THG has taken a look at an LGA775 board from AOpen that clocks down when the CPU isn't being used to reduce power consumption. Are the days of joking about smoking P4s over?
The principles behind Powermaster are nothing new, and many vendors use similar functions when overclocking systems under heavy processing loads. MSI offers this capability for its motherboards that include the Corecell-Chip; Abit offers a microGuru capability and other vendors offer similar features. But extending this idea to under-clocking as well as over-clocking is something that AOpen has pioneered/
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