5.33ghz ?

whats going on with this parallels stuff.

sometimes i boot into my image, it says 5.33ghz fora c2d 2.16. sometimes it says 1ghz, 400mhz, i even got 3.6 mhz one time?

kgeier82 said:

whats going on with this parallels stuff.

sometimes i boot into my image, it says 5.33ghz fora c2d 2.16. sometimes it says 1ghz, 400mhz, i even got 3.6 mhz one time?

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Windows' speed calculation is not always entirely accurate, particularly when used under a virtual machine. It doesn't mean that it's actually running at 5.33GHz, it's just that Windows' calculation is off - this can be due to any number of different factors. Either way, it's nothing to worry about.

the times its been UNDER, it has seemed dog slow.

is it still nothing to worry about? a few times, when it read it as under 500mhz, the VM was absolutely unusable.

now you can imagine my concern cookiemonster, this is on a 2.16c2d mbp.

kgeier82 said:

the times its been UNDER, it has seemed dog slow.

is it still nothing to worry about? a few times, when it read it as under 500mhz, the VM was absolutely unusable.

now you can imagine my concern cookiemonster, this is on a 2.16c2d mbp.

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The clockspeed of the CPU is variable, so at times it might display less than what it's actually running it. At you running the latest version of Parallels and have Parallels Tools installed on XP? I've never seen it run at anything less than expected speeds. Keep in mind that the current version just came out about a week ago. If you haven't updated since a while, you should do it now.

yep i have most recent version. think feb27 it was?

ill have to look into the parallels tools in xp thing. i do have a parallels icon by the clock in xp, along with parallels share folders running fine.

3186 installed.

tools is running on xp image