that turbo mode was largely useless.
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    I believe the OP is referring to the Turbo Boost feature built into the i7 CPUs, which selectively overclocks cores when the processing power is needed.

    I haven't heard about any such issues on the Y550p, but then again, the number of Ideapad owners is likewise small, probably because Lenovo does such a horrible job advertising that line.
     
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    well i know the hp envy has a locked multiplier which is def not a good idea so I hope they fix that with a bios update.
     
    alishamim, Jan 16, 2010
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