I noticed when I switch to DirectX 9, it throttles even further, going from 660mhz to 270mhz just like Yokami reported in their thread.

I am sad to hear that this is a prevalent problem with these laptops. Mine was working perfectly in CT and SCOB last year, my woes only began when I decided to start playing again this week! I am very sad about that.

I've never actually futzed with my clock or voltage before (and the voltage settings are grayed out in both nvidiaInspector and MSI Afterburner) so I have no clue how to do this, haha. I've just used the two programs to watch my power states and attempt to force the computer to stick to a power state. Can someone explain how to underclock/undervolt for me?