Clock Speed help

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:05

In the BIOS, it says the CPU Clock Speed is 200MHZ.
In WIndows, I checked the "System Information", and it says it's running at 2210Mhz. There's something wrong here, and I don't know what it is, or what to do.

Stelly · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:06

I would do a BIOS update mate... have you tried using CPUZ to see what it says??

Stelly

dale1uk · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:08

ignore

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:08

CPUZ Says 2210 Mhz.
EDIT: Sorry I forgot to tell you I'm using an Athlon now, just upgraded to the 3500.

Stelly · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:14

then its gotta be running at that speed and ignore the BIOS mate, if you feel comfortable I would upgrade the BIOS, but read the changes that it will do to be BIOS and see if you think its worth it

Stelly

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:18

Ok thanks mate. I'll try to do that.

Defcon5 · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:25

Does it say CPU Clock Speed exactly? Or CPU reference clock or something?

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 11:31

"CPU Clock Frequency"

FreeStream · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:30

Thats just the FSB, nothing to worry about. 200mhz is correct.

Stelly · 11 Jul 2006 at 12:58

Concorde Rules said:
Thats just the FSB, nothing to worry about. 200mhz is correct.

Yup should have thought about that

Stelly

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 13:33

Thanks.
Oh, and is it normal for a 64 bit CPU to take ages in the "Windows is Starting Up" screen?

Defcon5 · 11 Jul 2006 at 14:06

Have you reformatted since you upgraded?

Phan7omEli7e™ · 11 Jul 2006 at 14:41

Not reformat, just reinstalled Windows.

FreeStream · 11 Jul 2006 at 17:38

Phan7omEli7e™ said:
Thanks.
Oh, and is it normal for a 64 bit CPU to take ages in the "Windows is Starting Up" screen?

Hmm, I've just reinstalled and reformated by X2 @ 2.3 and its pretty much instant. However this is on a 180GB ATA HD while I think it was hanging abit on the SATA 74Gb Raptor :confused:

Still, bros got it now, im £900 heavier and im ready for conroe. MUHAHAHAHAH

Joe42 · 11 Jul 2006 at 22:33

Phan7omEli7e™ said:
Thanks.
Oh, and is it normal for a 64 bit CPU to take ages in the "Windows is Starting Up" screen?

Unless your running windows xp x64 edition its not a 64bit cpu.

Pulseammo · 11 Jul 2006 at 23:26

The speed at which windows loads is more dependant on your hard drive isn't it? Once you are actually into the OS the next hurdle is on the CPU - loading apps, so if you cut down the amount of cruft on the startup then it goes faster.

Joe42 · 11 Jul 2006 at 23:41

Pulseammo said:
The speed at which windows loads is more dependant on your hard drive isn't it?

I find the harddisk seems to be the bottleneck most of the time. In this case its just windows being windows. Mine sometimes likes to sit and do nothing for a minute or so. Reinstall or live with it.

Phan7omEli7e™ · 12 Jul 2006 at 08:14

SO I should go and get a new HDD soon?
But this morning, it took around 5 minutes to load, but with my old Sempron 2400, and 768MB Ram, it took 2 minutes.
But the speed of games is significantly increased

Macca · 12 Jul 2006 at 08:24

Phan7omEli7e™ said:
SO I should go and get a new HDD soon?
But this morning, it took around 5 minutes to load, but with my old Sempron 2400, and 768MB Ram, it took 2 minutes.
But the speed of games is significantly increased

I never had drivers installed properly, after installing made the load time like 5 secs when it gets to the windows loading screen.

Phan7omEli7e™ · 12 Jul 2006 at 08:43

Drivers?
My nVidia IDE driver is installed, but it still takes ages? Would reformatting make it much quicker? I'd back up my stuff ofcourse.