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averyblund on 24 February 2010
nordlead said:

if it is overheating, then your fan may have failed. Also, try replacing the thermal paste on the CPU.

Also, that isn't all that slow, as I used to have both a Intel 486 (I'm pretty sure it was one of those 66/33 MHz CPUs), and I had whatever came in those old XT computers (had to look this one up. It had a 4.77 MHz processor and a 10MB HDD ).

True, but I've yet to see a dualcore (or dual chip CPU) 486. I suspect this is an energy saver downthrottling his CPU when it is under a low load.

 

And hey at least the XT had one of those newfangled HD thingies. Not in my day!



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nordlead on 24 February 2010

^^ if the slowdown is a new development, then I'm going with overheating. I had a laptop do just the same thing. I tossed the laptop as it was 4 years old and it wasn't worth trying to find a replacement fan/heatsink.




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numonex on 24 February 2010

Time to buy a new lap top. 7 year old lap top. It runs slow could be due to a number of different things.



finalrpgfantasy on 25 February 2010

buy a laptop fan to the heating problem.



Hephaestos on 25 February 2010

I played Starcraft on a 75mhz computer.... why would you need any more than 500+???



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Severance on 25 February 2010

try to clean/blow the fans they're probably dusty.



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Garnett on 25 February 2010

At least its more powerful than PS2?

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Soleron on 25 February 2010
averyblund said:
I'm assuming the CPU is speedstepping using PowerNow! down to 575mhz because it is idle and trying to save power? I never realized it actually showed up that way though.

Fixed. Intel-specific terminology must be purged.

/fanboy

You're right. Almost all consumer CPUs these days do it. OP, it should not affect performance.

For reference: IT'S MEANT TO DO THAT.



GameAnalyser on 25 February 2010

i mending my girlfriend's...oh hell. It heats up and shuts down itself.



Shorty11857 on 25 February 2010

You're in the Quinn School as well? Small world

No idea what the problem is except that the laptops we get from that school are awful, mine never worked right in the first place. Didn't come with a wireless card...when I got the wireless card they took out my bluetooth...speakers didn't work...so yeah I'd just blame Quinn or Dell