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Undervolting a Laptop

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the too-late-for-my-laptop-graveyard dept.

Delph1 writes "Laptops often comes with two Achilles heels, heat and limited battery time. There are, if not cures, at least remedies to make them less obvious. By lowering the voltage to the processor you can not only drastically lower the heat dissipation, but also increase the battery time significantly. NordicHardware gives a nice walk through on the process and was able to boast 18% lower temperature and a 20% reduced power consumption."

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  1. BushCo's State Of The Gulags: +1, Informative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bush states Iran could blackmail the world without, of course, any explanation of the purpose of a blackmail scheme..

    Question: What would be the purpose of the blackmail?

    Does anyone still believe this sorry excuse for a crock of Shit?.

    Peace is war.
    Bad is good.
    Disarmament is armament.
    Life is death.

    Defend America: Arrest, Try, Impeach The White House.

    Sincerely,
    Kilgore Trout, Super-Patriot

  2. Re:What for? by Millenniumman · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why would wifi use that much electricity? In laptops it is generally just used as a reciever, although you can use those cards as a base station. Either way, I wouldn't think it would use that much electricity.

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    Stupidity is like nuclear power, it can be used for good or evil. And you don't want to get any on you.
  3. Re:Similar human procedure by Mike+Buddha · · Score: 0, Troll

    Haha! Yeah! The President is STUPID! LOL! ROFLMAO!

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    by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.