Intel's Enhanced Speedstep Technology

Does anyone have any pros or cons on enhanced speedstep technology?I checked
out the info from Intel's site but left with more questions than answers.

Post your questions here and we'll try to answer them. It is difficult to
assign a value judgment like "pros and cons" to a concept like "A CPU that
can adjust its performance to save power when full performance is not
needed".

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"spjr2" <> wrote in message
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> Does anyone have any pros or cons on enhanced speedstep technology?I
> checked
> out the info from Intel's site but left with more questions than answers.

I thought the question was straight forward-There is no info on this subject
(that I can find) in these forums.The only way I discovered speedstep was by
accident browsing through my bios settings.I also found out it is "disabled"
by default.
Question-what is speedstep?
Question-Is there a setting in the Power Options for it?

"Richard G. Harper" wrote:

> Post your questions here and we'll try to answer them. It is difficult to
> assign a value judgment like "pros and cons" to a concept like "A CPU that
> can adjust its performance to save power when full performance is not
> needed".
>
> --
> Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User]
> * NEW! Catch my blog ... http://msmvps.com/blogs/rgharper/
> * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups
> * The Website - http://rgharper.mvps.org/
>
>
> "spjr2" <> wrote in message
> news:A2C38680-D625-4058-B769-...
> > Does anyone have any pros or cons on enhanced speedstep technology?I
> > checked
> > out the info from Intel's site but left with more questions than answers.
>
>

1. Go to http://www.intel.com/ and search for Enhanced SpeedStep
Technology - there are dozens and dozens of documents there that describe
the technology.
Or if you need a less technical description hit up Google or Wikipedia or
some similar source.

2. SpeedStep is enabled or disabled in BIOS, not in Windows. If enabled it
runs invisibly to the operating system.

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"spjr2" <> wrote in message
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>I thought the question was straight forward-There is no info on this
>subject
> (that I can find) in these forums.The only way I discovered speedstep was
> by
> accident browsing through my bios settings.I also found out it is
> "disabled"
> by default.
> Question-what is speedstep?
> Question-Is there a setting in the Power Options for it?