New Computer/System Information

[Jeff Grossman]

I just purchased a new HP computer and have a question regarding some
of the system information. When I look at System Properties, the
General tab says the following:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Pavilion
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200+
989 MHz, 2.00 GM of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Everything on there looks good except for the 989 MHz line.

But, if I go into System Information, here is what I get under
Processor:

x86 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2605 Mhz
x86 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2605 Mhz

So, which one should I believe?

Thanks,
Jeff

 

[Thomas Wendell]

I just purchased a new HP computer and have a question regarding some
of the system information. When I look at System Properties, the
General tab says the following:

Hewlett-Packard Company
HP Pavilion
AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 5200+
989 MHz, 2.00 GM of RAM
Physical Address Extension

Everything on there looks good except for the 989 MHz line.

But, if I go into System Information, here is what I get under
Processor:

x86 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2605 Mhz
x86 Family 15 Model 67 Stepping 2 AuthenticAMD ~2605 Mhz

So, which one should I believe?

Thanks,
Jeff

The 2605MHz is the full speed of the processor .
Most likely the AMD Qool'n'Quiet -driver is installed and power saver
settings (in Display settings->ScreenSaver->Power savings)
is set to "minimal" savings. So when the CPU is doing nothing, it clocks
down to about 1GHz.

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[Jeff Grossman]

The 2605MHz is the full speed of the processor .
Most likely the AMD Qool'n'Quiet -driver is installed and power saver
settings (in Display settings->ScreenSaver->Power savings)
is set to "minimal" savings. So when the CPU is doing nothing, it clocks
down to about 1GHz.

Thank you for that information. I was not aware of that, but it makes
perfect sense. I just wanted to make sure that Windows was seeing the
processor speed correctly and that I did not have a configuration
problem.

Thanks again,
Jeff

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Thank you for that information. I was not aware of that, but it makes
perfect sense. I just wanted to make sure that Windows was seeing the
processor speed correctly and that I did not have a configuration
problem.

Thanks again,
Jeff

You're welcome..
(and if you want it to run full blast all the time, change the power saver
setting to "always on" or "home or office computer")


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[Jeff Grossman]

You're welcome..
(and if you want it to run full blast all the time, change the power saver
setting to "always on" or "home or office computer")

Is there any reason for me to have it full blast all of the time? If
I am not doing anything, wouldn't it be better to have itself clock
down to save energy?

Jeff

 

[Thomas Wendell]

Is there any reason for me to have it full blast all of the time? If
I am not doing anything, wouldn't it be better to have itself clock
down to save energy?

Jeff

That's the point of that downclocking, saving energy. My system (A64-3200+)
clocks down to 1.1GHz and VERY seldom rises from that. Not even 3DMark2005
gets it up to speed, so when benchmarking, I've learned to disable that
power save...



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