My AMD A8-3500M bottlenecking?

omegamuffin

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I've had this problem for quite some time now, and it seems like nothing I've tried fixes anything. At first I thought it was a problem with my gpu, It should be getting a decent framerate on games running at high/ultra settings but constantly skips and stutters on low.
It runs normally while idle at 2.4 ghz but while gaming it drops to 0.8 while erratically boosting random cores back up at random times. Also, it's temperature goes anywhere from 58-75.

I've been researching this for days and nothing anyone could come up with has made a fraction of a difference. So I've narrowed my options to cleaning it out with some air duster or applying thermal paste, which is a huge hassle for me.

My specs:
HP dv6 6135dx notebook
AMD A8-3500M 1.5 ghz OC'd to 2.4.
6GB DDR3 ram
Radeon 6620G/radeon 6750m dual graphics
640 gig hard drive
Windows 7 64 bit

Also, its temperature is all over the place. Low/ultra settings has no effect on it, and it fluctuates between 48-66 degrees at random while idle.
 

johnnyq1233

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I don't think OCing your laptop is a smart thing to do especially since you have the stock cooler.
Laptops in general are not designed for high end gaming!
You have to buy specialty machines built for gaming to run high settings.
What your probably seeing is the CPU is throttling down to protect it from blowing up!
Set everything back to stock to save your lappy..and either look at a gaming laptop or if you don't need to game on a portable then build a decent desktop.
Hope this helps. JQ
 

omegamuffin

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I forgot to mention, my laptop was once able to run fine at around 45+ frames per second at high settings, but now for some reason it goes between 60 and 10 with lots of hiccups running at the lowest. I'm also using an overclock that's been confirmed by a lot of people to be very stable on this specific machine. Besides, the CPU has been built specifically for overclocking.

I'll give stock settings a shot though, thanks for the suggestion.
 

8350rocks

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Sounds like your CPU is throttling...AMD's mobile solutions throttle based on voltage...not temperature...I am not sure that there's a way to disable that in the BIOS, but if there was, it would likely be labeled COOL N QUIET in your BIOS. If you have settings for that, disable it, see if that doesn't help your situation.
 

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