On Sat, 9 May 2009 13:56:09 +0800 bill lam <cbill....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks all for confirmation. Since I only have a desktop, no > notebook/netbook ;-( it is somehow difficult to verify the > improvement. I now lock the cpu frequency to 1.1GHZ (half of the > original 2.1G). Why on earth do you want to do this to a desktop computer? It will have next to no effect on your power consumption. I mean you whole system will draw the main part of the power. Anyway, put the power saving so that the CPU scales with load. This makes more sense. And turn down the brightness on your monitor, that saves power too. HTH -- Preben Randhol http://wee-free-lore.blogspot.com/
