i5 3230m stuck on energy saving mode

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Alyama

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About one week ago I noticed a big perfomance lack of my laptop when gaming.
Before the problem was there I could play the most games on medium to high settings with about 60-80 fps.
But now only about the half of that (about 30-40 fps).
Then I searched for the problem and found out that my CPU got stuck in the energy saving mode in the Intel Turbo Boost monitor and I don't know how to fix this.
The stock clock speed is 2.6GHz and the boosted is 3.2GHz.

Specs of the Acer Aspire E1-571G:

8GB Ram
i5 3230m
NVIDIA GeForce 710M (2GB Vram)
500GB Harddrive
 
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geofelt

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Check the power options in windows.
When plugged in, you should have a max processor of 100%

Right click on your desktop and look at the nvidia control panel.
You should select the discrete 710M as the graphics adapter.

If you are trying to game on battery power, then you will have a tradeoff between how long you can play and how high your performance can be.
Power options will default to lower performance on battery.
 
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Alyama

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Well, thanks for your tips, but it still not boosting up to 3.2GHz as needed on high load. I really don't know what happened to that processor. It was fine for a long time and then an Windows Update has changed something wich kinda disabled Intel Turbo Boost I think.
 
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hunnypuppy

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If it helps anyone if you have a Laptop and the processor is stuck in energy saving mode, I tried everything here and else where including reinstalling drivers and nothing worked. I checked the BIOS settings etc.

Then I finally plugged out the power supply and plugged it back in and VIOLA it came out of energy saver modes and my turbo boost was back (and I saw this happen in real time while the OS was running with the Intel Turbo Boost application and the Task Manager). No drivers or anything else required. (I uninstalled everything and it still works, just check the the Power Options on Windows are set to 100% in the profile).

Apparently if the power supply doesn't register properly with the laptop (especially dell) it puts the CPU into power saver mode and disables turbo boost. Fix the power supply and if the registers as the correct capacity the turbo boost is enabled. Sighh!!!
 
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