Vostro 1500 - something seriously wrong?

Hi Guys,
just got a Vostro 1500 with T7300 chip. BIOS settings: Speedstep and IDA enabled. NHC displays a clock rate of 2GHz whatever your settings. In CPU-Z however it varies between 1.2 and 1.6 GHz. In fact, in the "Max. Perf" setting it is locked at the lower rate of 1.2 GHz! Whether NHC is installed or not, I never get a 2GHz rate. Can someone confirm? Is there something majorly wrong with either BIOS or the motherboard?
Benzino

 

Give it something heavy to do and monitor the clock speed when it is working hard. Should climb up to 2 GHz.
I suggest you run tests like superPi, and rip a DVD in the meantime.

Let us know what happen to clock speed and temperature.

PS
My T7300 almost always sat at 1200 MHz @0.85 V.
But ever since I installed NHC the 0.85V mode is gone (*). Now it runs at 0.93V, still at 1200 MHz. I wonder what happened. I liked it better at 0.85V.

(*) not quite, I had a glimpse of 8x @0.85 this afternoon, for a few seconds before going back to 6x @0.93V.

 

all it is doing is lowering the clockrate to lower its power usage and heat output. if it does something where it needs the full speed it will use the full speed. everythign is fine. its supposed to do that. that is what intel speedstep is. you said it is enabled, and your wondering why its working?

 

Well, I did some MP3 conversions and couldn't see 2GHz. Also, if you put NHC to "Max. Perf." then on my old Inspiron 510m the clock rate was locked at maximum. Maybe it's a problem with NHC then.
Benzino

 

Thx for the tip with Super Pi. This brought it up to 2GHz.
Concerning NHC, could you actually set the voltage on your Vostro 1500? What is your configuration?
I tried both the "standard" and the "dell" versions of NHC and the voltage fields were blank. It was the same for Vista and XP Pro.
Benzino