Help with my configuration

[Tthijs]

Dear tech enthusiasts,

 

A couple of years back I've bought the HP 15 ae123nd laptop with a 4k screen, i7 processor and Nvidia GeForce GTX 950M. I thought those were pretty good specs at the time for a laptop. But when I bought it I immediately saw some drawback with especially the performance aspect. 

 

Recently I started watching Linus's channels on YouTube and started to focus more on what could be wrong with my laptop. So a week back a downloaded cinebench and my results with this particular laptop are around 170. To my knowledge, which is considerably low, I think this still is a REALLY bad score for theses specs. So this is the reason I'm making this post. Can you help me giving your expertise and experience to solve my 'problem' with the performance on my laptop. How am I able to fix this or make this better? Have I just been unlucky with a bad CPU or is there some other issue going on?

 

Please help,

Thijs

[Crunchy Dragon]

What model Core i7?

 

Lower end CPUs will do worse in Cinebench.

[Shiv78]

Just now, Crunchy Dragon said:

What model Core i7?

 

Lower end CPUs will do worse in Cinebench.

Looks like a i7-6500U. 

 

https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04930299

 

OP, this is a dual-core, low-power mobile chip. Don't expect great CPU performance. If you want it to feel faster in daily use, buy an SSD. Also, a fresh reinstall of Windows and/or removal of excess background programs should help speed it up as well.

[Jurrunio]

sounds like overheating. Check temperatures with say, HWinfo in sensor mode for CPU cores. 170cb is even worse than dual core i7 U suffix CPUs, which can do double that.

[Tthijs]

2 minutes ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

What model Core i7?

 

Lower end CPUs will do worse in Cinebench.

It's an i7 6500u with 8Gb RAM storage

[Tthijs]

2 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

Looks like a i7-6500U. 

 

https://support.hp.com/au-en/document/c04930299

 

OP, this is a dual-core, low-power mobile chip. Don't expect great CPU performance. If you want it to feel faster in daily use, buy an SSD. Also, a fresh reinstall of Windows and/or removal of excess background programs should help speed it up as well.

Yes it is. There also is a 256 GB SSD inside. For daily use like doing stuff for college it's fine. But when like for instance streaming a movie or even watching YouTube in full screen there is an unbearable amount of lag, and I don't know why.

[Tthijs]

6 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

sounds like overheating. Check temperatures with say, HWinfo in sensor mode for CPU cores. 170cb is even worse than dual core i7 U suffix CPUs, which can do double that.

So run CB while checking the temperatures with HWinfo?

[Jurrunio]

2 minutes ago, Tthijs said:

So run CB while checking the temperatures with HWinfo?

yes

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Tthijs said:

So run CB while checking the temperatures with HWinfo?

Pretty much. You can also use userbenchmark for testing against others if you want to. I got a lot of troubleshooting solved with it, by only checking some results

[Tthijs]

9 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

Pretty much. You can also use userbenchmark for testing against others if you want to. I got a lot of troubleshooting solved with it, by only checking some results

So I did this and now I'm getting a result on cb of 300? I also saved a log of the HWinfo, but it looks a bit weird with the allignment and stuff? From what I could see my max temperature was at 87°C.

 

 

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Tthijs said:

So I did this and now I'm getting a result on cb of 300? I also saved a log of the HWinfo, but it looks a bit weird with the allignment and stuff? From what I could see my max temperature was at 87°C.

 

 

That's a bit high on the temps. I would look into undervolting it a bit, and trying some stress tests.

[Tthijs]

14 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

yes

Saw the 'multiquote' option a little bit too late so I'm doing it like this. Check my latest post.

[Shiv78]

3 minutes ago, Tthijs said:

So I did this and now I'm getting a result on cb of 300? I also saved a log of the HWinfo, but it looks a bit weird with the allignment and stuff? From what I could see my max temperature was at 87°C.

 

CB of 300 is right around average for this chip. You have nothing to worry about.

[Tthijs]

1 minute ago, LukeSavenije said:

That's a bit high on the temps. I would look into undervolting it a bit, and trying some stress tests.

What is the best way of doing this? HP seems to have blocked everyting in the BIOS? And how do I stresstest this the best?

[Jurrunio]

5 minutes ago, Tthijs said:

So I did this and now I'm getting a result on cb of 300? I also saved a log of the HWinfo, but it looks a bit weird with the allignment and stuff? From what I could see my max temperature was at 87°C.

 

 

so it's fine after all

 

1 minute ago, Tthijs said:

What is the best way of doing this? HP seems to have blocked everyting in the BIOS? And how do I stresstest this the best?

intel XTU or techpowerup throttlestop for undervolting

[Tthijs]

Just now, Shiv78 said:

CB of 300 is right around average for this chip. You have nothing to worry about.

So what is the problem with the laptop with for instance streaming in full screen it get's really laggy? IS this beacause the integrated grapics aren't made for 2160p? BEcause then it seems like a reaay odd choise for HP to sell a configuration like this?

[Shiv78]

Just now, Tthijs said:

IS this beacause the integrated grapics aren't made for 2160p?

The 950m should be able to handle 4k video streaming.

[LukeSavenije]

https://www.notebookcheck.net/How-to-Lower-Temperatures-Stop-Throttling-and-Increase-Battery-Life-The-ThrottleStop-Guide-2017.213140.0.html

Would read this through. I would use aida64 or something like that for it

[Tthijs]

1 minute ago, Shiv78 said:

The 950m should be able to handle 4k video streaming.

That's right but I seem not to be able to only use the 950m because it's a laptop (something I read online about a laptop configuration always using integrated grapics)?

[Shiv78]

6 minutes ago, Tthijs said:

That's right but I seem not to be able to only use the 950m because it's a laptop (something I read online about a laptop configuration always using integrated grapics)?

That is most definitely not correct. 

[Tthijs]

13 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

so it's fine after all

 

intel XTU or techpowerup throttlestop for undervolting

 

11 minutes ago, LukeSavenije said:

https://www.notebookcheck.net/How-to-Lower-Temperatures-Stop-Throttling-and-Increase-Battery-Life-The-ThrottleStop-Guide-2017.213140.0.html

Would read this through. I would use aida64 or something like that for it

So I've downloaded intel XTU and I will try and update you soon. I will look into how to undervolt and all but since I'm relatively new at this stuff I might be a bit slow in getting the hang of it.

[LukeSavenije]

1 minute ago, Tthijs said:

 

So I've downloaded intel XTU and I will try and update you soon. I will look into how to undervolt and all but since I'm relatively new at this stuff I might be a bit slow in getting the hang of it.

More than normal. Good luck!

[Tthijs]

7 minutes ago, Shiv78 said:

That is most definitely not correct. 

So how can I 'fix' this and let's say use the 950m as main when using a streaming app like Netflix or watching YouTube?

[Tthijs]

1 hour ago, LukeSavenije said:

More than normal. Good luck!

So after some time playing around with XTU, I'm now at -0,090 V and still going lower. But I noticed that the program changed my max core frequency from 3,00GHz to 2,50GHz. This doesn't seem to be the thing I wanted because now my cb benchmark is 106. Should I go up again or am I missing something I haven't changed?