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E8400 Problem

Meloco

Meloco

Meloco

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Hi,

was playing Crysis earlier, and suddenly everything was very jittery and gameplay was at a halt. Restarted the computer, opened cpu-z and my now E8400@ 3.00ghz, is reading clock speeds of 2000mhz? When previously it was at 2999mhz. Is there anyway I can fix this?
 
Well the multiplier has dropped to x6 if it's at 2ghz, and that's standard for SpeedStep. Does it not jump back up to x9 when you start opening a program?
 
Well a E8400 even at 2GHz is a very very quick chip, so I would say that isn’t your problem, by all means disable speed step but you need to look elsewhere.
 
It could be yes, it could be running a virus scan or Vista doing a defrag etc, is it all okay after you restarted the computer? I can’t see speed step being a problem an E8400 like I say at 2GHz is quick, when system needs more power it bumps up to 3GHz, the change to 2GHz - 3GHz is not noticeable its instant so this change wont cause stuttering etc.
 
Fothsn said:
It could be yes, it could be running a virus scan or Vista doing a defrag etc, is it all okay after you restarted the computer? I can’t see speed step being a problem an E8400 like I say at 2GHz is quick, when system needs more power it bumps up to 3GHz.
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I've restarted it after putting speedstep back on, and it seems ok now.
 
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