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Originally Posted by EHaskins
I'm not sure how familiar you are with Vista's power management, but I'm fairly sure that if Windows sees the processor as being slower than it really is then it won't allow it to run at full speed. I believe this isn't a problem in earlier versions, because they didn't try to regulate the CPU speed like Vista does.
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I did not know that Vista trys to manage your processor's power. Good info.
That is really unfortunate, in many regards. That means that you can only ever run something as fast as Vista sees your processor being. I wonder if that prevents you from over-clocking it (like if Vista just reads the processor and knows how fast it should be, or if it trys to clock it itself.) Not to mention you can usually squeeze a few extra processes per second out of a processor than that which is advertised.
Ugh. Vista.
Well, thanks Eric for the info on Vista's new 'power management'.
Jacob