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    Acer aspire 5536g CPU clock

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by NemiK, Feb 4, 2011.

  1. NemiK

    NemiK Newbie

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    Hello

    At first i must say that I'm laic. And my english isnt so good.

    Now my problem:
    I'm playing Counter strike 1.6 and normal I have 100 fps but when i see 3 mens or when fall Smoke grenade my fps is 70 and lower.

    I noticed that my CPU is changing clock from 2.1 Ghz to 1.5 ghz. I saw it in program "everest". But i dont know why. Its very sick for me when i need in this situations 100 fps. But I am convinced that it is due to changing clock.


    DualCore AMD Athlon X2 QL-65, 2100 MHz (10.5 x 200)
    Graphic card ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4500 Series (1024 MB)
    4Gb memory.
     
  2. Arminator

    Arminator Notebook Evangelist

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    There could be a few thing you could do:

    First monitor your temperatures - your system may be overheating and to prevent itself form burning, it downclocks CPU to assure fast cpu cool-down (mostly when gaming or any other cpu demanding task like video rendering since it is heavily loaded then)...

    Also monitor GPU temp since it could be overheating also (mostly when gaming since it is heavily loaded then)....

    Well regarding Everest results - if you haven`t know - modern CPUs use self-controlled downclocking when idle and not under load for these reasons:
    1. to save energy - lower clock=lower power consumption
    2. it downclocks to decrease heat produced by CPU: lower clock=less cpu heat produced.

    So that could be why Everest result of CPU clock varies...

    Hope this was useful...

    Cheers
     
  3. NemiK

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    ok thanks.