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When power-saving states for CPUs were still new and Windows support was still lacking, there was a 3rd party tool that would decrease the idle temperature of m
by hs86 6y ago
When power-saving states for CPUs were still new and Windows support was still lacking, there was a 3rd party tool that would decrease the idle temperature of my Athlon XP by creating artificial load with a low process priority. It would basically replace the System Idle Process and put the CPU in some new P-state.
Is there some standard way in *nix/Windows to create artificial CPU load while actually not increasing the energy consumption at all?
- Brian_K_White 6y agoI remember using Rain too.
- pcwalton 6y agoIt's still useful if you want to run Windows 95 in a VM.
- orange_fritter 6y agoWrong platform but this is 'kernel_task' on Mac OS X and it runs automatically when cpu temp gets high.