At 534.3 and the FSB
RAM 5:8 what is your
processor speed, as I suspect you are overclocking.
What is your processor model: Intel E????
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okay I enabled and disabled the speedstep and I get the same readings
bus speed 334.0 and rated FSB 1335.9. I left it on disabled. Now for
the RAM. I read that article and I first had the voltage at 2.10 but
that article said 2.2 so I changed it. I went from setting it to
800MHZand timings as 4-4-4-12 and the CPUID read DRAM Freq 400.7 and
FSB
RAM 5:6, then I went back and set it to the 1066 and back up to
5-5-5-15 and CPUID read DRAM Freq 534.3 and the FSB
RAM 5:8. Which is
better? I'm assuming leaving it to were it was at 1066
Debbie
Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology How To Document:
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/203838.htm
If you read this article near the bottom of the page are two figures.
Figure #1 shows how "with SpeedStep enabled" you processor's
speed is reduced. This could account for the slow performance.
After you disable SpeedStep check CPU-ID again for reported
processor speed.
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Oh and in my BIOS under Intel Speedstep tech Auto is CPU speed
controlled my operating system amd Disabled is default CPU speed.
Mine is set to enabled, Auto
Debbie
59.9 is good.
334 clock x4 = FSB 1336 (1335.9) = DDR2-667 Memory (PC 5300) minimum
Use CPUID and click on the 'SPD' tab, this will display the info on
the memory
you currently have installed, look at the 'Timings table' to see if
your memory
sticks are rated to run at a 334 clock (frequency) rate.
Drive SMART values look OK.
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Okay here's what I got, I downloaded the trial of HD Tune and my
average speed is 59.9, I'm assuming that is good. I already had
the CPUID and the bus speed was around 334.0 and rated FSB 1335.9.
That I don't understand. The Speed fan SMART status showed that my
drive was 4 normals, 1 good and the rest very good. Going to check
the BIOS next.
Debbie
First you have a SATA-II (300) hard drive.
Found mention on one web site about jumper
to drop the drive speed down to the slower SATA-I.
However found no mention of such a jumper on Samsung's
web site, instead it mentions software to control SATA Speed.
There is a utility I use named HD Tune
http://www.hdtune.com/
It checks drive transfer speed and you drive should be about
60MB/Sec or more at the start of the test, all drives
(Speed) fall off noticeably at the last 25%.
A good utility to check the drive's SMART status is
SpeedFan:
http://www.almico.com/speedfan.php
Has an option to compare your drive's SMART values
to other drives of the same model.
Mother BIOS settings:
Download the user's manual (if you haven't already done so)
Check you BIOS settings for SATA and CPU speed control
options. Your BIOS could be set to throttle back the CPU
speed.
Use CPUID:
http://www.cpuid.com/
Monitor's CPU clock rate in real time
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There is no system model because this was built by me.
SAMSUNG SP2504C [Hard drive] (250.06 GB)
c: (NTFS on drive 0) 81.52 GB 63.62 GB free
d: (NTFS on drive 0) 54.02 GB 48.29 GB free
e: (NTFS on drive 0) 54.43 GB 49.43 GB free
f: (NTFS on drive 0) 60.09 GB 50.69 GB free
Main Circuit Board b
3.15 gigahertz Intel Core2 Duo
64 kilobyte primary memory cache
6144 kilobyte secondary memory cache Board: ASUSTeK Computer
INC. P5K-V Rev 1.xx
Serial Number: MS1C76B89M00015
Bus Clock: 333 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 1002 06/18/2008
3328 Megabytes Installed Memory
Slot 'DIMM0' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM1' is Empty
Slot 'DIMM2' has 2048 MB
Slot 'DIMM3' is Empty
Debbie
What the Make and model of
your existing hard drive?
Don't need to pry the case open to find
hard drive info. Just download, install and
run Belarc Advisor:
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
Provide the Processor, Drives, System Model, Main Circuit Board
and Memory Modules information in your reply.
Using that info I should be able to tell you
what you need to know
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Well since I got my new processor and more RAM my programs
still don't open any faster. The tech told me I either have to
go RAID or a faster hard drive. I haven't seen 7,500 anyway
but I can't imagine it being too much more faster than my
7,200. I buy my stuff at newegg.com.
Debbie
15,000 RPM Enterprise level drives improves data access times.
I would expect most 15,000 RPM drives to be SATA-II (3 Gbit/s)
which is the data transfer rate. Data transfer speed wins out
over RPM
in most cases for home computers.
The question is why you are looking at a 15000 RPM
drive as opposed to 7,500 or 10,000?
SATA 6 Gbit/s is the next generation and would expect it to be
the fastest.
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Well the thing is I build my own pc. I just upgraded the
cpu, power supply, RAM. The next thing I'll need to do
probably in a year or 2 is a new motherboard and hard drive.
Speaking of hard drives, I'm looking for a faster hard drive
so which one would be faster, a SATA 15,000 rpm or a SATA 3.0
gbls?
Debbie
message I don't see the cause for worry. Just stick with XP.
That's what I'm going to do. If and when the time ever
comes that you think you MUST upgrade to a new OS, as some
others have pointed out, maybe by that time you'll need a new
computer, anyway (with the new OS preinstalled), since the
demands on the computer hardware for a new OS keep
increasing.
Debbie Graham wrote:
I was so worried about installing xp that I love it now.
Even better than
my win 98. Maybe by that time another OS will be out. I
have so many
programs installed that the thought of reinstalling them
gives me the shivers
Debbie
message
You can stick with XP well beyond when its support date
runs out.
Debbie Graham wrote:
Oh crap. I hope it does by the time it goes on sale.
Otherwise I'll
just
stick with XP until it's support date runs out.
Debbie
To date XP is not "upgradeable" to W7 but Vista is.
Who knows by the time it actually goes on sale
peter
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okay I have XP that I upgraded ,not a full install from
win 98, just
the
upgrade. My question is, when Win7 comes out can I
still use the
upgrade
option or do I need to do a full install? I know doing
a full install
is
better but I can't afford a full version of any OS.
Also I have vista
on
my laptop that came preinstalled, could I just do a
upgrade and not a
full version install on that too?
Debbie
