Windows 7: help with CPU and gaming

its a dual core cpu....
so that means that while playing games, its only going to max at 2.93ghz?



also my gpu specs: ATI HD 540v 512mb 500/700mhz 80 streamline processors

Ah sorry, must have not been paying attention, I should stop posting late at night.
But then again, someone already mentioned that since the GPU is being maxed then it is taking load off the CPU, and the CPU might seem it unnecessary to increase the frequency, have in mind that turbo boost is smart and depending on the CPU limitations it will calculate how high it can increment the frequency.

Perhaps if you tried an application that requires a lot more CPU power you could see how it behaves.

well thats the thing..... justc chrome when i refresh webpages or watch youtube, it spikes up. i was playing bfbc2, and had thew game windowed, then opened chorme and youtube, and it just stayed that 2.93 dident spike.

Those applications are not demanding.
When I open firefox (which is more of a resource hog than chrome) and am navigating/watching videos/posting on forums. My CPU usage barely changes.
Then again, I have turbo boost disabled in favor of having all 4 cores of my CPU sit at 4.3GHZ all the time.

I'm just saying that it spikes.when the action is done. After that it just chills in the lowest freq.

Normal behaviour.

yes. but it dosent do that when it should. like when bfbc2 is up, its locked in 2.93, wont spike to 3.2 any more. other games too. i mean i guess theres nothing wrong with it but still

They are not CPU demanding games, they rely more on the.

100% CPU and GPU100% are not normal behaviour.

You need to understand that the system will only provide as much power as it thinks it needs, not as much power as you think it needs.