Dell Multiplier?

[Troz]

I've got a brand new Dell Vostro 200 here. Supposed to have an E2140 in it running at 1.6GHz. Yet Windows, and CPU-Z are both showing it as 1.2GHz. I thought the multi on this CPU was 8x? CPU-Z is showing 6x. Is there anyway to get into some hidden settings in the BIOS to change the multi back to 8?

Core Speed 1197.0 MHz
Multiplier x6.0
Bus Speed 199.5 MHz
Rated FSB 798.0 MHz

Any ideas what's going on/how to fix it?

 

[Dangman]

That's normal man. That's just the EIST setting of the motherboard kicking. It'll go back up to 8x when you need the speed. When you're not doing anything that requires the full speed of the CPU, it'll go to 6x but it'll go back to 8x when there's a heavy load (gaming, encoding, etc)

 

[Troz]

Thanks! Kinda freaked me out, never seen it in action before.

 

[engiNURD]

... and there's no reason to turn this feature off, btw. Many people like to turn it off, but there's really no point -- the switching is fast enough to not cause any latent effects. Its good to turn off while your tweaking/OC'ing, but its also good to turn it back on when you're done.

 

[Mithent]

... and there's no reason to turn this feature off, btw. Many people like to turn it off, but there's really no point -- the switching is fast enough to not cause any latent effects. Its good to turn off while your tweaking/OC'ing, but its also good to turn it back on when you're done.

Yeah.. considering how much people worry about keeping their systems cool, it surprises me that many people like to turn the features that reduce heat output off. I can't see any reason to have it disabled unless it's specifically causing problems or you're shooting for record overclocks and it affects stability. If a normal day-to-day-use overclocked machine has problems with SpeedStep then it's probably not entirely stable in the first place?