Cpu Only Shows Half Of Its Real Speed

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Cpu Only Shows Half Of Its Real Speed

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slayer87 View Member Profile	Feb 8 2007, 06:25 PM Post #1
New Member Group: Members Posts: 4 Joined: 29-December 06 Member No.: 103,411	Ok so i recently put together one of my older computers and it has a Pentium 4 2.8ghz processor but it only shows at 1.4ghz during start up and when u look at the general system properties. Any ideas how i can fix it? i did a bios update on my motherboard as well and it still is showing half the speed it should. Motherboard is an ECS Elitegroup L4VXA2 if that helps at all...

Mr Alpha View Member Profile	Feb 9 2007, 05:12 AM Post #2
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