Oddly behaving T8100

[13thmonkey]

The T8100 is clocked at 2.1ghz according to intel, in my dell XPS1330 it appears to have 3 speeds, 2.1Ghz, 2.1Ghz and 2.3Ghz corresponding to 10.5, 11 and 11.5 as multipliers. Does this make sense to anyone? I wasn't aware that the core 2's could do mulitpliers with more than 2 states, and I am thinking have dell been a bit tricky to make it perform better?

 

[Computerrock1]

Danm them and their locked BIOS... I have dealt with a similar issue with my grandmother's Gateway Pentium... It is clocked at 3.2 Ghz on startup and interchanges between 3.0, 3.1, 3.2... Its aggravating, but its so slow I cant tell the difference. haha.