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Lucifer
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Hello, i bought an eee pc g2 surf today, plus an external dvd drive so i could install windows onto it. When i finish installing windows i notice that the proccessor is running at 571Mhz, not the adverticed 900 mhz, i've been trying to find ways to overclock my eee pc today, but no luck, the overclocking methods for eee pc seem to be only availible for the g4 and 8 model, i was wondering if anyone here has any idea why this is happening and knows how to overclock it.

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Mr Makealotofsmoke
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Posted: 30th Mar 2008 02:00
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maybe it has the thing that makes it run slower when not being used (save power), but when CPU is being used it ramps it up to 900MHz.


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Lucifer
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that doesnt seem to be the case here it's still at 570Mhz, i cant help but wonder why on earth it's adverticed at 900Mhz and yet it's about 330Mhz's lower. I'm going to complain to the store if i wont find out how to get it to 900..

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bitJericho
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http://asuseeehacks.blogspot.com/2007/10/asus-eee-pcs-celeron-is-clocked-down.html


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Lucifer
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Posted: 30th Mar 2008 02:49 Edited at: 30th Mar 2008 02:49
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That sucks. I'm going to the store on monday and have a little talk to them, first, they advertice it as a 900Mhz machine, and the proccessor is an 800Mhz chip, that's downclocked to 570Mhz. That's false advertising, and i'm not getting what i paid for...

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bitJericho
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Posted: 30th Mar 2008 02:51 Edited at: 30th Mar 2008 02:52
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lol, rock on brother. Tell us what happens, I'd like to know if the store stands behind their products.

What's sad is I was looking forward to the eee. But it turned out to be priced at the entry level laptop price range, and about half or less as fast.

I'd rather buy a psp, or a regular laptop, at that price.


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lagmaster
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it's clocked down for a reason.

improve battery life.

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Posted: 30th Mar 2008 13:12 Edited at: 30th Mar 2008 13:15
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It's the 8G model that have the 900 MHz CPU. The reason for the 30% down clock seems to be battery life, might also be due to heat. Asus does not even advertise the CPU clock nor the FSB (on their web page). You do actually have a 800 MHz processor. If your specific model was specified in the store or on the box as 900 MHz then it's definitely wrong. If you bought it in Sweden you would get your money back even if it was advertised as 800 MHz

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Mr Z
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Do you run Eee with Linux or Windows? Because there is an program I have on Ubuntu that can change how high the maximum CPU usage is, so if you have Linux, you may just have to ask around and you might be able to solve this...

Cannot comment this on Windows, though, because I just do not know. Might be an way to do it there to.

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Mr Z:
You need BIOS access to change the FSB, just installing something that works on a regular PC probably doesn't work.

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Ok, did not read that link above. But if nothing else works, it could not hurt to ask at last.

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Posted: 31st Mar 2008 23:06
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Quote: "it's clocked down for a reason.

improve battery life."


Its also clocked down to stop the processor frying. If you want to overclock it make sure you get a decent cooling system in there first.


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Posted: 1st Apr 2008 02:52 Edited at: 1st Apr 2008 02:55
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To overclock the xp version most ppl recommend this

http://www.cpp.in/dev/eeectl/

also heres some info on overclocking the Linux version hope it helps.

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:overclockfsb

http://code.google.com/p/eeepc-linux/

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Lucifer
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Posted: 1st Apr 2008 16:06 Edited at: 1st Apr 2008 18:46
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Quote: "To overclock the xp version most ppl recommend this

http://www.cpp.in/dev/eeectl/"


eeectl doesnt work for the eee pc 2g surf..

i'm going to the store today, i went there yesterday and they told me to come today, i'm looking forward to hearing what they say

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Ok i went and the guy told me it had just been a "typing" error. And that everyone advertised like this. Then he pointed me to a website where he copy/pasted the specs from, so that must be his "everyone". I so want to punch someone right now, i have a super slow eee pc that's not good for anything, and i spent all my months pay on this.

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Posted: 1st Apr 2008 18:57
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Tell him you want your money back. The specs were wrong thats his problem not yours. GET A COPY OF THE ADVERT NOW! before they change it and take it to trading standards / small claims courts or whatever they have in your country.

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