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Captain Archer

Member

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 4

Power Management

Howdy, fellows!  About two years ago, I gave Arch a try and absolutely loved it.  For some "unknown to me now" reason, I ended up on Ubuntu.  I miss my Arch, so I'm back now!  I've got a quick question regarding power management.  Back when I first set Arch up, there was a section of the Beginners Guide for cpufreq.  It's no longer there.  I'm not sure how much has changed in the past two years, but is power management of any kind still a manual configuration thing?  I'm on a desktop (specs in sig), if that helps.  Thanks in advance!

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"Amber" - Core 2 Quad (2.66 GHz)
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P Mobo
4 GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 9800 GT (1 GB GDDR3 VRAM)

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Power Management

yep, you still have to manually set up cpufrequtils. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufreq
And welcome back!

Captain Archer

Member

Registered: 2009-11-03

Posts: 4

Re: Power Management

yep, you still have to manually set up cpufrequtils. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Cpufreq
And welcome back!

Thanks for the welcome! 

Is setting up cpufrequtils something that is required (as I'm on a desktop), or is it just beneficial?  I want my baby (Quad Core) running nice and cool.  XD

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"Amber" - Core 2 Quad (2.66 GHz)
GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3P Mobo
4 GB DDR2 RAM
nVidia GeForce 9800 GT (1 GB GDDR3 VRAM)

evr

Arch Linux f@h Team Member

Registered: 2009-01-23

Posts: 554

Re: Power Management

it's definitely recommended, there's no point in having your processor going full tilt when you don't need it to be.