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Microsoft => Microsoft Windows => Windows Vista and 7 => Topic started by: michaewlewis on November 23, 2010, 12:53:19 PM

Title: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: michaewlewis on November 23, 2010, 12:53:19 PM

Which power saving features do you use for your computer or laptop? Do you ever have issues with any of them? What is your overall experience with the features?

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: Salmon Trout on November 23, 2010, 01:21:23 PM

I clicked "Other (Specify)" because I use AMD Cool 'n' Quiet with my AMD X4 Phenom II 945. I have never had any issues. My overall experience is that it runs nice and cool when I'm not doing much and ramps up the power when I need it.

(http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p29/badoit/gnuplot-out.png)

The peaks at around 35 and 29 deg C were when I was doing DivX encoding in VirtualDub. The rest of the time, as you can see, it stays around 20 - 25.

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: BC_Programmer on November 23, 2010, 02:00:26 PM

For me I have my laptop set to use a number of power management features when running on batteries in both win7 as well as Mint 10. However, the only one that usually get's used is Sleep mode; I don't usually leave my laptop unattended/unused long enough for it to hibernate.

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: soybean on November 24, 2010, 08:16:06 AM

What is the Hybrid Sleep mode?

I have Windows 7 installed on an HP Compaq d530 CMT tower system and I discovered I could set the computer to hibernate by pressing the power button. 

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: JJ 3000 on November 24, 2010, 08:21:05 AM

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/29/what-is-hybrid-sleep-and-differences-with-basic-sleep-mode-in-vista

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: Allan on November 24, 2010, 08:23:33 AM

Quote from: soybean on November 24, 2010, 08:16:06 AM

I have Windows 7 installed on an HP Compaq d530 CMT tower system and I discovered I could set the computer to hibernate by pressing the power button. 

That setting is configurable in Power Options

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: soybean on November 24, 2010, 08:37:51 AM

Quote from: JJ 3000 on November 24, 2010, 08:21:05 AM

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2007/10/29/what-is-hybrid-sleep-and-differences-with-basic-sleep-mode-in-vista

Thanks for posting that link.  It answers my question about Hybrid Sleep mode.

Quote from: Allan on November 24, 2010, 08:23:33 AM

That setting is configurable in Power Options

I'm not using that computer at the moment but I believe that's where I found the setting. 

Title: Re: Do you use power saving options for your pc?
Post by: harry 48 on November 24, 2010, 08:44:16 AM

i'm on win7 and use sleep mode and it's set for 5 min's