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318 Mhz! Is this even possible.

post #1 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:18am
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I just looked in my computer properties and this showed up... is this real?!

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post #2 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:41am
I suppose. Are you on battery power?? Seems fine to me
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post #3 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:42am
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No. AC
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post #4 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:44am
Put your power settings on home/office. Should run full speed then
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post #5 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:47am
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I turned it to max performance on the Quickset and it went to 797 mhz.. I suspect rebooting will help.
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post #6 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:50am
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Originally Posted by UrT3Hn00b
I turned it to max performance on the Quickset and it went to 797 mhz.. I suspect rebooting will help.
Probably, I am on battery power right now, and I just put mine on always on to see what mine says. It too says 797, yet CPUZ is reading at the full 2400. Strange, I guess you will have to reboot to get it to say the full speed
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post #7 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:59am
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Yeah... I supsect its cause I unistalled Notebook Hardware Control when I installed Quickstep... just got to be too many little icons by the clock. All I need down there is Volume and the Wireless, not more.
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post #8 of 19
4/9/06 at 5:00am
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Originally Posted by UrT3Hn00b
No. AC
I see the battery icon in the quicklaunch menu.
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post #9 of 19
4/9/06 at 5:02am
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Yeah, but I did the same thing on AC right after.. sorry kinda forgot. But both were 318 until i moved the profile. Still at 797.. havent restart yet.
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post #10 of 19
4/9/06 at 5:02am
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Originally Posted by Joako
I see the battery icon in the quicklaunch menu.


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post #11 of 19
4/9/06 at 5:26am
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Just restarted with AC plugged in (and still is) and its still at 798 mhz... Max performance sceme is selected on Quickset...
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post #12 of 19
4/9/06 at 10:43am
I have Notebook hardware control installed on my 9300 and when I have it on battery, it's set to run at 800mhz for maximum battery. When I look at the system properties, Windows reports that it's running at something like 380mhz or something. I would say it's a conflict with NHC or something.

If you're really concerned about it, just use CPU-Z to verify the speed it's running at.
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post #13 of 19
4/9/06 at 12:25pm
on a side note after I looked at your post I tried to hit the cancel button on the properties page
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post #14 of 19
4/9/06 at 12:29pm
its just speed step being gay
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post #15 of 19
4/9/06 at 12:45pm
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Originally Posted by Bal`thzar
on a side note after I looked at your post I tried to hit the cancel button on the properties page
same lol lmao
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post #16 of 19
4/9/06 at 12:59pm
you really cant trust the thing built into windows to read the clock speed. Download cpu-z and see what that reports.
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post #17 of 19
4/9/06 at 2:03pm
Don't use Quickset. I tried the same thing and the max clock speed was 800 MHz. Use the power management features in the Control Panel.
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post #18 of 19
4/9/06 at 4:02pm
Set power management to Always On. Use NHC if you want to do custom speedstepping or undervolting.
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post #19 of 19
4/9/06 at 7:49pm
The value reported in the System Properties will change depending on what you do. It updates each time you open the window. Open something large, such as Photoshop. While that's loading, open the system properties and it will show you a higher value. SpeedStep will do its own thing unless you use NHC to take full control yourself. The setting in Control Panel effects the idle timeouts for the hard drive and display, as well as overall Standby and Hibernate timeouts.
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