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Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#1 Post by thinkpadcollection » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:17 pm

Software and drivers are completely installed, bios updated. Both has i7-620m and i7-640m. These T410 notebooks is nvidia and other one is integrated. Swapping these CPUs on both notebooks would not help. Cooling is not issue, windows OS not the issue.

Both would only go to 3GHz sometimes. Not even 3.3GHz for 620m and 3.5GHz for 640m. Tried throttlestop and could not max out the multipler ratio.

Googled to no results. Any luck?

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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#2 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:21 pm

thinkpadcollection wrote:Software and drivers are completely installed, bios updated. Both has i7-620m and i7-640m. These T410 notebooks is nvidia and other one is integrated. Swapping these CPUs on both notebooks would not help. Cooling is not issue, windows OS not the issue.

Both would only go to 3GHz sometimes. Not even 3.3GHz for 620m and 3.5GHz for 640m. Tried throttlestop and could not max out the multipler ratio.

Googled to no results. Any luck?

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Which os? How are you testing them to turbo boost? Try AIDA64.
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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#3 Post by TPFanatic » Mon Sep 25, 2017 2:23 pm

Can you run Power Manager and play with CPU speed settings in there?

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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#4 Post by thinkpadcollection » Mon Sep 25, 2017 4:50 pm

Hey everyone, Like I have said in first post, I have tried the bios, windows power options even advanced menu all 100% on min and max processor speed also lenovo's power control, even made sure to have intel power manager for CPU installed.

Still no luck.

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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#5 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Mon Sep 25, 2017 5:06 pm

A person with the same CPU says this:
Update, I found out that the turbo boost will only work when the battery is plug in. I usually work at home and plugged in, so I took out the battery so that it will last longer.
Source: https://communities.intel.com/thread/14396
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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#6 Post by thinkpadcollection » Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:01 am

Both have good batteries already and plenty of hours left.

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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#7 Post by RealBlackStuff » Tue Sep 26, 2017 9:21 am

I think the question was: do you have both battery AND charger plugged in?

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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#8 Post by Thinkpad4by3 » Tue Sep 26, 2017 10:05 am

RealBlackStuff wrote:I think the question was: do you have both battery AND charger plugged in?
And is it a 65W or 90W chargrr?
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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#9 Post by thinkpadcollection » Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:18 pm

Yes, both 90W adapter and battery together what else? :)

FYI: I never had any 65W adapter ever. At one point I had three 90W adapters, I plan to purchase 135W one day.

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UPDATE: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost. Win10 off limits on Tx10!

#10 Post by thinkpadcollection » Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:59 pm

Windows 7 with latest updates is indeed turbo boosting to appox 3.06GHz on 620m and 3.2GHz on 640m with 2 cores active after figuring out how to reliably test. Windows 7 is the latest last version for these Tx10 series.

Open both CPU-Z, on one, navigate to Bench tab and press Stress CPU, monitor the other CPU-Z under CPU tab for freq status. HWmonitor does not work properly but good for temps and rpm, battery status (in watts remaining).

Windows 10 does not support most of stuff on 1st gen CPU with QM57. Critical problem is no touchpad and trackpoint non-functioning and power management, turbo boost not working. I currently running win 10 on two sandy bridge based notebooks and main computers.

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Re: UPDATE: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost. Win10 off limits on Tx10!

#11 Post by dr_st » Tue Nov 28, 2017 2:21 am

thinkpadcollection wrote:
Mon Nov 27, 2017 8:59 pm
Windows 10 does not support most of stuff on 1st gen CPU with QM57. Critical problem is no touchpad and trackpoint non-functioning and power management, turbo boost not working.
This is not accurate information. I am running Win10 on a T410 with i5-540M. With 'high performance' power plan, battery and AC, the CPU does get to its max Turbo 3.06GHz frequency (verified by CPU-Z). Touchpad and trackpoint both work, as does everything else I tried. The only thing that did not work out of the box is the Intel GPU driver, but even that can be hacked (see discussion here).
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Re: Pair of T410 not going into turbo boost.

#12 Post by muser99 » Sat Sep 14, 2019 7:37 am

I suggest you need the Intel(R) Turbo Boost Technology Driver, see the IIPS folder after unzipping.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/downlo ... duct=49666

The default driver installed by windows 10 does not turbo boost. You will see better graphics performance too.
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