Check the CPU speed when you put the computer under a full load? It is a pentium 4, if I recall right they have speed stepping where it steps down processor speed when you aren't loaded at all, start a large program and watch CPU-z at the same time.
I won't be here. As much as I'd love to, I don't have the luxury of living in my parents basement year round. I suppose none of these complex possibilities ever occurred to you before your extremely helpful posts.Sounds like a great idea, why don't you and your folks do the same?
Yes, IIRC it's called Enhanced Speed Step. Ultimately, it runs at 2.7 no matter what, so it isn't that. Basically, it seems like this: the multiplier is locked, and somehow they managed to change it. Thank you for the suggestion though. I put VS express on here and ran my cowboy clockspeed/latency computation code, and it basically verifies that about 2.6/2.7 GHz is all I am going to be able to get.Check the CPU speed when you put the computer under a full load? It is a pentium 4, if I recall right they have speed stepping where it steps down processor speed when you aren't loaded at all, start a large program and watch CPU-z at the same time.
Last edited by BobMcGee123; 11-20-2007 at 09:48 AM.
I'm not immature, I'm refined in the opposite direction.
You go home for turkey day but take off before it gets here? Weird. Calm down a little. I'm merely suggesting that some guys hosed up your parents computer, and they should be responsible for un-hosing it, not you. If you fix their mistakes for them they'll continue to get away with doing shoddy work.
The BIOS is made by Dell but it's not a Dell computer? Interesting.
I would not take it back to the retards that caused the problem in the first place. That defies all logic. If you want the job done right, do it yourself.
I hate to even suggest this Bob but perhaps the CPU mutliplier on that board is controlled via old-school jumpers or DIP switches. I cannot fathom a newer board using these but it's possible.