Vex Star » 1.83GHz processor http://www.vexstar.com Computers and Programming Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:52:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Who Stole My Megahurts? http://www.vexstar.com/who-stole-my-megahurts/ http://www.vexstar.com/who-stole-my-megahurts/#comments Mon, 24 Nov 2008 19:40:13 +0000 admin http://www.vexstar.com/who-stole-my-megahurts/ Just curious here…sometimes my 1.83GHz processor will show as a different clock speed as shown in the screenshot. It’ll swap back to 1.83GHz every so often. What’s going on when this happens?
Might be intel speed step where it reduces the multiplyer when the cpu is not under load.
It’s showing what your processor is currently running at, system properties won’t show the change from speedstep. Your mobo is probably clocking back your processor for some reason.

Why would it do that? I don’t know about anyone else…but I’d like my computer to run as fast as possible all the time. Anything I can do about it?

Download CPU-Z and check there. It is the only utility I would trust in reading the correct CPU clock.
Most newer computers do that. It’s to save on power and it shouldn’t impact performance. As soon as you do anything that uses the CPU it jumps back up to full speed.

You have a laptop. There’s no point for the proc to run at full speed during idle. It saves you power and generates less heat. When you’re using the proc, it will operate at full speed.

read up on speedstep. A good feature to keep enabled.

if you have to disable it, it’s in your bios.

You have a laptop. There’s no point for the proc to run at full speed during idle. It saves you power and generates less heat. When you’re using the proc, it will operate at full speed.

read up on speedstep. A good feature to keep enabled.

if you have to disable it, it’s in your bios.

Thanks for the info.

I still think you have something else that is dropping your processor speed below the 1.8 before speed step even kicks in.

System properties is going to tell you what the processor speed is without speed step taken into account. Mine here shows 3.6 in system properties because that’s the clock speed of the processor, CPU-Z shows the actual real time speed, speed step brings it down to 2.4 (2400) when it doesn’t need to use 3.6

^ I was afraid of that.

I actually had this issue on a 1.83ghz core 2 duo also; this time the desktop version, E4300 I think. It was compatible with my Shuttle mobo but would always report a x6.0 multiplyer no matter what I threw at it. So it would report 1.2ghz in system properties.

What is very odd about this is it is running at roughly half speed, not 1/3 or 2/3 like I would expect if the multi was too low if the multi was a multiple of 3. Anyone know the multi of these chips?

^ I was afraid of that.

I actually had this issue on a 1.83ghz core 2 duo also; this time the desktop version, E4300 I think. It was compatible with my Shuttle mobo but would always report a x6.0 multiplyer no matter what I threw at it. So it would report 1.2ghz in system properties.

What is very odd about this is it is running at roughly half speed, not 1/3 or 2/3 like I would expect if the multi was too low if the multi was a multiple of 3. Anyone know the multi of these chips?

I think the E4300 is a 9x mulit…200×9.

Yaa I know. I’m wondering what this T5600 is. Cause TS’s one is reporting half speed, if it were stuck on 6x it would report 1.2ghz, not 987mhz. If it too has a multiplier of 9x then maybe the fsb is being clocked back.
then it’s working fine.

speedstep working, 6×166 = 996
proc at full speed, 11×166 = 1826

states that the multiplier is 11. That fucker goes to 11!

: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the board, eleven, eleven, eleven and…
: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten?
: Exactly.
: Does that mean it’s louder? Is it any louder?
: Well, it’s one louder, isn’t it? It’s not ten. You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You’re on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you’re on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?
: I don’t know.
: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra push over the cliff, you know what we do?
: Put it up to eleven.
: Eleven. Exactly. One louder.
: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
: [pause] These go to eleven.

run something that pegs the CPU, CPU-Z will report the new speed in real time.

CPUZ is reporting the same issue

If the multiplier was on 9, the core speed would be 9 x 166.3 which would be 1496.7Mhz; too low obviously.

I think the fsb is too low.

then it’s working fine.

speedstep working, 6×166 = 996
proc at full speed, 11×166 = 1826

states that the multiplier is 11. That fucker goes to 11!

run something that pegs the CPU, CPU-Z will report the new speed in real time.

Oh. Specs would have helped me

But why would the system properties report 996. I thought it reported the full power of the processor.
who cares what windows reports.

i see 2.4 and 3.2 on my sys prop all the time. sometimes i see 3.6.

Oh. Specs would have helped me

But why would the system properties report 996. I thought it reported the full power of the processor.

depending on how the system throttles itself it may show the slower speed if its throttled at the time the info is polled.

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