I have a compaq laptop with a amd athlon 64 3000+ that is supposed to run at 1.8ghz. It is always running at 800ghz and people on this forum told me that it runs at that speed unless it needs to speed up lets say for a program or something. does this mean that say i open up internet explorer it is opening it up at the speed of 800ghz and isnt going to speed up unless it needs to. I do not really like this as i would want the full potential of my laptop (1.8ghz) all the time. i am not concerned about battery life or anything i just wanna see the real potential of my computer because right now im not all that impressed about it. and also if i need a bios update or something to change the speed of my motherboard where do i get it. I have the compaq presario r3000z laptop. thanks -brandon
there a way to make my amd 64 3000+ to run at the 1.8ghz
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There is no point in making it go at 1.8Ghz all the time because you won't get any more performence at all. You already have the "full potential" because when the processor is running at a lower clock speed, there is nothing to do. Running at a higher clock speed would only waste battery and would not give you any extra performence because there is nothing for the processor to do with its increased power. As soon as something happens it will go back to its full power until it is no longer doing anything.
There is probbably a setting in the bios somewhere, if you look around you should be able to find it because it will have a name like "speed step" or something but I wouldn't turn it off for all the reasons above.
There is probbably a setting in the bios somewhere, if you look around you should be able to find it because it will have a name like "speed step" or something but I wouldn't turn it off for all the reasons above.
Yeti
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Why do you want to turn "it" off? All it is doing is running at the optimum speed for what applications are running, if it needs more power it will speed up. Just like a car engine, you have, say, 200 hp but only use 100 hp while driving on the highway. The power is there, but only when you need it (sorry for yet another car analogy, all I could think of off the top of my head 
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Yeti said:
I tried to convince him that there is no point in my first post but I don't think he cares. He probbably just perfers if it is always on full power because it gives him peace of mind or something.
You could try updating the bios, but if it is not there it probbably wont be there because it is working now without the setting there so it is probbably not the bios.
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it does make your laptop faster having it at full power al the time. it takes time for your laptop to go from 800MHz-2000MHz when opening something, and that's time wasted. if you have it set to 2000MHz already, your program fly's open, no waiting for it to speed up.
My mom uses a Compaq laptop with a 2400+M processor, and when i use it i set it to "Always On" settings and it's MUCH faster. With the clock cycling it takes longer to open/access programs, and it will lag alot.
Try settign it to "Always On" from the desktop. that should disable coolnquiet or w/e it is. but like veeryone said, battery drains alot faster.
My mom uses a Compaq laptop with a 2400+M processor, and when i use it i set it to "Always On" settings and it's MUCH faster. With the clock cycling it takes longer to open/access programs, and it will lag alot.
Try settign it to "Always On" from the desktop. that should disable coolnquiet or w/e it is. but like veeryone said, battery drains alot faster.
