Re: Re: Centrino speedstep

Fred Labrosse
2005-01-07T10:20:14Z

Dominik Brodowski writes:
> On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 10:37:52AM +0000, Fred Labrosse wrote:
> > Dominik Brodowski writes:
> > > On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 01:25:51AM +0000, Pedro Venda wrote:
> > > > also, how exactly can I use ACPI throttling? because with the speestep
> > > > driver, I can't go below 600MHz, but 12% of maximum frequency is 180MHz
> > > > which I can reach using ACPI throttling.
> > >
> > > but throttling doesn't save you anything.
> > >
> >
> > Well, it makes it run slightly cooler, so saves on fan power. Or am I
> > mistaken?
> If there is indeed a correlation with the fan power, indeed. Usually this
> isn't the case, and then it doesn't matter at all.
>

How can it not be the case that there is correlation between the two? The
processor produces heat (less if throttling down, right?) and the fan
extracts heat from the inside of the machine.

Or there is something I'm utterly missing here (?).

Fred