I just read about the new Samsung Galaxy Note Edge having a 2.7 GHz quad-core processor and 3GB of RAM. The laptop I bought last year by HP is 4 GB of RAM and 2.3 GHz quad-core and my iMac is even older and is 2.5 GHz i5. Does this mean that the new Samsung gadget is more powerful … Read more
I have a motherboard ASUS P5S-MX-SE with intel core 2 duo 2.2GHz with 1GB DDR2 400 MHz Ram and my motherboard supports DDR2 upto 667MHz So for increasing performance i have purchased a 2 GB 667 MHz DDR2 Ram and installed it i.e. 1GB 400 MHz Ram(old) in one slot and 2GB 667 MHz new … Read more
My laptop’s (a Dell Studio XPS) CPU appears to be being throttled. It’s an Intel Core Duo P8600 2.4hGhz running windows 10. Perf mon is reporting its speed as 1.58Ghz rather than 2.4Ghz The temp is 58 degrees per core (its rated to 105). The power plan is high performance (100% CPU). Ive tried disabling … Read more
I have recently installed FreeDOS on my old laptop, but the CPU is too fast for when I want to play games. Is there an option for me to reduce the CPU speed, so I can play retro games at normal speed? I am new to FreeDOS, so please also give optimal settings. Answer AttributionSource … Read more
ThrottleStop dosen’t save SpeedShift SST Limits in profile 1,2,3,4. I have to select a profile and everytime have to adjust speedshift limits manually opening TS. Is there a workarround for this ? Thanks in advance ! Answer ThrottleStop does not have an option to save the Speed Shift Min and Max Limits to different values … Read more
Well I have seen this question multiple times but not any answer to the point. I am on Ubuntu 20.04, cpu is R9 5950x. All I want a stress test where it shows the max clock speed (in MHz) single core/all cores went up to. Is it available in linux? Answer AttributionSource : Link , … Read more
I have an AMD Phenom II X4 955 that keeps going up and down between 800mhz and 3.2ghz. The multiplier also goes up and down between 4x and 16x. It does this several times a second regardless of load — resulting in an incredibly frustrating hiccup. I disabled Cool & Quiet in BIOS — didn’t … Read more
Does throttling the CPU down give you more battery life? Does i3 give you more battery life over an i7? Just I’ve not had the options to really test this theory as it requires having the same laptops just different CPUS. Answer Does throttling the CPU down give you more battery life? Yes. Throttling the … Read more
I realise others have posted similar questions, but I’m having trouble working out why my processor isn’t running at full speed. I’ll keep this visual. Given this: …and this: … why does CPU-Z flip between this: …and this: (compare clock speed and multiplier with last image) …and LatencyMon says this? Reported CPU speed: 2799.0 MHz … Read more
Sometimes I notice that system is very slow and when I see task manager, these are information in performance tab: Utilization: 8% Speed: 0.2 Ghz Maxsimum speed: 2.5 GHz Hardware details are: Windows 8 Pro x64 Sony vaio vpcse23fx core i5 2450M RAM 8 GB VGA Intel gen2 hd 3000 ATI 7400 series HDD 5400 … Read more
