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Is there anyway to keep the Processor Running at Max?
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There should be a power setting on the control panel for Maximum. Other than that I don't know.
I don't think you'd always want it to run at Max speed. It would eat up a lot of electricity for one. It would also keep the fans running at full speed all the time, and may build up too much heat and eventually cause damage. Part of the energy savings is that if you're just browsing the web, looking at pics, etc, the CPU doesn't need to be on full blast.
I don't think you'd always want it to run at Max speed. It would eat up a lot of electricity for one. It would also keep the fans running at full speed all the time, and may build up too much heat and eventually cause damage. Part of the energy savings is that if you're just browsing the web, looking at pics, etc, the CPU doesn't need to be on full blast.
I know all of that but there is a noticable difference if you just run one instances of dev>/yes/null or whatever it is and then open an app with the processor running at 2.17 it tears through opening anything unlike when I am doing nothing it takes itunes a bounce to open where as when i got dev running it open automatically.jdechko said:
Run two instances of it, although I don't agree with this whole line of reasoning.bbrosemer said:
If you have a core duo, type or copy this into two terminal windows:
yes > /dev/null
Hope that helps🙂
yes > /dev/null
Hope that helps🙂