Lenova X280

[nextg3n]

Hello all 

i am hoping the get a fresh perspective  to why a business class high end laptop is giving me that much bs...

 

basically the issue is that the proccessor turbos to about 3.58 and it stays there even when the utilization is at like 20%  and i cant figure out why, disabled intel speedstep technology hoping that would solve it and with my account it stayed on a stable 1.9ghz...  base clock is 1.7 i believe  but when boss logged in to his account it turbod to 3.58 and stayed plus the cooler literally is a like boeing engine when it turbos and stays there so im looking for inspiration why it does not turbo down... power settings have been checked it has active cooling policy when plugged in and also minimum state of 5% and max of 100% when plugged but i can not find out why it turbos to 3.5 and just stays there... like i am at a loss... 

 

if any1 has a new perspective i would be really grateful

[DoctorNick]

Enable all intel power settings in bios like speedstep C-states etc. In windows set power option to balanced. Maybe check if there is a bios update, becuase most of the time it fixes fan issues with thinkpad series laptops. Different types of load on the cpu results in different speeds, because some loads is not utilizing all cores, avx, etc.  

[nextg3n]

2 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Enable all intel power settings in bios like speedstep C-states etc. In windows set power option to balanced. Maybe check if there is a bios update, becuase most of the time it fixes fan issues with thinkpad series laptops. Different types of load on the cpu results in different speeds, because some loads is not utilizing all cores, avx, etc.  

i guess an bios update could work, but have not had the time to try it yet, but gonna give it a shot... but the problem is not that the fan is blowing fast out of random... the proccessor straightup stays at its max trubo speed..... the load on cpu is skype calls and powerpoints basically with a few chrome tabs.. should not be reason enough to hit proccessors max turbo speed... or am i mistaken?

[DoctorNick]

33 minutes ago, nextg3n said:

i guess an bios update could work, but have not had the time to try it yet, but gonna give it a shot... but the problem is not that the fan is blowing fast out of random... the proccessor straightup stays at its max trubo speed..... the load on cpu is skype calls and powerpoints basically with a few chrome tabs.. should not be reason enough to hit proccessors max turbo speed... or am i mistaken?

Yea it does. Because lower load = higher clock - You can disable turbo boost in bios

[nextg3n]

17 minutes ago, DoctorNick said:

Yea it does. Because lower load = higher clock - You can disable turbo boost in bios

youd be surprised how easy this fix was,  change active proccessor state from 100 to 99 and the clock went back to 1.76 or sth and in theory it should not change from this unless our boss starts doing heavy load tasks

[DoctorNick]

29 minutes ago, nextg3n said:

youd be surprised how easy this fix was,  change active proccessor state from 100 to 99 and the clock went back to 1.76 or sth and in theory it should not change from this unless our boss starts doing heavy load tasks

ok I need to test this aswell