On Monday 18 December 2006 23:16, Hans du Plooy wrote:
But you shouldn't need to. The CPU responds almost instantly to load demands (even though the monitoring tools don't), and for the times when you're just reading your e-mail, a 1000mhz Athlon64 is one heck of a powerfull chip.
Well, I have speedstep on my Core 2 Duo notebook and I can Definitly tell when its running in Performance mode (full speed) and when its not. There is ever so slight a lag, just enough to be irritating when its trying to save power. Since I can't hear the fans anyway on this notebook, I run in performance unless I'm not plugged in. Some of us do other stuff besides email. I know that's hard to believe. ;-) -- _____________________________________ John Andersen