what i mean is that in my TR, it’s not 1 GHz, and in my other laptop, it’s not full 900 MHz.  i understand if it’s the RAM cause of video memory sharing, but why the speed?

anyone else has this in their laptop?

[quote author=“gameson”]what i mean is that in my TR, it’s not 1 GHz, and in my other laptop, it’s not full 900 MHz.  i understand if it’s the RAM cause of video memory sharing, but why the speed?

anyone else has this in their laptop?

It should run at full speed IF the system sees that it needs the full power of the chip.

As a power-saving scheme, Centrino CPUs (and others) increase or decrease the chip’s speed depending on the load. This is because lower speeds mean less heat and for laptops, more time between charges.

Why run the chip at 1GHz if all you need is 150MHz?

oic, i guess i forgot about the speedstep thing that intel has in their mobile processor…  :oops:

Not just in their mobile processors

I would prefer if they just left the speedstep thing alone. If there’s a way, I’d turn that sucker off. For some reason, when my computer is not plugged and I try to play GTA: Vice City and start a New Game, the cinematic starts, then stops right when it shows the words at the bottom right. It freezes, then a dialog box pops up and says something like “The system has just recovered from a Fatal Error” and a bunch of other stuff. Then, after the screen clears back to the desktop, I find it in some 600X400 resolution and end up having to restart the computer.

Of course, the game starts up normally if I just select a saved game while running on batteries. The New Game feature only works correctly when I have the system plugged and performance options maxed. I guess the Speedstep is a little ‘slow’ catching up with the game’s performance “needs” in a reasonable time.

Either that, or I just need a new ( better ) computer to suit my needs. 

>>dreams of owning a customized S-series .... mmmm ...

-best,
Concura

31 July 2004

Concura, try opening power panel—>power profile.  You will notice under the system category that there is an option to modify “CPU control”.  Click edit on the bottom right of the screen and you can modify this to be either :

Performance - which should run at full power all the time

or

Adaptive - which uses speedstep

Most of the time my TR is at Performance mode, and the clock speed reported is 893mhz.

Any idea?

mine tested 983.8 with  

I got 983.8 also.

Most of you probably are just short of 1GHz because of graphics allocation.  alvino, what kind of TR do you have?

[quote author=“TruthSeeker”]Most of you probably are just short of 1GHz because of graphics allocation.  alvino, what kind of TR do you have?

Oh mine is a TR1, supposedly 900mhz model. so it’s about 7 mhz short changed. Intel actually allocate CPU cycles to graphics? :(

Yeah, it starts out low, like 4mb.  Then it allocates more as the system needs it.

[quote author=“TruthSeeker”]Concura, try opening power panel—>power profile.  You will notice under the system category that there is an option to modify “CPU control”.  Click edit on the bottom right of the screen and you can modify this to be either :

Performance - which should run at full power all the time

or

Adaptive - which uses speedstep

Thanks for the help, TruthSeeker. I believe I’ve tried that already, but I guess my computer is just a little hard-head when it comes to more complex operations ( yes, relaxing on a summer day with my tr, playing GTA:VC is a complex operation for my poor baby ...... is it asking too much that my computer at least start a simple game normally? ).  :shock:

Oh, well. I need to upgrade to an S-series anyways. Looking very tempting .... mmmm. I wonder if it comes encased in Magnesium alloy? Or some kind of metal? I’ve had bad experience with all-plastic-cased laptops, so I’d like to have just a little security knowing my computer is/might-be a “tank” before I get it.

Thanks.

-best,
Concura

1 August 2004