So recently my system was performing well below what I knew it to be capable of but because of the timing of events it took me a week to figure this out. About six weeks ago I for some reason choose to change the default power plan in Vista (Home Premium 64) to 'Power Saver'. At the time I may have thought that the system would throttle up when the demand rose but unfortunately it does not. So the game I came back to play was about 25% of it's former FPS performance.
I have a AMD64 x2 5000 which normally runs at a 13x clock, apparently Vista's Power Saver plan reduces that down to 5x. I'm not sure how it does this, if it is via AMD's Quiet 'n' Cool drivers/tech or Microsoft's. I'm also not sure if the Power Saver plan is suppose to lock down the CPU at this reduced multiplier or if it supposed to allow for the CPU to come up to the full 13x when the load presents itself and that is really my question here. Basically I'm wondering where to point the finger on this. Is it my fault for forgetting I made this setting, Microsoft's for using a system that isn't supporting the premise of "Cool 'n' Quiet" or AMD's for supplying a methodology that isn't working. I know the Cool 'n' Quiet tech has been the source of complaints in the past but I can't say if those were deserved or not. (BTW, I'm not planing on writing any nasty letters to anyone, I'm just trying to understand the fault here.)
On the positive note. Because of this I found PC Wizard 2008. Very helpful and FREE application that is and it stopped me from tearing my hair out over this issue.
I have a AMD64 x2 5000 which normally runs at a 13x clock, apparently Vista's Power Saver plan reduces that down to 5x. I'm not sure how it does this, if it is via AMD's Quiet 'n' Cool drivers/tech or Microsoft's. I'm also not sure if the Power Saver plan is suppose to lock down the CPU at this reduced multiplier or if it supposed to allow for the CPU to come up to the full 13x when the load presents itself and that is really my question here. Basically I'm wondering where to point the finger on this. Is it my fault for forgetting I made this setting, Microsoft's for using a system that isn't supporting the premise of "Cool 'n' Quiet" or AMD's for supplying a methodology that isn't working. I know the Cool 'n' Quiet tech has been the source of complaints in the past but I can't say if those were deserved or not. (BTW, I'm not planing on writing any nasty letters to anyone, I'm just trying to understand the fault here.)
On the positive note. Because of this I found PC Wizard 2008. Very helpful and FREE application that is and it stopped me from tearing my hair out over this issue.