below par benchmarks in my laptop with i3 3120m

[Vivek Ananda]

i bought samsung 300e5v-s02in which has processer intel i3 3120m recently and to my surprise the windows experience index rating for processor is just 4.9 to which i was expecting 6.9 as per many reviews. also the Geekbench 2.4 score was just 2700 as opposed to the scores of over 5500 for the same processer users. then i noticed that the clockspeed of the laptop never goes beyond 1200mhz(specification says 2.5ghz). i'm worried what's the cause of it. i doubt whether samsung did something from the BIOS side. they did the same for my friend laptop with a8 processor by disabling overclocking. i even have my doubts on my chipset which is intel hm75. please help me out


P.S-the reported benchmarks are done in high performance mode and i also disabled power saving mode in BIOS

Here are my processor details

General Information :
Real Frequency : 1197.39
Multiplier : 12x

Low/High Multiplier : 12
Northbridge Voltage : 73
Multiplier Locked : Yes
Marketing Frequency : 25
Highest Performances : Unspecified
Energy Maximized : No



Front Side Bus Informat
Bus Speed : 99.77 MHz

Turbo Mode : No



Turbo Technology :

Efficiency ratio (max.)
TDP Limit : 35 watts

O/C Bins : None

Ratio 1 Core : 25

Ratio 2 Cores : 25

Ratio 3 Cores : 25

Ratio 4 Cores : 25

Min. Power : 24 watts



Initial Frequencies :
Frequency : 2500 MHz

Bus Speed : 100.00 MHz



Frequency Control :

Core #1 : 1197.38 MHz

Core #2 : 1197.42 MHz



Control Clock Frequency :

Enhanced SpeedStep (EIST) : Yes-disabled
C1E - Enhanced Halt Mode : No
Dynamic FSB : Yes - Disabled
Dynamic Acceleration (IDA) :No
Turbo Mode : No



Thermal Information :

Thermal Design Power : 35 W

Core Power : 16.76 W (estimat
Thermal control TM1 : Yes -
Thermal control TM2 : No

Thermal Control Circuit : No
Digital Thermal Sensor : No

Clock Modulation (ODCM) En: No

 

[bignastyid]

Check your power options in control panel, try balanced or high performance, it sounds like you are on power saver. Also make sure you are running the benchmarks when the system is plugged into power as many systems downclock when on battery.

 

[Vivek Ananda]

Check your power options in control panel, try balanced or high performance, it sounds like you are on power saver. Also make sure you are running the benchmarks when the system is plugged into power as many systems downclock when on battery.

Thank you for your response. I checked it in the balanced and high performance. the benchmarks are still the same.

 

[Vivek Ananda]

found solution for my problem. the core multiplier was restricted to 12 in my pc by default. i increased it to 25 using some tool and now its running at full potential

 

[yillbs]

GLad it got fixed!

 

[mahmoud showky]

found solution for my problem. the core multiplier was restricted to 12 in my pc by default. i increased it to 25 using some tool and now its running at full potential

I have this laptop and have the same problem ,
Could you tell me the solution you find to fix that problem in details ,please ?

 

[mahmoud showky]

Check your power options in control panel, try balanced or high performance, it sounds like you are on power saver. Also make sure you are running the benchmarks when the system is plugged into power as many systems downclock when on battery.

I have this laptop and have the same problem
and I couldn't find solution till now
could you help ?