Quote from: 1.9Ghz CPU in Witcher?! on July 06, 2017, 07:52:14
I'm thinking there's a problem with this laptop - why on earth would the CPU run at 1.9Ghz during the Witcher 3 test!? The game would load the CPU enough that it would want to run above 1.9Ghz - you'd think it would run at max turbo boost during gaming as long as temperatures were ok (which they were). I'm thinking that the frame drops that you saw during Witcher 3 were due to the throttling of the CPU to 1.9Ghz - based on this I don't think this laptop is fit for purpose for a gaming laptop, unless the author can provide some more information based around why the CPU was at 1.9Ghz. I really don't think the frame drops were caused by bloatware on the laptop, the 1.9Ghz CPU during Witcher 3 is the most surprising 'find'.
Actually it's not an issue. The game's minimized and ideally (Unless it's an online game where things go on constantly or there's no autopause mechanism, it won't take up much CPU usage). That, and Witcher 3 is very well optimized, and actually not as CPU-intensive as you thought it was (It's far more GPU intensive than CPU). Since it's got 8 threads it actually has ample headroom. So much so that it can even turbo down when not needed.