Cpu Losing Mips???

[Gus]

Hi: Today, as I have many times before, I went to the "PCPitstop" website to do the complete scan on my system. The last time I was there was 10 May 2008 and my system checked out at these readings: CPU Speed Ram Speed Video Speed Bandwidth Dwn BW Up Ping CPU MIPS MB/S MP/S KB/S KB/S Load __________ ________ __________ ________ _____ ___ ___ 17548 10611 340 9607 597 48 1 Todays readings were thus: 8778 10656 348 9623 584 49 0 I am running Win XP SP2 with 2 GB RAM and the CPU is the Intel Core 2 E6300. NVidia GEForce 7600GS Video etc. My question is what is going on with the CPU??? It should not drop MIPS like this should it? Any suggestions as to what might be causing this? The only thing that's different on this system that I know of is my defrag program. The mips have basically dropped in half. Funny but pc pitstop plus Fresh Devices says I have 2 CPU's. Bull! I only have the one. Any help to restore this situation would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. Gus:

[l337_GuY]

They say you have 2 CPU's because you have a dual core CPU's (2 cpu cores in 1 CPU).

Check how hot the CPU is. Performance of the CPU usually decreases from overheating, or if you have too much stuff running in the background.

[Gus]

CPU is running at between 41 and 43 degrees C. Mobo (P5B Deluxe Wifi) running at 29 degrees C. and I usually close everything possible in the system tray before running scan. I even closed down the network magic. Will try scan again and see if I can close everything down but, I don't hold out too much hope. Can't remember what temps were last time I had good readings. Thanks.

[l337_GuY]

Are you closing off uneeded stuff in Task Manager? What is your "idling" CPU usage?