S-XPS 1645 Throttling Info. and Updates

[m@nny]

On the other side of the coin, i don't believe the prices will go up. As far as i'm concerned, they've lost one customer already and god knows how many others.
If anything, they'll need to do something to put assurance back in the market.

Just bare in mind, there are also more and more very appealing rivals coming out.

[m@nny]

No doubt a fesh format would be better! But it all depends if you got the disk to do it. I dont know if its included.

May be a Studio 17 issue but im not 100%, It will hadle WOW fine and even MWF2 but not at 1080p and all the best settings.

My SXPS came with a seperate OS disk. I guess any other Dell laptop would too?

[tcklim]

I think these forums have disuaded many people from purchasing these machines.. i myself have prevented at least 8 i know of and who knows how many more potential dell victims who have just lurked and decided not to buy.. Im taking my banning from the DELL FORUMS rather personal so i have decided to distribute the throttlegate.pdf which dell has so feverishly tried to erase from the net. Im gonna create another user and go back in and post it in thier forums... likely the only honest information anyone will find in there.

heres the link:

http://www.mediafire.com/?njryy2ymynh

They certainly lost me. Had been anxiously waiting till January to purchase this laptop but have finally lost hope. Placed an order for an F11 today.

[fluffyuk]

Ture I agree to a certain extent, maybe. But are the rivals the HP and the ASUS ? Because thye both have their faults.

[tcklim]

Ture I agree to a certain extent, maybe. But are the rivals the HP and the ASUS ? Because thye both have their faults.

I think the F11 is a pretty decent rival, in the EU it's about the same price point with Blu-Ray and a 100% Adobe RGB screen (understand that's not available in the U.S. though) .... although it does have its faults, they're relatively minor and have permanent workarounds in place.

Otherwise I would have gone for the new Envy 15 refresh but its non-customizable in the UK :S

[Midnight_Voice]

I was rather surprised myself. I had heard of Tinkerdude's 59-page PDF documenting the throttling issue, but I hadn't realized he had been banned because of it.

Yes, but Dell say he wasn't banned, for that or for anything else. He just had some posts taken down because they broke the TOS. You can link through one of the comments (don't recall which one and CBA to find it again) on one of the posts you quoted, to an existing Dell forum post of tinkerdude's which links in turn to his magnum opus.

But if, as unclewebb says, he's been silenced by an NDA, then I'd guess that either Dell threatened to sue him if he didn't shut up, or they offered him a good deal of hardware provided he shut up. And probably both.

So when Dell come calling on unclewebb, he'll either be very much richer than now, or very much poorer, depending

[fluffyuk]

Havent looked at the F11, shame aboutit not being in the U.S, was the main reason I bought the DELL was because of te exchange rate,

[Dany|R]

Now my GPU thottle...



Watch GPU and MEM frequency....

[tcklim]

Havent looked at the F11, shame aboutit not being in the U.S, was the main reason I bought the DELL was because of te exchange rate,

Bad choice of wording on my part It's available in the U.S., but not with the 100% Adobe RGB Screen ....

[Lucho87]

Guys, i tested my 1557 on external monitor and ac adapter

When Running only prime95, multiplier stays between 12 and 13 constant.

When i run furmark and prime95, core multiplier stays on 12. When CPU temperature hits 93c, it downclockes to x8, temperature drops till 86c. Then, multiplier starts rising again, and repeats the cycle.
1557 repeated this cycle 3 times, then automatically shutted off.

So, throttling (at least on external display) is caused by core overheating (when stressing both gpu and cpu). It does not throttle when only stressing cpu.

Oh, temperature here in Argentina is something around 33 or 34c... very hot!

I`ll run the same tests on it`s own 15" display

Some images:

Full Speed
http://img195.imageshack.us/i/97343319.jpg

After hitting 93c (cpu), and throttling to x8/x9.
http://img85.imageshack.us/i/96121100.jpg