Dolphin running at low fps - Alienware M15x

[Pie]

I just bought a Alienware M15x from dell, here are the specs:

Intel i7 processor (its only clocked at 1.6 for some reason)
Nvidia Geforce GTX 260M
4 gigs of ram

The emulator runs at fullspeed but the fps is really low, it runs at about 20-30 during game play, it might be because its clocked so low but u cant over clock dell. Anyone know the problem?

[Ocean]

you have a laptop with i7 720qm which will pretty much run at 2.4 to 2.8ghz due to turbo boost in almost all situations. 1.6ghz is just the base clock.

The problem is probably the very weak gpu, if you play heavy games like mario galaxy.
Note that gtx260M is much weaker than a desktop gtx 260 (which is a good midrange card comparable to ati's 4890/5770 at stock or even comes a few fps short of radeon 5830 if overclocked)

all in all, I hope you didn't pay much for that 'gaming' laptop..
Seeing as it's soon 2011 it should've been shipped with an appropriate graphics card for this day and age

[Pie]

(10-24-2010, 02:57 PM)Ocean Wrote: you have a laptop with i7 720qm which will pretty much run at 2.4 to 2.8ghz due to turbo boost in almost all situations. 1.6ghz is just the base clock.

The problem is probably the very weak gpu, if you play heavy games like mario galaxy.
Note that gtx260M is much weaker than a desktop gtx 260 (which is a good midrange card comparable to ati's 4890/5770 at stock or even comes a few fps short of radeon 5830 if overclocked)

all in all, I hope you didn't pay much for that 'gaming' laptop..
Seeing as it's soon 2011 it should've been shipped with an appropriate graphics card for this day and age

So is it already set to 2.8? Or do i have to manually do it?

[Ocean]

it scales depending on how many cores you use if turbo boost is enabled (it usually is by default but you can check it in bios).
Here is a description that briefly details it. [1]

If you use 2 cores the frequency will stay at 2.4ghz or above. If you just stress one core it will boost to 2.8ghz.
But there's multipliers in between too, depending on cpu load it can run at various clock speeds (but it becomes less as more cores are utilized, such as 1.73ghz at 4 cores used)

[Pie]

(10-24-2010, 04:30 PM)Ocean Wrote: it scales depending on how many cores you use if turbo boost is enabled (it usually is by default but you can check it in bios).
Here is a description that briefly details it. [1]

If you use 2 cores the frequency will stay at 2.4ghz or above. If you just stress one core it will boost to 2.8ghz.
But there's multipliers in between too, depending on cpu load it can run at various clock speeds (but it becomes less as more cores are utilized, such as 1.73ghz at 4 cores used)

So mostly if i ran it all on one core it would run faster? or it doesnt make a difference because its just split between everything?