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What regulates Intel SpeedStep CPU throttling? Can I get some control of this on Windows7?

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Mar 15, 202660111 views
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I’m trying to get a big virtual disk file compressed (using WinRar) before I go home today, but my CPU frequency keeps merrily going up and down between the nominal 2.8 GHz and a measly 800 MHz! The frequency fluctuations as seen in Resource Monitor (blue line is frequency, green is utilization): A…

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Since none of the answers take on what speed step does exactly and how to disable/enable it here is what I found: Let's look at how it works. SpeedStep has two key components: C1E (Enhanced Halt State): C1E is the simpler of the two components. It c…

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