AMD fools me?

[luvya]

I recently bought a Compaq Presario notebook that came with Athlon 2400+ M processor. The speed just stays at 1.79 ghz whether the laptop is on battery power or not....What's going on here?

 

[First]

Originally posted by: luvya
I recently bought a Compaq Presario notebook that came with Athlon 2400+ M processor. The speed just stays at 1.79 ghz whether the laptop is on battery power or not....What's going on here?

Why is this a surprise?

 

[AFB]

n00b, AMD's processors don't have to run at that speed. It is equivalent to a 2.4Ghz P4.

 

[Grey]

Originally posted by: luvya
I recently bought a Compaq Presario notebook that came with Athlon 2400+ M processor. The speed just stays at 1.79 ghz whether the laptop is on battery power or not....What's going on here?

Someone obviously isn't on AT for the tech news.

 

[Stojakapimp]

what a n00b

 

[Xionide]

NOOBTACULAR! Dont worry mang. It performes as what is says 2400

 

[dighn]

haha

 

[Ameesh]

even i know that AMD's numbers 2400+ is marketing speak for we are as fast as intels 2.4ghz, whether its true or not i have no idea

ps: pics of your cousin?

 

[Dufman]

Originally posted by: Stojakapimp
what a n00b

 

[Kyteland]

Um, I assumed he meant it should use speedstep technology or whatever is is that Intel uses to throttle cpu speed when using a battery. If that's the case then I don't think AMD does that.

 

[compudog]

I think luvya may be asking why it doesn't throttle down to lower speed when on batteries. Not that it isn't running at 2400MHz. Don't mobile AMD Athlon CPU's have PowerNow technology???

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: compudog
I think luvya may be asking why it doesn't throttle down to lower speed when on batteries. Not that it isn't running ar 2400MHz. Don't mobile AMD Athlon CPU's have PowerNow technology???

May not be enabled.

 

[ClueLis]

Nevermind my comment. You probably need to enable the power conservation option.

 

[thedarkwolf]

You need to go download the powernow! driver. I think its on windows website somewhere. Neither my dad's or sister's HP(samething) came with it setup.

 

[ndee]

whooooooooooa, n000bnses at it's finest. Frame it!

 

[thedarkwolf]

Powernow! stuff

 

[RaynorWolfcastle]

Originally posted by: compudog
I think luvya may be asking why it doesn't throttle down to lower speed when on batteries. Not that it isn't running ar 2400MHz. Don't mobile AMD Athlon CPU's have PowerNow technology???

I also think this is what he's asking, although he could have been clearer about it. All you uber-1337 h4x0rs need to read the post and chill out before yelling "n00b". I think they're power saving scheme uses a more sophisticated clocking system (as opposed to the original Intel one) that allows for much finer control of the speed the CPU runs at. I'm not sure Windows or any of the programs that measure CPU frequency see this dynamic clocking (so they'd just report max freq).

I agree with Ameesh though, :camera:s of the cousin please

 

[compudog]

There we go! Now we got luvya the right answer. Dasm n00bs not reading the n00b posts!

 

[DaWhim]

omg.....call compaq NOW and complain!!!!
my amd athelon 2000+ is 1.68ghz

 

[thedarkwolf]

wcpuid has a tab in it somewhere that shows the actuall speed and will show what powernow! is doing. Motherboard Monitor probably will too but I didn't install that.

 

[txxxx]

Go get the latest PowerNow! drivers from amd's website, XP-M's have multiple speed states which they can run at...once the drivers are installed and the BIOS supports it (which it should).

 

[element]

my 2400+ athlon xp runs at 2.0ghz, so the athlon-M runs at 1.79?