Its always advised to keep your laptop plugged in when gaming for performance boost(at least i though that was the norm), when plugged out your lappy has to deal with power management tools, and on my dell inspiron 15r(i3, 5450m) when having all power options set to high performance (plugged in and unplugged), theres big performance drop when unplugged while gaming.
Well iv ordered this lappy on 27th dec, and it dispatched today
, should have it early next week. And after looking deeper into this lappy after ordering iv seen afew people with the throttling problems an all that... which sucks. I found this thread and read through the entire thing up to your comment im replying to (page 126 or something), GREAT THREAD!, Very informative.
Im in ireland and ordered from the UK for cheapest deal (835euro) for the i5, GT650m 2gb ddr3, 6gb ram, 1366 x 768 display. Its the "S03UK" model.
As i havnt yet read through this whole thread, the models talked about here so far are the S01, S02 models, i will continue reading now until the last post ^^
Edit,
Has anyone with the throttling issues tried turning off Hyper threading ? (if the feature is with your processor), HT is not good for gaming.
To do so,
run, msconfig > Boot tab > Advanced options > Click "Number of processors" and select only the amount of physical cores you have, and hit ok, and apply, then hit the prompt to restart your comp
Also has anyone tryed playing DayZ mod on this lappy ?