Laptop not performing at said speed

[Tolkien]

Hello, I recently bought an HP Pavilion dv5000 Intel Core Duo 1.8GHz, 800MHz FSB, 2MB L2 Cache w/ 1G DDR2 MEM + 100G hd.

My laptop had been going at a pretty slow speed so i decided to see the speed in CPU-Z and it resulted in this:

Please help! I spent 1700$$ on this laptop and its running at 900MHz?!??!.. CPU temp is at 42 degs in relation to everest home edition...

 

[veg1992]

that 1.83ghz might be two 974mhz processors put together, or u r using too many things with ur CPU, better remove some programs! nvm on the first part u may have overheated it, so try overclocking it... it migth be the program u use, use system information, cuz i've heard that cpu-z can have probs with core duo and core solo pcs.

 

[Ridlyn]

no, ur not using all of the cpu, so it's not running it at full speed. Pull open a benchmark program or a game, and it will go at full speed.

 

[The General]

CPU-Z seems to have problems with Core Duo's... You're okay.

 

[Tolkien]

I know now that there is a Power-Save function on the CPU, so it will throttle itself down when not needed and throttle to full speed when needed to save battery life.. pretty dumb as i have it plugged into the freaking wall... some battery to save.. -.-... and it keeps jumping between 1800MHz, 1300MHz, and 800mhz :\ ... that cant be good for the cpu.. all that constant jumping

 

[The General]

Oh, I didn't know it was going up and down.

That's called Intel's "SpeedStep" Technology ... it does it to save power.

I'm sure Intel wouldn't have implemented such a thing if it were bad for the CPU.

 

[SHAWN]

Its designed that way and will not hurt the CPU. You wont see a performance difference if it ran at the frequency at all times. As more processing power is needed, it will rise. Its not just for battery but for heat as well.

 

[Tolkien]

Hm, suppose so, thanks for the input!

 

[mj9999]

NHC has a similar feature as Speedstep. You can even throttle down your laptop till 200Mhz (12.5% of 1.6).. I've tried, and it saves power..Internal clock remains at 1600Mhz but "pauses/waits" are created to simulate that said frequency or just reduce the strain on your processor thus increasing battery life....
Whoa, does anyone here tried overclocking their laptops? I tried mine, it's just a Celeron 380 @ 1.6Ghz but I've tried overclocking it once to 1.9Ghz stable..But later on I tried again and settled to just 1.75Ghz...No worries...Umm, can anyone help me with my system? I need an uber techie buddy here...

 

[mj9999]

OMG, wait.. yonah runs at Socket 479 mPGA? is it not Socket M? or Socket M is for Merom?