Mickyel

all is well lol, thanks guys!

here is the new benchmark: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8453170 all looks well still investigating temps

I noticed speedstep was diabled, i decided to load the default optimisation options by pressing f9 and speedstep enabled itself, so i guess someone turned it off(i just pruchased this laptop from ebay used)

getting into the bios was simple, just press f2 on start up, not sure what to look for...

What should i be looking for in the bios? i shall endeavour to find out how to access that, but i would not have much of a clue what to look out for... thanks!

this is an alienware r3 13 laptop cooler is standard for that unit

Hello, temps are just shy of 50 degrees on idle on all four cores, with no increase when running benchmark, thank you all for your responses! what on earth is going on?

Hello, so i have been trying to figure out why my alienware r3 13 has such bad performance in destiny and i came to the conclusion it might be a cpu issue, i ran a full benchmark: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/8452028 during this benchmark, my cpu showed very little utilisation and showed a 0.79 ghz clockspeed the entire time in task manager, i am using windows 10 on this laptop, hopefully someone has some insight and can help?