CPU way underclocked?

[MarcLister]

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.

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.

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Is that a BIOS option? Or is there some Windows util I can download to change this?

 

[lolwtfbbq]

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

 

[MarcLister]

Thank you s'ah!

 

[lolwtfbbq]

Thank you s'ah!

No problem