I was recently very annoyed while in the middle of a race for work my CPU chip decided it didn’t want to be performing at it’s maximum level anymore. I have had this problem quite often when running a high-end piece of software my system seems to “timeout” going fast and decides to revert back to between 80 and 200MHz rather than it’s maximum 2400MHz.

I had a similar problem before with Grand Prix Legends, so I looked up some of the fixes and this utility appeared to solve my problems for me.

It is so very, very annoying that Windows XP manages your power saving without giving you any idea of what it is actually doing. It has taken me months to find out what this issue is and it’s only thanks to it happening with work that I found out.

Of course for the huge majority of the time I will have the SpeedswitchXP Utility on “dynamic switching” the same as Windows XP had it, but now every time I start to do something where I know I need the power and XP wouldn’t, I’m going to crank it up!