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Why is my laptop not running at full CPU speed?

Kroze

Kroze

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It supposed to run @ 1.8ghz but according to cpu z it's running @ 900mhz.

I went into the power settings and set it to maximum performance instead of battery saving but it will not increase the speed of my cpu. I can't even play a youtube 720p video without it being choppy 🙁

Can someone help?
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There was probably a low-power setting in the BIOS for when activity is low. You didn't have to change your OS!!
 
Again just to update you guys, I install and reinstalled windows7 & windows xp twice.

With both times, windows xp run youtube video @ 720P so much smoother, it can even run 1080p videos on youtube.

I can't do it with windows 7. The videos 720p is just too choppy and I don't even want to tell you how 1080p feel.
 
Kroze said:
Again just to update you guys, I install and reinstalled windows7 & windows xp twice.

With both times, windows xp run youtube video @ 720P so much smoother, it can even run 1080p videos on youtube.

I can't do it with windows 7. The videos 720p is just too choppy and I don't even want to tell you how 1080p feel.
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Can't tell you how ridiculous that sounds. The problem lies elsewhere, it's not the OS, but maybe how flash interacts with that OS, drivers for that OS, your browser, etc. I would tinker around more with a fix for Windows 7 before reverting back to a basically obsolete OS. (Yeah, I said it.)
 
Flash-based video like Youtube uses hardware acceleration, so the problem may lie with your graphics chip rather than the processor. Intel mobile processors automatically downclock when idle to save power; my 2.26 GHz laptop processor normally downclocks to around 1.5 GHz.

So, what is your comp's graphics chip? Try disabling hardware acceleration in Flash, simply by right-clicking a video, click "settings", and un-check "Enable hardware acceleration".
 
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It's a laptop with integrated intel gm945 graphic card. (IBM T60)

I turned everything on maximum at the bios, set everything to maximum performance under windows 7 power management and yet it still run slower compared to windows xp.

XP is butter smooth.
 
even ancient intel 'GPU" will do flash hardware acceleration

except for games and a few other tasks there is really nothing out there that needs a fraction of modern CPU power. at work half the time i even use a windows 7 VM instance i made or myself instead of my laptop
 
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