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So my fan on my laptop started making a horrific racket (possibly because my laptop has been on nearly half of its existence) so I found a way to clock the CPU down so the fan wouldn't need to be on. Here are the commands I used.
powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-ac ADAPTIVE
powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-dc ADAPTIVE
powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-ac CONSTANT
powercfg /CHANGE PowerConfigName /processor-throttle-dc CONSTANT
Replace PowerConfigName from the name of the active power configuration. To find this, Click Start -> Settings -> Control Panel -> Power Options. The active power setting will be in a drop-down menu. Copy this into the command and include quotes if there are slashes or spaces involved. For example, if your power configuration is Presentation then /CHANGE Presentation, however, if it were Max Battery or Portable/Laptop, you will need to put it in quotes; /CHANGE "Portable/Laptop" or /CHANGE "Max Battery".
This saved my sanity as when my laptop was working on a BOINC job, it would constantly toggle the fan on and off to keep the processor cool. This only works on Windows XP (possibly prior versions as well) and I am trying to figure out how to do this on my Vista machine to save power.
Which CPU is capable of
By johniardWhich CPU is capable of handling that well? Are Pentium 4 processors capable of performing well when you clock the cpu down ?
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Brilliant
By Victor McManus (not verified)I've been hunting the net for a throttle program- and didn't even need one! I followed your advice and used the powercfg command-line program and used powercfg /CHANGE profile-name /processor-throttle-ac DEGRADE and now my laptop (which has a dying fan) doesn't heat up like it used to. Thank you for posting this!! You lifted a bunch of stress from my life!!
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