View Full Version : Laptops CPU speed keeps changing!
MAX POWER
06-01-2005, 04:55 PM
I have a AMD athalon Xp 2500+ CPU the bios detects it as running at 1.8htz. Quite often i go to system properties and it is detected as running at 800htz:mad:. And just now its been detected as 1.11htz when i just came out of stand by. Anyone know why this is happening?
Yes I know whats happening.
The CPU is down clocking itself when your not doing anything CPU intensive. To save battery life.
In Intel CPU's this is called Speedstep, I am not sure what it is called for AMD CPU's.
heatbball
06-04-2005, 06:53 PM
i think for amd its called "powernow"
yamihere
06-06-2005, 02:38 AM
it's acutally called "cool n' quiet"
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