Hi all,
Need some help with my Windows 8.1 machine. I'm running on a Macbook Pro 2012 model, which until fairly recently was pretty speedy in all applications.
Specs are:
Intel i7-3740QM 2.7ghz CPU
16GB RAM
Geforce GT 650M
512gb SSD
Not a powerhouse in absolute terms, but certainly powerful enough to do what I want and keep up with my requirements of light gaming on older and undemanding titles, photoshop and lightroom work and basic productivity and web usage.
Recently I've noticed slowdown across the board, with particular offenders being web browsers when viewing intensive sites (e.g. facebook), large Excel 2013 documents and any type of gaming. I know this is slowdown as opposed to the machine simply not being powerful enough for these tasks as I have previously received excellent performance from the same software - including very playable framerates from the games.
I've run a few tests myself and as far as I can see, the error could be because my CPU is locked at its minimum speed. In the attached screenshot I'm running a big export of RAW files from Lightroom, which should cause the CPU to ramp up to something like full speed. Instead, it will run to 100% usage, but the CPU speed remains constant at minimum.
I've had a look at my power configs in the control panel, and the CPU is certainly allowed to run at 100% speed - estpecially in the high performance setting that I use most of the time when plugged in.
Am I right in thinking the lack of CPU rampup is causing my performance issues (i.e., is that also going to be the case in 3d games where I can't alt-tab to the performance monitor window?) Is there some kind of log I can run to check CPU (and GPU) speed? And if so, what is causing my hardware to say locked to its minimum performance state?
Is there anything I can do without a reformat? I was hoping to keep this machine running until Windows 10 comes along later this year.
Alternatively, should I be looking at something completely different? Maybe the hardware overheating leading to a refusal to ramp up clock speeds?
Cheers all!
Need some help with my Windows 8.1 machine. I'm running on a Macbook Pro 2012 model, which until fairly recently was pretty speedy in all applications.
Specs are:
Intel i7-3740QM 2.7ghz CPU
16GB RAM
Geforce GT 650M
512gb SSD
Not a powerhouse in absolute terms, but certainly powerful enough to do what I want and keep up with my requirements of light gaming on older and undemanding titles, photoshop and lightroom work and basic productivity and web usage.
Recently I've noticed slowdown across the board, with particular offenders being web browsers when viewing intensive sites (e.g. facebook), large Excel 2013 documents and any type of gaming. I know this is slowdown as opposed to the machine simply not being powerful enough for these tasks as I have previously received excellent performance from the same software - including very playable framerates from the games.
I've run a few tests myself and as far as I can see, the error could be because my CPU is locked at its minimum speed. In the attached screenshot I'm running a big export of RAW files from Lightroom, which should cause the CPU to ramp up to something like full speed. Instead, it will run to 100% usage, but the CPU speed remains constant at minimum.
I've had a look at my power configs in the control panel, and the CPU is certainly allowed to run at 100% speed - estpecially in the high performance setting that I use most of the time when plugged in.
Am I right in thinking the lack of CPU rampup is causing my performance issues (i.e., is that also going to be the case in 3d games where I can't alt-tab to the performance monitor window?) Is there some kind of log I can run to check CPU (and GPU) speed? And if so, what is causing my hardware to say locked to its minimum performance state?
Is there anything I can do without a reformat? I was hoping to keep this machine running until Windows 10 comes along later this year.
Alternatively, should I be looking at something completely different? Maybe the hardware overheating leading to a refusal to ramp up clock speeds?
Cheers all!
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Windows 8.1 64bit