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New 9300 slow performance.

post #1 of 20
10/11/05 at 3:42am
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I just got a new 9300
2ghz
1 gig of ram
256 6800 go card


It seems that its always slow, speed step is active and it ALWAYS says 798 mhz in the system propertiies. When just playing regular counter strike my FPS drops down to 40 in battles while my friend with a 600m with 2ghz cpu and 512mb ram and just the standard card gets over 300 FPS continulously in the director mode.

Anything im doing wrong or that I should know about?
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post #2 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:38am
Try going to your power consumption options and setting it to Always On.
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post #3 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:41am
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Just ran CPUZ just says 798 mhz even after opening HL2....This is so frustrating
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post #4 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:45am
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same deal, 798 mhz
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post #5 of 20
10/11/05 at 5:03am
Mine too, but in games it run just fine. There's nothing wrong with the CPU going in 798 Mhz in Windows, the CPU downclock itself to save power and reduce heat.
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post #6 of 20
10/11/05 at 5:04am
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Originally Posted by That Jerk Casey
I just got a new 9300
2ghz
1 gig of ram
256 6800 go card


It seems that its always slow, speed step is active and it ALWAYS says 798 mhz in the system propertiies. When just playing regular counter strike my FPS drops down to 40 in battles while my friend with a 600m with 2ghz cpu and 512mb ram and just the standard card gets over 300 FPS continulously in the director mode.

Anything im doing wrong or that I should know about?
REALLLLLLLY 300 FPS huh on a regular 6800, don't let him fool you hes running 320x240 on vga graphics and 10 colors
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post #7 of 20
10/11/05 at 6:15am
always on and rebbot
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post #8 of 20
10/11/05 at 7:37am
Perhaps reformatting? Removing all of Dell's preinstalled software increased the overall speed of my i9300.
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post #9 of 20
10/11/05 at 10:21am
Two ways you can fix it.

In the BIOS, there's a setting to be changed to max (whatever it is), always min (800 mhz lock ALL the time), or auto-adjust. Auto-adjust waits until CPU useage reaches a certain amount, and enables the max performance. Old CS barely needs a lot of memory on a modern computer, so it keeps it locked at 800 mhz while you're playing. This happened with a game I was playing called Delta Force Xtreme. It hardly ate enough memory, so it played it at 800 mhz and it had lag problems. However, playing a game like Doom 3 / BF2 will eat up enough memory to make it play at 1.6 ghz.

The power options didn't make a difference for me, it's all in the BIOS. Remember though, the always max setting causes heating problems for the Pentium M. I use auto-adjust since I like having it run cool during windows, and hot during intense games.
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post #10 of 20
10/11/05 at 10:24am
i would try running it through 3d mark or somthing that also test CPU and see if u have a unusally low score, if not i would not worry so much =)

i would also recomment reformatting first and formost and updating all drivers there after
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post #11 of 20
10/11/05 at 10:30am
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Originally Posted by Rockinfella2k
REALLLLLLLY 300 FPS huh on a regular 6800, don't let him fool you hes running 320x240 on vga graphics and 10 colors
I can run the original CS at 300 fps... Its not that hard.

Are you sure you arent running on battery mode? Did you accidently turn off speedstep in the bios?
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post #12 of 20
10/11/05 at 2:39pm
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Yes, speedstep is on. But like I said HL2 is unbearable. Maybe I should call dell, I have a limited warranty. Would they be able to help me? It seems slow just doing normal computer shit. Like my 2.6 ghz desktop with 512 ram seems to be like 5 times faster and I thought a 2ghz pentium M processor would be faster than a 2.6 p4. Excuse me if I am being iggnorant. Thanks for the replies
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post #13 of 20
10/11/05 at 2:41pm
i still think its a setting or driver, have u reformatted the thing yet, if not i really really think you should do that before going further
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post #14 of 20
10/11/05 at 2:44pm
This has been discussed before. You need to change your QuickSet Power Scheme to Maximum Performance instead of Battery. You will also only get the best performance when the laptop is plugged into the AC adapter.
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post #15 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:27pm
or use CHC to make sure it runs at full speed before you start the game up, or speedswitch xp, i like them both
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post #16 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:39pm
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Yes Ive changed the settings to maximum performance no effect. I would reformat the harddriver but I never got a installation cd. Instead I was supplied with a paper that had a picture of a cd on it stating that I dont need a CD. It says to use system restore or some dell based program that would start it back to the original condition I recieved it. But that doesnt help at all because the original condition isnt good enough heh.

XPSgen2man - Whats CHC?
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post #17 of 20
10/11/05 at 4:57pm
call dell and have them send u a real xp CD
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post #18 of 20
10/11/05 at 5:18pm
Centrino hardware controll, it allows you to change the speed of the cpu to anything inbetween mininum and maxmimum clocks http://www.pbus-167.com/chc.htm
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post #19 of 20
10/11/05 at 7:06pm
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Downloaded it, I enabled custom dynamic switching. It says 2000mhz now voltage 1.308 and multiplier 15x. what does that mean? Is this not the normal settings?
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post #20 of 20
10/15/05 at 12:56pm
I don't know about voltage and multiplier, but if you want to check, right click My Computer and click properties and see if the speed is 2ghz on the front page. If you don't see it there try it again. Mine fluctuates from min to max sometimes. I guess I don't really know how I got it to stay up there. I think I stopped using QuickSet's power management and just used Windows'.
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