Underclocked CPU by Win8?

[Delold]

Maybe I'm just too stupid...

Few days ago I tried to figure out, why the hell is taskmgr showing CPU usage only 50%. Shows out, that it uses only 0.8 GHz instead of 1.6GHz. Never know that my CPU is underclocked.

Please notice, that in Vista, 7 and 8 DP, taskmgr show'd 100% like usual. It's possible, that Win8CP underclocked my processor?

Notebook: eMachines e620 (yes, it's very old).

 

[Kynix]

No, Actually it's normal for certain cpus to bounce between different clock rates, windows 8 is the only windows so far that actually shows the current clock rate of your cpu.

 

[kado897]

Resource manager shows that in the graphs in Windows 7 and 8. It is a blue line on the graph.

 

[brummyfan]

Hi Delold,
You are in" Balanced" power option, if you switch to "High Performance" option you'll find the CPU work at full speed.

 

[Delold]

Thanks for the response.

Switched to High Performance option and it seems that computer runs much smoother. However I don't really know why it is still at 50%.

 

[Kynix]

Maybe your processor is 50% idle, try to open up some useless programs, and it should get to 100%