My banias...
I'm using XP on my Banias, and I can't find any mention of SpeedStep inside my XP Pro installation. However, there is an option to turn of SpeedStep inside my bios, which I did. Before the article, I wasn't even AWARE that speedstep was running on my laptop, I had simply manually switched power modes with "Power4Gear."
The thing I noticed is that I can significantly decrease the voltages used at the 3 different multiplier settings. However, when I let my computer "run free", as in, without forcing it to a specific multiplier, Prime95 gets a little crazy. Usually, when you finish 2 - 4 "calculations", Prim95 would tell you that it had completed that particular test. However, Prime 95 no longer does that on my cpu, with Crystal activated. It runs very quickly through the tests, thousands of them in fact, without indicated that a test was successful. The computer doesn't crash though. Anybody else have this issue?
On the other hand, the burn-in with Sandra crashes my comp. I will try the burn-in through Sandra with the default settings. I'll like to note that my laptop has never hanged prior to this point. NEVER.
Also, do people actually see Speedstep working through CPU-Z on an XP installation? I've never ceen CPU-Z vary it's processor rating with speedstep on.