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    Inspiron 6400 powersave

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by torvok, Jan 12, 2007.

  1. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    Ok i am a little confsued, i under the 6400 suppose to have a feature to underclock the gpu automaticaly when its not needed to save battery life. However is CCC needed for this? i dont like CCC cuz it takes a lot of memory so when i got the laptop i reformatted rite away and only installed the lastest drivers not CCC. is CCC the only programs that safe and will do it automatically? I dont wana try any other program to manually over/under clock cuz i dont wnaa risk anything.

    Also I think the CPU is suppose to underclock automatically aswell? Is a program needed for this too? Where can i see how much of my CPU power is acutally being used at a certain time?


    ps. i am not so concerned about battery life , i jsut want to reduce heat. again i dont wana touch anythign manually like undervolting and stuff.

    thx
     
    torvok, Jan 12, 2007
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  2. Ahzuz

    Ahzuz Notebook Consultant

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    CCC ?
    We use notebook hardware monitor to do that.
     
    Ahzuz, Jan 12, 2007
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  3. torvok

    torvok Notebook Geek

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    thats a thrid party program tho i duno if its risky CCC came with the orginal dell but i uinstalled it.
     
    torvok, Jan 12, 2007
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    On my Inspiron 6400 GPU underclocking doesn't work, NHC gives me an error (can not read clock speed ....or something). How did you get it to work ?
     
    Corbu', Jan 13, 2007
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  5. Ahzuz

    Ahzuz Notebook Consultant

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    Not sure, I just installed it and its working by itself for now, didn't touch anything really.
     
    Ahzuz, Jan 13, 2007
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