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September 1st, 2004 19:00

speedstep test on D800 confusing

I have D800 and when I run solution center and my Dell and my computer information.

I see processor speed 1.56 Ghz. But when I run a third party benchmark program,

processor speed is 599 Mhz. Two of them supposed to be same why it is different ?

Thanks,

Tolga

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shifuimam
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Posted September 1st, 2004 21:00
The windows system properties panel will only display the rated speed of the processor. You can use SpeedSwitchXP (do a google search for it to download it) to monitor the actual speed of your processor. When you ran the benchmark test, your processor was only running at 599MHz...it dynamically changes processing speeds to conserve battery power and keep the processor from overheating.
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tolgao
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Posted September 2nd, 2004 06:00
But when I bought my D800, it used to show 599MHz speed when

I was working on battery and 1.6GHz when I worked on AC Power.

How come now, it doesnot show 599MHz on Dell system info when

work on battery ? Thanks ... Tolga
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shifuimam
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Posted September 2nd, 2004 12:00
I couldn't tell you for sure...Try downloading SpeedSwitchXP here : http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/ , and see what it tells you. You can also use that program to force the CPU to throttle down on battery, e.g. if it's staying at max speed on battery.

Also check your BIOS settings. I believe there is an option to always be on max performance (e.g. 1.6ghz), even on battery. make sure that hasn't been enabled.
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Posted September 2nd, 2004 17:00
speedswitch worked i can see the real speed now. thanks.