Now a days new processors are coming with extreme power, they can perform many calculations at once, can give you real life quality gaming experience. But what about the Power consumption ? A normal Intel pentium 4 processor consumes about 70 – 80 Watt of power, where as high performance Pentium D Processors may go upto 130 Watt !!!
[See all processor list with there power consumption at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation ]
So, your normal personal computers are sucking a lots of power. But there is a way to minimize it. and without harming your system. Windows XP has a special feature to minimize this power consumption of your computer processor so to increase the laptop battery life or save the electricity bills.
So, to save your computer power consumption to maximize the battery life just perform following steps/
STEP 1 :
Download software called CPUZ to measure the current CPU Speed. Check the current processor speed.
(This step is optional, but if you want to see the effect by your eyes then follow it)
STEP 2 :
Now right click on desktop go to Properties
Then Screensaver tab
Then click on Power button (at bottom)
This will open “Power option properties”
STEP 3 :
Now from the “Power scheme” drop down menu select “Minimal power management”.
Set bottom Automatic turn off options according to your choice.
and click OK. then OK DONE !!
STEP 4 :
Now again check your power ratings in CPUZ.
This is how you can save the power consumption of your computer or Laptop .This trick will surely increase your Laptop battery life and total working hours. Actually using this option Windows automatically change the processor frequency according to its use i.e. if your computer need high processing power it will increase its power consumption else it will remain to minimum power.
The Intel processors with SpeedStep technology and AMD processors with Cool’n'Quiet will support this feature, all new processors support this technology.
Oct 18, 2008 at 9:33 am
thoda mere desktop ki bhi help kar de !!
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Oct 18, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Laptop power usage depends on a lot of things… Basically certain centrino/dureon processors are meant for saving power and when clubbed with the right low wattage graphics card it saves a lot. Only the rest is managed by software. But there are implications of using minimal power…performance can reduce and so is the time before system goes to standby, hibernate etc.
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Oct 19, 2008 at 9:24 am
Thank you for the step by step guide. I really need this information to save my battery and to use it for long time. I learned new saving tip today. Thanks!
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Oct 19, 2008 at 11:52 am
Trick worked!
Thank you chetan, again…
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Oct 21, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Chetan great post. Its a great tool. I didn’t know that after doing some settings the cpu takes less power!!
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Oct 23, 2008 at 10:11 pm
@Ajith Edassery
Yeah, but using “Minimal power managment” you can minimize more power consumption , at least a part or whole system is consuming less power.
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Oct 31, 2008 at 11:39 pm
Now thats called power Saver trick. Thanks dude for the trick
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Nov 12, 2008 at 10:45 pm
This makes logical sense that we should only have to use the power that is needed at that moment.
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