Mobile graphics chip anomaly

[my414]

So I turned on my y500 this afternoon (no updates were done / nothing changed since last time) and I noticed that while playing any game or 3d test the graphics card would underclock itself from 1202mhz all the way down to 135mhz. It stands out a lot in games and does the exact same thing with SLI turning on and off.

I tried turning on Prefer Maximum Performance instead of adaptive and that did not change anything. I also tried doing a driver update and that did nothing but make my games micro stutter (joy of SLI systems).

I am wondering if anybody else with this laptop or with nvidia SLI cards in general has experienced this problem of downclocking all the way to idle clock speed.

The only possible thing that could have caused this is possible not enough power?

I am still not sure because It is a laptop and they should have more power than they need .... i would think that 170 watts of power would be find.

Please help me solve this problem as it underclocks every few seconds and I can not play games what so ever.

Thanks Ahead of time.  :unsure: