Processor Throttling In Windows XP

TomSlick writes "Michael Chu, a former Intel employee, has written up a fairly interesting and readable summary of Windows XP power schemes as they relate to Intel processor throttling. An old topic, but one still relevant as many business notebooks still use XP."

Doncha hate "Misread" headlines?

[erroneus]

For a second there, I read "Professor Throttling in Windows XP"

Re:Many?

[Dolda2000]

[...]no one, not even the "non-technical people" don't like Vista and its showing.

Yeah, personally I dislike the Vista's showing even more than Vista itself.

Re:Quick summary for the RTFA impaired...

[Anonymous Coward]

Unless, as a twitch-gamer, you (think you) can't afford to lose even a single CPU cycle, then by all means continue trying to heat your house in "Always On" mode (or the default of "Home/Office Desk", which means the same thing to AC-powered non-laptops).

As a renter, my electric bill is paid for by my landlord. My oil heating bill is not. Always On mode greatly reduces my spending in the winters.

Re:Doncha hate "Misread" headlines?

[rock_climbing_guy]

Is Professor Throttling of any relation to General Failure or Colonel Panic?

Throttling

[Wowsers]

After using WinXP, it's not the processor that wants to throttle the system - it's me. So I installed Linux instead.

I use Outlook

[bl8n8r]

as a cpu throttler.

Re:Many?

[suv4x4]

Well, instead of requiring a dual-core CPU and 2+GB to run tolerably, you could use that second core and second gig to actually run things you want, rather than nothing but OS-related eye-candy and DRM crapware.

Are you some sort of Microsoft fanboy there?

Over here Vista requires 256 cores and 1 petabyte of RAM to run tolerably. And then I run Calculator.exe and it stalled. I'm checking every day how the Calculator launch is going and it's painfully slow. It's been over 9 months now and it's done rendering the buttons from 1 to 6, it still has 7 to 9 AND all operators to finish with.

I'm seriously pissed off, if it's not done by 2008 I'll be upgrading to XP.

Re:Many?

[Tim C]

Of course it is, it provides evidence that a much-vaunted disadvantage of Vista (that it requires a half-way modern machine) is incorrect...

XP vs. Vista

[ConceptJunkie]

XP can throttle your CPU, but Vista downright chokes it.