Throttling CPU with RM Clock good or bad?

I have just figured out that I can keep my cpu at a stable temp-while playing oblivion- by throttling. I have a core duo that runs quite hot during gaming and I am using RM clock to throttle it. I am wondering if it is generally a good idea to do this or not. I feel like I might be messing with my computer too much or something.

Oh yah if anybody else is running RM clock with a core duo what does it say your clock speed is? mine says its only running at 1Ghz.

thanks for anybodys help
Dan

 

As long as you don't see a big hit in performance I don't think it is a bad idea.

I have used RM clock on my 1.66gHz core duo and it said it was only running at 1gHz too. It will throttle up when the power is needed. I use Notebook Hardware Control now, which does basically the same thing and the readings are the same.

 

Both RMClock and NHC are great power management tools. I use RMclock to undervolt my processor.

 

NHC is a lot more user friendly than RM Clock, but requiring .NET and not working properly under win2k. So i'm using RM Clock when i'm on win2k.

Tell me what's this throttling thing? Is it something that switches your CPU clock depending on the cpu temperature and not cpu load? And how do you set it? What's this value in percentage, what does it mean?

 

I'm not exactly sure but I guess it just limits the speed the cpu can go. This reduces my temp by a bit so Im guessing it works. But it slows it down acordingly so i am trading temp for cpu speed. I wish we could undervolt the core duos but no programs can go below a certain voltage. I've kinda given up for now on trying to reduce the temps but if anyone has figured it out I'd love to know!
thanks
Dan

 

If you've got such issues of heat during gaming that it's becoming a big worry you should be looking at heat reducing options. AS5 is a big one.

 

I have been using RM clock too and it's set to power on demand always...works like a charm in whatever game I'm playing

 

When my laptop arrives i will be using RMClock as i have heard its less buggy when it comes to core duos. Mabye this has been addressed in later versions of NHC however.

 

So RMClock or NHC? I could use one on my DV5000, but does this kind of software always provide the optimum power for the task at hand?

 

Mine says its running on only 1GHz too when I've got a 2GHz Core 2 Duo.

 

afaik, throttling and the limiting of your processor speed is not exactly the same. Throttling is a specific way of reducing the processor spead by identifying
X prosessor cycles as one, where X>1 is not necessarily an integer number.