Reducing The Power Consumption Of Overclocked PCs

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Now, that must sound pretty inane. Overclocking a PC seems to be as far apart from power saving as it can get. After all, overclockers employ all kinds of power-guzzling methods to improve their CPU's overclockability, from increasing the CPU core voltage to employing more powerful cooling systems. Even the act of increasing the clock speed increases power consumption.
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Tech ARP - Reducing The Power Consumption Of Overclocked PCs

Good read although some points (like C n' Q and EIST) are well known :hap2:
 
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EIST, C1E & Cool'n'Quiet are crappy stuff which had made my pc so less responsive :no:

I hate them thus never use them :)
 
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EIST, C1E & Cool'n'Quiet are crappy stuff which had made my pc so less responsive :no:

I hate them thus never use them :)
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errr...u might wanna make sure wat it was, cos these sure dont affect anything :P I doubt you can tell the diff when the proccy switches speeds etc in a single clock sycle :D
 
Anyone here tried RMClock?

I recently overclocked my E6300 from 1.86 Ghz to 2.33 Ghz (FSB 266 to 333 in sync with DDR2 667 ram).

I kept Speedstep enabled in the BIOS.

At the overclocked speed of 2.33 Ghz, speedstep would reduce the speed to 2.0 Ghz during idling.

Now, with RMClock, I was able to run the E6300 stable at 2.33 Ghz (tested using Intel Thermal Analysis Tool) at 1.275 Volts (undervolted from default mobo vcore of 1.325 volts).

For 2.0 Ghz idle mode, I set RMClock to undervolt to 1.200 Volts and achieved lower idle temperatures compared to running at 1.275 or 1.325 volts.

And of course, lower idle temperatures means lower power consumption.

Those who are interested can check the link in my sig which goes to the RMClock guide which I published a long time back.
 
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