Core speed is dropping

[stevedub]

The past few weeks my core speed has been dropping on my old dell. It's suppose to be 1300, but it has dropped to 1296. So what does this mean? Is my dell gonna die on me?

 

[The51]

It does that from time to time, how old is the processor?

 

[stevedub]

I'd say about 4 years old

 

[DJ-CHRIS]

Dont worry about it

This is due to a little crystal vibrating back and forth at lets say 100 \ 133 mhz not vibrating as fast.

4 mhz is nothing, I lost 13 on another mobo.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

i lose around 4 or 5 mhz depending on the temp's....

 

[Simon]

dont worry my p3 1Ghz is at 996Mhz

 

[FadingTheory]

Just wait untill you start loosing RAM... what a pain.

I lost 4 on a PII, 3 on a celeron.

 

[Rouen]

Yes, your clock speed/frequency and your time on the BIOS is measured by the vibration of a quartz crystal..... oh... I forget where the thing is located.....