Software to Easy up power consumption

I know I read somewhere on these forums..or on another forum a guy that ran a program to make his CPU run at a lower power.. like he had an Athlon 3200 running at 2.2ghz ..

by making it run at 1.7ghz he could save on almost half the power consumption (or something liek that)

well I just bought a new Dell 9100 and it has like NO battery life.. maybe 2 hours... I went into BIOS and lowered the screen brightness but that was the only option I could find in there to change ..

anyways was wondering if anyone knows what software this was?

thanks



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Jon,

Sorry to say this, but you shouldn't be expecting good battery life for a P4 DTR CPU. These CPU's are designed for desktops, not notebooks, therefore there's not a lot of power management functions for this CPU. Actaully, it's quite possible the fun at full speed even on battery. That's why battery life is poor. You're actually lucky you can get 2hrs on a system like this. If you were looking for battery life, the Pentium M models should have been the focus of the searches.

I Think the program you're refering to is called CrystalCPUID, I remember reading that post as well, it may be located in the HP section. I think it'll onyl work on the AMD CPU's.

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I don't know if it makes CPU consume less power, but ClockGen undervolts it.

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Venombite yeah I know its meant to be a desktop replacement and thats what I got it for
but I was just hoping to be able to get 2 hours of battery life at least (enuff to get through one class)

anyways .. that crystal program is it.. I remember now and it seems it does only run on AMD ..what abummer it woulda been nice

thanks for the help

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Normally, clock speed on mobile Intel CPUs are controlled by their SpeedStep technology and by WindowsXP. You can use SpeedSwitch XP to manually downclock your CPU though. http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/index.html

Jim

 

thanks for the link Jim

i got that program but it doesnt seem to do anything
put it on MAX battery life

and processor still ran at 3.2ghz when doing NOTHING at all

I think you need to have a certain CPU with Certain MB and I definately don't to use speedstep technology

which is quite a bummer


anyone with a inspiron 9100 got any other ideas?

thx



Some People say drinking is a problem ---
-- They say you drink to get rid of your problems
----- But that its only temporary

Well I say if ya drink all the time-- ITS a PERMANENT Solution then