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Recent content by Jesus Coder

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    Surface Book 1st Gen Not Turbo Boosting - Low CPU Frequency at Times

    Apologies for the late reply. Thank you everyone for the recommendations. Since posting, I have factory reset the laptop as I was having other issues with it. After doing so, most of the problems I described here have went away. The CPU still doesn't appear to boost frequently, but I have...
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    Surface Book 1st Gen Not Turbo Boosting - Low CPU Frequency at Times

    Hmmm. Well, when changing the Speed Shift EPP value, I noticed that any value lower than 128 decreases the CPU frequency. Running the TS Bench test with the setting set to 128 does seem to have negligibly improved the performance as I received a score of 72.415 seconds compared with the 75.806 I...
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    Surface Book 1st Gen Not Turbo Boosting - Low CPU Frequency at Times

    Sure thing, @Bogus5. I ran the TS Bench test while on battery power.
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    Surface Book 1st Gen Not Turbo Boosting - Low CPU Frequency at Times

    Hi there, I have the i7 variant of the Surface Book first gen. While it has and continues to be a great laptop for school, I am unable to achieve the turbo speeds listed under the processor's specifications (3.4GHz). Instead, my CPU clock speed sits about .1-.3 GHz lower than base speed...
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