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03-19-2003, 08:29 AM
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Reducing Processor Performance...
Weird that i should be asking this but is there a way, without under-clocking my processor, to temporarily slow it down to around 1/2 the speed? The reason i ask is that some of my old programs/games just run too fast at 1.8 GHz, as they were probably designed for around the 500 MHz mark!
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03-19-2003, 10:00 AM
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What are your specs?
I'm thinking about AMD CPU's when I say this, but what you may be able to do is either decrease the FSB or change the processor's type. Say you have an Athlon XP 2100+, change it in the BIOS so that the machine thinks its a 1500+, for example.
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03-19-2003, 10:29 AM
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Thanks for the info
My processor is an AthlonXP 2200 so that's around 1300mhz more than i really need 
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03-19-2003, 11:45 AM
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i dont really think slowing your procesor down has the effect of slowing games down that much, they are running at maximum potential , im pretty sure they cant just go faster and faster cos its a faster processor
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03-19-2003, 12:04 PM
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I've heard that some older programs won't run right at high speeds......is this true?
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03-19-2003, 02:10 PM
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Well, i find most of my old programs work fine except that they work too fast/effeciently as they were designed to just scrape by with the computer resources available at the time.
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03-19-2003, 02:15 PM
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I've seen programs that have problems like this with fast processors.
This utility works - I've used it. http://www.cpukiller.com/ |
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03-19-2003, 09:09 PM
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i knwo with athlon XP CPUs you can downclock them, i dropped my 1.53 ghz to 1.14
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