Clock speed reporting in Windows varies?

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Silly Burrito

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Just curious, whenever I boot up Parallels in my Macbook, when I look at the System Properties of Windows XP, the clock speed always varies. It reports T2500 @ 2.0 Ghz, but the second line can say 667 MHz, 800 MHz, 1.82 GHz, etc. There seems to be no usual clock speed. I have 2GB of RAM in my system, and have allocated 780MB of it to Parallels. Is this behavior normal? I would think that OSX would use one core at full speed, and Parallels would use the other in the same way. Am I incorrect?
 
Intel Macs speed may change continuously in a range from 1,33 to 2,0 Ghz at least in 2,0 GHz MacBooks like mine. I also noticed that in Win XP under Parallels and I believe that it reads the actual speed when booting and reports it for ever and ever regardless changes in the meanwhile. What is trange, by my point of view, is that you notice speeds below 1,33 Ghz.
 
On mine, it says "2.43Ghz"

Is that normal? That's really cool though.

I'm running WinXP SP2, in Parallels GA with black macbook.
 
halfapie said:
On mine, it says "2.43Ghz"
Is that normal? That's really cool though.
I'm running WinXP SP2, in Parallels GA with black macbook.
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Incredible!!! Is it so always or just sometimes?
 
Thanks. I wanted to make sure that Parallels was using as much of the chip as possible and not just cutting it off at an arbitrary number.
 
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