Okay, here's the problem. I bought an HP Pavilion DV6-7010US. It's a great laptop. The thing is though that it runs at 1.9Ghz (A little slow). Everything I have heard and read about it indicated that I could get it to go all the way up to 2.8 Ghz. (A little fast). Here's the specs:

 

AMD Quad-Core A8-4500M @ 1.9 Ghz

6GB RAM

AMD Radeon HD 7640G Discrete-Class Graphics

 

If there's something I can do... please let me know.

 

,flyboy993.

Sorry, you can't OC, their bios is locked.

That claim of 2.8GHz may be part of what AMD calls 'Turbo-Core' technology where it will add the speed when needed. I would run a little app that shows your CPU speed and then start FSX to see if it jumps up in Ghz.

 

Clutch

That claim of 2.8GHz may be part of what AMD calls 'Turbo-Core' technology where it will add the speed when needed. I would run a little app that shows your CPU speed and then start FSX to see if it jumps up in Ghz.

 

Clutch

I gave that a try, but it stayed stubbornly at 1.9...

Overclocking laptops is a bad idea. A really bad idea.

Overclocking laptops is a bad idea. A really bad idea.

 

It isn't a bad idea? I mean come on... OC the thing with 2 volts... run IBT and let your legs get 3rd degree burns then you can sue! :LMAO:

Overclocking laptops is a bad idea. A really bad idea.

I am not trying to OC it, I just want to know why it's not getting up to 2.8Ghz.

I am not trying to OC it, I just want to know why it's not getting up to 2.8Ghz.

 

Your initial post makes it sound like you're trying to overclock:

 

Everything I have heard and read about it indicated that I could get it to go all the way up to 2.8 Ghz

 

Let's back up for a second though to see if you're checking the speed properly. How are you attempting to do this currently? I would recommend you download and run CPU-Z whilst running FSX (or some other workload) to monitor the CPU clockspeed.

 

In answer to your question: Turbo boost technology will temporarily boost the clockspeed of one or more cores of your CPU depending on numerous conditions including workload, number of active threads, power consumption, and CPU temperature. It is not a permanent overclock, nor is it terribly likely to hit 2.8GHz on a regular basis in any kind of multi-threaded workload scenario such as what FSX produces.

Your initial post makes it sound like you're trying to overclock:

 

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Let's back up for a second though to see if you're checking the speed properly. How are you attempting to do this currently? I would recommend you download and run CPU-Z whilst running FSX (or some other workload) to monitor the CPU clockspeed.

 

In answer to your question: Turbo boost technology will temporarily boost the clockspeed of one or more cores of your CPU depending on numerous conditions including workload, number of active threads, power consumption, and CPU temperature. It is not a permanent overclock, nor is it terribly likely to hit 2.8GHz on a regular basis in any kind of multi-threaded workload scenario such as what FSX produces.

Okay, your right, it got up to 2.8, thank for all your help and now I can go on tweaking and modifying stuff in the never-ending endevour of FSX performance...