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Anyway to save even more power?

sandeep

sandeep

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Hi Everyone,

I currently have Cool n Quiet on and running but I want to push it more by reducing the cores, is there any app that will allow me to run 1 or 2 cores when i'm casually browsing and then boost up to 4 cores overclocked when im using an app that needs it?
 
sandeep said:
Hi Everyone,

I currently have Cool n Quiet on and running but I want to push it more by reducing the cores, is there any app that will allow me to run 1 or 2 cores when i'm casually browsing and then boost up to 4 cores overclocked when im using an app that needs it?
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No
 
Use bios profiles so you have one set for your overclock to load when you wish to game etc and another for stock thats under volted?
 
erm...why buy that rig to power save? makes no sense, I dig the power saving desire, but disabling cores or trying to is pointless- if it is your wallet you are thinking about why buy dominator ram and a 1200 case, and why have a psu far above your needs?

If it is the enviroment well...proportionate to what you might save deactivating a core, which I m pretty sure cant be done, you should have gone with a lower power lower carbon footprint pc to start, damage is already done.

You stand a chance of borking something and that could result in a damaged part or having to leave the pc running for a long time and using more power than disabling a few cores sometimes would use.
 
Cool and quiet is reducing power use significantly. 5850 even more so at idle.
I too dig the power saving fetish but the only significant power savings you can make are really :
-change to laptop.
-build mini itx system with low voltage cpu (less performance).

You've got a great system. relax. turn it off when you're not using it. let windows shutdown screens, discs and the whole pc after a certain amount of time.
 
el Kuarlos said:
erm...why buy that rig to power save? makes no sense, I dig the power saving desire, but disabling cores or trying to is pointless- if it is your wallet you are thinking about why buy dominator ram and a 1200 case, and why have a psu far above your needs?

If it is the enviroment well...proportionate to what you might save deactivating a core, which I m pretty sure cant be done, you should have gone with a lower power lower carbon footprint pc to start, damage is already done.

You stand a chance of borking something and that could result in a damaged part or having to leave the pc running for a long time and using more power than disabling a few cores sometimes would use.
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I'm only power saving when I'm either just browsing or listening to music, or even perhaps watching a movie as the GPU will take care of that.

Whereas the CPU won't be used much, OK Cool n Quiet brings the voltage down to 1.0v which is decent, but cancelling out 2 cores and reducing that voltage further down can help with using less power when it's not needed.

Using the utility I found (linked in my previous post) showed me there was no option to reduce the clocks on two cores below 4x multi, but I also did manage to muck about with other features which help a lot, my CPU right now is using 0.8v rather than 1.5v, it's at 25c thanks to that, and well that's how I want my rig to run. Only using the power when it's needed.

Quixote said:
Cool and quiet is reducing power use significantly. 5850 even more so at idle.
I too dig the power saving fetish but the only significant power savings you can make are really :
-change to laptop.
-build mini itx system with low voltage cpu (less performance).

You've got a great system. relax. turn it off when you're not using it. let windows shutdown screens, discs and the whole pc after a certain amount of time.
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The system does sleep after about 15 minutes of non use, and disks spin down after 5 minutes i think, so there are some power saving features I have turned on.
 
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