THIS IS CRAZY

[Hellowpplz]

I have a dell laptop with an intel i5 1135g7 and 16gb of ram. I know the normal processor can get up to 4.20ghz but my laptop would always max out at 4.00ghz even on ultra performance plan in my dell. I always use throttlestop to prevent any major throttling but today when I went to turn it on something happened and by processor started to run up to 4.20ghz now? What in the world did I do.

[Haswellx86]

@Hellowpplz

 

Is this consistent now? Normally, almost no CPU, especially laptop one's do not or cannot boost to their max clock speed because there isn't any load or the workload they are running cannot let them boost higher respectively. There are very particular workloads which can let one of your cores (almost impossible for all of them) to boost at their max clock speed. Silicon lottery and other factors such as power delivery quality and OS load also matter.

 

If you are getting consistent 4.2, then there is definitely something you changed, or else it was just a fluke. 

[Hellowpplz]

6 minutes ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

@Hellowpplz

 

Is this consistent now? Normally, almost no CPU, especially laptop one's do not or cannot boost to their max clock speed because there isn't any load or the workload they are running cannot let them boost higher respectively. There are very particular workloads which can let one of your cores (almost impossible for all of them) to boost at their max clock speed. Silicon lottery and other factors such as power delivery quality and OS load also matter.

 

If you are getting consistent 4.2, then there is definitely something you changed, or else it was just a fluke. 

Yup, playing rocket league the cpu stays between 3.8-4.2ghz for up to 30 minutes before it thermal throttles.|

And it locks at 4.05-4.1 ghz when idle with chrome open

[Haswellx86]

@Hellowpplz

 

So you mean to say it touches 4.2 when gaming and before it couldn't? Are you sure? Also, you must have a discrete GPU or else there is no way it reaches that clock speed when there is load on the iGPU, it would power throttle.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Welp if it isnt power throttling id be happy with it rather than a pos that power throttles to shit and performance goes to shit

 

Id just be happy with the extra performance and leave it be, maybe even make a diff profile for saving battery

[Hellowpplz]

2 hours ago, Gat Pelsinger said:

@Hellowpplz

 

So you mean to say it touches 4.2 when gaming and before it couldn't? Are you sure? Also, you must have a discrete GPU or else there is no way it reaches that clock speed when there is load on the iGPU, it would power throttle.

In graphics intensive games, yes it does. In games like rocket league (cpu at 95% gpu at 45%) it holds it's own for 30 mins+

The throttling happened before anyways I can't see a difference in any games using MSI afterburner as of how long it takes to throttle and how badly it throttles. The lowest it throttles in those 30 mins in rocket league is 3.75ghz. In more evenly intensive games it'll throttling to a minimum of 2.8ghz after 15 mins or so. Gpu intensive games are about the same as evenly spread ones.