Wierd Information

[Sam Raven]

When I right clicked on the My Computer desktop icon, I got the System Properties and got on the General tab. This is the unusual info I got:

Intel (R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00Ghz
1.99 Ghz, 504 MB of RAM

The unusual ones I underlined. Firstly why they put 2 Ghz and then 1.99 under it. I typed this as it appeared on the display. And there should be no such thing as 504 MB RAM but 512 MB RAM. Anyone here who knows what is going on here?

[noobman]

When I right clicked on the My Computer desktop icon, I got the System Properties and got on the General tab. This is the unusual info I got:

Intel (R)
Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.00Ghz
1.99 Ghz, 504 MB of RAM

The unusual ones I underlined. Firstly why they put 2 GHz and then 1.99 under it. I typed this as it appeared on the display. And there should be no such thing as 504 MB RAM but 512 MB RAM. Anyone here who knows what is going on here?
Your CPU isn't acutally clocked at exactly 2.0GHz. Remember the speed of your CPU is a multiple of your FSB (Front Side Bus) speed, which is most likely 133.3MHz.

133.3MHz * 15 = 1999.5MHz. So your CPU runs at 1.9995 GHz instead of 2.0000GHz. 0.5mhz, no big deal.

Integrated graphics cards usually come with like 4-16mb of built in RAM, and then it uses your system RAM for the rest. In your case, the graphics is probably using 8mb of your RAM.

If you have a new graphics card that's replacing the integrated one, you should be able to go into your system BIOS and change on-board video memory from whatever it's at right now to "none".

[Celeron Gamer]

hi n00bman!

Your CPU isn't acutally clocked at exactly 2.0GHz. Remember the speed of your CPU is a multiple of your FSB (Front Side Bus) speed, which is most likely 133.3MHz.

133.3MHz * 15 = 1999.5MHz. So your CPU runs at 1.9995 GHz instead of 2.0000GHz. 0.5mhz, no big deal.

Integrated graphics cards usually come with like 4-16mb of built in RAM, and then it uses your system RAM for the rest. In your case, the graphics is probably using 8mb of your RAM.

If you have a new graphics card that's replacing the integrated one, you should be able to go into your system BIOS and change on-board video memory from whatever it's at right now to "none".

The system display info has a weird way of display things. The top one is your ID, and the second Ghz, is the actually clockspeed, so if you OC then it's going to be higher than the one above.

Err... Noobman, a C1 Stepping Northwood should be 400FSB. So the multi should be 20x.

The lowered clockspeed is completely normal, it depends on your motherboard, some boards are right one target(tho sometimes might go off a little), while others are purposely underclocked a few Mhz. To get a good reputation as a rock solid mobo, while others are clocked a little higher to interest performance enthusiast, and look good on reviews.

[noobman]

hi n00bman!



The system display info has a weird way of display things. The top one is your ID, and the second Ghz, is the actually clockspeed, so if you OC then it's going to be higher than the one above.

Err... Noobman, a C1 Stepping Northwood should be 400FSB. So the multi should be 20x.

The lowered clockspeed is completely normal, it depends on your motherboard, some boards are right one target(tho sometimes might go off a little), while others are purposely underclocked a few Mhz. To get a good reputation as a rock solid mobo, while others are clocked a little higher to interest performance enthusiast, and look good on reviews.

Yeah, but that's with Intel's netBurst thing... in reality it's still either 100mhz (with netburst for 400) or 133mhz (with netburst it's 533). You can tell by the RAM speeds that the system uses, not to mention the acutal FSB that they give to you when you overclock thru yur bios.

So if it's 400mhz, then he's probably got a 100mhz FSB. 100*20 = 2000mhz, but even then it's not uncommon for your speed to be a little off due to the mobo.

[Sam Raven]

Your CPU isn't acutally clocked at exactly 2.0GHz. Remember the speed of your CPU is a multiple of your FSB (Front Side Bus) speed, which is most likely 133.3MHz.

133.3MHz * 15 = 1999.5MHz. So your CPU runs at 1.9995 GHz instead of 2.0000GHz. 0.5mhz, no big deal.

Integrated graphics cards usually come with like 4-16mb of built in RAM, and then it uses your system RAM for the rest. In your case, the graphics is probably using 8mb of your RAM.

If you have a new graphics card that's replacing the integrated one, you should be able to go into your system BIOS and change on-board video memory from whatever it's at right now to "none".Thanks guys, I didn't know all this nifty stuff and what Celeron Gamer said.

Referring to your last statement of turning it to "none", how do I go about doing it? Because I thought the issue was resolved when I was followed the steps of uninstalling the Intel Extreme Graphics and replacing the software with that of my Nvidia PCI 128Mb card.