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For some reason the thing is running at full speed all of the time even when nothing demanding is running, I only noticed it yesterday and I'm not sure what I've done.

 

Before when it was at idle it used to run at around 1.6GHz, I've checked to make sure SpeedStep is still enabled which it is and can't find anything in the BIOS relating to it, any ideas?

 

Not really a major issue but I want it back to how it was.

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You sure there's nothing running in the background that could be causing it?

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Is it a problem? If you're trying to save power, sure, but it means everything gets processed faster :D

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I know he said when nothing demanding was running, but unless he's a running a laptop and he's trying to save battery life, it's not an issue...... is it?

I was referring to everything getting 'processed faster' :D 

 

It isn't really an issue, but something unusual is happening with his CPU, as it should theoretically down clock it'self at idle.

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Is it a problem? If you're trying to save power, sure, but it means everything gets processed faster :D

theres no point for cpu going full speed at a very low cpu usage. "processed faster" no nothing is going to be processed faster at that low cpu usage

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theres no point for cpu going full speed at a very low cpu usage. "processed faster" no nothing is going to be processed faster at that low cpu usage

Lol, I messed up my wording :P

 

I guess what i meant was the smaller tasks would run a tiny bit faster, but I really doubt that makes an effect.

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You sure there's nothing running in the background that could be causing it?

 

Not that I know of but I'll check and see what is running

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I've sorted the issue, for some reason the Intel C States was disabled, I can't remember doing that but everything is fine now

 

Thanks for the assistance guys :)

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