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I’ve just installed Battery Status to monitor power consumption. What strikes me as odd is that the only way I can get the CPU Speed to go down to 800MHz is by selecting the Normal profile in the Samsung Battery Manager. Then the speed drops to half if the computer is idle. As soon as I select Max Battery Life it goes back up to 1.6GHz. I can get the same effect by toggling the Customized CPU Speed setting between normal and minimum.
Now I’d expect that setting CPU Speed to minimum would should lock the CPU speed to 800Mhz. Anyone else seeing this? Can you force the CPU to run at 800MHz?
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Right clicking on My Computer and selecting Properties seems to show the expected CPU Speed of 798MHz when CPU speed is set to minimum. This could well be a bug in Battery Status.
you shouldnt be trusting either sysinfo32 or battery status for this info.
get a hold of cpuz. (google… the souirce is something like cpuid.org)
that will give you more accurate details of cpu speed in realtime for testing your config.
Skip the samsung profiles and try this…. Use the max battery from the xp power control panel. With XP, the speedstep concept is completely hidden (rediculous, but they did bring it back more configurable for vista). With max bat, it has the proc at the slower speed on ac and will degrade from there on battery. All on will keep it on max all the time, Home office will keep it on half on either ac or bat unless it needs more, in which case it will bump it to full speed. All on is full speed on ac all the time.
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