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lafrad
2006-07-15, 05:01 PM CDT
I have a (fast) Intel Pentium M 2.0Ghz system, that runs well when overclocked to a 115mhz FSB, (2.3Ghz). well, runs well in windows. The frequency monitors and performance tests that I have run all show it runs happily at its overclocked speed, and it has spent many 20+ hr sessions of World of Warcraft at that speed.


I have now installed FC5, (without changing any BIOS settings). Its all patched up to whatever 2.6.17 kernel is there... and I can't seem to find a way to get it to properly throttle up to 2.3Ghz. It appears that the kernel throttles the processor down (like a notebook), and when it tries to throttle it back up, it only gets to 2.0Ghz, like the processor number says.


Does anyone have any information/experiance with Speedstep, Centrino, and overclocking with FC5?

lafrad
2006-07-15, 06:59 PM CDT
I should add... I am checking the frequency using "cat /proc/cpuinfo"

the speed that it tells me the processor is running at correlates directly with the speed that my little Gnome Applet says it is....