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Having your cake and eating it!

Jleo

Jleo

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Oh boy! I hear you say,

Speedstep is great :D but I notice the difference in general system response when its enabled and the cpu isn't under load enough to bring the cpu to full speed, when browsing and sys fplder/file searches for example..

Has anyone came accross and application that is small and not a resource hog that will put the system in full speed and the program must be capable of being enabled to run in a very low priority cpu mode.

So basically with this app your would be able to keep your cpu running a full speed as and when you want. I will be looking for any small app that is capable of this feat maybe you have already something that can do this?

Don't suggest turning off speedstep as this defeats having the cake and eating it at the same time :D
 
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I think I see what you mean, simular to disabling it in the BIOS! But you configure the programme in windows as and when you want?

Rob
 
Jleo said:
Nice find YZFAndy, looks very promising thanks.
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Thanks
You may even find with a bit of playing and setting up that you can still use the speed step with this program as you can set the response time the speed step reacts to load.
Found it worked best with AMD's. At rest my AMD use to work at 2 degress above room temperature and at that temperature my fans would switch off.
 
Install as much RAM as physically possible into your system and load everything into a RAM-drive.

You'll be limited to around 6Gb storage, but my goodness will it be fast.
 
mrthingyx said:
Install as much RAM as physically possible into your system and load everything into a RAM-drive.

You'll be limited to around 6Gb storage, but my goodness will it be fast.
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I wonder if anyone has ever done that and then run some HDD heavy tests to see what speeds you get?
 
Skeeter said:
I wonder if anyone has ever done that and then run some HDD heavy tests to see what speeds you get?
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A number of people on this forum have done - I don't know if they're still around (posting-wise), but it's relatively easy.

The alternative is to buy a Gigabyte I-RAM and use that...
 
Chris Beard said:
run folding or similar. Is low priority but eats all free CPU. Hence little overhead but keeps your CPU at full pace.
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That would seem to defeat the OP's intention of having his cake and eating. Clearly he wants to be 'green' and save power as much as possible. Even without speedstep a cpu running at 100% speed but 'idle' uses a lot less power than a CPU thats 100% loaded and folding.

Folding adds 30-40W average to a cpu's power draw compared to a cpu thats idle, more like 40-50W compared to a cpu thats allowed to speedstep to lower clock/voltages. That could easily add up to £40-£50 of additional electric bills on a computer left on 24/7.

Im guessing the OP simply wants to press a button, to temporarily disable speedstep, perhaps he has a game which is affected by it.. whatever and wants to be able to choose when speedstep is active.

Personally I've used a computer which was folding 24/7 and I found it slightly less responsive than a simliar machine running speedstep. Folding... windows is responsible for realising another program wants cpu time and putting the folding thread to sleep, but with speedstep I believe most of the 'work' of knowing what speed to run at is controlled by the CPU, and it can step up/down in pretty much a single clock tick its certainly very quick.
 
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