Weird Q6600 Speeds...

[incompetence]

Here's the thing, I loaded up cpu-z and saw that I have two different speeds. The two speeds are 1.6ghz and 2.4 ghz. Here's some pictures:

http://i71.photobucket.com/alb...lucentex/untitled1.jpg

http://i71.photobucket.com/alb.../lucentex/untitled.jpg

Can anybody explain to me how there's two different speeds?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Laminator]

Intel SpeedStep. When you're not doing anything CPU-intensive, the multiplier drops down to 6x (from 9x) and you get a speed of 1.6GHz to save power.

Both your pictures show that you are running at 2.4GHz, by the way. Maybe they upped the multiplier for you to take that screenshot, ha ha.

 

[BenchZowner]

If you want to disable this dynamic clock management feature, get into BIOS and set both "C1E Support" and "Intel Enhanced SpeedStep Technology" to 'disabled'

 

[incompetence]

I see, and thanks for your responses. :x