Re: cpufreq doesn't seem to work in Intel Q9300

[Adrian Bunk]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 07:11:28AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>...
> so before you had for one second "20% expensive, 80% low power" 
> now you have for one second "20% expensive, 20% throttle power, 60% low
> power"
> 
> since throttle power is higher than low/idle power.. you lose.

So what is the intended use case?

Is it for people who bought an Intel Heating 4 but forgot to buy an 
appropriate cooling?

That sounds absurd.

There must be a reason why Intels CPUs support this throttling?

cu
Adrian

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