Any speed/power facilites inTurion 64 chips?

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 00:29

I've got a fuji turion64 2.2ghz lappy nad it chews through the battery in about 40 minutes running xp.

I remember from running vista it had options for selecting longer batterylife at the expense of processor speed.

I there anything like that available in xp?

I'm only using it for browsing befre i go to bed, so it doesn't really need to be running flat out.

Cheers

GuruJockStrap · 13 Oct 2007 at 00:49

Notebook Hardware Control (NHC) was always pretty good at this when I had an Intel based laptop.

Not sure if the program supports AMD. If the CPU supports dynamic clock speed switching then it might work.

No harm done to install and try it out.

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 09:53

Installed it, but no joy with slowing down so far

Dreading the prospect of having to reinstall vista in order to get a bit more life from the battery. <sob>

Defcon5 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:18

It should have cool n quiet on it surely? Have you installed the dual core driver and hotfix to enable it?

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:20

Dual core? didn't think it was. Or are only some of them duals?

Defcon5 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:21

I thought they all were? They may not be, but they will still have cool n quiet

Tesla · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:22

Check Fuji's website for any propriatory software to do this kind of thing.

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:29

Found a fuji cool n quiet download. Pretty sure this one is a single core chip though. dread to think how quick a duallie would sap a battery.

Defcon5 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:32

Can you get in to the bios at all to do it manually? Or use a clockgen type thing?

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 12:49

^^ VERY basic bios, can set shared video ram, boot preference and that's about it.

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 14:05

Looks like this thing doesn't have any speed support

Or do i risk going back to vista ...

jaric · 13 Oct 2007 at 15:02

This might be of use - RightMark CPU Clock Utility

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 16:22

Superstar, it works!

Getting just over an hour to the battery now, 15 minutes for free isn't bad

JAMAL · 13 Oct 2007 at 16:31

If its the chip i'm thinking of it uses a maximum of 35W, my turion x2 1.7ghz uses 31W max and i get 4 hours on low power mode and its a £300 dell lappy!

Is the battery knackered?

SB118 · 13 Oct 2007 at 16:35

Probably, bloke gave me the lappy when i called in a debt.

Next time a job pays out i'll hunt for a spare on the bay.

Amazing how cheap they are now, just sold my old PB easynote, battery was 90 quid when i needed one, the guy that bought it from me got one for £30 :eek: