Sandybridge Throttle Issue and Workaround

[kompleet]

Thank you Lannigan, really. This is really insane from a comany like Asus. A bios fix that took 5 seconds to make, and NO there are no risk at doing that unless you are a complete moron who don't understand **** at computers.

I'm also pissed off by Asus with their driver update. Their FTP is down for 4 days now, and on the official support page, none of the drivers have been updated, that is really crazy, as this would take maybe 10mn to update their support page.

And las but not least, I'm very satisfied with my G74sx (non 3d), the gpu is perfect, it's a solid computer with very good specs, but common, I would have paid 100 or 200 euros more to get a decent screen (I don't care about "3d"), and not a 6 bits Chimei crap with poor viewving angle and a blueish tone.

[xeromist]

none of the drivers have been updated, that is really crazy, as this would take maybe 10mn to update their support page.

While I agree that regular driver updates should be made, it is not a 10min process. A proper update requires all drivers to be tested with all other drivers first. That means all model variants with different hardware and, if you want to be thorough, against multiple driver revisions since customers may update one driver and not another. To properly test the compatibility of every OEM driver release for every product ASUS makes would be a full time job.

If ASUS released a driver on their page and it crashed when installed with another driver they had previously released people would scream bloody murder. Yet those same people want all of the latest drivers re-published by ASUS as soon as the component manufacturer releases them. I don't think ASUS could ever win here, although as I mentioned more effort would be nice.

So yeah, for many products the drivers are woefully out of date on the support page, but ASUS supports OEM drivers so just get them directly from Nvidia, AMD, etc.

[kompleet]

While I agree that regular driver updates should be made, it is not a 10min process. A proper update requires all drivers to be tested with all other drivers first. That means all model variants with different hardware and, if you want to be thorough, against multiple driver revisions since customers may update one driver and not another. To properly test the compatibility of every OEM driver release for every product ASUS makes would be a full time job.

If ASUS released a driver on their page and it crashed when installed with another driver they had previously released people would scream bloody murder. Yet those same people want all of the latest drivers re-published by ASUS as soon as the component manufacturer releases them. I don't think ASUS could ever win here, although as I mentioned more effort would be nice.

So yeah, for many products the drivers are woefully out of date on the support page, but ASUS supports OEM drivers so just get them directly from Nvidia, AMD, etc.

Sorry, that's not what I meant, I know you don't create a new driver within 10mn, lol !

No what I meant, was that on the asus FTP there were a lot of updated drivers, especially GPU drivers far more recent .
So the 10mn process was about editing their support page

[Stian234]

I cant get my Asus G53sx to stop throttle.

Current prosessor is intel core i7 2670qm sandy bridge

The problem is that the throttlestop program wont work. It throttles even if i have the program running.
I have tried to find the bios settings for to turn this off, but it seems like the bios settings for this pc is very limited? can someone verify i cant do it with the bios as a temporary resulution?

Best regards
Stian H. Jensen

[dstrakele]

I recommend you post screenshots of how you have ThrottleStop configured. Then others that are using it successfully to control CPU Throttling can offer comments.

[pabvr81]

Does anyone know if BIOS version 209 solves the throttling issue?

[rozwell911]

Does anyone know if BIOS version 209 solves the throttling issue?

Bios 209 i believe is only for the G53's, and no i do not believe it solves the issue.

[Stian234]

I recommend you post screenshots of how you have ThrottleStop configured. Then others that are using it successfully to control CPU Throttling can offer comments.

Thx for good adivce! for some reason i wasnt able to upload two of my jpg pictures. So i have uploaded them to this site.

http://bildr.no/view/1089487
http://bildr.no/view/1089490

Any commets are welcome =)

Edit: i can confirm that Bios version 209 does not solve the problem.

[dstrakele]

From what I see, it looks like you have ThrottleStop 4.0 configured correctly to eliminate CPU Throttling. Hopefully other folks can offer suggestions to help you out.

[Stian234]

thank you very much for your time

I hope so to Because we dont know long it will take befor a fix comes up. Or if it will be fixed at all :O