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    1681 Clock Speed

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by shiftis, Mar 25, 2005.

  1. shiftis

    shiftis Notebook Enthusiast

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    With Acer's ePowerManager thing, or whatever it's called, "MAX" gives me 1.5GHZ, "HIGH" gives 554MHz, "MEDIUM" gives 554MHz, and "LOW" gives 544MHz. I have a 1.5GHz, by the way.

    Max - 1.5GHz
    High - 554MHz
    Medium - 554MHz
    Low - 554MHz

    Does this not seem a bit odd?

    Also, how do you configure the graphics card? (16mb, 32mb, 64mb, etc.)
    In the BIOS, It only gives the options of 8, 16, and 32, yet it should go up to 64.

    -shiftis
     
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  2. george_l

    george_l Notebook Consultant

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    Acer e power management have lots of problem... just run search here and there are lots of discussion on it

    BTW : This is the next must have besides mobile meter

    RM clock ...http://cpu.rightmark.org/products/rmclock.shtml

    you can set the clock to your desired freq...lots of tweak available.

    try speedstepxp also
     
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    croth56 Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes it is odd, but it's also the way my 4502LMI reacts. I have played around a bit with it and it seems that setting it on max will only give you max cpu frequency. When I switch to high, the cpu frequency will fluctuate between 1.6 GHz and 600MHz depending on cpu load. If I go to Medium or low, it will never go above 600 MHz.
    As far as video setting in the BIOS, I believe this setting is for the minimum video memory setting. 64 mb is your maximum setting. If you go to display properties, advanced and then the Intel Extreme Graphics tab, there is a information section somewhere on that tab that will tell you your min and max video settings. Changing the BIOS setting affects the min memory reading on this tab.
     
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  4. shiftis

    shiftis Notebook Enthusiast

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by george_l

    try speedstepxp also
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    I have, I can still only go as low as 554MHz...

    -shiftis
     
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  5. george_l

    george_l Notebook Consultant

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    First of all unistall ePower management and Restart hopefully your old default windows xp power scheme will be resotred

    Depending up on your need change the settings in power profile

    Always on = stays at top speed
    Portable/Laptop= Dynamic speed allocation
    Max battery = stays at 600mhz most of the time and only if it very essential it will pump up the speed

    else use RM clock...it can do wonders


     
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