Notebook Hardware Control question

what is dynamic switching? should i turn it off and set it to "max performance" or some other setting?

i don't really want this program to slow down the cpu just to compensate for temps or something....

anyone know what the optimal/most used settings are for NHC?

thanks

 

I had mine set up for "dynamic switching"on A/C power and "max battery" while running unplugged. Dynamic switch means that your notebook will underclock its self to keep cool/use less energy. It will ramp up to full speed when extra power is required, but otherwise it will idle at the lowest step. Max performance disables this stepping feature, keeping the CPU always at maximum speed while max battery will lock the processor at the lowest step.

I hope this helped somewhat.

 

thanks for the info, that is exactly what i was looking for.....

was wondering and had a few followup questions:

- will "max battery" mess up battery life in anyway? cuz i noticed that the cpu load goes high quite quickly if you load up the processor and in doing so, the battery remaining time decreases substationally all of a sudden, once the cpu load goes down, the battery life just goes way up again (to where it was) ---
will the battery life (comp) get confused in any way?

- dynamic switching sounds great in theory, are there any downsides to the cpu getting underclocked? of course at those times, you aren't running at full power which may concern some, it doesn't really bother me, as long as the cpu goes to 100% when it is needed....but what is the bad?

- are there any known defects or complications this program causes? once uninstalled, drivers....etc.....

thanks again for the great info....

 

Battery life always goes down when the proccesor is loaded.

A 1.73GHz proc running full load at 800Mhz still uses less power than a 1.73Ghz proc at 50.

 

The remaining battery life is calculated based on power usage--so when the CPU is cranked up it is using more power and therefore affects the calculations.

Dynamic switching is good for maximizing your battery life when on the move. You don't have to enable it when on AC power.

 

should i be concerned about cpu overheating if i use the 'max performance' setting while i'm plugged in? or is it totally safe?

 

Well that depends on it dumanator.

I see you have a super fast T7400. If you are just browsing the web, emailing, editing files and listen to music I really recommend you to switch to Dynamic Switching.
And when you decide to run an intensive game, just switch to full performance.

Charlie

 

"- are there any known defects or complications this program causes? once uninstalled, drivers....etc....."

I've uninstalled NHC. After much frustration and trial and error pretty much confirmed that NHC is trashing my Nvidea driver causing the computer to black out and hang up when running with the battery. When the computer boots up with NHC with battery or AC, I first get alot of crazy patterns and blocky graphics at the start. I've uninstalled NHC several times and reinstalled the video drivers. Computer runs fine until I reinstall NHC. I've repeated this several times to confirm that NHC is the culprit.

 

Oh I see...It's like intel Speedstep then?

 

"Oh I see...It's like intel Speedstep then?"

Huh? Can you elaborate for us newbies?