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ok so has anyone ever messed with voltages or clock speeds runing your computers or is it just me?
back in the day i had a 3.4ghz ht pentium 4 running at a stable 4.7ghz water cooled at 77C max load. so im not a stranger to overclocking..... and when asleep at night whilst torrents are running underclocking to 0.9-1ghz to keep the fans turned off and cpu temps down to 30C.
however ive never had a play with a laptop before........
basicly laptops arnt ment for overclocking due to there inevitable power and temperature issues, so much stuff in a small space ran by a battery....
and underclocking.... really who wants to do that to their pc? i payed for a 2.1 dual core ill use it as so.......
this is where voltage comes in..... basicly their are programs... and a bit of luck out there you can change your voltages running to your cpu... the idea is pretty simple...
the more power going in there the more heat, the more heat the more chance of dropped data and damaged componants.... the less power going there the opposite affect longer life and much lower temperatures... when leaving amd/intel chips are rated to ~ 1.8-2v at full swing. but you can lower this without lowering the speed of your computer... every chip is different and has different tolorences the companys play it safe and go for a known figure to work on all....
ive just dropped mine from 1.8985v to 0.9750 volts and still running at 2.1mhz dual core.. this meaning to run at max speed my chip does not need the 1.8v amd said. it only needs 0.9. as it happens im quite lucky and very very few safely run to this level. most run down to 1.2-1.3 instead but still thats a massive save in power. on system idel ive also reduced it from 0.850v to 0.750v (not much to be saved low down) and its still all running to speed and safe... any lower and its not stable and crashes so its trial and error to get the right settings. basicly my battery now runs for 4 hours rather than 3 and my laptop temperature runs 41 on idol and 74 max load (compared to 62 idol and 87 max a good 10C cooler and 20C cooler under normal running. at 41 its just above body temp so feels warm not hot when used.) so its cooler on your lap... still as quick and longer battery life!!!!
so simply.. or not if you have read this far. anyone out there with a laptop interested in this? it works on desktops too but i imagine not many people are arsed about desktop temps ... mabee just noise
back in the day i had a 3.4ghz ht pentium 4 running at a stable 4.7ghz water cooled at 77C max load. so im not a stranger to overclocking..... and when asleep at night whilst torrents are running underclocking to 0.9-1ghz to keep the fans turned off and cpu temps down to 30C.
however ive never had a play with a laptop before........
basicly laptops arnt ment for overclocking due to there inevitable power and temperature issues, so much stuff in a small space ran by a battery....
and underclocking.... really who wants to do that to their pc? i payed for a 2.1 dual core ill use it as so.......
this is where voltage comes in..... basicly their are programs... and a bit of luck out there you can change your voltages running to your cpu... the idea is pretty simple...
the more power going in there the more heat, the more heat the more chance of dropped data and damaged componants.... the less power going there the opposite affect longer life and much lower temperatures... when leaving amd/intel chips are rated to ~ 1.8-2v at full swing. but you can lower this without lowering the speed of your computer... every chip is different and has different tolorences the companys play it safe and go for a known figure to work on all....
ive just dropped mine from 1.8985v to 0.9750 volts and still running at 2.1mhz dual core.. this meaning to run at max speed my chip does not need the 1.8v amd said. it only needs 0.9. as it happens im quite lucky and very very few safely run to this level. most run down to 1.2-1.3 instead but still thats a massive save in power. on system idel ive also reduced it from 0.850v to 0.750v (not much to be saved low down) and its still all running to speed and safe... any lower and its not stable and crashes so its trial and error to get the right settings. basicly my battery now runs for 4 hours rather than 3 and my laptop temperature runs 41 on idol and 74 max load (compared to 62 idol and 87 max a good 10C cooler and 20C cooler under normal running. at 41 its just above body temp so feels warm not hot when used.) so its cooler on your lap... still as quick and longer battery life!!!!
so simply.. or not if you have read this far. anyone out there with a laptop interested in this? it works on desktops too but i imagine not many people are arsed about desktop temps ... mabee just noise
its great 
