Please help me with my CPU.

[BiGT-]

Hi, I recently upgraded my motherboard, I had some difficulties but now they are fine, but my pc is really slow, its running at lower speed than its meant to at stock speed,

My specs are currently:
Intel Pentium Dual CPU E2160 @ 1.80GHz
2Gb Kingston Ram (2x1Gb) - Kingston 9905399-003A00LF 1GB DIMM DDR2 PC2-4300U DDR2-534 (4-4-4-12 2-16-4-2)
Gigabyte GA-73PVM-S2H Motherboard

Here are some print screens from CPU-Z

can someone please help me get it atleast back to the normal speed of 1.8GHz please, I also think the ram is also at the wrong speed but im not certain

if there is any other information you need please just say.

Thank you.

 

[DragonQ]

That's SpeedStep slowing down the CPU when it isn't being used much, tis working fine.

 

[JonJ678]

Did you expect that hardware to be very quick?

What operating system are you using. If it must be windows, at least use XP. Vista would crawl

 

[timefalls]

SpeedStep causes your CPU to reduce its clockspeed to save power when you arent doing anything CPU intensive, e.g writing a word document. I have exactly the same CPU as you downstairs in my HTPC and it does exactly the same thing

 

[DreXeL]

Did you expect that hardware to be very quick?

What operating system are you using. If it must be windows, at least use XP. Vista would crawl

Absolute tosh, Vista will run just fine on that hardware.

 

[BiGT-]

I have been using this CPU for the past year and it has been fast compared to now, it has never been below 1.80Ghz but now it is 1.20

In my BIOS it had the fsb at 200 x 6 which was 1.2, I changed it to 200x9 which was how it was before the motherboard upgrade, it is now 1.8ghz, but as you say it goes up when I need it.

Im currently using windows 7, my CPU is pretty fast for what I need, I have used Vista before and was happy with the speed.

 

[BiGT-]

im getting bluescreens now, but im not sure from what, it goes too quick for me to read it, anyone have any ideas?

 

[Mattus]

Did you expect that hardware to be very quick?

What operating system are you using. If it must be windows, at least use XP. Vista would crawl

Huh? Vista would run reasonably well on that. Could do with a bit more RAM but the CPU will be fine. It's only about a third slower than an E6600.

im getting bluescreens now, but im not sure from what, it goes too quick for me to read it, anyone have any ideas?

Go to Control Panel > System > Advanced System Settings > Startup and Recovery > Settings and tell it not to restart after system failure. Then you can read the bluescreen.

 

[BiGT-]

Thanks for that, I have'nt been seeing any blue screens again, im going to upgrade my ram so hopefully speed it up a bit.

 

[JonJ678]

I stand corrected, and twice, but maintain that xp is the better choice of the two for this hardware.

Perhaps we have different working definitions of running well, or of crawling.