Surface Pro 3 Throttling Solution?

If they do it with the i7, that will be a disaster.  In fact, people will return their machines if the tablets are 'clocked down'.

To me the i7 always has been a big question mark.  That's why I bought the i5.

I will be ordering the i3 and the keyboard/cover for it right after the first of August.  That particular model, in my opinion, will probably not sell as fast as the others and should have no problem on a backorder.  Since it is the lowest performer of the bunch, there should be no 'clocking' of it.

But, I will say this; if I have even one problem from that tablet, it will be wiped out and will become a Linux machine!

I already put up with about 5 months of down time with the RT because of the WiFi (which works perfect now) and I will not tolerate that again.

The more I see of issues with the tablets and also comparing those issues with laptops and desktops, I do believe that the whole problem is not the drivers but the operating system itself.  Memory leaks could be the cause of these issues interfering with the drivers.

That is a guess and no proof of it.  But I have seen a few similar issues when working on laptops and a few desktops that people brought to be worked on.

I think the operating system itself is the problem.

Let's keep this on topic and see if we can get ms to respond.

Here is a link to a YouTube video showing the problem exists even under Linux, meaning it's a hardware issue and not a software one.

http://youtu.be/UbWYQWY-vU8

Well, the i3 won't have a heating problem.  It is a low end processor.  The i5 and i7 processors do.  I have both of those in desktops right now and am on the i7 machine right now.  Both are "Haswell".  The i3 is the only processor I don't have.

The i5 does great but once you put a load on it, the CPU cooling fan kicks in a little longer.  My i7 machine will not operate longer than 4 hours without additional cooling beyond the CPU fan.  That fan only provides 92% of the cooling and requires a chassis fan to assist.

The problem is the processors themselves.

The hype that Intel put out on the "Haswell" series made them very popular but it wasn't until they made it out into the world that they didn't live up to it.  You may have noticed that the "Broadwell" came out "very fast" after the "Haswell" series.  That is not typical with Intel.

So, if you want a real answer, I would suggest to go to intel.com and read through their news feeds.  There have been a few issues with them even though they work great.  My i7 is faster than a speeding bullet.  The i5 works very good as well and both are now running Linux.  The i7, I am reserving it for Windows 9.  The i5 refuses to install the Intel video driver update and thus, I wiped it out and installed Linux on it.

Now, Linux will put a load on a machine as well.  It has grown over the years and made more robust.  The point I was making about having any problems was in regards to connecting to the Internet which is still a problem with these tablets.  Linux does have the driver for the Marvell AVASTAR adapter.

Oh, by the way, you will not get a response from Microsoft!  They never discuss any details on anything.

The only way I was able to solve the issue was by placing my surface in an area where cool air (ac) would blow at it directly cooling the surface at a very high level.  I managed to play Titanfall  with textures on high at 60 FPS for a long period proving that this tablet HAS a LOT of power in it.  The cooling fans are not enough... They should be able to run much faster for the throttling to disappear. The aluminum architecture of the surface absorbs the heat, but it is a very thin tablet PC and because of that, the absorbed heat will still be too close to the cpu so it really does not help with the cooling. That's my guess...

Other than that if you wanna play mid level gaming and cpu intensive programs, point the air conditioner directly at it and it works heavenly.