Underclocking a e6600 for less power drain. Work mode.

[weEvil]

The e6600 uses about 68W while at full usage right?

How low can I get the power consumption on this CPU?

I need this for just a regular desktop, mostly for work. So I don't need all the power. I just need less heat since it will be on most of the time. (But it would be nice to crank it to full power or even overclock whenever I play a game.)

Been looking at this or the more exotic T7600 or T7800 Mobile core 2 Duo Processors. They use about 33-35W. But they are also very rare and expensive, and getting a mobo that works would be a chore.

Input?

[Woomera]

Get the NGO modified nforce driver or just get the registry edit for the nforce driver to enable core/memory clock modifying.i believe you can reduce the number too its not just for increasing it.

and also if you are using vista and having PCX 6600 theres an option for powering down the graphic card when youre away or so.

[weEvil]

Get the NGO modified nforce driver or just get the registry edit for the nforce driver to enable core/memory clock modifying.i believe you can reduce the number too its not just for increasing it.

and also if you are using vista and having PCX 6600 theres an option for powering down the graphic card when youre away or so.

e6600 Intel processor. Not card.

[ripken204]

lol, well that was confusing.

you bios should have quick boot keys where you can save bios settings and while booting up. u press something like 1,2,3,or 4 and you can select which settings u want to boot up with. so for games u can have it for setting 2. for normal work have setting 1, this will be the defualt so you wont have to mess with pressing buttons. to lower the power consumption just lower the voltage on the cpu and decrease the fsb. do test to make sure its stable. go as low as you want to.

[weEvil]

Cool. I knew lowering the fsb would also have an impact.

Why does it? Lowering voltage means you lower the power running through the chip. But the fsb?

And do you know any place I can get better ideas about underclocking the new core 2 duos?

[ripken204]

give this a read:

http://www.silentpcreview.com/article37-page1.html

most ppl dont buy a C2D to underclock it so i doubt that you will find much on the topic.

lower the voltage is what you want to do. but if it become unstable and you want to go to that lower volage, then you will have to decrease the fsb. im not sure how far u can drop the voltage on a C2D before the fsb becomes an issue tho.. w/ amd opterons the voltage could be dropped alot and still remain stable.