Urgent help needed?

[Nilushan]

I have an Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 which the stock speed is 2.4Ghz. In BIOS it shows 2.4Ghz. I have Win 7 64 bit and in my computer is shows 2.4Ghz. But in CPU-z it is showing the speed as 1.6Ghz with a multiplier of 6x. Y does it show like that?

 

[obsidian86]

intel speed step ,it reduces clock speed when you on idle run prime on any intensive task it will run at the right speed

* we need a sticky bout this

 

[rodney_ws]

Give that man his best answer award!

SpeedStep is helping you save money on your electric bill... when your PC is just idling at the desktop it doesn't need to be firing on all cylinders... so it throttles itself down to a lower speed. Trust me... when you fire up any modern game it wakes up.

 

[rodney_ws]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedstep

And the opposite of this would be Intel's (relatively) new Turbo Boost (I don't believe this applies to your processor)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_Turbo_Boost

I'm curious... what was so urgent about this?

 

[jsc]

I think he just wanted a answer quickly, and he thought "Urgent" would help. Plus he's young and impatient.

 

[andy5174]

I have an Intel Core 2 quad Q6600 which the stock speed is 2.4Ghz. In BIOS it shows 2.4Ghz. I have Win 7 64 bit and in my computer is shows 2.4Ghz. But in CPU-z it is showing the speed as 1.6Ghz with a multiplier of 6x. Y does it show like that?

It is due to the power saving feature called speedstep. To run at full speed all the time, you need to disable C1E and EIST in the BIOS.