On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:47:52 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> just fyi i have 1 machine where i MUST use powersave. its an old > pentum-m. it can clock to 600 or 1000mhz. at 1000mhz if it runs for > more than about 40sec it overheats so much that it THROTTLES (not > clockrate - acpi throttle states) and performance drops through the > floor to be much worse than staying at 600mhz. literally it doesn't > have a cpu fan. it's passively cooled only. its a special ULV version > of the pentium-m. so... here is a situation where you HAVE to use > powersave just to function properly. the high clockrates are for > short-bursts only. also... you may not live in a country that gets > hot, but if you live somewhere were a hot summer day is in the > 40's... you may reconsider the idea that powersave is useless. :) For the metrically challenged amongst us, Raster means 40 degrees C, which when converted to the official Australian temperature scale is "bloody hot". I do live in the more tropical parts of Australia, without air conditioning. For my last computer I had to watch the internal temperatures carefully on hot days, and not do certain things like lengthy compiles and 3D virtual worlds. Otherwise it would over heat and shut down. My current computer is better behaved, but I keep an eye on things just out of habit. Oh, and I never relied on the E CPU temp module, it always read the wrong sensor, or averaged the right one with the wrong ones, giving nonsensical results. When it's 40 degrees indoors, I'm almost positive my CPU is not running at 27 degrees. lol -- A big old stinking pile of genius that no one wants coz there are too many silver coated monkeys in the world. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
