The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    GT72s - CPU suddenly not boosting any more ;(

    Discussion in 'MSI' started by DaReference5754, Sep 26, 2016.

  1. DaReference5754

    DaReference5754 Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    21
    Messages:
    76
    Likes Received:
    21
    Trophy Points:
    16
    I am playing SW battlefront regularly and had my i7 6700HQ boosting@full turbo 4x3,1GHZ (-120mV undervolt) 100% the time, after 2hours of game HWinfo shows me average ~3090MHZ.

    But today I installed newest nvidia driver and suddenly my CPU drops to 1,6GhZ to 2,6GHz after few minutes in game. even in high performance mode and "sport mode" in MSI gaming center....

    Even when I lock the clocks with Throttlestop the CPu goes down.

    How can this be?
    CPU temps were always cool (70-72C max ingame)

    Do I have to go back to old drivers?
    Is it possible that nvidia drivers "force" CPU to deactivate turbo?

    This is very strange.
     
    DaReference5754, Sep 26, 2016
    #1
  2. ryzeki

    ryzeki Super Moderator Super Moderator

    Reputations:
    6,552
    Messages:
    6,410
    Likes Received:
    4,087
    Trophy Points:
    431
    Did you do anything else besides installing nvidia drivers? Perhaps an update to windows or something? It should be completely unrelated (nvidia GPU vs intel CPU) and should not cause throttling. Try stock settings for the CPU without the undervolt, and then undervolt again. also check if any power settings changed in windows.
     
    ryzeki, Sep 26, 2016
    #2
  3. PCTech91

    PCTech91 Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    29
    Likes Received:
    5
    Trophy Points:
    6
    PCTech91, Sep 27, 2016
    #3
  4. Papusan

    Papusan Jokebook's Sucks! Dont waste your $$$ on Filthy

    Reputations:
    42,727
    Messages:
    29,850
    Likes Received:
    59,671
    Trophy Points:
    931
    @DaReference5754 See if windows power plan is set up to high performance (100% processor power) and not put to balanced power or your own created power plan. Try this instead of MSI gaming center.
     
    Papusan, Sep 27, 2016
    #4