Undervolting is the flip side of overclocking. Both count on the fact that a typical CPU has some operational margin; it does a bit better on the speed/voltage curve than the specs guarantee. Most motherboards that enable overclocking can also be undervolted; it's something to explore if you are building a quiet system for home theater or the like, or if you just like the idea of saving energy.
On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:28 PM, Richard Pieri <richard.pi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 6/19/2015 3:07 PM, Joe Polcari wrote: >> >> This also assumes that you have a way to adjust voltages I¹ve only seen >> something like that on gaming Pcs. > > > In principle, everything that supports dynamic frequency scaling has a > mechanism for adjusting voltages. In practice, whether or not the M/B > firmware exposes these options to the user varies widely. I have a bunch of > servers and workstations that have Supermicro boards that expose voltage > options. I don't think any of my Dell servers do the same. > > > -- > Rich P. > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss@blu.org > http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@blu.org http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss