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I recently bought an e6850. I downloaded cpuZ today to see the speeds it's running at and it is running at 2000.0MHz than will some times switch to 3000.0MHz. Should it be doing this or is something wrong. I know the e6850 is 3.0 stock. Any help would be appreciated.
 
You have speedstep enabled, turn it off in the bios. It should be called C1E or something
 
That means that speedstep is working. I wouldn't turn it off unless you, well, wanted to waste extra energy while you aren't using your PC.
 
Hey guys i'm back ;[. Unfortantely a few days ago I had to reformat and the only thing available at the time was vista. I had this problem before and i went into the bios and disabled speedstep. Recently after my reformat I checked cpuz and It's showing my cpu running @ 2.0ghz instead of the 3.0ghz ( I have an e6850 ) could someone please explain to me how to fix this?


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First, sometimes there's two settings in the bios which will need to be disabled.

C1E and EIST (or Intel Speedstep Tech)


Secondly, Vista has power features which can lower your cpu speed while not in use, these will have to be disabled. I haven't used Vista much, but a quick google will probably provide information on how to do this.
 
I've tried googling it, I can't find anything on it. I havn't tried disabling the EIST thing yet but when i disabled the C1E thing it worked fine, so EIST shouldn't be a problem unless vista had something to do with it.
 
In the BIOS it may not be that obvious to see C1E. It may show something like this:

Enhanced Halt (C1E)

If you disable this alone it should do it. You don't need to disable EIST. However, In Win Vista under Control Panel ---> Power Options ---> Power Plan setting must be set to High Performance. If you disable both C1E and EIST in the BIOS then, the settings under Vistas Power Plan does not affect it and you will see your E6850 at 3.0ghz.
 
HardwareGuru thanks alot, the power options were on the lowest thing, I really appreciate the help man.
 
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