CPU Speed Loss from Novabench Scores

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. Although, I can't tell the difference just surfing the internet or writing word docs. I am afraid the CPU speed will affect me when I start to play some games.

Anyone have any suggestions how to restore CPU speed or increase speed back to how it was previously? Maybe even make it faster?

 

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, Gamebooster, Filezilla, 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. Any suggestions would be such a big help!

 

1. You worry too much.
2. Don't play around with settings you know nothing about.
3. You are basing your possible slowdown by running a benchmark which is an extremely specific task and is very narrow when it comes to reflecting real world performance; unless of course you are talking about a database server.

With all that said, let's start somewhere. What exactly did you change that made you unable to login? I would also not recommend "Gamebooster" as it merely disables services, hence their associated processes, which Windows will do on its own when necessary.

 

Thanks Metril for inquiring.

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.

Second, I was not trying to play around with settings that I did not know nothing about. I was simply trying to login automatically to windows without putting in a password. So that my dad can simply press power and login.

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.

So ya, I'm just perplexed why my CPU speed fell almost 250 points. I can understand a fluctuation of 50 points. But 250? What's going on?

P.S. I uninstalled gamebooster thank for your advice.

 

250 points of what? Precisely.

This is the problem with 'benchmarks'.

 

I just want to know why my benchmark changed so dramatically. I don't really care how you define "benchmark". Whether I use Novabench, Passmark, or CPU-z, or whatever, I just want to know how to restore my CPU speed which dropped significantly in my opinion.

 

lol people worry to much over benchmarks
in real world use you would never notice that small drop

 

Since it's nearly brand new, just save any of your data and do a full restore (then don't mess with it). If you plan on returning it anyway a full restore shouldn't matter.

 

So other than doing a full restore...There is no other way to diagnose and fix this laptop? I was thinking I could adjust the intel CPU settings somehow. Thanks for the input. Any other advice to boost CPU or restore speed would be great!

 

Without knowing exactly what you screwed around with, that's probably the best you can do.

 

Is there something that I can do to give you a view of my current CPU settings? I have Everest...Or I could download CPU-z if that would help. I would really like to fix it without doing a fresh install. I would have to reinstall all the software...

 

I think I will go ahead and do a clean install.
I've not done one on Windows 7 before, do you have any ideas what is the best way to do a clean install and backup?
I did download Easues Todo backup....Is there anyway to save all my data and installed programs?
I really don't want to have to reinstall everything