I know most are concerned about battery life, but with a gaming rig, Im worried about battery performance. What I mean is, when you unplug the razor, does it drastically downclock everything where gaming is not possible? You may have owned a laptop like this, one that gets 60+ FPS one w/e youre playing, but unplug it (with battery set to max performance) and it drops to 5 FPS or something unusable
Can anyone shed some light for me please? So long as the system reasonably performs on battery (i.e. dropping from 60FPS to 30-40) Im sold! I dont care if it only gets 15 min of battery .
Thanks!
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So I decided to just call tech support, got a pretty cool guy on the phone, and he explained the system preforms very well on battery, with the exception of battery life. I pulled some details out of him, but the Windows power setting ‘High Performance’ will prevent Optimus from activating and the system only down clocks about 15% to keep the heat down. The tech explained it’s his experience that if you’re getting 60FPS on AC power, you’ll get around 40-50 FPS on battery. I guess I’ll find out, because I just ordered one =)
PS: anyone dare overclock the GPU yet, or will I be the first? dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnn -
Last I checked, the system shouldn't even down clock itself at all if unplugged (I don't know if that's possible though).
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thanks Ellyidol! that what I pretty much got out of tech support too. it downclocks so slightly you may not notice it. cant WAIT for this new lappy!
Battery performance
Discussion in 'Razer' started by Tech17, Aug 19, 2013.