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SmokeDarKnight
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Hello Hewhoist,
Firestrike might be using the onboard graphics card instead. There should be a way of telling it to use the GPU in the control panel. Sorry dont have a Nvidia Laptop but i thing the option should be there in the Nvidia Control Panel or Nvidia Experience. Perhaps a setting for high power mode perhaps.
Sorry i cant be more help, hopefully someone with a nividia mobile device will respond
keynes
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Are you having issues just with 3DMark or also running games?
Hi Keynes, I've been playing games fine. I'm just worried that when I put the new SSD and reinstalled my OS something is either missing or I've deleted something necessary. I have reinstalled everything I was given on the disc as well as online. I've no idea why 3DMark would give me a low score however?
SpyderTracks
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It does have on board graphics also, sounds like drivers aren't installed/correctly.
The three in particular will be Intel hd4600 driver for on board graphics, nvidia obviously, and hotkey.
Hi again, yeah I've been reading about that. I'm guessing with the intel HD46000 there is a driver missing but as I've just noticed after some research that for some people the GTX970m's have been down clocking to 540mhz clock speed? if you see this 3DMark test below you'll see this says the same
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5988820
http://www.3dmark.com/3dm/5988820
SpyderTracks
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It does have on board graphics as below:
http://ark.intel.com/m/products/80808/Intel-Core-i7-4790S-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-4_00-GHz#@product/specifications
Where are you getting the driver from?
Without those three drivers installed with the latest versions, you'll likely get performance issues as they're all reliant on each other.
Ok I've had some time today to research and the main consensus is that when a dedicated card is put into the laptop it disables the on board gpu which I have no problem with I just don't want the 970m constantly on and always running even when i'm only doing work etc. Also still no solution for the underclocking? done multiple benchmarks and still no thermal throttling for cpu or gpu. Even checked the power settings for graphics to ensure it's not a power issue
SpyderTracks
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I'm really sorry, Hewhoist, you're absolutely right, as it's a desktop processor it doesn't use the on board graphics at all, there's no switching between them as optimus isn't compatible. Sorry for confusing the issue. Because of the lack of optimus use, you won't be able to switch between desktop and dedicated except by switching in the bios, but I'm betting that isn't available?
As to why your clock speed is displaying so low, I would suggest that it may be a read bug in that program. If you're not getting any performance issues, and that score looks quite reasonable, I wouldn't worry.
Futuremark mis Labelled my card as being half the vram until a later update
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That's no problem I really appreciate you replying. I'm really happy with my laptop don't get me wrong (kinda gutted I didn't pay the extra for the 980 tho) I've not had a problem running any game so I'm not worried that much guessing if its a problem with drivers or settings then I'm sure they'll fix it soon enough.
I do have another question if you've any experience? the fans run quiet all the time never seem to even turn up a little when the processor and gpu get into the 50's? I can switch the fans to maximum using hotkeys but that's super noisy and it cools the laptop to sub 30's. Wondering if there's anyway I can set them to run at say half speed all the time? keep it cool but not too noisy and if need arises they kick in to cool faster. I let my nephew play dying light for 3hrs earlier on full settings for everything and the heats didn't complain but the fans also didn't seem to kick in at all?
SpyderTracks
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If the temps aren't going too high, again I wouldn't worry. From what I've seen of the internals on that chassis, the cooling is pretty impressive. If you do want to set custom profiles, I believe speedfan may be able to adjust fans.
SpyderTracks
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I would say idling between 35 to 50 degrees and under gaming or heavy use, 70-85. GPU around 40 degrees idling and 75 gaming.