Having hardware issues, would absolutely love some help.

[Swamp85]

Hello Dolphin Forums! I finally broke and made an account.

So here's the issue. I'm not sure if my GPU and CPU are at their fullest abilities so to speak. My parents got me this laptop for Christmas, so I'd appreciate if it wasn't insulted. It's an ENVY dv6, and these are it's specs:

Windows 8 x64 - Don't believe Win8 is the issue.
Intel i5-2450m @2.50GHz - I've searched and seen that a lot of the mobile CPUs can be 'turboboosted', but I'm not sure of mine.
8GB RAM
[Integrated] INTEL HD 3000 - I believe most applications are using this for whatever reason.
NVIDIA Geforce GT 630m - Looking at YouTube videos, I should have no problem with a lot of games.

Now here's the deal, I've tried everything to get any game to use my NVIDIA card, and they all run slow. Not just Dolphin games too. NVIDIA Inspector says Dolphin is using my NVIDIA GPU, judging from the load %. However, DirectX11 has the "failed to enumerate outputs" error, and on OpenGL and DirectX9 they just run slowly.

I really don't know if I have bad hardware, or faulty hardware. I'd also love to know how to turboboost my CPU if possible.

Oh, and as for the games I'd like to be playing:

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