Something's bothering me...

[Letters]

Okay, this is probably nothing, but it's weird enough for me to be slightly concerned. Some games that auto-detect your system seem to be misreading my processor, a Pentium M 1.7 Ghz. A couple examples are Steam's hardware survey and Splinter Cell Pandora Tomorrow. They both said my CPU is only 598.1 Mhz, not 1700 like I thought it would say.

Now, that'd be fine if Splinter Cell actually ran well, but I have to have the resolution on 800x600 and low detail if I don't want any slowdown in areas with lots of lighting stuff going on. I have 1024 MB of DDR memory and a Mobile Radeon 9700, so I don't really know what to make of the poor performance.

So I ran CPU-Z to check up on things and got this result (see attached image). The 598.1 MHz is the core speed, it says. I don't really know what that means... but is that normal? I don't have a setting fuxed up anywhere do I?


Or is all this just caused by things getting confused by a different type of processor?

 

[lePobz]

Your Clock speed is your FSB multiplied by your CPU Multiplier: in your case, this is 100 multiplied by 6 (hence 600)

This is wrong.

It should be 1700, so you need to change either your multiplier (to 17) or your FSB (or both) so that the resultant core clock speed is 1700.

By the way, your system has been running at 600mhz instead of 1.7ghz.

 

[Shuzer]

Does your system have a feature whereas, when you run on the battery, it underclocks it by 1GHz to save on battery life?

If not, yeah, just set your multiplier/FSB higher.

 

[Letters]

****! How do I change it?!

I suppose I could fiddle with the battery thing, but it's on desktop mode already... I think it just changes when it shuts the monitor/hard drive off.

(That's actually kinda sweet, though... I mean... Far Cry and stuff runs fine already. )

 

[lePobz]

FSB x Multi
----------
100 x 17.0
166 x 10.5
200 x 8.5

should all equal 1700. Go into Bios and try these out.
Infact the multi must be 17.0 because the Pentium-M has a locked fsb of 100Mhz.

 

[Letters]

Alright, BIOS stuff, huh... I'll find it. Thanks for the suggestions I'll write those down.

 

[Letters]

Alright! Turns out, there's battery life stuff in the BIOS (never bothered to check before)... some asshole at the manufacturer must have set it wrong... it was set to conserve battery life when plugged in. CPU-Z is now showing it at 1694.5 MHz! :thumbs:

Thanks, guys... you just helped me nearly triple my CPU speed!

 

[Shuzer]

Score! :thumbs:
Glad I (we) could help

 

[Asus]

haha
Yeah it's a laptop so it is clocking down when it's not needed to save battery life.