throttling cpu speed to run cooler

Hanspeter Roth hampi at rootshell.be
Sun Oct 31 13:04:11 PST 2004


  On Oct 30 at 14:49, Matthew Seaman spoke:

> On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 09:06:31PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote:
> 
> > I've been looking for a utility to reduce cpu speed to make my laptop
> > run cooler. Ideally, it should reduce cpu speed to about 20% when speed
> > is not needed, and restore speed to 100% when the load requires it.
> 
>     http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-est/

Enhanced Speedstep is probably for Intel and Powernow is probably
for AMD.

-Hanspeter


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