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February 16th, 2004 01:00

Is there a reason why my Dell 600m is throttling back processor speed when im playing a game automatically?

I have it set up for 1400 mhz and always on, but it seems when I start playing games, quickset automatically throttles back the processor after about 5 mins of playing.  Is this something it does when the processor gets too hot or something?  I use to be able to play anything I want to and the fan would just start, however its not bumping me down to 550 mhz and making my gaming experience a pain in the rear.  Someone please help me!
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    Tripleplay905

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    Posted February 16th, 2004 13:00

    I had that problem before and i fixed it using a program called SpeedSwitchXP.

     

    Go to http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html To download it.

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    rp3w600m

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    Posted February 18th, 2004 20:00

    I have also had that problem (even with SpeedStep) and I found that it was the BIOS. A08 and A09 seem to prevent 8kFanGui from working and downclock the CPU and probably the GPU during games. I downgraded to A06 and it did the trick.

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