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Here are two novabench scores of my computer: 1) one is three days ago. 2) the other is today.
1) 5/17/2011 6:05:33 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core i5 M 480 2.67GHz @ 2661 MHz
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
7991 MB System RAM (Score: 163)
- RAM Speed: 5737 MB/s
CPU Tests (Score: 387)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 102881892
- Integer Operations/Second: 313060172
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 867980
Graphics Tests (Score: 33)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 113
Hardware Tests (Score: 51)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 684 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 126 MB/s
2) 5/20/2011 5:21:12 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core i5 M 480 2.67GHz @ 2660 MHz
Graphics Card: Intel(R) HD Graphics
7991 MB System RAM (Score: 149)
- RAM Speed: 2919 MB/s
CPU Tests (Score: 134)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 25495309
- Integer Operations/Second: 65311842
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 698003
Graphics Tests (Score: 37)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 125
Hardware Tests (Score: 40)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 684 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 79 MB/s
My CPU speed seems to have decreased significantly. Well, in most cases, I would not worry too much about this CPU speed loss. However, its a brand new computer for my dad and I don't want it to be a "lemon" so to speak. I can still return it in the next 3 days if it does not work for a full refund.
I should also mention that the only two things that I can think of that changed my score is that I downloaded a lot of new freeware software like Malwarebytes, Everest, Easues, Filezilla, Gimp, Media Monkey, Paint.net, etc...
And second I had to do a system restore after messing around with my user profile. I accidentally changed a setting which did not recognize my password. Thus, when I restarted I could not login. I went into my boot settings and did a system restore. I think that is where the problem is coming from. But I have no idea why it affected my CPU speed.
I was using Tuneup Utilities 2011 and customizing window settings. Under this tab, I was changing the user logon. Under user logon was a tab for automatic logon. I thought I could add my user name and password there so I could logon automatically. However, I did not completely fill out the user, password, and domain. So when I restarted the computer, I was unable to log in with my settings. Thus, I had to go to the bios and boot menu to do a system restore. I tried using my windows password recovery USB first, but that was unable to work either. So system restore was my last choice other than doing a fresh install.
Anyone have any suggestions how to restore CPU speed or increase speed back to how it was previously? Maybe even make it faster?
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