Author: Joseph Merolle
Date: 11:48:15 12/30/04
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On December 30, 2004 at 14:44:07, Joseph Merolle wrote: >On December 30, 2004 at 06:05:53, Jouni Uski wrote: > >>On December 30, 2004 at 05:26:45, Aaron Gordon wrote: >> >>>On December 30, 2004 at 01:22:24, Joseph Merolle wrote: >>> >>>>I installed a throttle watch and noticed my clock speed moves a bit in a game. >>>>When I am off line its stay some what consitent using all its cpu power. However >>>>when I am playing or analizing on line some times my cpu is kicking out half the >>>>mhz. Is this normal? >>>> >>>>I have no viruses and I dont run any other aplication other then net scape and >>>>shredder. >>>> >>>> >>>>Regards Joseph >>> >>>Depends on your CPU. If it is a P4 and is dropping down, it is most likely too >>>hot and trying to save itself from death. If it is an Athlon 64 it most likely >>>has CnQ (Cool'n'Quiet) enabled. This reduces clock speed when the CPU isn't >>>under load to keep the CPU running cool. You can disable that in tbe bios >>>usually. The P4 overheating problem, well, you'll just need to get a new >>>heatsink/fan in that situation. >>> >>>I hear the P4-3.6 and P4-3.8GHz chips run so hot with regular cooling that they >>>throttle in everything.. so basically without water cooling you'll be back to >>>p4-2.8ghz speeds and running a nice 'n toasty 80C cpu temp. >> >>My both P4-2.4 CPU are about 34C after 10 hours use! >> >>Jouni > >Well I have a pentium 4 moble processor without H.T. (3.02 Ghz 256 Sdram.) I >dont think its a heating problem because there is no report on throttling on my >throttle watch. Any help to reslove this would be great. > > >Joseph p.s. Are you saying the actual mhz zpeed fluctuates, or just the % utilisation ? Is this a Hyperthreaded P4 ? \ The actual mhz speed fluctatates thus the utilisation is depressed or vse versa I dont know. Joseph
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