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johnhelen   06-30-2004 at 02:18:36 AM

Hello all
I have a laptop computer. Following spec. it is 2.4 GHz. However, when I go to Control Panel/System/General, I saw two lines :
Intel(R) CPU 2.4GHz, and below is 1.05GHz.
Could you please help why there are two different values of CPU speeds and if there is a problem in that, please help
Thank you very much
Regards
S.H

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Ned_Flanders   06-30-2004 at 02:27:12 AM
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1. Are you sure it is not 1.05 Gb of RAM (sorry, stupid q, but just incase)
2. Perhaps you have incorrectly set up your BIOS FSB wise

It would help if you listed your system specs.

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etp777   06-30-2004 at 03:13:19 AM
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Or perhaps it's just a laptop like you said, so it's clocking the CPU down forpower savings.

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Cybercraig   06-30-2004 at 03:59:40 AM
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If you're running in dual-channel with XP it could be showing you 2 X 1.05, but without the 2. I've seen it before.

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Crashman   06-30-2004 at 04:01:31 AM
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It's probably telling you the maximum speed and current speed, P4-M's do multi-speed automatically to save power and reduce heat.

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Ned_Flanders   06-30-2004 at 04:24:46 AM
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oh yeah,lol, i neglected to process the "laptop" part of the thread!

Yep, that is most likely the max/currect speeds as said above

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johnhelen   06-30-2004 at 05:04:33 AM
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Thank you all for your replies.
My computer has only 256Mb Ram. It is NEC versa M400. Pentium (M) 4, 2.4GHz and 30G hardisk.
Sometimes, it is 1.6GHz but normally, it is 1.05GHz. I do not know why

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etp777   06-30-2004 at 05:22:17 AM
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It is because of the CPU throttling as several people including myself have already said.

Go read this article to get an explanation, and see an extreme case of it:

<A HREF="http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20021101/index.html" target="_new">http://www6.tomshardware.com/mobile/20021101/index.html</A>

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Mr_Nuke   06-30-2004 at 02:33:00 PM
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"Fails to mention". Reminds me of ATI's Radeon X800. Not only that it fails to mention that it's trilinear filtering is optimized, meaning it's only brilinear, but it says loudly and clearly that X800 uses trilinear filtering. Until someone proves the oposite. <A HREF="http://graphics.tomshardware.com/graphic/20040603/index.html" target="_new">If you wish to read more and see how ATI excuses it.</A>

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Mr_Nuke   06-30-2004 at 02:38:07 PM
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Try making your CPU run at full power. Try some games or <A HREF="http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft.htm" target="_new">Prime95</A> perhaps.

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Anonymous   06-30-2004 at 04:03:14 PM
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yup run something that gets your cpu to 100% utilisation like MrNUke said. Also make sure your plugged in the wall, the CPU might not go full speed if your on batteries.
Fianlly you can use an applications like CPU-Z CPuid, it will tell you your clock speed and other info more reliably than windows.

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Mr_Nuke   07-01-2004 at 09:41:39 AM
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OCZ you say? Try messing with the timings, they're very flexible on OCZ modules, try for example 2-3-3-6 and then 2-3-2-6, 2-3-2-5, I don't know If it can go any lower, but you can try, if they're too low, it won't boot, the modules are safe.

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Anonymous   07-01-2004 at 05:56:23 PM
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Depends on the module.

Quote :

Because these modules contain special PCB’s and firmware to allow the module to run at the highest possible frequencies, timings lower than CL 3-4-4-8 may not be possible, regardless of the module frequency.


From OCz website, thats for their Performance "copper" wich is the ram I use.

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Mr_Nuke   07-02-2004 at 09:29:57 AM
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I know lots of OCZ modules CL 2.5-3-3-7 the run @ 2-2-2-5, perfectly stable. And even if you mess with the timings your RAM is fine, it won't get fried or anything. The PC will not boot if the timings are too low, so you can try see how far your modules go.

OCZ says it cannot go lower then 3-4-4-8, but yours go with 3-3-3-8.

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