Have I ever done it, yes. Most motherboards will let you control the voltage and clock speed and others. Good enough for most apps? I would say that is questionable. That is very much going, all it really takes to get around is a 4 wheel small block engine to get around. Yes your right, but if I have big hills on occasion or a heavy load I need that 18 wheeler. Also why downclock, the energy savings would be negligible, and they have programs that will "step" your chip to slower speed when needed if you really wanted it. In fact, that is what most laptops do as well, when not plugged into the wall they "downshift" the processor to use less voltage to save on battery. So that awesome Quad 4 chip your bought running
3.4ghz is probably only running 1.5ghz when not plugged into the wall. My Dell 1.8ghz only runs at 770mhz when not connected to the power source. Now of course I can turn that feature off, but then I'd have like 20 minutes of battery life, but hey that would be one hell of a truly wireless Quake game I guess.
<br><br>My 2 cents,<br>Just Bill<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 8/25/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Bruce Arkwright Jr.</b> <<a href="mailto:a-bruiexjr@lycos.com">a-bruiexjr@lycos.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Bill, have you ever tried reducing the voltage and cpu frequence in half? Good lord, the chips today are running at 3ghz, and 1ghz is good enough for most apps. On Linux, I can not do it with the Transmeta cpu, I have, but the cpu for amp and intel are supported, but I have not tried since I do not have them.
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