Hello, I have a Lenovo Ideapad y410p. It has a Intel Core i7 4700MQ, and I have recently noticed that the processor always runs at about 3.29 GHz (displayed in the task manager) whereas the base speed is 2.4. Even when utilization is around 3-4% or idle, it maintains that 3.2-3.3 Ghz speed. I have never tried overclocking or anything, and this is worrying me a bit. Is this normal? Shouldn't it stop going into turbo when there is not a lot of usage? Comments/suggestions will be very helpful, thanks. I am on Windows 8.1.
Laptop Haswell always above base frequency (even when idle)?
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getochkn
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you don't want to run it like that for surfing, as you see, it makes everything run at near full. more heat, more stress, less battery life, etc. just switch it when you want to play games. I'd even reckon there might be some power manager software that will change profiles when a game is launched, etc. google it and see.
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