Steedstep anyone?

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Steedstep anyone?

#1 Post by dclee012 » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:38 pm

Does anyone leave Speedstep at Maximum Power (when plugged in)?

Is this recommened?
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#2 Post by csv96 » Mon Jun 07, 2004 4:45 pm

I always leave mine on adaptive. I figure I'm paying such a high premium for the Pentium M technology. Might as well use it. ;)
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#3 Post by NecessaryEvil » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:21 pm

I actually have it set to run as slow as possible unless I'm using it for games.
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where is it?>

#4 Post by nikemen » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:36 pm

I used to have this on my older A20, but cannot find it on my T41?
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Re: where is it?>

#5 Post by kilago » Mon Jun 07, 2004 5:59 pm

nikemen wrote:I used to have this on my older A20, but cannot find it on my T41?
WinXP actually has the speedstep applet built into the OS. I'm actually not sure how you control it though...i'll have to look when I get home...
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#6 Post by kangazoom » Mon Jun 07, 2004 6:42 pm

sorry, what is speedstep?

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#7 Post by NecessaryEvil » Mon Jun 07, 2004 7:38 pm

the battery program should allow you to set things.
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Re: Steedstep anyone?

#8 Post by atlacatl » Mon Jun 07, 2004 11:41 pm

dclee012 wrote:Does anyone leave Speedstep at Maximum Power (when plugged in)?

Is this recommened?
I use speedswitch XP and I have not had any issues at all. You can download it from here: http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/.

Of course, use it at your own risk - For me, it works great and I can manually switch back on forth by right clicking the icon on the systray...

I have my computer set up to "Adaptive," however, I switch to full power once in a while when I think I can benefit from the extra second it takes to go from 599 MHz, to 1.6 GHz :)
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how

#9 Post by nikemen » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:28 pm

How are you using speedstep to switch cpu speeds, I don't find that setting i nthe settings areas.
thanks
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#10 Post by K. Eng » Tue Jun 08, 2004 5:40 pm

I leave mine in adaptive mode. No reason for the machine to eat more power than it needs to :)
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#11 Post by gg3761 » Tue Jun 08, 2004 11:13 pm

Where in the settings do i find adaptive mode?
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Re: Steedstep anyone?

#12 Post by AssPenny » Wed Jun 09, 2004 4:43 pm

atlacatl wrote:
dclee012 wrote:Does anyone leave Speedstep at Maximum Power (when plugged in)?

Is this recommened?
I use speedswitch XP and I have not had any issues at all. You can download it from here: http://www.diefer.de/speedswitchxp/.

Of course, use it at your own risk - For me, it works great and I can manually switch back on forth by right clicking the icon on the systray...

I have my computer set up to "Adaptive," however, I switch to full power once in a while when I think I can benefit from the extra second it takes to go from 599 MHz, to 1.6 GHz :)
I also use Speedswitch, its much better than the XP controls or even the IBM battery controls.
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