The last power bills are getting a bit high and i want to exclude my system from the equation for the time being. Since i don't have the watt-o-meter i'm trying to figure out how much i'd actually benefit from doing such thing on my Core i7 920.
I'll still use the 4,2GHz profile but when i'm just running my PC for P2P or music over night it's pointless to run it at full power.
So, this is how i'm hoping to lower power consumption:
- disabled HT
- enabled all the power saving states (not that they'll matter much)
- set VCORE to 0,8V
- locked multiplier to 12 (which is the lowest)
So now i basically have a 4 core CPU that is running at only 1,6GHz. Any idea what would be the power difference compared to stock clocked Core i7 920 ?
I'll still use the 4,2GHz profile but when i'm just running my PC for P2P or music over night it's pointless to run it at full power.
So, this is how i'm hoping to lower power consumption:
- disabled HT
- enabled all the power saving states (not that they'll matter much)
- set VCORE to 0,8V
- locked multiplier to 12 (which is the lowest)
So now i basically have a 4 core CPU that is running at only 1,6GHz. Any idea what would be the power difference compared to stock clocked Core i7 920 ?