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DMark displays an error message about changed CPU speed during benchmarking. Whats wrong?

April 26, 2017benchmarking changed CPU displays Error message speed wrong

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DMark displays an error message about changed CPU speed during benchmarking. Whats wrong?

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This may in theory happen on some multi-processor systems and is related to the timer operation in Windows 2000. In some rare instances Windows 2000 may return different timer values for both CPUs and as 3DMark requires that the timer does not change during benchmarking, you will see an error message. Disabling all programs plus extra services running in the background and rebooting the PC should correct this problem.