AW M15x Throttling Issue Investigation - Stock clocks and overclocked.

Wattos · 02-27-2010, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Jstarnino

yes...and powermizer is a feature on Nvidia cards....and apprently is causing some sort of conflict but only on the 260m ... it's more of a "software" conflict specific to the 260 for some reason if you will... not the system overheating or using up too much power is what im trying to say...

And what I am telling you is that it is not certain that a GPU upgrade will fix the throttling issue.

Jstarnino · 02-27-2010, 07:29 PM

Agreed. I was just saying that "hopefulky" it will. Wasn't sayin im right.

Dellienware · 02-28-2010, 10:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Dellienware

does anyone have the link to the rivatuner?? i thought i got the right rivatuner, but i cannot find the "global" from "overclocking"

please help!!!!!!!!!

i might seem really newbie right now but i really cannot find "global" from the rivatuner that i was told to download. i got into a tab where i can like change the frequency and all, but no where i can find "global"...

is there any specific directions???? please help!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dellienware · 02-28-2010, 10:56 PM

hello,

i have the core i7 720qm
260m
6gb 1333mhz
bios a03
just got this system

when i run prime 95 and furmark together, i see a definite throttling.
when the temp of the gpu reaches 74 and when JUST about to reach 75, it throttles back and reaches 69 degrees or so. and then it again regains its 550mhz core clock and reachers 74, and then throttles back onces again with this cycle.

i think this is caused by temperature issue. if it was lack of power, the point of throttling will be rather random. however in my case, as soon as it reaches 75, it throttles. ALWAYS in this temperature.

if i let cpu at idle, and run furmark, it will go up to like 78 degrees or so. i didnt see it throttle till then. i just turned the program off after seeing that it doesnt.

the thing is that, as long as i put the temp down, i can run the gpu at 550mhz with not throttle while running prime 95. again, whenever the temp reaches 75, as SOON as it does, it throttles back. so i want to rather confirm that it is more cause of the temp, not lack of power.

but well 75 degrees is not that hot at all....

any other ideas????

Signus · 03-01-2010, 09:15 PM

Hey guy i need some help with my Gpu. In GpuZ, the Gpu clock would show the default clocks 550/950/1350 while in sensor mode it would show 383/300/766. Seeing how joker showed his and had the default clocks i'm seeing that something is wrong here. I tried nvidia system tools to change the clocks which failed. I also used riva tuner yet that just resets to the clocks mentioned with link clocks off in settings. Im not very big with messing with this kinda stuff so not sure if this is normal or not.

Here's links to the picture
Gpu Clock
http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1267496013

Gpu sensor
http://i590.photobucket.com/albums/s...g?t=1267496075

Edit: Seems like Riva Tuner decided to start doing its job lol. its showing stock clocks on Gpu Z now.

Mutoloco · 03-02-2010, 03:52 AM

Hi Signus,
I am not sure if you meant you solved the problem?

make sure you look through this thread for info, but maybe the problem is with your power management, did you make sure the active plan in fx fusion is high performance? and in the high performance, did you look in the advanced tabs, in the GPU, that it is both to max performance for battery and plugged setting? and lastly, make sure when you turn on the laptop, that you are plugged in, and in rivatuner, that you got "force clock on start up" box checked to the stock settings, and that your stealth mode is not on. M15x rocks!

Signus · 03-02-2010, 10:46 AM

yep its fix and thnx for some more info on what to do.

Mr Pras · 03-05-2010, 09:07 AM

Probably been suggested before, but if battery life is not a problem can we not just set our BIOS clocks/VIDs to all be the same? Then whatever the GPU tries it will be locked at the same speed.

Dunno if that's safe or if anyone tried that. Has anyone tried disabling speedstep also? does that make any difference on the CPU side of things?

thewhitewizard · 03-13-2010, 08:41 AM

I have spent ages to sort out the restarting issues. It boils down to this when using rivatuner the problem comes up. If I don't use rivatuner even if it is installed the laptop does not restart. May be something to do with the unsigned driver issue in windows 7. I've tried every possible solution.. HELP JOKER.....

Jstarnino · 03-13-2010, 10:36 AM

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Originally Posted by thewhitewizard

I have spent ages to sort out the restarting issues. It boils down to this when using rivatuner the problem comes up. If I don't use rivatuner even if it is installed the laptop does not restart. May be something to do with the unsigned driver issue in windows 7. I've tried every possible solution.. HELP JOKER.....

i'm not current with your previous posts, but from what i understand your having a problem with your laptop randomly restarting? or when you try to shutdown, it restarts instead?

As you said it's only with rivatuner on..did you randomly adjust the clocks? This can cause system instability if clocked toohigh, or even if the ratios are not kept the same if im not mistaken...

if you haven't messed around with the clocks, then i must ask what drivers are you using? I would suggest updating the latest 195.xx drivers from the Nvidia site, as they work best with rivatuner.