kalohimal wrote on 2026-06-19, 17:18:

I'm puzzled though of why you cannot adjust multiplier. What is the program's response when you run:
cpuspd m11 i m6 i

1C:\CPUSPD>cpuspd m11 i m6 i
2CPUSPEED version 2.2 - by David C.Y. Wong.
3Current multiplier: 11.0
4Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz  ID(6,17,A)
5CPU frequency is 2936MHz (PERF) / 2936MHz (TSC)
6Current multiplier: 11.0
7Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E7500 @ 2.93GHz  ID(6,17,A)
8CPU frequency is 2935MHz (PERF) / 2935MHz (TSC)

That's quite strange. Could you check your bios setting for EIST please? If it's disabled then it's possible, even though I had pulled out my socket 7 board and with the EIST set to disabled it still works. What motherboard are you using?

Meanwhile, try this to get 486 speed:
cpuspd o7 cd i

I'm using an MSI G41M4-L.
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-g4 … ms-7592-ver-1.0

I already have disabled EIST as a way to check if this would fix the issue with the multiplier not changing but it hasn't made a difference sadly.

EIST should be enabled not disabled for power management to work. If it is still not helping then the only way I could think of is to try the CPU on another socket 775 motherboard.

Turns out that the multiplier control only seems to work via MS DOS and not Windows 9X. Not sure why but whatever I put in does seem to actually change it.
Also, my DOS programs seem to launch a lot quicker even when the CPU is throttled compared to doing so on Windows 9X. Probably because DOS is less demanding than Windows.

I have another question. Are we allowed to combine the usage of throttle, multiplayer, and ODCM to achieve the speeds we want? Using throttle at a certain threshold with L2 disabled does seem to work for me but I want to make slight adjustments to the speed as well.