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Bad performance on battery
I've got a laptop Dell Vostro 1700 and I've been experiencing problems with the performance on battery even when I'm on "high performance" power plan. I told this to a few guys at one computer shop and they took a look at it and told me that I should disable the Intel Dynamic Acceleration and SpeedStep from the BIOS and it should perform as good as when it's plugged in. It's just that my battery should run out faster this way. So I did that and actually it does work just as good as it is when charging. I've made just a few quick tests playing FullHD flash video and one game (both of which actions had low fps on battery before). But what's confusing me is that according to Everest my processor is now running at 1200 MHz. It is core2duo T9300 and it should be 2500. But if I enable the SpeedStep from the BIOS menu I experience low fps while running the same game.
Can you give me some idea what are the pros and the cons by enabling/disabling these two and advice me what shall I set them to be - enabled or disabled. It's not about the gaming-that was just for the test. Normally I don't use it for gaming that much (just for the holidays the last month :P). I wanna be able to use its full power on battery using some of the programs I work on at the university - mainly Revit Architecture and AutoCAD, cause when I load a big project and rotate a bit some times it's a pain in the ...