The problem
I've been trying to diagnose why my laptop's been sluggish recently and think I may be getting closer digging into this poor CPU performance.
I noticed CPU-Z was reporting the CPU always at 8x multiplier and about 800 MHz, as opposed to anything up to the max (32x). Running prime95 and checking resource monitor showed CPU at 100% load but only 33% frequency.
I went into BIOS and disabled SpeedStep which got my frequency up to 100% in resource monitor but CPU-Z was still claiming an 8x multiplier at 800 MHz. And my benchmarks were still pretty sad (see below).
I've updated all drivers, BIOS, etc. I did a clean install of Windows 10 yesterday trying to fix the issue. I've tried booting in safe mode. I've made sure my components' temps are all acceptable and they are. I have all my power settings set to max performance. None of those have fixed it.
My system
And a userbenchmark report: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/904709
The userbenchmark report only tested my integrated GPU so ignore that part of it.
Any ideas? Should I try ThrottleStop?
I've been trying to diagnose why my laptop's been sluggish recently and think I may be getting closer digging into this poor CPU performance.
I noticed CPU-Z was reporting the CPU always at 8x multiplier and about 800 MHz, as opposed to anything up to the max (32x). Running prime95 and checking resource monitor showed CPU at 100% load but only 33% frequency.
I went into BIOS and disabled SpeedStep which got my frequency up to 100% in resource monitor but CPU-Z was still claiming an 8x multiplier at 800 MHz. And my benchmarks were still pretty sad (see below).
I've updated all drivers, BIOS, etc. I did a clean install of Windows 10 yesterday trying to fix the issue. I've tried booting in safe mode. I've made sure my components' temps are all acceptable and they are. I have all my power settings set to max performance. None of those have fixed it.
My system
- + Dell XPS 15 9550 laptop
+ OS: Windows 10 Home
+ STORAGE: Samsung SM951 M.2 256 GB PCIe 3.0 SSD (AHCI, not NVMe)
+ CPU: i5-6300HQ
+ GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M with 2GB GDDR5
+ Integrated GPU: Intel 530
+ RAM: 8GB DDR4-2133MHz
And a userbenchmark report: http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/904709
The userbenchmark report only tested my integrated GPU so ignore that part of it.
Any ideas? Should I try ThrottleStop?