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    Can someone explain how to use RMclock to increase battery in Vista

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by neilnpatel, Jan 19, 2008.

  1. neilnpatel

    neilnpatel Notebook Evangelist

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    please help, i have a 2.2ghz and it is only clocking down to 1.6, and it is eating away at the battery.

    also any other tips to increse battery life would be helpful.
     
    neilnpatel, Jan 19, 2008
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  2. M1chel

    M1chel Notebook Geek

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    Check these posts: One, Two, Three. Post if something is still unclear after that. Best of luck!
     
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    The processor is not the main thing that uses battery. Your screen and hard drive are. If you get more ram, your hard drive is used less for page file and can idle more. And lower the brightness of your screen and you will see drastic improvements in your battery.
     
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    That's an interesting statement. I have found that adding ram increased power consumption. I don't find that Windows uses less virtual memory just by adding ram. Windows is very inefficient in this manner. However if you turn off virtual memory completely, you might have a point there.
     
    sonicwind, Jan 19, 2008
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    This is likely because you use XP pro, which is inherently inefficient when it comes to RAM utilization. In Vista, however, it is take advantage of ALL the available RAM, which greatly decreases paging to the HD. Linux has done this for a long time, and now finally windows does it.

    EG: I Just added another 2GB of RAM to my desktop, to make 4GB. In vista, in the task manager, it is normal for me to have 0MB or 10MB of RAM free, while around 3GB is cached. This makes my computer extremely responsive as it allows for the 3GB of my most accessed data to be readily available at all times. Windows XP concentrates on keeping RAM free, which is just stupid, as this means that all that RAM you bought it going to waste.

    Linux is even better, I dual-boot Mandriva 2008.0 and vista 64 on my desktop and when i had 2GB of ram, in linux there was ALWAYS 0MB free RAM. Now with 4GB, same thing, ALWAYS full, which is exactly what I want.
     
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  6. neilnpatel

    neilnpatel Notebook Evangelist

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    well i have my page file on 0,with a max of about 300mb, i have 2 gb of ram so should be fine.

    ok, thanks thing is in normal vista the cpu is at 1.6 @ .85, yep .85.

    Now when i try to do 1.2 on 0/95 the system becomes really realy slow, and the battery consumption is almost the same

    Will perfromance mode rather than quiet mode decrease battery
     
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    M1chel Notebook Geek

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    Regarding "1.6 @ .85": this thread says that 8x/0.850V is Intel's SLFM (super low frequency mode) in which the speed is halved to 800MHz.
    1.2 GHz should be fast enough, don't know why you experience a slowdown.
     
    M1chel, Jan 19, 2008
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