Should I trust CPU-Z's clock speed reading?

[Zak33]

looking a LOT like Greymatter is the main dude on this one. My power settings were on power saving!

Max CPU was 50%

Let me try it on the proper default power mode first, minimum 5% maximumm 100% and see if it works correctly.

EIST is back on because the clock speed it now working up and down right.

[Zak33]

Whats the model of Intel SFF mobo ?

DQ965 GF

Latest bios always in there (Intel bios is the most awesome thing ever.. I cannot break it)

[Zak33]

I can tell you the problem instantly. Vista power options. My q6600 would report as a 1623mhz cpu until I chucked the power settings to the highest you can go and set the cpu min and max state to 100% For some reason Vista Ultimate 64 which I have does this no matter how many times I rebuild and I have to tweak the power settings.

Once you do this, reboot and then open the latest 64 bit CPUZ and you will see that your CPU will be running at full pelt

you've done it... you've made a jaded old man very very happy

My Arma2 benchmark has literally just doubled. All my troubles are gone... it's smooth as silk.

I think I love you... wanna get married? I cook well and I'll scrub your underwear for ever

[Grey M@a]

LOL Sharon might have a word to say if I ran off with you Zak You good at fixing Vauxhall's as I am sick of climbing under mine to fix it and you have a deal

You are more than welcome. It's a well known bug on 64 bit vista to do with a slightly broken power option but I just keep mine at max settings as I am always at the PC when I game anyway so don't really need the power saving features.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

you've done it... you've made a jaded old man very very happy

My Arma2 benchmark has literally just doubled. All my troubles are gone... it's smooth as silk.

I think I love you... wanna get married? I cook well and I'll scrub your underwear for ever

Looks like you got yourself a free processor upgrade there!!

[Zak33]

quite literally a 100% overclock

crap, you think you have leanred a lot and then the most basic thing smacks you round the gob.

HEXUS pifast runs like lightning now too. I only tried it two weeks ago and thought to myself "oh well, it's clearly not a vista 64 tweaked program"
thanks to you all for your help.

[nightkhaos]

You are welcome. Enjoy.

[Terbinator]

Strange, i would of suggested it was down to C1E and EIST as my Q6600 runs @ 1.6Ghz when not under stress and ive never had the power bug you speak of with vista x64 - but one for people to look out for !

[[GSV]Trig]

Your still a plumb..

[Grey M@a]

It is one to watch out for. You don't get the power issue on my Shuttle if I turn on virtualisation in the bios but with it off the power issue is there. Plus for a gaming machine and its the only thing its used for, I run 100% power all the time, temps don't change so no reason not to.

There are other quirky vista issues like the 64 bit ribbons screensaver. If you use a nvidia card, 64 bit ultimate and use ribbons before SP2 is installed. The screensaver will cause a lock and then a bluescreen dump. Covered on an MS Knowledge base somewhere as that's how I solved my issue with it, it's down to it being in the wrong system folder and lack of ownership of the file.

There are Vistax64 forum I check every now and then and the amount of little quirks that still appear are amusing but I will stick with Vista for a few years yet

[schmunk]

You are more than welcome. It's a well known bug on 64 bit vista to do with a slightly broken power option but I just keep mine at max settings as I am always at the PC when I game anyway so don't really need the power saving features.

I wonder if this might be a significant cause of 'Vista is so slow' complaints?

[Grey M@a]

Worked for me and I have cancelled my Windows 7 Pre Order due to it as Vista works and does everything I need for the gaming shuttle build I have now. There is no performance difference between vista and 7 for me game wise which is what this PC is made for.

Also turn off Indexing, stop the windows search/indexing service and then go through each HD/Partition and on its properties turn off the ready for indexing off and you will get more HD performance out of it.

This is all tweaked towards games and personally I know where my files are so don't need the indexing and searching but those who obviously have 100000000000 photo's and documents etc indexing might be worth the hit

[Zak33]

I wonder if this might be a significant cause of 'Vista is so slow' complaints?

my thought exactly....

[brian1234]

You try to reset from the computer manual.If it is not working then ask the technician to correct the error.Then you can get the correct clock reading speed.