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Thread ID: 72152	2006-09-01 08:11:00	Strange: 2 identical notebooks, different GHz processor speed	hotkiwi (6379)	Press F1

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481852	2006-09-01 08:11:00	Friends, I have this strange experience: I bought for my 2 daughters 2 identical notebooks: Compaq Presario M2000. They came with only 256 MB RAM, so installed in both of them another 512 MB today. I looked under control panel > system properties > general and found two different processor speeds: one reads: HP Mobile AMD Sempron (tm) Processor 3000+ 789 MHz, 640 MB of RAM Physical Address Extension and the other: HP Mobile AMD Sempron (tm) Processor 3000+ 1.79 GHz, 640 MB of RAM Physical Address Extension Why this difference??? Is 640 MB RAM what you would expect? Cheers Johan	hotkiwi (6379)
481853	2006-09-01 08:22:00	The 640 would be using 128mb for the onboard video. 256+512-128=640 Dont know why the speed would be different if theyre the same notebook.	Speedy Gonzales (78)
481854	2006-09-01 08:24:00	i would put my $$ on the fact that one was on main power and the other was running on battery. most laptops slow the CPU down a lot when not on main power.	robsonde (120)
481855	2006-09-01 08:34:00	Laptops also (usually) reduce the clockspeed to match the task at hand so they very rarely run at full snot. And the lower the battery charge the more Power Saving features take over, turning off devices, throtteling down the cpu speed (even when you are asking it to go hard) reducing the screen brightness....	Metla (12)
481856	2006-09-01 08:40:00	You guys are genious. One was running on battery, the other on AC/DC. Thanks a lot!! Never knew the processor reduces its throttle by 50%. Johan	hotkiwi (6379)
481857	2006-09-01 08:51:00	Unless your daughters are doing something resource intensive you could probably get away with reducing the ammount of system ram that is assigned to the video chipset.	Pete O'Neil (6584)
481858	2006-09-01 09:32:00	You can enable / disable the automatic speed adjustment.	developer (4447)
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