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Does your 9300 slow down at all on battery?

post #1 of 16
8/16/05 at 9:04pm
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Hey everyone, I did a search, but I couldn't seem to find the right thread about this. Anyways, I'm wondering if anyone notices ANY sort of slow down at all on battery vs. AC power. I have my Geforce 6800 set to max performance on both battery and AC power, and I'm guessing the Pentium M will SpeedStep like it normally does, anyways, but it seems like maybe my Hard Drive is a little slower in games, or something. It seems to lag a bit more.

So, am I just imagining things (or maybe I forgot that I changed some of my image quality settings)?

Ok, better send this off before my 4% battery life runs out, lol. THx!
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post #2 of 16
8/17/05 at 1:37am
The pentium M is designed to throttle back on battery power, you can adjust this if you like in your power settings I believe.
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post #3 of 16
8/17/05 at 2:12am
I noticed the same thing, the games slow down A LOT. I have all my settings on max performance but it's still throttling.
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post #4 of 16
8/17/05 at 7:58am
i have the same..how to fix that?
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post #5 of 16
8/17/05 at 12:01pm
The proc. won't want to go full speed in battery mode, pretty much ever. The only reliable way that I've seen is to get a third party software that monitors/changes it. rmclock is a great one and can also be used for the undervolting. There is another listed in the threads here, but I forget the name....
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post #6 of 16
8/17/05 at 5:03pm
on my xps 2, on battery mode, it will go into vsnyc mode even if its turned off everywhere. It wont allow me to go above 60 fps and will only do either 60, 30, 15 fps etc. and nothing in between. As you can imagine, it causes quite a drop in performance. I assume its some kind of operating system flaw, do u 9300 users get the same thing? Runs great on ac.
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post #7 of 16
8/23/05 at 9:23pm
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Hmmm, really? Cool. I thought that SpeedStep would still push it to 1.6GHz even if it was on battery.

I guess I should just put it on Always On in Win XP's power settings, or maybe try "presentation mode" in Dell QuickSet. That should keep it stuck @ 1.6GHz.
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post #8 of 16
8/23/05 at 10:05pm
I have my own clean install of XP Pro and my laptop games perfectly in games whether running on battery or A/C. There's not even a pause when I plug in my A/C adapter. I only run CHC to undervolt. My guess would be it's one of the programs you or Dell installed. Check out your Quickset settings and just uninstall speed step, it might be causing a conflict. Also make sure that under display properties>"screen saver" tab>power you have all your power settings adjusted correctly.
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post #9 of 16
8/23/05 at 10:19pm
centrino hardware control is better than rmclock in my opinion. More user friendly and you can set it to maximum performance on batt. I notice no slow down at al in doom 3
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post #10 of 16
8/24/05 at 3:19am
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Well, iirc, I was pulling a somewhat slower (I think) but still respectable 20-30 fps @ 1920x1200 w/ 2xAA and 8xAF in America's Army (rifle range). I get a bit higher than that on SF_WaterTreatment on 4xAA and 8xAF now of days. My main problem when I was on battery that last time was that it was being a bit jerky intermittently while it was doing 20+ fps.
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post #11 of 16
8/24/05 at 11:21am
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Originally Posted by Jacmert
20+ fps.
AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *runs*
"Can't play below 60FPS, clowns will eat me, can't play below 60FPS, clowns will eat me..."
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post #12 of 16
8/24/05 at 2:42pm
havent really noticed to much on actual system performance, but on battery my internet slows down to shit
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post #13 of 16
8/24/05 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by BigNips
havent really noticed to much on actual system performance, but on battery my internet slows down to shit
U have to go into your network card options and change everything from default to highest, theres a couple options in there that lower your networking speeds alot on battery.
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post #14 of 16
8/24/05 at 9:37pm
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Originally Posted by Mr. K6
AHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! *runs*
"Can't play below 60FPS, clowns will eat me, can't play below 60FPS, clowns will eat me..."
Lol, I was (up until recently!) used to playing AA on my Athlon XP 1700+ with 64MB Geforce2 TI @ 1164x768 or w/e with framerates at 15-20fps. When it was at 20fps, it was very "smooth" for me. Right now, I'm playing AA with 4xAA and 8xAF @ 1920x1200, and it dips down to like 19fps minimum; most of the time it's running at 30fps. I'm pretty happy! The real "lag" problem is when it accesses my virtual memory on the HD; that's the only "stuttering" problem I have.

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Originally Posted by GBmanNC
U have to go into your network card options and change everything from default to highest, theres a couple options in there that lower your networking speeds alot on battery.
Yeah, you have to change that in the driver settings. Intel gives you some pretty cool options in the driver settings, even if you uninstall their crazy (bloated?) application set that goes along with it (then I had to install the INF driver file by itself. So I have the latest drivers! yay!)
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post #15 of 16
8/25/05 at 12:54am
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Originally Posted by GBmanNC
U have to go into your network card options and change everything from default to highest, theres a couple options in there that lower your networking speeds alot on battery.
sweet
just clicked the configure tab next to the network card; and in the property box is a selection for power managment...

Thanks for the help!!
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post #16 of 16
8/25/05 at 2:26am
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Originally Posted by schrivedawg
centrino hardware control is better than rmclock in my opinion. More user friendly and you can set it to maximum performance on batt. I notice no slow down at al in doom 3
It really doesn't matter. I run both, RMClock on my I9300 and CHC on my I700m and they both run fine. It is really up to your preference. CHC does look better and has the more snazzy task bar display, but since I use I9kFanGUI for my temps RMClock does the trick for me.
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