pentium m specs...

esmurph

Just a quick question.....

I have a HP Dv1355 laptop and it has a Pentium M 740 1.73GHz processor in it. Now I presumed that this 1.73GHz was made up of a particular core frequency by a multiplier.

But running CPU-Z it gave me this???



Now it could be just me but doesn't it say core speed = 798.0MHz. Should it not be closer to 1.7GHz??
Is this normal or is the laptop severly underclocked?

Yours confused,
eSmurph

jesus_thats_gre

800mhz is the speed it runs at when running in power saving mode.. Select maximum performance in the power controls in the control panel.

Woden

just a quick guess that perhaps the laptop is running one of these cool and quiet techonologies or whatever it is intel calls that lowers the clock speend on the chip when you are just doing light tasks like browsing and office work or whatever so you can save power and battery time.

the clock speed should ramp up if you doing something like playing a game. afaik you can turn it off.

eh perhaps maybe etc.

data

retrospect

its called speedstep
http://support.intel.com/support/processors/mobile/pentiumiii/sb/CS-007509.htm
hope this clears it up for you .

retrospect

sorry wrong Processor try this page ,its still called speedstep
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2003/volume07issue02/art03_pentiumm/p10_speedstep.htm