Intel Pentium M Processor 2.00 GHz ... only showing 797 MHz

[Slippenos]

I have a Lenovo Z60M laptop with 1.50 GB RAM and a 2.00 GHz Pentium M Processor.

I attempted to run Age of Empires 3 which requires a 1.4 GHz processor when the game alerted me how many MHz I had.

Is there a setting or a program that can lower the speed? Is there a reason why this had happened?

Weird thing is I was playing Dungeon Siege 2 maxed out on graphics ... stopped playing for a few months ... picked it up again and the speed was ridiculously slow. I piped down the resolution without batting and eye because I figured I would not be playing games again. It ran fine then ...

When I rt click on my computer and go to properties, it says:

IBM Corporation
Intel Pentium M Processor 2.00 GHz
797 MHz, 1.50 GB RAM
Physical Address Extension

Is the 797MHz my front-side bus (I don't even know what that is)?

Is there a way for me to recover this loss of almost 1 GHz?

Thanks in advance,
Mike


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[jrbarnett]

Is this running off the battery? My Pentium M 1.6GHz laptop reports 600MHz when I run it off the battery and 1600 when I run it off the mains.

Does running it from the mains fix the problem?

Johhn

 

[Slippenos]

Thanks for the quick reply. By doing so I went from 797 MHz to 798 MHz. Do you know of any other solutions?

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[Slippenos]

After playing around, I clicked my 'ThickVantage' button and there was an option to 'Optimize Performance'. After doing so- I am at 1.99 GHz.

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