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re: AMD mobile Sempron 3500 running at 800mhz? Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:26 pm Posted by Johnb33 (1623 messages posted) It's just throttling itself down when not in use. It's AMD's cool and quiet software. Look in bios and see if you can disable it. Intel's software is called Speedstep I believe. It will only max out when there is high demand on the cpu. On Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 2:53 pm, Jeff Haelig wrote: >Hi recently I just purchased a Compaq Presario f557us with a AMD Sempron 3500+ (1.80ghz) >and now about 1500mb of ram. I noticed today using PC Wizard 2007 that my CPU is >only opperating at 803mhz!? Is this normal? I thought it was supposed to be 1.8ghz... >This is my first ever AMD PC I've always gone with Intel. Can I adjust this?? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: AMD mobile Sempron 3500 running at 800mhz? Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:27 pm Posted by Steve (19683 messages posted) I have a Pentium M, and on Batteries it runs at half speed to conserve Battery life. Your AMD may be setup the same way. I like the 4+ hours of battery life so never looked for a way to speed it up. May be a way, not sure [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: AMD mobile Sempron 3500 running at 800mhz? Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:29 pm Posted by Jeff Haelig (50 messages posted) If I disable it will there be any threats to my machine? I was playing an almost 4 year old game with most high settings on and it ran very sluggish... I figured maybe that's the 800mhz operating speed.. On Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:26 pm, Johnb33 wrote: > >It's just throttling itself down when not in use. It's AMD's cool and quiet software. > Look in bios and see if you can disable it. Intel's software is called Speedstep >I believe. It will only max out when there is high demand on the cpu. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: AMD mobile Sempron 3500 running at 800mhz? Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 9:20 pm Posted by Jeff Haelig (50 messages posted) I figured it out fellas it was because I had it on power saving mode... Thanks for all your input! On Thursday, July 5, 2007 at 3:27 pm, Steve wrote: >I have a Pentium M, and on Batteries it runs at half speed to conserve Battery life. >Your AMD may be setup the same way. I like the 4+ hours of battery life so never >looked for a way to speed it up. May be a way, not sure [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows Vista Discussion Forum