CPU frequency doesn't drop below 1200MHz (like it used to)

[Adrian Chadd]

Hi,

The whole point of throttling on modern hardware isn't to get really
low clock rates, it's to deal with being out of thermal envelope.

But, the modern intel cores will do that for you without OS involvement.

So, you don't have to actually use p4tcc and it may actually configure
your hardware wrong. Just throttle down to 1200MHz and go into deeper
sleep states (>C1). I checked this on a variety of older and modern
hardware; they all worked better just doing lowest ACPI P state and
lowest ACPI C state.



-adrian