[ltp] CPU Throttling on R50p

[Eben King]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Winsley von Spee wrote:

> The Pentium M CPU's aren't able to scale to a lower freq than 600 MHz. The
> newer one (the one with the dothan core) are only able to scale down to
> 800 MHz. If something in Windows report a clock speed of 200 MHz it's
> wrong.

Or reporting the net with-added-sleep-states speed.  Rather misleading.

> Throttling doesn't change the cpu clock it just adds idle cycles to
> reduce the power consumption if the cpu is to hot.

I read somewhere (can't find the source) that inserting sleep states is not
very effective for reducing power use.

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