its fine mate its intels speedstep , it downclocks your multiplier when your cpu isnt under load to save power

as soon as its needed your multipliyer will shoot up to 9x and you'll be back at 2.4

you can turn it off in your bios if you want but unless your an overclocker i wouildnt bother

just so you know, even if you disable it in the bios, vista can enable it itself. but you can disable it in vista's "power options"

for dell computers, i think you need to use a "high performance" plan to disable speedstep. that's what it says in the manual.

i currently don't mind it though, so i let speedstep do its thing.

p. s. you should overclock your q6600 to 3ghz

Originally Posted by archie123

its fine mate its intels speedstep , it downclocks your multiplier when your cpu isnt under load to save power

as soon as its needed your multipliyer will shoot up to 9x and you'll be back at 2.4

you can turn it off in your bios if you want but unless your an overclocker i wouildnt bother

overclocking + speedstep can work together.

my q6600 is overclocked to 3ghz and speedstep will slow it down sometimes to like 2ghz when i'm not doing anything. but it jumps back up to 3ghz when i do something.

Originally Posted by Crispy2007

I'm not overclocking iv been through that before already, not with this system.

no i didnt say you were , i told you speedstep could be disabled so i thought it worth mentioning that if you overclock its a bad idea to switch it off.

my other posts were to correct somebody else , who's information is a little scewed

just answering your question with as much info as i think you might need

sometimes i like to waffle