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Pentium-M @ 93C?

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My laptop has been acting strangely. Getting extremely slow when having firefox and downloading something.. stuff like that. 100% CPU load while doing stuff that normally should put the CPU on 15-20% tops.

So I downloaded NHC and noticed that when vcore is dynamically set to 1.3 (which to my understand is pretty high) and x12 muliplier the frequency is only 800MHz.. shouldn't it run at 1.6GHz at that multiplier (P-M 1.6GHz)? Also, NHC reports the CPU temp is in excess of 90C while running an ftp client, winamp and firefox.. which to me seems totally out of place. Right now it's running @ 400MHz, which makes the computer slow down to a crawl.

Is the dynamic speed thing totally broken? I know this wasn't the case before. It's an Inspiron 6000.
 
its overheating and slowing down the clock speed to try and cool off.. check the fan. its probably not working
 
Definitely a heat issue here. First, clean your fans, reapply thermal paste. Second, use NHC to undervolt your processor. A lot of performance to gain with these simple steps.
 
Didn't think of the fact that it's downclocking to avoid overheating.. thanks for the tip. Gonna open it up and check.
 
It's not downclocking per se. It's undervolting. In NHC, you'll see options to customize each multiplier with its own voltage. Turn down your voltage, run Prime95 for a while to make sure it's stable at a lower voltage and voila. Last thing, remember to always use "Dynamic Switching" mode.
 
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