C1E isn't a bad thing, (honestly, it's really a *great* thing) but it's confusing to a lot of people...Originally Posted by hawk1
The simpliest explaination is to think of it as kinda like a cruise-control on a car. If a car is running along a flat road with the cruise-control set then it only needs a small amount of power to maintain that speed, so the cruise-control eases back on the the engine to provide better gas mileage. When the car starts up a hill the cruise-control automatically applies additional power.
The C1E kinda does the same thing, as it acts like a two-speed cruise-control of sorts. When the computer is idling with the cpu usage under 2-3% or so the C1E drops the cpu's mutiplier down to "slow-speed" mode. This allows the cpu to both run cooler and require less power from the system's power-supply. As soon as the cpu demand rises, it instantly kicks back to "full-speed" mode. This speed transition happens in millionths of a second, so it's not even noticable that it's doing any speed changes unless you're running some type of cpu monitoring software.
You mention that you run Photoshop. That's a perfect example of why C1E is such a great feature. When you're loading, saving, zooming, or actively editing an image the cpu is running at it's full-speed. When you "stare" at the image for several seconds while trying to decide what to do next, the cpu kicks down to slow-speed to save on your cooling & energy bills.
Basically, C1E allows you to have all the benefits of a high-speed processor combined with the reduced cooling and power requirements of a slower one...
But, if it really bothers you and you feel that you should always drive you car with it's engine running at 6000RPM constantly, then as others have said there is a simple file you can add to Windows that will do exactly that...
-Surgeon-
And as far as the BX2 motherboard in general, it's been the most stable system I've ever owned... Even with a mildly overclocked E6600 running @ 3.25GHz it's absolutely rock solid!
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