What does this mean!?!?!?

[jagnet]

Hey all,

So I just finally after hours and hours of searching for drivers (and then realizing that the ones on the Toshiba website would work anyway) I finally got Vista OFF of my laptop and successfully installed XP PRO SP2 (after some slipstreaming of the Windows XP Pro install disc) and everything works perfectly! The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite A200 - FS2.

Rough Specs are as follows:

Intel Pentium Dual Core CPU @ 1.6GHZ
2GB DDR2- 667mhz ram (1GB x 2)
160 GB SATA2 5400rpm
Super Multi DVD Burner
Firewire port
4- USB 2.0 ports
15.4inch display
etc.

Now my question is this, howcome when I open the "properties" on "My Computer" it says under the "Computer" description..

Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60 GHZ
797mhz, 1.99GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension.

What I'm wondering about it the "797mhz" part, why does it say that!? I was always under the impression that this is the speed your cpu is running at.. so why if I have a dual core cpu @ 1.60GHZ is it saying it's only running @ 797mhz?? The laptop is plugged in, battery fully charged, according to device manager everything has the proper drivers installed and everything is working right.. and when I ran the "dxdiag.exe" tool IT said the CPU's were running @ 1.60GHZ like it should say.. Hence why I'm stumped about this..

Any help much appreciated, thanks in advance!

-Jagnet

 

[jagnet]

Ok... even more weird, literally right after I posted this, I opened the "properties" windows again on "My Computer" and now it says:

Computer:
Intel Pentium Dual CPU T2330 @ 1.60GHZ
1.60GHZ, 1.99GB of Ram
Physical Address extension

So now it's displaying correctly as far as I know, but why would it have been reading "797mhz" before!?!? Just a glitch within Windows maybe???

-Thanks again in advance for any help!

-Jagnet

 

[pat mcgroin]

Im assuming that you didnt overclock the bus?
The specs I just read says 667mhz so 797mhz isnt to far out there
When you pulled up the properties was it right after the install and possibly finishing up some processes? I dont no of any reason it would do that but thats all I got.
It would see that you can overclock it to that range if you want though.
BTW it looks like a pretty good setup.

 

[cranbers]

Your laptop runs power saving features. Only when your computer is actually being used does it speed up to full clock.

If you get an application called cpuid, do a google search on it. It will show you exactly what your computer is running at at any given time. You will see it jumping around. This is a way to improve battery life and make the laptop run cooler.

Hope this helps.

This is called Intel Speedstep, among other

 

[jagnet]

Thank you very much for the advice guys! Extremely helpful, and makes way more sense now that it's been explained to me, I notice now that right after Windows XP boots up it's running at 797mhz but once I start using it it boosts up to the full 1.60ghz.

-Thanks
Jagnet

 

[jagnet]

Yeah not too bad of a setup considering it's an $1100.00 laptop after taxes (futureshop.ca) and I got it on sale for $790.00 after taxes! In my opinion very worth the money spent on it! Especially now that I have the curse that is Windows Vista Home Premium (which in my opinion is just a pretty version of Windows ME, lol) off of it! Windows Xp PRO SP2 is a much nicer OS all around I think.

-Jagnet