laptop cpu only 600mhz not full 1.5ghz

[SkeeterUK]

Is this like speedstep (pentium m 1,5ghz dothan) thats slowing it down to 600mhz or is it power saving options?

Just mate wants to know how to get it full speed. He knows nothing about computers tho and i dont live near him to help. And explaining it over msn could be long and difficult.

Power management he said was on portable laptop.

Here is a cpuz report.

Processor(s)
Number of processors 1
Number of cores 1 per processor
Number of threads 1 (max 1) per processor
Name Intel Pentium M 715
Code Name Dothan
Specification Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.50GHz
Package Socket 479 mPGA
Family/Model/Stepping 6.D.8
Extended Family/Model 6.D
Brand ID 22
Core Stepping C0
Technology 90 nm
Core Speed 600.1 MHz
Multiplier x Bus speed 6.0 x 100.0 MHz
Rated Bus speed 400.0 MHz
Stock frequency 1500 MHz
Instruction sets MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 Data cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L1 Instruction cache 32 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size
L2 cache 2048 KBytes, 8-way set associative, 64-byte line size

 

[Mul]

It is indeed speedstep. There's no reason to switch it off especially if you want decent battery life. Anyway, if he wants to he needs to go into BIOS on his laptop, generally F2 or Delete and from there disable EIST/Speedstep.

Mul

 

[SkeeterUK]

Had him do a test where he ran prime95 for 30 secs then do another cpuz report, which he did and showed it does go up to 1.5ghz when doing cpu intensive things. So he should be ok. He said he doesnt use battery only hardwired. Since explaining bios stuff will be tricky as i duno layout of his bios etc i told him to just leave it as its ok. 600mhz should be fine for average user on desktop.

 

[Datamonkey]

if he wants it to constanly run at full power you can change the settings under power options in control panel.

Goto power options in control panel and set the power scheme to always on.

No need to go into the bios and make any changes at all.

Well shouldnt be lol.

 

[SkeeterUK]

He tryed setting it to minimal power managment, which i presume means it doesnt use almost any power managment tinkering. Or is that the worst one lol.

Would home and office have been the better option?

 

[Tute]

I doubt in the end you'd notice the difference in speed anyway. The Pentium M processors are very efficient, and even at 600MHz it's giving you more than enough speed whilst zipping around your desktop.

Load up anything intensive and it instantly clocks to 1.5GHz.

 

[Datamonkey]

Nope he wants always on,

Thats the exact option he wants lol.

 

[Mattus]

No point! Whenever the CPU can't cope at 600Mhz it will instantly clock up to 1500 anyway. By running Always On all he's doing is making it get hotter.

 

[Tute]

No point! Whenever the CPU can't cope at 600Mhz it will instantly clock up to 1500 anyway. By running Always On all he's doing is making it get hotter.

And eat battery (if he decides to unplug it).