From: Tim Roberts Date: 2012-03-18T10:32:19+09:00 Subject: Re: underclocking or CPU frequency scaling thufir wrote: > >I have an older desktop: > >motherboard: SiS-661GX >CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.53GHz > >and would like to set a "max" for CPU usage to prevent overheating. >Generally, it's fine, but for some processes I want to set a sort of >"nice" so that the CPU doesn't get pegged. Longer compiles would be fine. If you has a motherboard has not been altered, and that motherboard allows the CPU to overheat during normal operation, then something is defective. The cooling equipment on your motherboard is designed to keep everything nominal regardless of what computations are going on. >Frequency scaling and underclocking can only be done through supported >hardware, generally the BIOS? Absolutely true. -- Tim Roberts, timr@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.