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    Vista Power Saver mode and CPU Whine

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by rubenvb, May 26, 2008.

  1. rubenvb

    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    I know this is thread number one thousand three hundred and five that discusses CPU whine, but last night I discovered something peculiar.

    I have a Dell m1330 with a T7250 processor. Last night I set vista to power saving mode and after three seconds, the CPU whine (largely) disappeared. I checked what it just did with my system, and found out is turns the cpu down to max 50% clock speed. I thought, maybe I can set this to 100% and it will be all right.... I did and now there is a very light whine, but much more bearable.

    Does anyone have an idea why or how this affects the whine. I set my GPU and processor to performance settings for the power saving profile in the hope I would be able to game on this setting without the whine... performance is worse than when I play on balanced... How come?

    Thanks guys, great forum
     
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  2. flipfire

    flipfire Moderately Boss

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    have you tried twiddling around with RMclock? ... its got more advanced cpu settings you can tweak
     
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    surfasb Titles Shmm-itles

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    it is under advanced settings.
     
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    rubenvb Notebook Consultant

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    I know all about the advanced tab and what all those options mean... I have tried setting those under Power Save exactly the same as, say, balanced, but there's still a difference in CPU whine... It has to be an option that isn't visible... the same that makes games run bad under power save...
     
    rubenvb, May 26, 2008
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