At work I'm using a Dell Latitude 1.2ghz P3 laptop. I came to post here that it never runs at 100%, because its always 786mhz or so when I look. I'd kinda like the full speed because I'm working on some PIC programming in MPLAB and with the emulator it tends to get pretty slow. I'm sure the 256mb ram isn't helping anything, but I have XP set to performance and everything shut down that I can (but being a work computer I can't tweak it down as much as I would if it were my own).
What's weird is for months I've not seen it run at 1.2ghz/full speed, except RIGHT NOW it is! And I'm only browsing the web at the moment.
I'm guessing the mobile P3s have some sort of cool n' quiet feature, but is there a way to force 100% CPU speed? My only concern here is that the laptop seems quite hot. Near the top of the keyboard (where the screen meets the base of the laptop) it is quite hot, and much of the underneath base is pretty damn hot. There is a single, small fan on the upper right corner of the bottom of the base, but I've never seen it running. I don't want to force it to full speed and damage the laptop!! But I'd think it was built to handle 100% continously, just I don't have experience with laptops so I don't know how hot they can get. Plus its a pretty old machine and I don't know if perhaps one of the fans/cooling system is not working right, hence why it is hot even at 786mhz.
A fellow co-op has the same laptop, but I just checked and his is only running at 550mhz, though it's just been idling there. His fan is also not running.
Anyone know if I can force 100% (because it won't even go to 1.2ghz when I have many windows open, MPLAN IDE compiling, emulating, etc etc) and if so, is it even safe to do? Thanks
What's weird is for months I've not seen it run at 1.2ghz/full speed, except RIGHT NOW it is! And I'm only browsing the web at the moment.
I'm guessing the mobile P3s have some sort of cool n' quiet feature, but is there a way to force 100% CPU speed? My only concern here is that the laptop seems quite hot. Near the top of the keyboard (where the screen meets the base of the laptop) it is quite hot, and much of the underneath base is pretty damn hot. There is a single, small fan on the upper right corner of the bottom of the base, but I've never seen it running. I don't want to force it to full speed and damage the laptop!! But I'd think it was built to handle 100% continously, just I don't have experience with laptops so I don't know how hot they can get. Plus its a pretty old machine and I don't know if perhaps one of the fans/cooling system is not working right, hence why it is hot even at 786mhz.
A fellow co-op has the same laptop, but I just checked and his is only running at 550mhz, though it's just been idling there. His fan is also not running.
Anyone know if I can force 100% (because it won't even go to 1.2ghz when I have many windows open, MPLAN IDE compiling, emulating, etc etc) and if so, is it even safe to do? Thanks
