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    Undervolting XPS M1330

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by macreyes, Jul 5, 2008.

  1. macreyes

    macreyes Notebook Guru

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    Hi All,

    I tried RMClock and did some undervolting.
    By the way, even if you do not want to undervolt.. i think rmclock is a nice piece of software that is very useful in keeping your processor at lowest idle state as possible.

    my OS (vista home SP1) is not doing a good job once you set power mode to "High Performance"

    on the other hand, your can tell rmclock to idle at the lowest possible, and bring back up to max "on demand"

    i have seen lower idle, and max temps without any physical mods. I gained these lower setting with the following :

    1. upgraded to SP1
    2. upgraded to latest nvidia driver from dell
    3. ran rmclock (to lower idle temps)
    4. used ikfangui to kick in fan at high when cpu reaches 55C and or GPU at 70C
    5. underclocked max multiplier with two voltage increment resulted in 2C less at max cpu utilization

    I just have a question though...
    when im running rmclock and ticked thermal monitor 1 and 2, my cpu throttles somewhere around 60C... does anyone know what are the limits set by these thermal monitors?

    anyway, just sharing. there's nothing to lose if you try...
     
    macreyes, Jul 5, 2008
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