I performed the same test on my wife's xps 15 and found exactly the same behavior, so I don't believe it's a hardware problem at this point, unless we have two faulty devices,
It's super annoying as you have to keep this in mind and restart the laptop if you need its full performance back. Any help from Dell will be appreciated.
This is a behavior problem, not a heat or TDP issue really - check this 9550 review. With ThrottleStop 8.00 (latest version here) you can keep high clocks easily, at least until they'll fix it
I don't want to keep it always high, I just want it to restore 3.1/3.5 max settings with AC plugged in on the fly.
Currently, I'm getting used to it and plug in AC before system start or forcing sleep / wake when I need it, which isn't a big deal but is pretty annoying.
It want be high 24/7. This software is really comfortable and useful and open.. try it. There is a "turn on" button and you can set it off too, with quick click. No ads and stuff like that
I have the same issue, I've found disabling speedstep helps.
However my CPU seems to throttle randomly whilst browsing, it'll just sit at 0.6ghz and everything is very laggy, after 15 minutes it improves again, this issue stops to some extent when I disable speedstep.
I also find after a 15 minutes of gaming my fps tanks and from what I can see in MSI Afterburner the GPU usage for the 960m drops down to 10-20%, and GPU 2 aka Intel graphics shoots up to 100%.
I'm not sure if its part of the same problem or if I have two issue's here. Disabling speedstep seems to help a bit.
elter
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December 6th, 2015 15:00
I performed the same test on my wife's xps 15 and found exactly the same behavior, so I don't believe it's a hardware problem at this point, unless we have two faulty devices,
It's super annoying as you have to keep this in mind and restart the laptop if you need its full performance back. Any help from Dell will be appreciated.
Ponyo
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December 12th, 2015 17:00
This is a behavior problem, not a heat or TDP issue really - check this 9550 review. With ThrottleStop 8.00 (latest version here) you can keep high clocks easily, at least until they'll fix it
elter
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December 14th, 2015 09:00
I don't want to keep it always high, I just want it to restore 3.1/3.5 max settings with AC plugged in on the fly.
Currently, I'm getting used to it and plug in AC before system start or forcing sleep / wake when I need it, which isn't a big deal but is pretty annoying.
Ponyo
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December 14th, 2015 12:00
It want be high 24/7. This software is really comfortable and useful and open.. try it. There is a "turn on" button and you can set it off too, with quick click. No ads and stuff like that
It's easier than remembering to plug ..
elter
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December 22nd, 2015 21:00
Thank you for suggestion. It looks like it's already answered here: en.community.dell.com/.../19660225 , just waiting for this BIOS update
Zaim2016
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December 26th, 2015 09:00
I have the same issue, I've found disabling speedstep helps.
However my CPU seems to throttle randomly whilst browsing, it'll just sit at 0.6ghz and everything is very laggy, after 15 minutes it improves again, this issue stops to some extent when I disable speedstep.
I also find after a 15 minutes of gaming my fps tanks and from what I can see in MSI Afterburner the GPU usage for the 960m drops down to 10-20%, and GPU 2 aka Intel graphics shoots up to 100%.
I'm not sure if its part of the same problem or if I have two issue's here. Disabling speedstep seems to help a bit.