On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 05:30:11 +0100, Bruno Buys wrote: > > reid, > athcool saves both temperature and power. Its a very simple script, > written for athlons.
Bruno, That certainly sounds intriguing, but: > !!!WARNING!!! > Depending on your motherboard and/or hardware components, enabling > Athlon powersaving mode sometimes causes: > . > * noisy or distorted sound playback, > * a slowdown in harddisk performance, > * system locks or instability, > * massive corruption of the filesystem (observed at least once). sounds pretty scary. Do you know how risky it is to actually use? I looked up the spec on my processor (Athlon XP 1800+) and it only consumes about 50 watts maximum; even if I could cut that by half on average that's not a whole lot. Reid -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
