Ram expansion cause a decrase in CPU clockfreq? True?

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Jesper Falk

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Hi there

I'm new to this forum, so please bear with me if I post something that has been debated previously - I've looked around and it dosen't look like it...

I have just bought a new HP pavillion with an AMD Athlon™ 64 processor 3200+ and it runs with just under 2 GHz.
It had only 512 MB ram, so I've bought another stick of 512 DDR ram and installed it...
The computer starts up fine, and it says that it now has 1 GB ram, fine...
But now it also says that it's clockfreq is only 997 MHz.!?!?!? I have been running a test on it (fresh-diagnose or something like that) and it seems to confirm that the CPU frequency is some 995 MHz...
Does anybody have a clue as to what is going on??

please help...

sincerely
/Jesper Falk
 
geez....I'm virtually a computer illiterate, so the term Front side bus has little meaning to me...
but when I enter
"Start"
"control panel"
"performance and maintenance"
"general info about the computer" (or something - translating from danish...)
and the chose "general"

Then I get a screen where it tells me that the system is win XP and I see the windows logo and the HP logo, and that I use service pack 2 and so on.
This is also where it tells me that there is 1 GB ram, and that the freq. is 997 MHz.... (and this is where it earlier said that it was running with 1.9 GHZ - i.e. before I upgraded the RAM)...

/Jesper
 
you can change the speed in BIOS, but somebody will probably tell you thats a bad idea. its kind of a quick fix, but it could lead to instability problems. your problem sounds strange, but im sure theres a way to fix it.
 
krimson_king said:
you can change the speed in BIOS, but somebody will probably tell you thats a bad idea. its kind of a quick fix, but it could lead to instability problems. your problem sounds strange, but im sure theres a way to fix it.
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You cant do that on an HP machine. My guess is that the AMD Cool n' Quet technology is enabled, which decreases the clock speed when its not in use.
 
happend on my latop, 1.7ghz down to 700mhz when it was'nt bein used for anythign cpu intensive.
 
Thanks for all the answers.

So, if I understand you guys right, then there's nothing to worry about? I've checked the performance under "start" - "help and support" where you can make a system check, and here it says 1989 MHz, so no problem.
I had no idea that there was such a function, one that lowers the speed when less speed is needed. Clever...
I'll sleep better now - thanks.

Btw, what will a bios reset do good for? is there a point? or could I perhaps change the bios setting so that the computer always runs at maximum cpu speed?

sincerely
Jesper
 
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