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underclocking??? – bennythebear

bennythebear

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i found out i can underclock my athlon fx-62 down to 1.0ghz with a vcore of 0.8v. just thought i'd share this weird discovery. anyone else do anything similar to this?

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MastaLlama

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Why would you want to do that? LOL
CPUFreak91

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quote:
Originally posted by bennythebear:

i found out i can underclock my athlon fx-62 down to 1.0ghz with a vcore of 0.8v. just thought i'd share this weird discovery. anyone else do anything similar to this?


My MacBook Pro's Radeon X1600 video card comes underclocked from the Apple factory..

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JeTSpice
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Perhaps to beta test on slower machines.
HanClinto

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Many laptops will automatically underclock themselves when they're on battery power in order to save energy (as a byproduct of extending battery life, it also runs cooler).

I imagine that underclocking a desktop could gain a similar benefit -- drawing less power whilst running cooler.

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bwoogie

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From: kansas usa
Registered: 03-12-2005
OH MAN! My computer is just way to stinking fast! I want to slow it down.....

Haha, That's funny! While you're at it you might as well take out some ram and put in a smaller hard drive

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supercoder

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maybe to play original dos games so sprite animations are going crayz fast!

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ArchAngel

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DOSbox will solve that problem...

But then again, kids weigh their car down with huge spoilers, spinners, massive body kits and overly large subs. I guess fast isn't for some people...

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PFC

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Registered: 10-16-2007
lol
well I was just recently having problems with my t23 IBM laptop with a P.III mobile 1.133GHz cpu.... it was under-clocking at 400 MHz... when being plug in...(had just finished replacing the motherboard...) and the funny thing is that the bios was set to automatically control the clock speed based on demand... yet it would remain at 400MHz and practically every application I ran on it would lag...(or crash) but now it magically started working....

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bennythebear

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it just blew my mind that i could get it to run at 0.8v...is there even a cpu out there that runs around that at stock? it ran vista fine, and i benchmarked a 2300 and something with pcmark, around 4700 at stock. i crashed vista though when my video froze up because of the 135mhz pci-e bus overclock. . it actually only lowered the heat by a few degrees...but i am using a heatsink that has 2 120mm fans mounted to it, so i guess they only get so cool without water cooling or something more extreme.

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proverbs 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

proverbs 25:7
open rebuke is better than secret love.

www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia

www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs

quote:
Originally posted by super angel steve:
Its pefectly normal to have crushes on fictional animated charaters.