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    best power management tool

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by blinkpsycho, Sep 14, 2005.

  1. blinkpsycho

    blinkpsycho Notebook Guru

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    i was just wondering which power management tool is the best?

    right now i have centrino hardware control and power4gear installed and i want to narrow it down to just one because i don't want the 2 programs conflicting.
     
    blinkpsycho, Sep 14, 2005
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  2. deviation

    deviation Notebook Guru

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    Personally, I don't like using both programs. I uninstalled power4gearas CHC works much better for me. i'd recommend you do the same.
     
    deviation, Sep 14, 2005
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  3. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    Centrino Hardware Control is definitely the more versatile one. I'm sure most people will choose that over Power4Gear
     
    AuroraS, Sep 14, 2005
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    Power4 gear, u can go to 600mhz mode, 200mhz lower than CHC for word and excel, also temps run cooler on P4G (not considering undervolting of course and is something i will never do)
     
    wolfstar, Sep 15, 2005
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  5. AuroraS

    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    I don't know about you... but I can run my M6Ne at 600 MHz whenever I want.

    I see no temperature difference between P4G and CHC... and when I undervolt with CHC, my temps go WAAAY down.

    My MAX PERFORMANCE voltage (when undervolted) is lower than the BATTERY OPTIMIZED voltage of the processor on stock settings.
    In other words:
    Default settings:
    Max Performance: 1.340v
    Max Battery: 0.988v

    Undervolted settings (with CHC):
    Max Performance: 0.940v
    Max Battery: 0.700v
     
    AuroraS, Sep 15, 2005
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  6. John Ratsey

    John Ratsey Moderately inquisitive Super Moderator

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    My understanding is that the older Pentium Ms (numbers ending in 5) have a minimum clock speed of 600MHz while the newer Pentium Ms (numbers ending in 0) have a minimum clock speed of 800MHz. If you have got the voltage down at 0.7V (the lowest available setting) then the CPU running at 800MHz has the potential to do 1/3 more work.

    John
     
    John Ratsey, Sep 16, 2005
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  7. AlexNorinh

    AlexNorinh Notebook Enthusiast

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    i'm quite happy with my rightmark cpu clock and speedfan combination :D
     
    AlexNorinh, Sep 16, 2005
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    AuroraS Notebook Virtuoso

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    I agree... I enjoyed RMclock quite a lot; I feel that its undervolting abilities are more straightforward and more effective than CHC's...
    however, with CHC I can control my fan behaviour much better than I can with any other program... which is why I choose to use it. SPeedfan wouldn't really do anything for me...
     
    AuroraS, Sep 16, 2005
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  9. AlexNorinh

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    it took me a while to get speedfan to work how it should, but now it's great. barely comes on and rarely goes past 1500
     
    AlexNorinh, Sep 16, 2005
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  10. AuroraS

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    Which laptop do you have?
     
    AuroraS, Sep 16, 2005
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  11. smilepak

    smilepak Notebook Deity

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    When is the next release of CHC anyhow? I could use some more features. Like detection of additional sensors.
     
    smilepak, Sep 16, 2005
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