Acer switch 12 - poor performance + other problems.

weloxcris

First of all I know it's a portable device made for office work/multimedia. I have few issues: sometimes I can hear pretty loud noise coming from display, sometimes keyboard and (this mouse controlling button, forgot the name of it) can stuck resulting in endless typing or mouse moving, the last one is power button which must be pressed hard (sometimes it just doesn'twork). I could survive all of that but there is a poor performance problem. Whenever my device is in idle, clocks are on max frequency whenever i start doing someting they drop (it is not because of temp. throttling). When I was playing a game I noticed that clocks are 50% down Cpu, cpu cache, Gpu and2 cores were active, temperature was pretty okay 65 celcious. A guy from online support told me that it is because of second core kick in, so there is no need for more frequency, but from what I see the game runs terribly and a highier frequency would help. In a result google chrome is sluggish when browsing any webpage and you can feel sttutering. Windows store apps/ games are sluggish (they work better on my 3 years old smartphone). In my opinion the device acts the opposite way it should. Literally, what is going on here? Maybe I freak out a little bit.

billsey

Try Power Options; Change Plan Settings; Change Advanced Power Settings; Processor Power Management and see what happens if you bump the minimum setting from 5% to something higher.

weloxcris

Thank You for reply,

I tried every 10th quantiny from 0% to 100%, It didn't work, still there is no "idle" state.

billsey

Hmm, I'm at defaults on mine and sitting pretty much idle (Firefox and Task Manager running, 2.5G/4G of memory in use) Task Manager is reporting 0.78 to 1.26 GHz clock speed (of a reported 1.0GHz maximum, so it's either overclocking or giving invalid values). With Resource Manager active it graphs fairly steady at 80% with spikes to 100%. Could it be your monitoring package?

weloxcris

Thanks, I figured out it was caused by this intel software, werid! I have another question for You, Do You use chrome? and do You play any "games" on your acer?

billsey

I play several games on a daily basis, though they tend not to be hard on the graphics. I don't run Chrome on this machine, I have Firefox set as default and switch to IE only when I run into a page that doesn't like FF...