Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

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  • culmor30
    FFR Veteran
    • Jul 2005
    • 74
    #1

    Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

    Yea... I got this Inspiron 600m Dell laptop.

    I didn't want anything too fancy, just you know, wireless, ATI Radeon, good HD, and most importantly a good CPU. On the box thingie, it says clearly: 1.6 GHz.

    So I'm like, aight, that's awesome. I don't need anything too high. With these specs I could run some cool games... HW2, COD2 etc...

    I unpack it, turn it on, all that crap. Now, let's skip forward a bit:

    By now I have all my drivers, software, all of it installed. Windows XP Pro, all the good stuff.

    Ok, so now I decide, I'm gonna play Homeworld 2, haven't played that in a while. So I pop in the disk, sit through the huge install loader. After about 12 minutes (normal, not me), I get a cool little screen with their logo and all that. Aight, cool, you might be thinkin I'm sayin. I am. Just about until this stupid error comes up that says at 533MHz, my CPU is not fast enough for the game.

    Here I start thinkin... hey, it's Windows, just gonna restart and it'll all be cool. So I restart it, same problem after a while. I open up system info to find this:

    http://myfilestash.com/userfiles/culmor30/whatsgoinonhere.bmp


    Eh? It says 1.60GHz right there, but right under there it's runnin at 600MHz??!

    Not cool. Not cool at all.

    So I'm posting here to ask if any of you can help me out any. I AM NOT looking to overclock this computer, as that would really piss my dad off. (Well, it would piss my dad off if I broke this.) I just want to know if this is some stupid hardware acceleration problem I'm not seeing or something.

    Oh, and I checked the BIOS, nothing there.

    Thanks in advance if you can help
    culmor30
    Last edited by culmor30; 02-2-2007, 09:20 PM.
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    • Nyokou
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      • Apr 2005
      • 4246
      #2
      Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

      Woah, dude. I have the same laptop, but.. I can't help you.
      Sorry.
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        • dancingmaniac3
          FFR Player
          • Nov 2003
          • 1873
          #3
          Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

          Sounds like the M in Dell 600M stands for Megahertz rofl.



          Okay, seriously now. Do you notice a dramatic lag effect from the laptop? As in, you feel like you're actually running a laptop that's only 600 megahertz? I can almost guarantee you can feel the difference between 1.6 gigs and 600 megahertz. Establishing that will help you understand if its a manufacturing error, or a client side error, meaning it's telling you something completely different than what it's actually running.
          Last edited by dancingmaniac3; 02-2-2007, 10:52 PM.

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            • MrPoptart
              Steam Id: MstrPoptart
              • Mar 2005
              • 475
              #4
              Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

              lol i dint know how to help you try re-installing it
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                • culmor30
                  FFR Veteran
                  • Jul 2005
                  • 74
                  #5
                  Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

                  You should have seen my desktop when it was COMPLETLY covered lol.

                  And back to the problem, I found the cause:

                  In the BIOS, there's this little setting called Intel Speedstep. The basic purpose it to slow the processor when running on battery. I'm plugged in. Only problem is that if it's off, the computer will ALWAYS run at 600MHz. If it's on, it will only be at full speed when plugged in.

                  So, I turned it on, and my laptop is running at 1.6GHz. It always seemed like it anyway. But see, I try to install HW2 again and I STILL get the same problem, which means all my programs will still THINK I'm really slow. Crap.

                  Does ANYONE with this laptop have the same problem?

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                    • nforcer06164
                      FFR Player
                      • Mar 2003
                      • 4772
                      #6
                      Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

                      Maybe we'd be able to help you better if we know the processor model you're running. Also, what version of Windows is HW2 designed to run on?

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                        • Psycho45
                          FFR Player
                          • Nov 2006
                          • 68
                          #7
                          Re: Anyone with some decent knowledge of Dell CPUs?

                          Yep. They SUCK
                          You suck, I don't. O well.

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