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A few years ago, I cheaped out and bought a low-powered Atom desktop |
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with 8 gigs of RAM. Looking back, that was a mistake. It would default |
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to 480p or at best 720p on Youtube. But I wrote a nifty bash script |
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that manually put the CPU into "userspace" mode, and selected the |
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maximum available CPU speed. I finally got Youtube with steady playback |
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at 1080p... YAY! I'd leave it at max speed during my waking hours, and |
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drop it to min speed at night before going to bed. |
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I saw the occasional mysterious lockups as I mentioned in recent |
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threads. I wonder if pushing the CPU to max speed most of the day would |
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cause overheating and lockups. I'm leaving my current, more powerfull, |
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machine in "conservative" mode. |
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Should I stay in conservative mode? Or forget about speed control |
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entirely, and let "Intel Speed Step" handle things for me? Also, is |
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there a way to enable CPU throttling based on temperature? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> |
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I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications |
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