Q8200 and CPUID

[Wicked_Bass]

Having problems with my budget machine the bios, windows vista 64 all see the q8200 as 2.3ghz.

When I open cpuid 1.49 it show q8200 @2.33
but under clocks in the bottom left corner it shows 2.0?

Cant figure out why?

Any ideas?

 

[Drown Babies]

The name under 'specification' is just the default speed for the model I think. The speed shown at the bottom might be the lower, idling speed if speedstep is on, or something is just set wrong in BIOS.

 

[Zero82z]

When I open cpuid 1.49 it show q8200 @2.33
but under clocks in the bottom left corner it shows 2.0?

Cant figure out why?

Any ideas?

When the CPU is idle, Speedstep will lower the multiplier down to 6 to save power. The CPU is operating in a perfectly normal manner, so there's nothing to worry about.

 

[Wicked_Bass]

Thanks yep it was speed step. Should I disable it? or just leave it as is?

 

[Zero82z]

Leave it as-is. It won't have any negative effect on your performance.