Noticed something really odd..probably bad

DragonWoLf · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:29

Now after being slagged off for having a "slow and laggy" PC, I looked into OC'ing and then noticed something really odd which would kinda explain while my system was slow, now my CPU is stock and I haven't done anything to it via BIOS or such, now these images should explain lulwtf is going on..

is what it should be

is what it goes down to every few seconds...

Anyone help meh!

Ross1234 · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:38

It is supposed to do that

It lowers the speed when your not using it to save power.

rory12 · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:38

It's speedstep ,it lowers your multiplier whenever your CPU is idle to save energy.

You can disable it in the BIOS.

Orcvader · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:45

But that really shouldn't cause your pc to be slow and laggy. Is it just loading things slow and laggy?

DragonWoLf · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:48

ooohh speedstep *googles* and @Orc yeah slightly I mean at this spec with 64bit Win7, 4GB ram, it lags :-/

Orcvader · 14 Jul 2010 at 00:58

Use task manager to see if there's anything hogging up the CPU. You have more than enough RAM too, so that can't be the problem, although I would use a memtest to check that your memory is fine. Another possible root of the problem could be your harddrive.

DragonWoLf · 14 Jul 2010 at 01:07

Will do mate cheers but yeah the latter is probably it, had the HD's for a while now but downloading memtest as i type!

EDIT: cheers all o/

rory12 · 14 Jul 2010 at 03:25

Try a disk defragmentation.

wilko49 · 14 Jul 2010 at 11:13

Do you have an AV running? They really make some stuff slow right down...

Yakyb · 14 Jul 2010 at 13:13

When did you last reinstall everything you will find it much quicker after you give it a quick reinstall