CPU way underclocked?

MarcLister · 2 Mar 2008 at 20:27

.walls said:
Mobile processors (in laptops) tend to run at lower clock speeds until the extra power is needed. i.e. an idling laptop will run at a very low rate to conserve power - but as soon as it needs the extra MHz, the bios will up the multiplier. This can be demonstrated in MarcLister's example above.

.walls said:
Usually, turning off SpeedStep or PowerNow (I think that's the AMD version) should leave the processor running at full speed - although this obviously didn't work for the OP.

.walls

Is that a BIOS option? :confused:

Or is there some Windows util I can download to change this?

lolwtfbbq · 2 Mar 2008 at 20:48

Try this . Just fiddle around with the settings and you should get what you wanted

MarcLister · 2 Mar 2008 at 20:51

Thank you s'ah!

lolwtfbbq · 2 Mar 2008 at 20:59

MarcLister said:
Thank you s'ah!

No problem